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"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor...
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"Newly elected, Jack Ryan has found that being President is not easy: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to assassinate the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. Were the potential assassins political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or is something far more dangerous...
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Edna and Richard were now getting a little old, their eye sight was not as good as it used to be, and so they wanted to retire. They had been making Teddy Bears for many years. They had almost completed their last Teddy, and decided to give it to their granddaughter Hannah. Edna felt this last Teddy was very special, and she decided to call him Thomas.
This was the beginning of a very exciting life for Thomas, from his first night sleeping in Hannah...
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In the ruins of post-apocalyptic Ritual City, fourteen-year-old Rosie, pursued by savage cultists, flees her home for the safety of Old City. Can she navigate her way through the ruins filled with Scavs, Johnsonites, and soldiers of the Loward's Fury? Perhaps, with a little help from the mysterious Bear...
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Hanan Habibzai is a well-known Afghan-British journalist who fled to Afghanistan in 2008. In 2011, he finished his education at Coventry University in the United Kingdom with a master's degree in Global Journalism. For over ten years, he reported from Afghanistan for BBC and Reuters (2002 to 2009). One of his notable assignments was to cover the invasion of Afghanistan and the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 for international media. He also worked...
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The first attempt by the Norse explorers to settle in the New World has ended in disaster. With most of their better warriors dead in a battle with the Penobscot tribe the survivors decide to head home across the wide and empty seas. They would risk a battle with King Harald Finehair. What they do not know is that they have left their Navigator alone and surrounded by enemies.
The novel follows the two brothers, Erik the Navigator and Fótr Larsson...
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Echoes of the fall volume 2
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"Maniye, child of both Wolf and Tiger clans, has been named Champion of her people. But they're unsure if she's an asset - or a threat. To buy time, she joins Prince Tecuman's warband of outcasts and heads south, to help him gain his crown. She wants to discover her true place in the world, but instead heads into the jaws of a fierce new conflict."--Provided by publisher.
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