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'68 is the story of several families living in a small town in Northern California and how they are impacted by the world-changing events of 1968. It is also a story about racial injustice and how, hopefully, we grow beyond it. It is about the lens through which each of us views the world, a work in progress for a lifetime.

Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched...

During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr's only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie...

“A masterwork by a skilled craftsman . . . Make a vow to read this book.”—New York Journal of Books ** ** Isabella is barely a teenager when she becomes an unwitting pawn in a plot to dethrone her half brother, King Enrique. Suspected of treason and held captive, she treads a perilous path,...

“THE future of the realm”, Conrad is said to have declared with his dying words, “lies with the Saxons”, and he bade his brother Everard to bear the royal insignia to Henry, the Saxon Duke, as the one man capable of restoring the glory of the German name. The union of Frank and Saxon had given...

A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’s golden age, Marlene Dietrich—from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the author...

CONTENTS I. What Theosophy Is II. From the Absolute to Man III. The Formation of a Solar System IV. The Evolution of Life V. The Constitution of Man VI. After Death VII. Reincarnation VIII. The Purpose of Life IX. The Planetary Chains X. The Result of Theosophical Study About the Author "Charles...

Theosophy is an ecumenical faith tradition that regards all religions as striving toward the same shared purpose of engendering love, cooperation, unity, and fellow-feeling among all of the world's cultures. A Textbook of Theosophy offers a comprehensive introduction to theosophical thought and practice;...

A quattordici anni, Caterina, l’ultima legittima discendente dei Medici, viene promessa in sposa al figlio di Francesco I di Francia, Enrico. Allontanata da Firenze, umiliata in Francia dove il marito le preferirà l’amante Diana di Poitiers e dove per la corte rimase sempre e comunque «la straniera»,...

Provate a immaginare una donna giovanissima, di soli sedici anni data in sposa per motivi politici. Provate a immaginare che abbia un padre re e una madre regina, ciascuno di un regno distinto, e che lei a sua volta diventi la moglie di un re e la madre di un futuro imperatore. Provate a immaginare...

As I sat down to write this book I thought about the many souls that could be saved and to keep Gods people on the right track, by reading and getting an understanding. This book is an inspiration to me, and I pray that it will be an inspiration to you, to inspire Gods people to make a change in their...

Combining seership with science, Leadbeater presents this absorbing, in-depth, study of the mystery schools of Egypt, Greece, Judea, the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages, and the emergence of Co-Masonry in the twentieth century.

Portrays shepherd life in the East from the Twenty-third Psalm. Few people are acquainted with the habits and customs of Palestine, and so they fail to obtain from the Scriptures the first lessons they are meant to convey.

A major synthesis of current research on the three wars fought by France during the Revolution - against Austria and Prussia; Britain, Spain and the United Provinces; and against the Second Coalition. contains analysis of the theories of war including Clausewitz, and the role of ideology