James Hawes
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The Shortest History of England
- By: James Hawes
- Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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England-begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor-is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the... Read more
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The Shortest History of Germany
- By: James Hawes
- Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 19, 2019
- Language: English
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2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE RIVETING AFTERNOONA country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation... Read more
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A Hidden Wholeness
A Hidden Wholeness is a thoughtful and heartfelt examination of the sources and consequences of the alienation we feel when our inner and outer lives become divorced from each other, when external forces pressure us to depart from our soul’s true yearnings. The book lifts up the problem of the “divided life,” diagnoses its sources, assesses its personal and social costs, and offers a model ...
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By the Grace of the Gods
Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins!One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!
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You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood
Each precious thing I show you in this book is a holy relic from the night we both perished-the night when I combed you from my hair and watered the moon with your blood.You’ve lost a lot of blood . . . Contains mature themes.
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Cirque du Freak
In the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, New York Times bestseller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan.
Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human / half animals who interact terrifyingly with ...
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Punk’s Wing
When the F-14 Tomcat of the only female flier in Punk’s training class rolls wildly during a hop, nearly causing a midair collision, Punk has trouble believing her claim that a malfunction in the cockpit was responsible. When a similar accident claims the life of one of his fellow trainers, Punk suspects a cover-up involving the use of faulty parts. But no sooner does he bring on the heat with ...
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Encounter
“Cultivated, worldly, charming and spirited…Kundera’s values are sane and humane; his impulses generous; his taste, overall, unimpeachable.” – Phillip Lopate, San Francisco Chronicle
Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting). Novelist Russell ...
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Ravage
Mason Keller is broken, destructive, and the only man I’ve ever loved. I met him when I was just a child, but I knew there would never be anyone else. He lit my world with each smile and warmed my heart just by looking at me. But he was my brother’s best friend . . . Which meant I was off limits. So he let me go and took my heart with him. Now everything has changed, and the obstacles that ...
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The Locked Room
The eighth classic installment in this genre-changing Martin Beck series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck is a masterful take on a classic locked-room mystery.
A young blonde in sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, a corpse with a bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room—with no gun at the scene. The crimes seem disparate, but to ...
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In Her Defense
Ingrid DiLaurio lives in Riversedge, New York, four express train stops from Manhattan. Don’t be fooled: with its tree-lined Main Street, and quaint ambiance, Riversedge is only impersonating a small town. While it’s a place small enough for everyone to know each other’s secrets, few do. The town revolves around the prestigious Riversedge Law Club, where deals are made and cases are ...
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Light Emerging
Barbara Ann Brennan’s bestselling first book, Hands of Light, established her as one of the world’s most gifted healers and teachers. Now, she continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or aura — the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and ...
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