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Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong : Lochlainn Seabrook
Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
DID YOU KNOW THAT . . .
• American slavery got its start in the North
• The American abolition movement began in the South
• Most Southern generals did not own slaves, and many, like Robert E. Lee, were abolitionists
• Many Northern generals, like U.S. Grant, owned slaves and said they would not fight for abolition
• According to the 1860 Census a mere 4.8 percent of Southerners owned slaves, 95.2 percent did not
• Abraham Lincoln was a white separatist who wanted to send all blacks “back to Africa”
• Jefferson Davis adopted a black boy and freed Southern slaves before the North did
• Lincoln was not against slavery, he was against the spread of slavery
• Lincoln supported the idea of corralling African-Americans in their own all-black state
• True slavery was never practiced in the South
• Lincoln “won” both the 1860 and 1864 elections with less than 50 percent of the American vote
• Lincoln was a big government liberal, Davis was a small government conservative
• There were tens of thousands of both black and Native-American slave owners
• Lincoln started the Civil War, not the South
• The North fought to “preserve the Union,” not to abolish slavery
• The South fought to uphold the original Constitution, not to maintain slavery
• the Northern armies were racially segregated, the Southern armies were racially integrated
• 1 million African-Americans fought for the Confederacy in one capacity or another
• The original Ku Klux Klan was an anti-Yankee organization with thousands of black members
• “Reconstruction” was a dismal failure, which is why the South is still recovering from the War
In this bestselling book, popular Southern historian and award-winning author Lochlainn Seabrook sets the record straight on these and hundreds of other commonly misunderstood topics in this easy-to-read, well documented handbook on the American “Civil War.” This is the book that every Civil War museum, house, gift shop, and Website has been waiting for, and every Civil War buff and student of history has been asking for! Includes over 1000 endnotes, a 700-book bibliography, and an index.
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Signs of Passion : Astrologers Haunani
Signs of Passion
Signs of Passion is an unique book. To get the most from it we strongly suggest reading the introductory chapter in which lovable, yet cantankerous, Grandee, is introduced and her secret, herbal, alchemic laboratory revealed. It is from her amphorae of preparations the adventures morph the reader into the theme character in which they will “live” each sign’s experience.
This book can be read on different levels – light entertainment of exhilarating adventures, more deeply as historical fiction or deeply as an illuminating astrological lesson in love. One needn’t be an astrologer to understand, but has only to remember the essence of each story to gain insight into all love natures available. However, if one “speaks” astrology one can further enjoy the way each story evolves within the parameters of each sign.
The reader is transported into the shoes of male and female “personalities” of each sign representing the entire gambit of love possibilities. These carefully crafted explorations were written in story format, which more easily imbues the mind than seemingly unrelated lists of astrological sign attributes. Following each story is a detailed description of Venus or Mars from a strictly astrological view and the time period in which it is set.
This anthology of 24 short stories allows an understanding of the qualities offered romantically in a totally absorbing and new mode so one may entertain which sign(s) might best fulfill their personal desires. Information allows one to cherish self through understanding one’s own personality and needs so as to not be forced off the path of personal transformation in an effort to gain a partner. The gift of Signs of Passion is freeing one from approaching the quest seeking love as if blindfolded.
Astrologers Haunani is the second and third generations of a three-generation family of astrologers.
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The Winter People : Bret Tallent
The Winter People
The Winter People talk in the wind and torment you in your dreams. They call an enormous blizzard to their aid and fall upon the tiny mountain town of Copper Creek.
The residents and visitors of this quaint village have more to fear than the raging blizzard that has cut off their town from the rest of the world. They have more to fear than the nightmares they can’t quite remember in the morning.
The Winter People have come to feed.
This is a fast paced heart pounding fear-fest. It follows the lives of a small group trying to survive the greatest horror they have ever known, and an enemy like no other on earth.
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Green Eyes and Good Hair : Hugh O. Smith
Green Eyes and Good Hair
Tony is young good-looking and successful, the ultimate ladies’ man. Everything about him, from his clothes to his apartment, is designed to be a trap for the women who catch his eye. Tony has no immediate plans except to advance his career and continue with his playboy ways. Then one day he meets Olivia, a beautiful plus-size executive, and he sees a way he can do both.
Olivia is new in town, but not certainly not new to the ways of the player. She knows that no man can treat her the way she deserves so she doesn’t even try to find one. As far as she’s concerned, life is just fine without an encumbrance like a boyfriend or husband. When she meets Tony, she sees him for exactly what he is, a playboy looking for a good time. She’s wise to his playboy ways but still, she wouldn’t mind spending a little time with him.
Tony and Olivia get together, each with their own agenda. Then, against all odds, something happens that changes them both…
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The Judas Hunter : William E. Wallace
The Judas Hunter
Private eye Jack Burial is so down-and-out that his cell phone’s been cut off and he’s about to be evicted from his office.
A job tracing a businessman who has betrayed his partners could put Burial back in the black; all he has to do is survive the Mafia, murderous bikers and an irate federal prosecutor while tracking down the Judas — without becoming one himself!
