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What would the world be like if Africa had never been colonized-and if the transatlantic slave trade had never happened? The only daughter among five brothers, Essien was raised in a village where women are bred to tend to their husbands and bear children. One night, after she is led by akukoifo-mythical beings of Alkebulan folklore-to a fabled river, Essien emerges from the waters with superhuman abilities: hands that burn with the flames they contain,...
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Descendants of Frozen hearts is a spectacular thriller novel which pictures wickedness of humanity and the greatness power of true legendary faster to save the vulnerable of greedy individuals. A baby boy is born to a lady by the name Elizabeth, she was impregnated by the king of the nation of Dragon Rings.The baby Gerald will be rejected by his father first and his own mother secondly.He will grow up to be a great warrior in their country. Years...
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Most of the McDowells in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina, Kentucky were related with their common ancestor being Thomas or one of his sons. However, their relationships were sometimes confused. Many family members had similar names such as John and Joseph and were born about the same year for example Joseph "Pleasant Garden" McDowell in 1758 and Joseph "Quaker Meadows" McDowell in 1756. I have also found family historians have...
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Opechancanough was born in the 1540s, as was his brother, Wahunsenacawh, better known as Powhatan, the Indian King and father of Pocahontas. Opechancanough lived near the location of the English settlement of Jamestown when John Smith and company built a fort there in 1607. In English history, he is most famous for planning and executing the first large scale attacks on the English in America. In 1622, he orchestrated a surprise attack on those who...
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One of the most overlooked subjects in the Bible are the chapters that deal with genealogies.
There are two accounts of genealogies that give approximate ages of births and deaths in the book of Genesis. Is there some underlining information or remez that God wants to reveal to His believers through this data?
One of the most intriguing parable Jesus gave his disciples is found in Matthew 13:44. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure...
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For hundreds of years, the Lees of Virginia descendants of Col. Richard Lee's son, William Lee, have been denied their heritage - denied their birthright by historians and scholars that refuse to allow the truth to be known. I am referring to the descendants of William Lee and his wife Alice Felton as the "Lost Descendants of William Lee". Because of past speculation that was considered as truths, and opinions that were published as facts by outdated...
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Recently I have been able to prove with Autosomal DNA the Lee descendants of General Robert E Lee and his slave Nancy Ruffin, adding their lineage proudly to our Lee's of Virginia descendancy from Col Richard Lee and Anne Constable. After my battles for William Lee descendant lineages to be recognized and then coming across so many other Lee's of Virginia ancestors and descendant lineages that have suffered the same fate as William and Alice Lee's...
8) Discourses on the Evidences of the American Indians Being the Descendants of Lost Tribes of Israel
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The complete Eisner Award-winning epic science fiction series from writer JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, GIDEON FALLS) and artist DUSTIN NGUYEN (DESCENDER, LITTLE MONSTERS) is collected in a softcover compendium!
Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creators, Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, Descender is a rip-roaring...
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Yotaro's reputation as the third generation Sukeroku spreads, and he's getting steady work on both TV and at the yose. Higuchi, overjoyed to see Yotaro satisfy so many people, longs to create new rakugo stories with him, though it's heresy in Yakumo's eyes. Yakumo plans to take his own rakugo to the grave, but when he collapses during a performance, he finds his desires may once again be thwarted.
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After proving himself on stage, Yotaro has been fully accepted as Yakumo's apprentice and a member of his household. But taking in this brash young man forces Yakumo to confront his own past, and the promises left unfulfilled to his late best friend and rival, Sukeroku. Yakumo decides to share a tale that begins not when he was a dignified artist, but an orphan named Bon. Bon's history is also the history of fellow orphan Shin, a changing Japan in...
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hapless young man is released from prison with nothing to his name, but he knows exactly what he wants: to train in the art of rakugo comedic storytelling. After seeing an unforgettable performance from one of Japan's greatest masters, Yakumo Yurakutei VIII, during his time in jail, he will settle for nothing less than to become apprentice to the best. Yakumo, notorious for taking no students, is persuaded to take him on, and nicknames him Yotaro-the...
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Time, which had stopped for Kikuhiko and Sukeroku, begins to move again at last. Sukeroku retakes his place on stage, and the warmth of the audience's love reminds him of what it means to be a storyteller. The stage is set for his triumphant return to Tokyo with Kikuhiko, and there, together, they can build the future of rakugo they've been dreaming of. But before they can, a ghost from both Kikuhiko and Sukeroku's past returns, threatening to drag...
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After Sukeroku's expulsion, Kikuhiko's path to stardom seems clear, but the idea of inheriting the Yakumo name is a cold comfort. Sukeroku, disgraced, makes the heartbreaking decision to put his art aside and take responsibility for his new relationship with Miyokichi. As years pass and distance grows, Kikuhiko decides it's up to him to bring his friend back to the theater. His determination takes him to the country, where Sukeroku now lives with...
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Yakumo slowly begins to recover after his collapse on stage, but the light inside him has faded, and he shockingly declares that he won't perform rakugo anymore. Meanwhile, in search of a film taken of the late Sukeroku, Higuchi takes Yotaro and Matsuda to Shikoku, where the two men learn a truth about the two storytellers-and what really happened that fateful night that claimed Sukeroku and Miyokichi's lives.
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The last great rakugo storyteller of the Showa Era, Yakumo Yurakutei, continues to tell his apprentice, Yotaro, of the promise he made to his late best friend and rival, Sukeroku. As both men work towards their debut as shin'uchi, they are left to confront what drives them forward - for Sukeroku, it's to create a path for the future of rakugo, and for Kikuhiko, it's to discover a rakugo that's uniquely his own. Can he and Sukeroku continue to walk...
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After apprenticing for ten years under the great Yakumo Yurakutei VIII, Yotaro has finally become a shin'uchi and taken the name Sukeroku, a lineage with its own fraught history. But the newly-minted Sukeroku III cannot rest on his laurels for long, as ghosts from his own past come to haunt him in the wake of his achievement. With his family and his art on the line, can he find his way forward? Or will he be doomed to mediocrity as the rakugo tradition...
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Wendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogyand their lives hang on one question: What is Icarus?" Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast'annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious...
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Watch out! Finn faces more monsters than ever in Darkmouth: Chaos Descends, the third book in the tween fantasy series that Kirkus Reviews called "Ghostbusters meets Percy Jackson as written by Terry Pratchett."
Finn isn't even a full-fledged Legend Hunter yet, but he's already had to save the world-twice. The Legends are planning their next attack and, of course, it's up to Finn to stop them. Too bad he'd rather be doing…anything else.
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A downsized print journalist has to prove he's still got it when the long-ago murder of his uncle may be tied to a much bigger bombshell . . .
Unceremoniously dumped from his newsroom job at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania paper-and from his romantic relationship with a fellow reporter-journeyman journalist and Iraq vet Revere Polk finds himself investigating the decades-old murder of his grand great-uncle, Jacob Wissler Addison, a cold case that...
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