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Daniel Boone opened up the American west; more than 200,000 settlers poured into Kentucky on the Wilderness Road he helped establish. John Mason Brown's classic biography brilliantly depicts Boone's life and times, delving into all the complexities of this fascinating man as well as the landmark historical events he lived through - including the Revolutionary War and Louisiana Purchase.

Something between a tale and a polemic, these 'fables of reason' are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical and social questions. Listener and protagonist alike find their assumptions challenged as Voltaire mingles rationality and fantasy.

His first time in The Philippines, he arrives home in her arms. For as long as he can remember, Jeff longs for Asia and Asian women. Now, in the Mabini district of Manila, he discovers reality exceeds anticipation. The beautiful young bar Filipino girl Analyn satisfies his deepest lusts and the strongest yearnings of his heart with Asian sex. In her love and her body, his soul recognizes the heaven he seeks.

'Plague and Power' is a masterful historical-fiction novel set in the heart of England, amidst the devastating times of the 1665 plague outbreak. The narrative primarily revolves around two compelling characters - Martha Quinn, a resourceful innkeeper, and Colonel Randal Dempsey, a battered soldier burdened by his troubled past.The dense narrative worms its way through the all-encompassing dread of the time while offering striking portrayals of hope and resilience. Taking place at Martha's Paul’s Head Inn, the novel explores the desperation and fear that numeral England and transposes it ...

As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time the US extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires, Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for postcolonial sovereignty and economic domination and how these competing forces led to conflicts and shifting alliances around the postwar world.

On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston's life changes forever. At a party, she discovers her younger sister, Audrey, hooking up with her boyfriend, Mike - and she abandons them both in a rage. When Mike drunkenly attempts to drive Audrey home, he crashes, and Audrey ends up in a coma. Now, Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain, and the undeniable truth that her ex-boyfriend (who is relatively unscathed) has a drinking problem.

Cast out by his own family after a wolf’s bite infects him, a young 13-year-old boy is forced to roam the streets and fend for himself. In a world of humans and others, he belongs to neither. No longer considered human, but nor a purebred other, a race of powerful supernatural beings, he will be unwanted and hunted by both. Danger lurks at every turn. Young, vulnerable, and afraid, he tries to come to terms with the physical changes taking place in him.

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha. He is faced with censure from three of his comrades for cowardice, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him, from Captain Trench and Lieutenants Castleton and Willoughby, and the loss of the support of his Irish fiancée, Ethne Eustace, who ...

Three blissful weeks on the beautiful island of Maui are exactly what I need.... Hula dancers, Mai Tais with cocktail umbrellas, and golden beaches - what more could I want? Then I see her, and I realize she’s exactly what I want. She was locked outside of her hotel room, all buttoned-up in a suit definitely not appropriate for a vacation, and wearing a fierce take-no-shit stance. But I couldn’t help noticing the pain behind her eyes....

Stop what you’re doing. Pay attention to your palms. Can you feel the energy in them? Can you sense their temperature and shape? This energy, right there in your palms, is called Reiki. Reiki is the universal energy that exists in animals, plants, and humans. This energy flows from one object to another regularly. If you know how to use it and make it flow to specific places with the use of your palms, you will gain a powerful skill that can change your life.

Este libro le enseñará la mejor manera de comer saludablemente, mantenerse activo y prepararse mentalmente para quemar grasa y ponerse en forma. Obtendrá una comprensión profunda de cómo el cuerpo humano interactúa con los alimentos que comemos, cómo influir en su metabolismo, cómo tonificar su cuerpo, fortalecer su núcleo y obtener más energía de la que jamás haya tenido.

Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July fourth, 1954. The cause of death was 27 blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much controversy and debate for nearly half a century.

Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.

Esta guía de alimentos lo ayudará a crear reglas alimenticias para vivir y a elaborar un plan de dieta equilibrado, nutritivo y que lo mantenga comprometido. El libro explicará cómo deshacerse de los azúcares agregados y disfrutar de los sabores naturales de los alimentos, y lo ayudará a establecer un plan de alimentos para una vida equilibrada y sin procesar.

After the coven excommunicates me, I need to find a new job. So when I see a sign asking for an assistant - only witches need apply - I feel my fortunes might be trending up. Sure, there's a murder to solve, a killer on my tail, and my new boss is a French Bulldog, but at least it's not working checkout in a supermarket.

¡Todos nos encontramos intentando y no abordamos el tiempo limitado que tenemos durante el día! A menudo encontramos que se desperdicia tiempo en la cocina, haciendo recetas que toman una gran cantidad de tiempo, incluyen ingredientes difíciles de encontrar o requieren métodos de cocción que se consideran para siempre.

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.

Elicia has made herself a little unpopular with the other wives in the neighborhood, flaunting her perfect body, dressing like she was in a porn production. One wife decides she's had enough and arranges a little surprise for both Elicia and the other wives. Surrounded by a group of men Elicia believes are the other wives' husbands attending a neighborhood swingers party, she's blindfolded and in over her pretty little head.

¡Perder peso y ponerse en forma requiere trabajo y disciplina! Si sigue este libro, verá la diferencia dentro de unos días. Todo lo que se necesita es comer bien y quemar más calorías de las que consume para perder peso. Para aumentar el volumen, necesita consumir proteínas, descansar, hacer pesas añadiendo un poco de cardio y comer más proteínas.

Divorce can be intimidating, but you don’t have to go through it alone. Miles Mason, Sr. set out to create the ultimate handbook to help a spouse through the divorce process. To that end, this book addresses a variety of topics that the compassionate professionals of the Miles Mason Family Law Group know best, including advice needed to get the learning process started, hiring your divorce team, custody and parenting plans, and how courts view dating during separation. The book is easy to read, and will be a valuable tool as you find your way through the divorce process.