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Blessing, North Dakota, 1905. Just a few short weeks into her year-long nurse training assignment at the Blessing Hospital, Miriam Antonio is called home to Chicago, where her mother is gravely ill. With siblings to care for, Miriam pleads to be allowed to finish her training in Chicago. Her nursing supervisor grants her a brief reprieve but extracts a promise that Miriam will soon return to Blessing and fulfill her commitment. While in Chicago, Miriam...
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[2023]
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"Explores the principles that govern your family energy field and the many ways this ancestral field can support you as well as how it can hold you captive. Provides exercises and tools to help you recognize and release negative family patterns and heal ancestral trauma. Discusses the importance of honoring your ancestors, sharing suggestions about altar creation, prayers, and the Vedic ritual of Tarpanam"--
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"The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations...
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2013.
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First edition.
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister- and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden...
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Chorus of dragons volume 3
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2020.
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Trying to convince the king of the vanae to forfeit his people's immortality to save humanity, Kihrin discovers that his growing connection to Vol Karoth is posing an even greater threat.
Relos Var's dark plans have been revealed, and demons roam free. Ancient prophecies about the end of the world seem close at hand. A avoid annihalation, Kihrin, Janel, and Thurvishar must convince the king of the Manol vané to perform an ancient ritual that will...
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"Anna--Daniel's wife of forty years--relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty" -- Cover verso.
"In this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling...
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2014.
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Learn how to tap into the wealth of library material to get solid answers to the "why" behind events in the past. You'll tour genealogies and family histories; histories of states, counties, cities, and towns; the Periodical Source Index (PERSI); and several types of maps (which help ground events in the physical world).
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Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 3
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Lady Minerva Sharpe doesn't ever intend to marry because no respectable man would allow her to continue writing her books. So when the only man she was ever attracted to, reckless and wild barrister Giles Masters, proposes that she marry him to meet her grandmother's ultimatum, she counters with a different proposal: a fake courtship that will upset Gran's plans in a way that her brother's fake betrothal did not.
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2021.
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First edition.
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"Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost diplomatic urgency, a last-ditch attempt to...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Yorkist King Edward IV and sister of the Princes in the Tower, a woman whose life was inextricably caught up in the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses and the establishment of the usurping Tudor dynasty. She was the wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII.
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Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
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Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her former fiancé and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
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Secrets of the Shetlands volume 3
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2017.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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"When a local resident turns up dead in the quiet fishing hamlet of Whale's Reef in the Shetland Islands, suspicion is cast in the direction of the island's most prominent family. How Loni and David deal with this challenge will go a long way in determining their future, and that of the quaint island community"--
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An ill-fated elopement cost English-born governess Bernadette Kent her reputation, her fickle lover, and any chance of a future match. She has nothing left to fear-- not even the bitter, dangerously handsome Scot due to marry her young charge. Naïve wallflower Avaline is terrified to wed Rabbie Mackenzie, but if he sends her home, she will be ruined. Bernadette's solution: convince Rabbie to get Avaline to cry off ... while ignoring her own traitorous...
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[2003]
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A beginner's guide to building a website that traces your family's lineage as a resource for present and future generations, or for finding new relatives.
“Planting Your Family Tree Online” is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a genealogy Web site.
When people begin their genealogical adventure, they usually interview elderly members of the family and contact other family members. The next step is usually one...
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Secrets of the Shetlands volume 2
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2016.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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When she finds she has inherited property in the Shetland Islands, Loni Ford wants only to sell it quickly. But she discovers her inheritance is not what she expected. A city girl at heart, she is surprised at how much she enjoys the peaceful atmosphere of the place. But change threatens that peace, as does a dangerous man intent on controlling the island--and Loni is all that's standing in his way.
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2013.
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Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
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