James Brown
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Christmas Chronicles is not just a memoir; it's a reminder of the happiness and love that Christmas brings. Whether you're reminiscing about your own special moments or looking to make new ones, this book will fill your heart with the spirit of the holidays. In this book, the author delivers the experiences he had and what Christmas actually brings to us. It's actually a book that can transform our lives from who we are today to a changed person in...
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Little Jimmy Brown never knew the warm embrace of a mother's arms while he grew up. When he was just a babe, his momma passed on to the great beyond, leaving him all alone in this harsh world. The poor boy was shipped off to an orphanage, where he spent the next nine years surrounded by cold walls and stern caretakers instead of a loving family. At the orphanage, Jimmy found solace in caring for the animals and tending the garden. Though the work...
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This book will prove controversial for several reasons, the main one being that it shows the vanquishing of the ancient cultural beliefs, of the ancient cultures, primarily around the Mediterranean that come today to be called 'paganism'.
This was not a one-off event. The victory of monotheism was the latest phase in an ongoing battle between Monotheism and what we can call the 'Heliopean Pantheons'.
Other contentious topics are innovative ideas...
4) Exodus
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They fled through the city, away from the school, racing in desperation towards an uncertain future.
At every step, they battled the ravenous creatures of the night.
But there was danger within.
One of their number had been bitten, and soon they would face a terrible, unthinkable choice....
5) Jeannie
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This is a love story (often humorous) of the life of Barbara Jean "Jeannie" (Ratliff) Brown from the time she met Jim at the University of North Dakota on October 7, 1960, until she died in Bakersfield, California, on October 17, 2014.
A day late for her wedding, Jeannie worked as an RN while husband Jim finished law school and served in the army during the Vietnam war. Then she experienced a brush with death after the birth of her first child, daughter...
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The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg that winter is better known as the Battle of the Bulge. Here are the first-person stories...
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Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage across France, driving through Germany and into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria. Along the way Third Army forces entered the Battle of the Bulge, breaking the siege of Bastogne. It...
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, "the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield," the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First, there was the aerial onslaught by British and American airborne divisions, then the landing of the American, British, and Canadian seaborne troops. Over 150,000 Allied...
10) Dance of Hearts
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In Regency England, 1816, it is not fashionable to display fairy blood.
With her mother's dubious bloodline, and her father's death, Miss Wychwood acts as her cousin's unpaid housekeeper and companion. However, when a childhood friend returns, will she remain a dowdy chaperone or take a chance at love?
Sweet Romance (fade to black)
Written in a Jane Austen (book) style
Childhood love returns
Poor girl makes good
Fairy Godmother Magical dress...
14) Targets
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Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he offered to "donate" 20 minutes' worth of footage of the Corman-directed The Terror and the services of Boris Karloff, who owed Corman two days' worth of work...