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Paul B Kerr, MD is a Physician practicing in Northern Pennsylvania, near the border of Upstate New York, and west of the Pocono Mountains. His current medical interest is in Consulting with the elderly. He married a Registered Nurse, Donna Smith, while an intern at the Guthrie Clinic, Sayre. They have 3 happily married children; there are 7 grandchildren. The entire family are active and practicing Christian believers. Many are in medical activities....
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INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:
In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy.
Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East.
For the first time in the long history of the Chisholms...
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This work of historical fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1910 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. This volume is a collection of short stories: The Last of the Legions, The Last Galley, Through the Veil, The Coming of the Huns, The Contest, The First Cargo, An Iconoclast, Giant Maximin, The Red Star, The Silver Mirror, The Home-coming, A Point of Contact, and The Centurion.
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This exciting short story features Izzy's Grandma Vera from Adventure in Malasorte Castle, the last of the Guardians of the demon-infested Val De Monio.
After a long fight with an evil demon, the Guardians believe they have trapped it forever in a monolith. Until Vera overhears some locals talking, and realizes that it has escaped. Now she must fight the demon and defeat it once and for all, in the fiercest battle that has ever been seen in Val De...
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In 1895 the Imperial Government took over the administration of British East Africa; the company ceased to exist, and subsequently Sidney Langford Hinde (1863-1930) became Resident and Collector of Masailand. He had many opportunities of obtaining information concerning this unique and interesting people, and, assisted by Mrs. Hinde, has embodied the results of his gleanings in the present volume, his book 1901 book "The last of the Masai."
The Masai...
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That's a wrap! Leading lady Akta Patel is in love with Henry, her co-star in Truth in Darkness, the most anticipated movie in Hollywood. But there's a problem. Only a few know that the "truth" in the title is the fact that Monsters are real. Henry is one of them-and he's sworn never to date a human. Henry is at the end of his rope. A year ago, an in-the-moment touch of her lips on his bought his monster roaring to the surface. Kissing and touching...
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Set in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk during the 1950s, The Last of the Angels tells the slyly humorous tale of three strikingly different people in one small neighborhood. During a labor strike against the British-run Iraq Petroleum Company, Hameed Nylon becomes a labor organizer and later a revolutionary, like his hero, Mao Tse-Tung. His brother-in-law, the sheep butcher Khidir Musa, travels to the Soviet Union to find his long-lost brothers,...
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This exuberant tale of death and despair combines humor, fantasy and spirituality. New Zealand social order disintegrates as escalating global crises threaten to end human life on Earth. A professor, a priest and an arms dealer seek to discern what is most meaningful in their lives. Adam and Eve make an appearance while Henry VIII and Mozart have speaking parts. Sheep feature. King David is the boss of a motorcycle gang. Concepts of right and wrong,...
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Trudy Bailey Walters, who is in her 70s, thinks the old house she just bought for back taxes might be haunted. The house has been in her family for years but is now broken down and barely livable. Adam Bailey, who Trudy has known since childhood, lives in a little house on the property. He says he will help Trudy find the source of the "haunting," but, he doesn't want Trudy to know the truth.
Although Trudy has no intention of taking in boarders,...
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Max Bergmann is Europe's hottest drum and bass DJ. From the outside, his life is a whirl of glamorous vodka-fueled parties and casual hook-ups, whilst inside he craves the one thing he can't have – his Greek childhood friend, Georgios Manolas. Following a disastrous PR stunt and one drunken hook-up too many, Max realises the time has come to reassess his life choices. Returning to his childhood home on the Greek island of Aegina, if he wants any...
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During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through enemy lines. Hawkeye is assisted by his Indian friend Chingachgook, and Uncas, Chingachgook's son; the two are the last survivors of the Mohican tribe. During their travels to the fort, Alice falls in love with Hawkeye, while...
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In Rome in 1975, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the...
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The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
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