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China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding an unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them.

The year is 1931. A boy boards a train to visit his friend in New York. A woman in a jumpsuit boards a train to meet her employer in New York. And the conductor? He boards because it's his job. If it had been any other day, they all would have gotten where they were going just fine. But it's not any other day. The Rail Tracer is on the hunt. The gonzo tale of gangsters, immortals, and outrageous luck (both bad and good) speeds into its third volume!

Jesus of Nazareth has been preaching in Judea for three years and has gathered many followers with his teachings and miracles. But he has also made enemies who fear his power and his influence and who have conspired to put an end to him by whatever means possible. The family of David ben Joseph continues to follow Jesus, though the Savior's teachings now carry an undercurrent of sorrow and unsettling prophecy.

In the third volume of master storyteller Gerald N. Lund's dynamic new series, the Eckhardt family finds itself clinging to hope in a nation on the brink of collapse. Work is scarce, food has become an extravagance, and money is practically worthless. War-torn Germany has been battered down and humiliated on an international scale, and the people have lost the pride and conviction that once carried them.

Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you’ll find entertaining. "The Roadrunner – Our Sagebrush Clowns" reflects on the speedy and often comical bird of our southwestern deserts. Wild and wicked Calamity Jane lived up to her reputation as the West’s most infamous outlaw woman. “The Donner Party – Frozen Horror” describes the horror that led to cannibalism. The 49er Gold Rush ruined the lives of two ambitious and well-intentioned men, John Augustus Sutter and John Marshal...

Truth Will Prevail—the eagerly awaited third volume in the popular series The Work and the Glory—continues the gripping story of the fictional Steed family, a family acquainted with Joseph Smith and caught up in the grand events associated with the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth. Covering the years 1836 to 1838, this volume finds the Steed involved in both remarkable and turbulent events in Church history. Nathan accompanies Parley P. Pratt on a challenging mission to Upper Canada. Jessica, Joshua's ex-wife, feels compelled to return to Missouri.

In the 18th century, five men created the biggest industrial city civilization had ever seen. They were the Iron Masters, masters of metal and men. Nye Vaughn, a humble farm boy, walked to Merthyr to find his destiny, unaware that a war was coming which would engulf the known world and make bold men rich. Volume 3: Press Gangs, Pistols, and Poison is the third in the series of five and recounts the story of the Iron Masters from 1795 to 1805, a time of Nelson's great sea battles, press gangs, poison, and steam engines.

In this third book of The Equilibrist Series, professor Cromwell-Smith, through the mantle of poetry, takes his students one last time to his past, through subjects of profound existential meaning like forgiveness, virtue, coherence, resilience, reciprocity, curiosity, serenity and joy, among others. The eminent pedagogue revisits the long period of his life when Victoria Emerson-Lloyd, the love of his life and him were apart, and the real reasons why she left him in the first place.

The War of Secession is over. However, between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, murderers, rapists, horse thieves, and cattle rustlings dominate the land. Trace LaFon and Xavier Falcon are called back into service with the Texas Rangers under Captain Leander McNelly - and they become part of a new Special Ranger Force to save the Nueces Strip. At this time and in this place, Texas needs hard men to a hard job - to draw a hard line for law and order.

The family saga continues in this third book to Davenport House, beginning with a chapter that looks into the past to understand the present. Motor cars and telephone calls are now part of the modern life at Davenport House. It is summertime in 1915 Pennsylvania and the ladies of the house are making big plans for the year. Clara takes financial matters into her own hands and discovers an unlikely alliance outside of the house. The future becomes uncertain when faiths collide and a sudden outbreak of fever sweeps across the county.

Nel 1814, un giovane mette in salvo una donna durante una bufera di neve e scatta subito il colpo di fulmine. Ma la donna sta fuggendo da un matrimonio di convenienza con un uomo malvagio. Riusciranno ad affrontare il pericolo o il loro amore appena nato svanirà prima ancora di sbocciare?

Ruhrpott, 1968: Flowerpower, Studentenbewegung, Arbeitskampf. Als Bärbel nach dem Medizinstudium in ihre Heimatstadt Essen zurückkehrt, spiegelt sich die Zerrissenheit der Gesellschaft auch in ihrer eigenen Familie wider: Die Schwester und ihr Schwager kämpfen mit privaten und beruflichen Schwierigkeiten, für die es keine Lösung zu geben scheint, und ihr Bruder setzt mit politischen Aktionen seine Zukunft aufs Spiel. Doch vor dem größten Problem steht Bärbel selbst, als sie den Mann wiedersieht, den sie früher für die Liebe ihres Lebens hielt.

Emma Lee Abingdon lived the happy life of a debutante until the murder of her parents shattered the world she knew. With a murderer on the loose, staying in her house wouldn't be safe, and the sheriff recommended that she hide out until the perpetrator is caught.