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"Adventure comes out of books and into the lives of those in the Ashen Mountains. Breahana is having the worst day of her life. Murder and bloodlust have left her abandoned in the mysterious mountain and forests trapping her with her Hunters. Alone in a world, danger flashes its head from every corner, how can she survive in this world alone? Aldis, leader of the Hunters, spreads his men in effort to find the survivor of the caravan massacre. Disgusted at wasting time on a girl, Aldis has no patience for the village that comes to her defense. Sean has read many books, yet he gets more than he wants when danger comes to the mountain. Sean and Breahana's budding romance is in danger of a Hunter's blade when disaster strikes their lives as some of their own are taken prisoner. Can Sean become the hero of his books, or will he lose everything and everyone he loves?"
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The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present. When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so ...
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None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of ‘the refugees’. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . . who knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius. – Anthony Alpers, 1985 From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants – refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries – arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose Europe...
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