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The Book On Entrepreneurship and Property : Selchouk Sami
The Book On Entrepreneurship and Property
The book taps in to the fundamentals of the entrepreneurial spirit.
In eight concise chapters totaling just over 130 pages, “The Book on Entrepreneurship and Property the Guide to Successful Entrepreurship and Property Investment” illustrates how entrepreneurship has developed and impacted society over the years by reviewing the industrial revolutions that have set the framework for modern economic development and then takes a look in to the future with the Third Industrial Revolution.
It next moves on to list ten of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time and identifies how they have achieved their success. There is nothing better than learning from the best to awaken the entrepreneurial spirit. For the property investor there is a Chapter on legal and practical concerns. The entrepreneurial mind can be applied to acquire a property for as little as £1 which is addressed in a Chapter. This is the first book in the UK written by a lawyer to discuss the creative tool known as instalment contracts. By the time you have completed this book, you should be equipped with the fundamentals to enable you to decide what your next move in business is going to be; whether it is to find the right business partner or to seek advice from an expert.
Chapter 7 elaborates on the finding by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) that entrepreneurship globally is on the rise and that entrepreneurship, is the best hope for stimulating a weakened world economy.
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Charlie No Face : David B. Seaburn
Charlie No Face
“Everything in my life changed, just like that. I mean everything. This summer was supposed to be the best time of my short life. And up until the middle of July, the summer of ’59 was. But then everything changed. My dad started acting, well, different. He wasn’t completely ‘there’ some of the time, and I didn’t know what to think of it. And on top of that, there was the whole thing about Charlie No Face.”
Jackie
So begins Charlie No Face, a coming of age story about an 11 year old boy, Jackie, growing up in the late 1950s in western Pa. He lives with his father, his mother having died when he was an infant.
The biggest preoccupation of Jackie and his friends (and many others) is Charlie No Face, a severely disfigured and deformed hermit who roams country roads at night and is reputed to kill children, animals and just about anything else he can get his hands on. Jackie and Charlie No Face eventually form an unlikely friendship that transforms them both, shedding light on Jackie’s mother’s lifer, helping Charlie make peace with his past and teaching Jackie how to look at people with his heart.
It is a story for anyone who has ever been abused, bullied, rejected or misunderstood. It is for those who feel their true face has never been recognized. This is a story about the power of compassion and the importance of seeing with one’s heart.
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Chimney Bluffs : David B. Seaburn
Chimney Bluffs
When state park ranger Clancy Brisco discovers two bodies and two sacks at the bottom of 300 foot high Chimney Bluffs, he is shocked. When he discovers what is in the sacks, his life is changed forever. Chimney Bluffs is a story about the power of relationships to foster hope and enable healing.
Kate and Mitch Duncan adore their young son, Danny; when he dies unexpectedly after a brief illness, they are inconsolable. Mitch believes their only option is to join their son in the afterlife so he will not be alone; Kate agrees to Mitch’s proposal of suicide, not because she believes in the afterlife, but because she feels responsible for Danny’s death. They put two sacks in the back of their VW van, one containing their son, the other containing his toys, and go to their favorite place, Chimney Bluffs, Ice Age spires carved out of the Lake Ontario shoreline. Mitch jumps to his death; Kate lives.
Clancy and his young co-worker and friend, Bobby, are overwhelmed by what they find in the sacks. Clancy, furious at what he thinks has been the murder of a little boy, curses Kate as she lies silent on the shore.
Over the course of several months, Clancy, Bobby and Kate will not only become friends, but will live together, their private stories mingling in an unexpectedly transformative way. Clancy, the failed husband who always hoped for a family; Bobby, whose brother’s death when he was a boy destroyed Bobby’s relationship with his father; and Kate, who struggles with loss and guilt and, in the end, healing and hope.
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Cold Warriors : Clare Dargin
Cold Warriors
Left in cryogenic stasis for nearly a century, Caitlin Driskoll is awakened and drafted into a war she knows nothing about. Expected to defend a world where her kind is despised and expendable, she discovers love and respect from the one man who can’t be associated with her.
Lieutenant Colonel Medoro Keegan has spent a lifetime in the Marines. With no family to speak of, the Corps and his ship, the USS Blanchard, are all the loved ones he needs…until Caitlin sparks a fire within, that threatens to consume him if he doesn’t walk away.
Will he choose a life of certainty in the only world he knows or give it all to Caitlin and run the risk of losing someone, yet again?
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Seven Minutes Without Air : M.K. Harvey
Seven Minutes Without Air (A Jack Larsson Story)
Still recovering from a harrowing incident in Afghanistan, which ended his illustrious army career. Recently released from army prison, Jack Larsson returns to his boyhood home of Yorkshire. He hopes to discover the truth surrounding the death of his younger brother, move on from his dis-honourable discharge and banish his demons.
Jack meets up with his uncle but soon becomes tangled in a complex web of corrupt businessmen, his brothers ex-girlfriends, eastern Europeans and a police force who don’t want him to discover the truth surrounding his brothers death.
With the help of an ambitious journalist he gets closer to the truth, discovers family secrets and realises all isn’t quite as it appears. He is left in a desperate race to save not only his sanity but also his soul.
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