The Violent Land, Paperback

The conclusion of a spectacular fantasy epic - a violent struggle for land and power in a world of fabled cities, great dangers and mysterious forces.

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In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or aga...

Reducere. Joshua has come home. But home is no more peaceful than it was during the "time long ago" remembered by Joshua. Violent, seemingly intractable disp...

Reducere. William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost lan...

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A story of violence at the heart of a pastoral landscape, from the author of Indie Next pick and All Iowa Reads selection Little Wolves Recovering ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erskine CaldwellOriginally published in 1932, Caldwell's novel told the story of the Lester family, poor Georgia sharecropp...

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Reducere. Airington is an apocalyptic novel based on the prophetic books of the Bible. It is a violent novel. The Bible is a violent book. Airington is a fic...

Balochistan, the land of the Baloch is a huge land mass stretching from Southeastern Iran to the east bank of River Sindh in Punjab, and from lower...

Reducere. The Story Continues... Joseph F. Girzone has woven another magical story, a modern-day parable, in Joshua and the Children, which gracefully contin...

DescriptionPerched on a dry desert mesa, San Judas is a home of last resort for landless peasants who build makeshift homes and a vibrant community...

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Reducere. The last thing Lady Katherine wants is to take the matchmaking job for Mrs. Burwick, whose daughter, Prudence, clearly does not want to be matched....

Reducere. December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. This even...

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Reducere. In Chicago, Illinois, a city infamously dubbed Chi-Raq, the gang leaders and gangstas rule the streets with deadly force. But when BOSS, ANIMAL, an...

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DescriptionA board of depraved billionaires, called the Directorate, has masterminded all the mass shootings in America and brainwashed thousands o...

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To twelve-year-old Emma Neimi, life may be hard, but it is basically good. She has finished sixth grade and is nearly a young lady. Her father push...

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Reducere. When a storm blows off the North Sea and slams into the village of Fenwick on Sea, the villagers prepare for the inevitable: shipwreck, flood, land...

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and ...

Reducere. There is currently no single-volume history of Zimbabwe that provides detailed coverage of the country's experience from precolonial times to the p...

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Reducere. A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Begi...

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A testament to strength and determination, Maud Hawk Wright recounts the true story of a young American woman who is kidnapped from her ranch in Ch...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

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Johnstone Country. Draw Quick, Aim True. Pinkerton. Sheriff. Lawman. Buck Trammel has spent his life fighting for justice. Now, he must defend a to...

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Reducere. A retelling of Arthurian myth from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone. Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray C. ColtonBetween 1861 and 1865 the violent struggles of the Civil War extended into the Western Territories, where they...

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BOOK THREE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES An Entertainment Weekly Summer Reads pick and New York Times bestseller Beyond the Martial Empi...

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Reducere. An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Ri...

An agent sent to Muscovy to investigate suspected treason amongst employees of the Muscovy Company has disappeared without trace on the way to Astr...

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Reducere. A young girl travels into a magical land to save her brother from real-world bullies...and from the evil King in Yellow. Reads L to R (Western Styl...

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Reducere. After a desperate escape attempt from his kidnapper, sixteen-year-old Hale is thrust into the brutal world of magic that his sister had tried to pr...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

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DescriptionUsing fire and ice magic, Elli and Ansa must bring their people together to fight a common enemy in this epic conclusion to the Impostor...

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DescriptionA chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell ...

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