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Six stories of adventure, courage, and magic celebrating the outsider in all of us, those who don't belong, are shut out, passed over, told they aren't strong enough, big enough or pretty enough, those who rise up to become the heroes and heroines of their own lives, not by fitting in but by changing the world to fit them. Printed using #OpenDyslexic font, easier to read for those with dyslexia.

This book began as the dream of a little girl named Brooke. From her hospital bed in New York City, she asked me to write her a story and call it, The Princess & The Parakeet ... unfortunately, she never got to hear it. So I fashioned the heroic Princess in this tale after her, bringing her enduring spirit to every page, fulfilling a little girl's final wish.Read it and you keep Brooke alive within you and make her dream come true.*A portion o...

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TO PROVE HIS LOYALTY and in revolt against his tax-collector father's plans for his future, Benji sneaks away to join the Sicarii ("dagger-men") who want to throw off the Roman occupation of Israel. Their curved swords make them some of the most feared ? and admired ? men in the land. Benji imagines a glorious uprising with himself wielding a sharp sica. However, his running off leads to Joss' rapidly increasing lying. Ransom demands on his ri...

Story: Texas 1934: Da die Kavallerie in die Infanterie eingegliedert werden soll, erhält Leutnant Marsh Buxton den Befehl, über 500 Pferde zu töten. Dabei sollen ihm vier strafversetzte Soldaten, darunter Sergeant Libbey, helfen. Nachdem die Männer die Erschießung von 100 Pferden mit ansehen mussten, einigen sie sich, die restlichen Tiere in Sicherheit zu bringen. Colonel Hardesty verfolgt sie gnadenlos und kann sie kurz vor der kanadischen Gr...

Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and direct it in every way possible. This book examines Soviet cultural politics from the Revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. It reflects the progression of Party control in the arts.

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