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The Cartographer : Craig Gaydas
The Cartographer
While exploring a cave in a remote section of Carlsbad, New Mexico, 16-year-old Nathan stumbles upon someone unexpected – The Explorer’s League Science Officer Satou.
Equally surprised when Nathan breaks through a security barrier inside the cave, Satou does the only thing he can and abducts the human interloper.
This action sets forth a chain of events that will forever change the balance of the universe. Nathan is introduced to the Consortium, an intergalactic league comprised of explorers, science teams, soldiers and diplomats.
He discovers the Universal Map, an ancient artifact which has been locked away long ago by a person simply called “The Cartographer.” After accidentally unlocking it, Nathan unknowingly begins a chain of events which will threaten to tear at the very fabric of the universe.
With the assistance of the Explorer’s League, can Nathan stop the war before it reaches Earth and threatens everything he holds dear?
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Your Invincible Power : Pamela Hamilton & W.T. Hamilton
Your Invincible Power: Open the door to Unlimited Wealth, Health and Joy
“The law of attraction works in our lives all of the time and has been written about in many books, giving us various views on the way we interpret this subject. Pamela Hamilton and W. T. Hamilton, who are mother and son, clearly write with different views. W. T. offers his ideas with a light humor attached to his life experiences and offers you inside depth to help you succeed in business as well as your personal goals. Pamela writes with more exploratory details and uses particular points from the inside info she has examined and learned on the way.
The differing approaches the authors present here complement each other’s vision and opinion of this subject in ways that can bring you to the ultimate goal in your life successfully.
Within these pages you can find clear insight to change those distinguishable parts of you that get in your way. You can change your perspective and the way you think by using spot-on concepts, creative plans and ideas that can move you forward through your own desired intention.
W. T. and Pamela’s wish is that you have fun with these ideas, because life is exciting.”
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Benvolio : Emily Whitaker
Benvolio
Verona, Italy struggled with vicious sword fights and certain death for over 100 years due to the battle between the Montagues and the Capulets’ hatred toward one another. Although the source of this hatred has never been known, the children of these two enemies are resolved to end it. Hidden deep in the sycamore grove on the outskirts of Verona, Benvolio Montague and Rosaline Capulet fall in love and quickly realize the need and urgency to end the hatred between their families.
During one of their night time gatherings in the sycamore grove Rosaline tells Benvolio that her father is planning her marriage to a man in the Prince’s court. Benvolio can’t hide his love for her any longer and his mission becomes clear; he will stop the hatred and the killing between these two families with love. He will be the man to marry his beloved Rosaline.
After Rosaline refuses to marry her father’s choice, she vows to join a nunnery. Here she will wait for Benvolio’s plan to take effect and then they will marry. Meanwhile, Benvolio learns that his cousin, Romeo, has fallen in love with Lord Capulet’s daughter Juliet. Knowing that their love will certainly end the hatred he begins to plot the demise of all this hate.
Benvolio uses clandestine strategies to discover Romeo and Juliet’s love. The necessity of ending the hate calls for late night trespassing into the Capulet gardens; begging secrecy from the Friar, who is eager to help; and recruiting Juliet’s nurse to assist in planning Romeo and Juliet’s concealed meetings, secret marriage, and wedding night rendezvous. With his stealthy skills Benvolio never tells Romeo about his plan.
However, there is an obstacle in Juliet’s angry cousin, Tybalt. He is out for Romeo’s blood. To stop this madness Benvolio encourages Romeo to answer his threats with peace. Mercutio, a friend of the Montagues, is all too happy to fight Tybalt. Trying to stop this sword fight Romeo steps in between them. The tragedy that ensues is enough to convince Mercutio that this family war will only end with love.
The fight continues and the death count climbs. With Romeo’s exile from Verona, Benvolio’s determination to end the hate with love escalates. But he quickly realizes that all his actions to support his cousin’s love and guarantee his own happiness have set in motion the Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
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The Generosity of Strangers : Thomas E. Antonaccio
The Generosity of Strangers: When War Came to Fornelli
The Generosity of Strangers: When War Came to Fornelli chronicles the real life experiences of a young girl and her family in Italy in the 1940s. The story is set in the town of Fornelli–a tiny hilltop community in Italy’s mountainous heart.
For Lucia and her family, life in Fornelli before the war is anything but boring. There are fields to work and animals to care for. Life is difficult, yet tranquil. But soon the war comes, and life in Fornelli is tranquil no more.
The Generosity of Strangers is an accounting from the eyes of Lucia about faith, hope, and courage in the midst of war and its aftermath. it shows us how even in dark, desperate times, people can open their hearts and rise above adversity.
