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A Gentle Feuding
Proud and fiercely independent, Sheena knows what her duty is as jewel of the Fergusson clan: She must wed to put an end to the feud that has devastated her family. But though she agrees to marry Jamie MacKinnion, she will never give herself completely to the dark and dangerous laird.Pride insists that she hate her husband-to-be, the most feared man in the Scottish Highlands. Why then can't she deny the desire awakened by Jamie's surprisingly gentle touch? He is her captor and her enemy -- yet Sheena's heart is the real traitor, for it begs her to surrender freely to a passion beyond bounds...and to a man she dare not love..
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Kari's Saga: A Novel of Viking Iceland
Historical fiction at its absolute finest, Kári's Saga by mystery writer Robert Jansson is intuitive, learned and extraordinary This penetrating and insightful narrative immerses the reader in the vengeful world of Viking Iceland in the year 1000, when pagans and Christians struggled for dominance and society drifted towards civil war. Kári Sigurdsson (nicknamed Kári the Warrior for his adventurous past) is enmeshed in a vicious family feud over an inheritance. He tries to resolve this with honor through the elaborate, if flawed, legal system of the day, but is thwarted at every turn by the treachery of his ambitious wife, the jealousy of his chieftain and the unrelenting enmity of his adversary. Never a dull moment, love and loyalty match deceit and betrayal along a path strewn with misdeeds and lawlessness. Sustained by the selfless love of two young women, finally Kári is forced to examine his own beliefs while on a course of action that could lead to outlawry and death..
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Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia
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The Donnelly Album: The Complete and Authentic Account of Canada's Famous Feuding Family
On February 3, 1880 five members of the hated Donnelly family in Lucan, Ontario, were killed by a mob of drunken vigilantes. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys - James, Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving from Tipperary, Ireland in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous pioneer community near London, Ontario. For the next 30 years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the area. James was convicted of murder but escaped the gallows. The sons grew up to be handsome, reckless, enterprising in business and very dangerous in combat. What is it about The Donnellys that still fascinates people? Were they really as evil as their enemies portrayed them? Why was no one ever convicted of their murders? What happened to the surviving Donnellys? And why do local people still feel strongly, taking sides for or against the family? After 15 years of exhaustive research, lawyer Ray Fazakas has produced the definitive account of the famous feud and its tragic consequences. He has also collected an astonishing treasure trove of old photographs, period drawings, maps and documents, showing the Donnellys, their murderers and the sites and people involved. This unique combination of narrative and illustration recreates an epic tragedy of frontier life. .
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The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories
"I looked out the window and was filled with contentment I was on a train. There was no landscape, ugly or beautiful, to demand my attention . . . None of the passengers within my view were badly dressed I had the right book with me . . . I was happily married but alone, nothing in the immediate past to regret, nothing in the immediate future to fear. In between -- the best place to be."At fifty, Grace Hanford has lived long enough to be a daughter, a stepdaughter, a girlfriend, a sister, a sister-in-law, a wife, a stepmother, and an orphan. She has fallen in and out of love -- with troublesome men, with her glamorous mother, with her wild best friend, and with New York City -- more times than she can count. Still, Grace is more comic than melancholic, and a gifted confessor. She lives life as if every day is a movie in which her role is yet to be determined -- and her audience loves her for it. In The Best Place to Be, we follow Grace from her fatherless childhood through her years at an all-girls college to adulthood in the city and her many dating escapades (and escapes) as an urban sophisticate. Wherever she may be, Grace tries to find her place in the world with humor and the blunt surprise of truth. And always, in the background, there is Grace's mother, brother, and the man she could or might or will call husband, out of reach -- until she reaches. In the tradition of Melissa Bank's The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Best Place to Be is at once funny, moving, and deeply provocative, a love letter to the self-determined woman that shimmers with hilarious insight and graceful wit..
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The Feuding Hatfields & McCoys
As a scion of one of the feuding families of the Allegheny and Cumberland hills, and one whose forebearers began their trek westward from the Virginia coast, I offer the following for all who may be interested or desire to hear the facts from one who has first-hand knowledge of the people of whom he writes, so says Dr. Coleman C. Hatfield in the foreword of this title. This unique book is about two proud families. It is a title that includes a comprehensive timeline of the Hatfield family migration westward and documents the history before, during and following the bloody Hatfield and McCoy feud era. Included are special stories, which have never been published before, offered directly from the Hatfield family that adds color and clarity to this famous vendetta. This work also includes the exhaustive research of the late C. A. Hatfield, a well-known attorney in the City of Logan. Besides being historically significant, this volume is a wonderful keepsake for those who love American history, or to those who call the Appalachian Mountains home..
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Family Feuding - How to End It (Divine Pattern for Marriage and Family)
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Feuding Allies: The Private Wars of the High Command
"A first-class historian."—The Wall Street Journal Praise for William Breuer's Previous Works THE GREAT RAID ON CABANATUAN "An exciting narrative presented by a first-rate storyteller."—Publishers Weekly "Absorbing reading. . . . The book's great virtue is that it allows a number of the rapidly diminishing band of the survivors of the whole experience to have their say."—Booklist RETAKING THE PHILIPPINES "Vivid . . . skillfully written."—Los Angeles Times GERONIMO "Brings to life how airborne soldiers survived, how the human will prevails . . . against overwhelming enemies, tactical failures, and even death."—The New York Times RACE TO THE MOON "Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WWII spycraft and warfare."—Kirkus Reviews DEVIL BOATS "Fast-paced, detailed, and satisfyingly dramatic."—World War II magazine It was an historic alliance between nations at war determined to defeat the Axis armies. But behind the facade of solidarity, other conflicts raged. Driven to halt the forces that had overrun Europe, Asia, and Africa, the British and the Americans argued over every command and strategy, neither side trusted the Soviets, and the French griped incessantly. William B. Breuer's dramatic behind-the-scenes narrative reveals for the first time the full extent of the internal conflict that ripped through the high command. British commanders thought the Americans too anxious to open a western front in Europe—to prove the point they gave the go-ahead to a suicidal assault on France. American commanders believed the British were stalling for time to bleed the Soviets to improve England's position in postwar Europe. General Douglas MacArthur, whose war in the Pacific took a backseat under the "Germany first" strategy, had bitter differences of opinion with almost everyone in the U.S. command, particularly the navy admirals he had to fight alongside. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the British commander of Allied ground forces, was roundly de-spised by the American generals for his haughty self-righteous attitude and cautious approach. And General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied troops, faced the near-impossible task of assuaging the enormous egos of the Allied military and government leaders, keeping the coalition together, and at the same time, winning the war. Feuding Allies is a gripping story of wrangling, backstabbing, rivalries, and jealousies. This fast-paced account sheds new light on the most charismatic and renowned figures of World War II—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, and Montgomery—and reveals just how high passions ran on the road to victory. .
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