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THERE have been better women than Catherine of Russia, nobler and more learned women, but history discloses no woman who combined so much of good and evil into one bewildering and gloriously successful career. Daughter of a petty German Prince, chance made her the wife of the heir to the Russian Empire. She took that nation to her heart, discarded her weakling husband, and ruled her adopted country for more than three decades with a strength and understanding...
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In the captivating world of history, few figures have left an indelible mark as Catherine of Aragon. This remarkable woman, who would go on to become the first wife of King Henry VIII of England, had a lineage steeped in grandeur and a birth that would shape her destiny.
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#1 The default mode network is the area of the brain that is active when we are doing nothing, and it is typically active when we are thinking about things that are self-related. As you develop your mindfulness and meditation skills, you will notice your mind wandering less and less.
#2 Selective memories are created to unconsciously prove that the judgments are accurate....
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#1 The heir to one of the richest aristocrats of the twentieth century, Billy de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, was classically good-looking. He had a brilliant hunting and polo playing skills, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a MP for Wakefield from 1895 to 1912.
#2 The true identity of Billy Fitzwilliam is the first of the Wentworth mysteries....
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#1 Mary Sears was a planktonologist who was sent to Peru in December 1941 to help save the country's guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was unable to collect any specimens because the men on the boat did not want to let her go to sea.
#2 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was...
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Catherine Cookson was an illegitimate child brought up in one of the poorest places in the western world. She left school at 13 to become a domestic servant and was later employed in a workhouse laundry. Yet she became one of the best selling novelists of all time and one of the richest women in Britain. Her story is as fascinating as any of her novels, with a plot that includes abandonment, abuse, alcoholism, extreme poverty, and a love affair that...
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#1 When people think they are going to have to fight a war, they start to imagine what it will be like. However, these images are not meant to be taken literally. They are meant to foster a confident, even optimistic, mood when times are tough.
#2 Efim Dzigan's film struck a chord with Soviet audiences. It was not about the war, but faith. The film's action opened in a fairground...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was born in Lewiston, a small town in western New York, to conservative, devout Catholic parents. I was at the hub of the town because I worked in my father's drugstore from the age of four. I was labeled eccentric by my mother. #2 I worked at a drugstore as a child, and I was exposed to situations that were unusual for a child. I never had a meal at home,...
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A truth buried for over forty years.
A love that lasted a lifetime.
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life.
Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it's finally time to go back to where her story began...
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Love and duty, codes and spies...
Kent, 1939
Soon to marry her childhood sweetheart, Eliza thinks her life is set. But when war breaks out, everything changes and, while helping the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, she bumps into Lewis, an unforgettable stranger from her past.
Eliza's in-laws' country home becomes a cell for code breakers receiving messages from the French Resistance, with Eliza as translator. When Lewis is assigned to head up...
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St. Catherine of Siena was born during an outbreak of the Plague in Siena in 1347. She was brought up in the faith and especially after her own sister died at the age of sixteen found herself committed to pursuits of piety. She joined the Dominican order and, at the age of twenty-one, had what she described as her "mystical marriage" to Christ. Today, we know St. Catherine mostly through the many letters she wrote to her fellow brothers and sisters...
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Bionics is the combination of biology and electronics, but sometimes the line between the biological and mechanical is hard to define. Will Mary Catherine and her friends be able to figure out what makes a person 'bionic' or not? This engaging and informative play is the perfect introduction to the science of bionics and the questions it raises. It repositions complex scientific concepts into concrete examples to help readers process and retain important...
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'I am Catherine Jane' is one woman's brave, determined, and often-painful journey of healing and redemption. Raped by a U.S. Navy sailor in Yokosuka, Jane Fisher, an Australian expatriate and mother of three, found herself fighting for justice in a society where the stigma of being a rape victim is seen as shameful and is often perceived as the victim's fault. Jane's confronting story reveals the personal struggles behind her single-minded search...
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#1 I had bought this land three years earlier. I had been living up valley, renting a cabin that the owner had winterized, in the sense that if I wore a down parka and mukluks to bed, I wouldn't succumb to frostbite overnight.
#2 The fox was a year old, and he had already trespassed several times to visit the house with the shiny blue roof. He planned to avoid his mother's...
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Ce nouveau thriller mystique, d'un maître du genre, entraîne le lecteur au bout de ses questionnements sur la nature, le monde et l'Homme.
Le père Hieronymos, bibliothécaire du monastère Sainte-Catherine — un des plus anciens de la chrétienté (IIIe — IVe siècle) —, dans le Sinaï, découvre par hasard un livre d'une trentaine de pages qu'il n'a jamais vu. De lecture en relecture, il se convainc de son caractère exceptionnel. Comme...
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This is the first in a series. The diary of Miss Ebbie Catherine Sullivan's life in rural Charity Junction during the Great Depression. Ebbie Catherine has dreams to change the world through the sacred trust of her pen and her steadfast belief that she can do something about the injustices she sees. Join her for a journey to change the world.
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This Royal Wedding souvenir celebrates the true love match between William and Catherine as the couple begin their married life and transform the monarchy into something thoroughly modern. On April 29,2011,Prince William, son of His Royal Highness Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, married Catherine (Kate) Middleton at historic Westminster Abbey in London. This special souvenir guide celebrates the social event of the year and also...
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Messmore Barett est un médecin à la carrière prestigieuse. Distingué par le prix Nobel pour ses innovations, il est l'un des plus hauts responsables d'un projet classé secret-défense par le gouvernement américain. Son objectif inavoué? Retourner dans le passé et le remodeler, pour pouvoir grandir avec la seule chose qui lui a manqué dans la vie: un père. En 2078, avec l'aide de son assistante Aurely et grâce à la machine à remonter le...
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Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch's Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry, she put up with the king's many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire. Catherine's marriage saw many trials and tribulations including her inability to produce an heir. Yet Charles supported his queen throughout the Restoration,...