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  Where There's a Will

  Mark Dumas, Cara Lopez Lee

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  World War II hero Will Miner is close with his grandson, seventeen-year-old musician Dylan Mercer. So when Dylan’s best friend dies, he runs away to Grandpa’s to hide from his memory and his future. Dylan escapes choosing between college and rock-and-roll, disappears into the stories of eighty-one-year-old Grandpa Will, and discovers a surprise: before Will became a hero, he was a young rebel. Will’s tales of the circus, Route 66, riding the rails, and fighting a war, reveal he’s hiding his own losses. Where There’s a Will takes readers under the surface of one hot Tennessee summer, as grandfather and grandson spill secrets and discover a true bond between men.

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  Warrior Karma Chronicles - CRACK...

  Anônimo

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Warrior Karma Chronicles: Women Warrior Secrets is more than a captivating tale, it is a transformative guide to personal empowerment, resilience, and spiritual awakening. Positioned at the intersection of self-help and fantasy, this groundbreaking series o

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  Ordinary Men Extraordinary Evil:...

  Michael Green

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  Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil: A Holocaust Chronicle 
  Amidst the darkest chapter of human history, Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil: A Holocaust Chronicle by Michael Green delivers a harrowing yet necessary exploration of how bureaucracy, ideology, and moral erosion transformed ordinary individuals into architects of genocide. 
  Drawing upon extensive historical records, survivor testimonies, and perpetrator confessions, this meticulously researched narrative brings to life the events leading to and following the infamous Wannsee Conference of January 1942. In the opulence of a lakeside villa, fifteen high-ranking Nazi officials calmly planned the systematic extermination of Europe's Jewish population—an event that marked the acceleration of the Final Solution. Through the eyes of both historical figures and composite characters, the book illuminates the chilling banality of evil, where mass murder became an administrative routine carried out with precision and detachment. 
  From the cold efficiency of the Einsatzgruppen massacres in the Eastern Front to the horrific mechanization of death in Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz, Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil follows the bureaucrats, soldiers, and collaborators who orchestrated genocide. The novelization of these events does not seek to sensationalize, but rather to deepen our understanding of how seemingly normal people could commit unimaginable crimes. 
  Unflinching, deeply researched, and ethically grounded, this book is an essential read for historians, educators, and anyone seeking to understand the mechanisms of human evil. With unwavering historical accuracy and a narrative that grips the reader from the first page, Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil stands as both a tribute to the victims and a warning to future generations.

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  Return to me

  Sharon Udy Storrs

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  Return to Me' is a historical fiction work which is written to be used as an impactful educational resource for students who are studying World War II. The book covers all 5 fronts of the war, with a clear explanation of the role the key players: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Empire of Japan) played in the escalation and eventual resolution of the war. 
  The story is intertwined with characters living in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression and World War II. Nate and Bea Roundy and their family, as well as their community and the rest of the country are impacted by the Depression followed on the heels of the senseless loss of millions of lives and the devastation and destruction of WWII. 
  Nate's Sister, Ruth is serving as a nurse and is captured as a POW in the Philippines. Will they ever see her again? Her fiance is serving as an American spy in Italy on the Italian Front. Will they ever be together again and realize their dream of getting married? The death of Nate's sister, in child- birth leaves 8 motherless children in the care of a dysfunctional stepmother. What will become of them? What will become of Blake and his sweetheart Anna, now that he has enlisted as a medic and is serving in the Normandy invasion? What will become of Bobby, his best friend, who is shot down in German territory. Will he live to tell his story? 
  Members of the community find themselves being drafted into the war on many fronts. The story covers their challenges, love stories, tragedies and atrocities that occur in war as well as at home, and is laced with examples of courage, and valor. The question is will their family ever be united again, and if so, will it ever be the same?

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  Benbecula

  Graeme Macrae Burnet

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  Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to tell the multi-layered story of madness and murder in the MacPhee family. 
    
  During the summer of 1857 on the distant Scottish Island of Benbecula, Angus MacPhee, returning from a fortnight’s work at a house a few miles away, seems to have lost his mind, forcing his family to keep him shackled to his bed. When he is finally allowed to go at large, his erratic behaviour leads to the conviction that he should be committed to an asylum. 
    
  Five years later, Malcolm MacPhee is living alone in the house where his brother’s madness led to horrifying ends. Isolated, ostracised by his small community, Malcolm is haunted, the stench of his brother’s crimes lingering as the reek cleaves to the thatch. Is he afflicted by the same madness? And to where has his sister Marion disappeared? 
    
  Drawing on letters, asylum records, and witness statements, Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to construct a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self. 
    
  “The novel’s devilish appeal lies in the intoxicated and isolated Malcolm’s narration from within the confines of his family’s ‘skullhouse,’ where he muses about his own morality … The author once again proves his mastery of moody psychological thrillers.”—Publishers Weekly

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  The Rappahannock Line

  Martin Hicks

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  The Rappahannock Line continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan who serves in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the year 1862 draws to its close, the powerful Union army gathers its strength on the Rappahannock River in Virginia to renew its advance on the Confederate capital. Lee's army confronts it there bringing on a further bloody collision. 
  Ryan and his comrades endure the Winter that follows the brutal battle of Fredericksburg, as the Confederate army suffers critical supply shortages, while, across the river, the enemy, under a new commander, reorganises and strengthens itself again for the Spring resumption of campaigning, which will test the skills of General Lee and the courage and resolve of his outnumbered soldiers as never before.

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