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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 2
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Leinad's skill with a sword helps free his people from Lord Fairos's slavery, but he must again take up the fight against the evil of the Dark Knight when the rest of the country turns away from the King and the Code.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 3
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Cedric, a poor boy who takes care of the infirm and aged Leinad, is trained by the Prince to become a Noble Knight after the Prince becomes certain that his father's creed is going unheeded and the Dark Knight is trying to take over the kingdom.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 4
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"A sworn enemy of the prince bows to eliminate his followers, until the prince saves his life"--P. [4] of cover.
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Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, "so rich and vital it leaves you breathless."
8) The oath
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In the 1880s, a fiery preacher is hanged in a mining town by people who reject God in favor of Reason. The people's sins give birth to a dragon which to this day terrorizes the area. The story is recounted by a wildlife biologist who meets the dragon while investigating killer-bears. By the author of This Present Darkness.
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Toma´s discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
11) Blindness
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A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive,...
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive,...
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
13) Prophet
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John Barrett, anchorman for "News Six at Five," has a problem. His comfortable, successful world is being jarred to the breaking point. He's caught his producer skewing a story to suit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks - and something much bigger. Barrett's father's "accidental" death suddenly isn't looking so accidental. His estranged son Carl has returned to challenge his integrity and probe for the man behind the TV image. The...
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This Present Darkness volume 1
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Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous plot to subjugate the townspeople--and eventually the entire human race. A riveting thriller, "This Present Darkness" offers a fascinating glimpse into the unseen world of spiritual warfare
15) saint maybe
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In 1965, the Bedloe family is living an ideal life in Baltimore. But an accident shatters their peace forever, and seventeen year-old Ian Bedloe is guilt-wracked over the accidental death of his brother. Unable to live under the weight of his self-punishment, he espies a second chance in a stereotypical, and therefore, unlikely, place.
16) Watership Down
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An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace
England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of...
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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
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Penguin Books
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1982, c1980
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a...