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Curly and Tubs and the Galloping Rot : Kim Montgomery
Curly and Tubs and the Galloping Rot
Two young brothers, Curly and Tubs and the galloping rot and Tubs, own a set of encyclopaedias called “The World of Knowledge”. An accident, involving spilt tea, threatens to damage volume 5, Nature.
The Council, guardians of The World of Knowledge, decide that the damage would be too great if they wait until the boys realise what has happened, and transport Curly and Tubs from Reader World into The Land of Nature, to do battle with The Galloping Rot.
The boys are standing on a footbridge waiting for a steam train to pass underneath, and envelop them in smoke. An unexpected train approaches, which they recognise as a full size version of one of their toy trains. When the smoke clears Curly and Tubs appear to be in The Land of Nature. They are, in fact, in Essence World, which is where The Council live, and which sits over the lands of The World of Knowledge like a two-way mirror.
The magic train carries the boys across the land to meet The Council, and then on to The Cover Desert, where The Galloping Rot is making rapid progress. The boys have to find a way of defeating the rot, helped by unexpected new powers.
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Star Readers from Out of the East : D A Nygaard
Star Readers from Out of the East
Ancient star readers are amazed by a conjunction of stars, and connect the mysterious event with a long-ago prophesy by an exalted member of their order. Their quest to uncover this mystery becomes a dangerous marathon into a slave empire. Deceit surrounds them and a frightening entity haunts them.
The journey carries the star readers through storms, battles, crossroads and palaces before finally leading them to a one-room mud hut in an insignificant village. Darker questions then confront them. Meres–a young aristocrat, and Jenu–a servant-healer, are swept up in this quest, and it changes their destiny. What they witness will change the world.
An innovative re-telling of the journey of the wise men to Bethlehem. Respectful of the ancient text and historically accurate, Star Readers offers a logical rationale behind one of the world’s most mesmerizing stories.
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The Startup Hats : David Gardner
The Startup Hats: Master the Many Roles of the Entrepreneur
The Startup Hats is a street-smart, practical and entertaining guide to starting your company. It provides entrepreneurs with both the skills and attitude necessary to grow their ventures.
In this book David lays out a concise overview of each role every entrepreneur must master – from banker to salesman to manager. Unlike most professions that require that you master only one role, successful entrepreneurship dictates that you embrace multiple roles on a daily basis.
The ability to mentally switch between these roles is the secret to ensuring your startup will survive and thrive. Depending on your strengths and personality, you will gravitate towards some roles more than others but ignore any one of them at your peril. This is a must-read for aspiring, new and even seasoned entrepreneurs.
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King of Clubs : Jim Ducibella
King of Clubs: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938
When an average Chicago-area golfer bet he could play 144 holes in one day, the Windy City stayed awake to see if he could make it.
When he bet $100,000 in Virginia land and cash — $1.6 million today — that he could walk and play 600 holes over 4 straight days in 8 different cities, America couldn’t get enough of this Depression-era true story.
“King of Clubs” has won book of the year from the International Network of Golf, and has been called “maybe the best story you’ve never heard” by GOLF.com.
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The Apolline Sibyl : Dave Becker
The Apolline Sibyl
Fiery tornadoes cut through quiet forests. Balls of lightning burn everything in their paths. Earthquakes open chasms that swallow vehicles whole. Clement is reeling from a new onslaught of curses, and it all started the day a mysterious, giant woman arrived at Jenna’s school.
Jenna Hamilton was just hoping for a normal sophomore year of high school. Instead she finds herself trapped in the middle of devastating plagues, mythical creatures, and a satanic plot to destroy the people she loves most.
As she struggles to make sense of her little corner of the world, Jenna learns that the rest of the planet is dying and she may be the key to its survival.
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International Student Part One: Journey to America : Jackai
International Student Part One: Journey to America
International Student: Journey to America (the first in a two-part series) captures the frustration and plight of African immigrant students in the first world countries. John Malinke, an African student from the Republic of Boluaké in Central Africa, travels to the United States of America for college, and in the process becomes exposed to the extremes of its society.
Leaving his parents and Emelda (his love interest and the hottest woman in his neighbourhood) behind, John enrols as a freshman at Rodeoville University in the city of Philadelphia. Suddenly out in the open to an entirely different world and culture, he struggles to maintain his family values and takes upon himself the role of an ambassador to his continent.
Forced to abide by strict immigration rules to maintain his status within the country, John is in for a long, tough ride. And just when he thinks he has found a new love, he discovers that the object of his affection has a secret that would be a prelude to much of the conflict he is about to experience…
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