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  Daughter of the Tide

  Leah Fleming

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  1939. A compelling romantic saga set on a remote Hebridean isle. As children on the island of Phetray, Minn Macfee, a cottar's daughter, and Ewan Mackinnon, the Minister's son, are bound together by the accidental drowning of Ewan's sister.Ewan is blamed and Minn shunned. As the two children grow, they must go their separate ways grieving. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War Ewan returns to Phetray, now a handsome sailor.He falls in love with Minn's fragile beauty and enchanting singing voice. But they are separated again when Ewan joins the Special Boat Squadron and embarks for France. Throughout the years the two always seem to find their way back together, but fate always steps in to intervene... Touched by tragedy, misunderstanding and the weight of family disapproval, their love seems destined to die.

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  The Oresteia

  Aeschylus

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  The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast:AGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae - StephenCAEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon - mbORESTES, son of Agamemnon - David O’ConnellCLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon - Christie NowakCASSANDRA, a Trojan princess - Kristin HughesELECTRA, sister of Orestes - Claire GogetAPOLLO, god of the Delphic oracle - Andrew LebrunATHENA, goddess of wisdom - Catharine EastmanPYTHIA, a priestess of Apollo - Kirsten FerreriA WATCHMAN at Mycenae - Joe EarleyA HERALD from Troy - tipaewNURSE to Orestes and Electra - Elizabeth KlettATTENDANT of Aegisthus - Fr. Richard Zeile of DetroitATTENDANT WOMAN of Athena - Jennifer StearnsNARRATOR  - Justin BarrettCHORUS in Agamemnon - Andy MinterCHORUS in The Libation-Bearers - Jc GuanCHORUS in The Furies - Kara Shallenberg, Rosalind Wills, and Christie NowakPYLADES - Annoying TwitBook Coordinators: Kirsten Ferreri, Sarah Jennings, Elizabeth Klett, and David Lawrence

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  Fort Pillow - A Novel of the...

  Harry Turtledove

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  In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was composed of almost 600 troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the colored Union troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused the Confederates of massacring the black troops after the fort fell, when fighting should have ceased. The "Fort Pillow Massacre" became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to its conclusion.Harry Turtledove has written a dramatic re-creation of an astounding battle, telling a bloody story of courage and hope, freedom and hatred. With brilliant characterizations of all the main figures, this is a novel that reminds us that Fort Pillow was more than a battle-it was a clash of ideas between men fighting to define what being an American ought to mean.

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  A Little Murder

  Suzette A. Hill

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  London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing meaning to her gruesome death and it seems her whole social circle have secrets to hide and grudges to bear.  Who, for example, is the limping midnight visitor? Is the bibulous priest as ingenious as he seems? And will Mrs Burkiss ever yield her keys to the broom cupboard?.

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  Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge An

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Sometimes the best solution is an escape- through rivers, woods, your own mind. An epic journey taking place in American history. 
  Please visit us at www.canaritaudiobooks.com, and contact us at production@canaritaudiobooks.com 
  Credits: 
  Produced by: Canarit 
  Author: Ambrose Bierce 
  Directed by: Gil Geva 
  Recorded and Edited by: Shalev Alon 
  Performed by: 
  John Dellapora 
  Jacob Dalton 
  Jacob Pankin 
  SFX and Music by: 
  Shalev Alon 
  Soundotcom 
  Adam Vitovsky

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  Hood: Noble Secrets

  Iain Meadows

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  1201 and as King John sits upon the English throne, the lord high Sheriff of Nottingham, Phillip De Nicholay, is looking at his life in ruins…The Nottingham treasury is empty, a year’s taxes gone and all because of his misplaced trust. Worse still is that his hopes of marrying the Lady Marion have also vanished. If Phillip is to stand any chance of following his heart, he needs to get the money back…But how…Salvation comes from an unusual source and Phillip begins a dangerous quest into the clutches of Sherwood Forest and its notorious outlaw dwellers to enlist their help. This is a journey that will see Phillip confront danger from other outlaws as well as within his closest circle of friends. It will ultimately see Phillip embark on an adventure that will be the making of a legend… The making of the man they will come to call Robin Hood.

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