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  Twelve Days - How the Union...

  Tony Silber

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  In the popular literature of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the battles and changes in American life. 
   
   
   
  Tony Silber's account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, the Confederates had an organized army that was larger and ready to fight. 
   
   
   
  Maryland's eastern sections were reeling in insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North. The United States had a tiny standing army. The federal government's only defense would be state militias. 
   
   
   
  A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant. Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements.

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  The Vampire Painter

  Angela Flatt

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  The Countess Luchia de Sarracenia comes from a long line of powerful vampires.  She is accustomed to getting her way.  Her greatest wish, however, has always eluded her - the ability to see her own face. 
  She hires artist after artist to paint her portrait.  But when they fail to capture her perceived ethreal beauty, the consequences are dire. 
  Enter Venus Faucher.  Coming from humble beginnings, she has spent her life trying to make a name for herself as a woman painter in a world which underestimates her. 
  She believes that she may have found her security with the countess as a patron.  However, the more time she spend with Sarracenia, the more Venus realizes the cost which comes from pleasing a vampire.

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  Audrey Hepburn: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Audrey Hepburn, screen legend: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Bound to You - First Time Gay

  Randy Manners

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  Anders and Reggie are on a mission. 
    
  There is a mountain to be climbed. The two hunky, outdoorsy, best friends lace up their boots and hump it up the path. 
    
  After the loss of a dear friend, they have vowed to live life to its fullest – to tackle their bucket list – and to not hold back on their desires. 
    
  One screwed up weather forecast and a jacked ankle later… and holding back on their desires is becoming a pretty intimate affair. The two best friends find themselves taking shelter in close quarters – and one another – for an unexpected first time gay love connection. 
    
  PSA: This book contains man on man seduction, palms on shafts, partner pleasure, mouths on heads, and sweet, sweet first time back porch lovin’.

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  The Rise of Socialism - 1884-1918

  William Morris, Annie Besant,...

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  The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.”Edward Carpenter demands of those whose only question is “Does It Pay?” to know why any action is undertaken. On starting a farm, he found, “that if I was happy in the life..., and if we were cultivating genuine and useful products… that it might really pay me better to get 1%, than 10% with jangling and wrangling.”Annie Besant attacks a reactionary appeal to the ‘natural’ role of men and women by pointing out that it is equality of opportunity and representation that women want.Eduard Bernstein confronts a misunderstanding that people still have today. Marx and Engels realized in their lifetimes that society was further away than they initially thought from a genuine socialism – that many small revolutions would be necessary, and that a single grand rewriting of society could not work. The next writer also refers to it, in saying that “A few.. only know what Socialism is, and they are Socialists. The rest are opposed to it because the little they know about it is not true.”Eugene Debs rails against the approach government takes in promoting “equality” between capitalist and labourer.We end with Debs' response to being sentenced to ten years imprisonment, for the crime of “opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune, while millions work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. .”

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  Hidden Worldviews - Eight...

  Mark L. Sanford, Steve Wilkens

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  Why do we buy what we buy, vote the way we vote, eat what we eat, and say what we say? Why do we have the friends we have, and work and play as we do? It's our choice? Yes, but there are forces, often unseen, that shape every decision we make and every action we take. 
   
   
   
  These hidden, life-shaping values and ideas are not promoted through organized religions or rival philosophies but fostered by cultural habits, lifestyles and the institutional structures of society. Steve Wilkens and Mark Sanford shine a spotlight on the profound challenges to Christianity and faithful Christian living that come from worldviews that comprise the cultural soup we swim in. 
   
   
   
  The authors show how to detect the individualism, consumerism, nationalism, moral relativism, scientific naturalism, New Age thinking, postmodern tribalism, and salvation as therapy that fly under our radar. Building on the work of worldview thinkers like James Sire, this book helps those committed to the gospel story recognize those rival cultural stories that compete for our hearts and minds.

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