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After the tragic death of his wife and son, the Earl of Trenton and his young daughter, Leah, struggle to move past their grief. Months later, Lord Trenton meets Lady Caroline, a pretty, yet jealous, woman. Lady Caroline wants nothing more than to marry the Earl, but something stands in her way - Leah. When she pushes the Earl to hire a governess to take care of Leah, her jealousy is unleashed when she sees Emma, the beautiful governess.

Corbin and his fiancée, Kylee, live a lavish lifestyle, until Corbin's actions put them both in a dire predicament. Too late, Corbin realizes that he has put Kylee's life at risk and hatches a plan to rectify it. But the dangerous plan falls through, and Corbin realizes that not only has he put his fiancée’s life at risk, but he's fallen in love with the woman who was helping him save Kylee. But is Kylee playing a dangerous game of her own?

Greater Than a Tourist - Roanoke, Virginia USA, by Holly Brinja, offers the inside scoop on Roanoke.

Conan, the laird of Angus, Clan McDuff, and Una, the daughter of the laird of Caithness, Clan McGregor, have loved each other for many years, until a feud between the clans is unleashed and Una and Conan are forbidden to see each other. Unwilling to give up the man she loves, Una and Conan meet at night, in secret. Or so they think. Boyd, the finest knight of Clan McGregor, is in love with Una, and he states his intentions to her father that she be betrothed to him. But when Boyd follows her one night and sees her meeting Conan, a lethal fury is unleashed.

Most of us would like to change some events in our past. However, if we were granted such an opportunity, would we be happy with the results? The Bench is a radio play by Glenn Hascall.

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource, or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

First published in 1918, this new Raging Bull Edition contains the original text as well as background articles. What is, or was, the frontier? Where was it? Under what stars did it lie? The tales of our own old frontier are sometimes hazy, an unreality, which makes them seem less history than folklore.

First published in 1905, this new Raging Bull Edition contains the original text as well as background articles. These tales chronicle the rugged lives and audacious crimes of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other desperadoes. Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, the stories profile Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, the Dalton Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, and other legendary figures of the era.

In Marc Gasol: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dominant Centers, you will learn the inspirational story of one of basketball's premier centers. Since entering the NBA, Marc Gasol has created a name for himself as one of the best international basketball players to play in the NBA at the center position.

In 1874 the Hoo Doo War erupted in the Texas Hill Country of Mason County. The feud began with the rise of the mob under Sheriff John Clark, but it was not until the premeditated murder of rancher Timothy Williamson in 1875, a murder orchestrated by Sheriff Clark, that the violence escalated out of control. His death drew former Texas Ranger Scott Cooley to the region seeking justice, and when the courts failed, he began a vendetta to avenge his friend.

Santa's Christmas schedule has run into a major problem - all his reindeer, even the heroic Rudolph, are too ill to fly. However, a promising solution to Santa's dilemma is offered from an unlikely source - the eccentric elf Melvin.

Louis Esson is considered to be the first great Australian dramatist. As with most of his work, these four plays depict life from the view of the common man and provide vivid presentations of life, both urban and rural, in Australia before the First World War.

Dreaming of days of yore, Tim Porter organizes the return of Cosmo Draper, the town's favorite mayor. Only trouble is, Cosmo's been dead for years, right?

Santa is in trouble - he catches a cold at the most inconvenient time of the year. As he rests in bed, he ponders anxiously: Who will deliver the presents this year?

After many years living abroad with her longtime lover, Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney visits her former marital home, now occupied by her son, Arnold, and his wife, Elizabeth. Also present is her estranged husband, Clive, who lives in a cottage on the estate. Elizabeth has become dissatisfied with the life she leads with her wealthy husband, who is very occupied with his political career, and she encourages the advances of a dashing but impecunious suitor, Teddy Luton.

A Christmas story to warm the heart. Sgt. Evans recounts his most infamous case about a stolen Christmas tree.

New Thought author and philosopher James Allen (1864 - 1912) is best known for his treatises on moral development and the power of thought, the most famous of which is As a Man Thinketh. In 1907 Allen also published a collection of poems, entitled Poems of Peace. Most of the pieces take the form of aphorisms and admonitions, delivered with the author's typical earnestness.

Lincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites.

Charles A. Beard, a proponent of the “New History", emphasized the importance of cultural economic developments as opposed to just warfare and diplomacy.

Except perhaps the struggle between patriots and tories at the outbreak of the Revolution, no controversy in the history of the United States has aroused such passion and led to such momentous results as that between the advocates and the opponents of slavery … The book has the double purpose of describing the conditions of slavery and the state of mind of those interested in it or against it, and at the same time recording the events which mark the anti-slavery agitation.