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  Stalingrad - The Battle that...

  Rupert Matthews

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  The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt. The elite German Sixth Army was first fought to a standstill, then surrounded and forced to surrender. 
   
  Over one and a half million people lost their lives during the six months of fighting, many of them civilians caught up in the campaign. For the first time in the war, the German army had been defeated on the field of battle. Before Stalingrad the Russians never won; after Stalingrad they could not lose. 
   
  This book looks at the titanic struggle that ended in the total destruction of the second city of the Soviet Union, the greatest battle the world has ever seen.

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  Terrified - The Heartbreaking...

  Angela Hart

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  What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl?A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart. It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and waking nightmares.A tearjerking true story, Terrified is Angela's moving account of her determination to set Vicky free.'A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else's children' – Casey Watson, author of Little Girl Lost'A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster' – Torey Hayden, author of One ChildDiscover more inspiring stories from Angela Hart in The Girl and the Ghosts and The Girl in the Dark.

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  Reptilians - Masters of the...

  Ana Lorens

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  For thousands of years, the existence of beings superior to us has been recorded in the annals of our history... 
  Many cultures speak of reptilian beings once revered as gods. There is abundant evidence—traces these entities have left throughout our history. The ancients portrayed and honored them in their paintings, writings, and above all, in their architecture—structures so advanced they remain impossible to replicate even today. 
  Their technological knowledge and understanding of the universe shaped our past... and still influences us today. 
  After uncovering the secrets within this book, you will never be the same...

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  American Karma - Twilight of the...

  Doug Shear

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  In the early 70s a drugged-out seventeen-year-old named Doug, along with his secretly gay, openly black, best friend, decides to hitchhike across the country in search of a mythical Utopia. They meet Bologna Jane & Tina the Monkey Girl, Big Arm and Nigga Dog. They almost die along the way. Doug hooks up with his brother and friends on converted school bus. They harvest huge bags of really weak marijuana, thanks to a couple of Redneck Hippies, and try to sell it. Along the way, Doug winds up getting his ribs and heart broken.  
  Sick of hitchhiking and hunger, Doug decides it is time to get rich. He gets sucked into the inside world of the famous Glenn W. Turner and his get-rich-quick scheme: Koscot Interplanetary, Incorporated. Doug cuts his hair, buys a suite and tie, and along with a bunch of Disney World rejects, spends his days trying to convince strangers to give him a $5000 so he can make them rich. Then he changes into his real clothes and spends his nights begging strangers to give him a buck so he can eat.  
  His failure to become a good salesman or panhandler leads him to a group of friendly Satan-worshiping heroin addicts who believe that in the end of time, Jesus will forgive Satan, who will then resume his place as the greatest Angel in all of Heaven.  
  This is a completely true story. Proof exists in the form of letters, interviews, memorabilia and historical evidence. Besides, nobody could make this up.

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  Laura Ingalls Wilder - A...

  Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

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  Laura stared at the black cloud blotting out the sun. The cloud was unlike anything she had ever seen. As it got closer, it made a strange noise, like hail pelting the ground. Suddenly the sky began to rain grasshoppers. The bugs clung to Laura's hair and clothes and peered at her with bulging eyes. Soon they began destroying Papa's crops. From the big woods of Wisconsin to the Indian country of the Great Plains, new adventures and landscapes filled the rich childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder. On a frontier steeped in both danger and great possibility, Laura would grow up to witness firsthand the rapid transformation of the West as pioneers and covered wagons gave way to farms, towns, and railroads. A pioneer, teacher, farmer's wife, and storyteller, Laura Ingalls Wilder experienced one of the most exciting times in American history -- history that this gifted writer brought to life for millions and preserved for generations to come.

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  Seeding Hope - What Plants Teach...

  Jack Algiere

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  Connecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, Seeding Hope urges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong—reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves. 
   
  In Seeding Hope, Jack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer (CAO) at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he’s gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world. 
   
  This luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant’s life cycle, Seeding Hope explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives. 
   
  **"[Algiere] is a brilliant farmer because he's a brilliant observer; he's spent a lifetime letting plants teach him how to see. In prose as attentive, searching, and grounded as his farming, Jack gathers those lessons into something rare and resonant: a portrait of the natural world as teacher, and an ethic for how to live, drawn from the ground up. 
  —Dan Barber, Chef, Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate**

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