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Eli Benjamin Bear is born with a heart that needs immediate care. Whisked off to a human hospital for kids, Eli must survive this perilous journey. But Eli’s hopes to return home quickly to his parents “skips a beat” when he must flee with his newfound friend Rascal, a mischievous (and always hungry) raccoon. They’ll need all the help they can get to survive on foot through 600 miles of dangerous forest. And with winter and hibernation fast approaching, it becomes a race against deep sleep!

The biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was compiled by the abolitionist, Samuel Moore. Born in West Africa (now Benin) around 1830, Baquaqua was sold as a slave and lived in Brazil, Haiti, Canada, and the US where he escaped from slavery in New York City. He also visited England, but it is not known whether he realized his dream of returning to Africa.

Jesse James was a guerrilla during the Civil War, and afterwards set out on a criminal career that lasted more than a decade. This extensive biography discusses every one of the robberies and acts of violence that the legendary outlaw and his gang perpetrated.

The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers’ Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse. What is the effect of constant fear on a life, or on a culture?

Do you doubt that it’s possible to build a business, make money, and grow spiritually at the same time? Explore story after story in Meditating Entrepreneurs and transform your thinking. You will discover that you have what it takes to create a life of joy and abundance. Fifteen entrepreneurs, committed to their inner development and a peaceful world, share their wisdom of inner bliss and outer success.

A History of the Amistad Captives was written and published by John Warner Barber in 1840. The Amistad was a Spanish slave ship on which the slaves revolted and eventually reached the United States. This insightful document sheds light on the Amistad incident and its participants, the complex legal issues around the transatlantic slave trade, and the lives of the captured Africans who finally regained their freedom.

William Henry (Harrison) Heard (1850-1937) was born into slavery and became a clergyman of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He served as United States Ambassador to Liberia from 1895 through 1898. His autobiography contains a chapter on men who had influenced his life, and a poem on his life by Ephraim Tyler.

This work by James Williams is one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves. It became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for ending the system of apprenticeship which had replaced slavery. Williams argues that apprenticeship worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves as former owners used the legal system against them.

The circus has arrived at last. Prince Martin and his cousin, Princess Margaret, have a glorious time - until they see a scary Northman selling a blind bear cub into captivity. When the kids intervene, the Northman’s cryptic threat chills their blood.... But with the help of old friends, they hatch a plan to rescue the cub - and take him home to Northland, where the colossal creatures are bad...and the Northmen are worse.

Nat Love, the son of enslaved parents, was born in 1854 on a plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee. In February 1869, Love left Tennessee and found work as a cowboy, first in the Texas panhandle, then in Arizona. Love's story, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, was published in 1907, and it is considered the only full-length autobiography by an African-American cowhand.

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic! Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did. The World Codex Planet Poetry publication encapsulates a snapshot of the era shortly after the turn of the 20th century and is a gem of historical maritime poetry.

Barry's been patient, but after 27 years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life’s not done with throwing him curveballs. With talking hedges, samurai ghosts, meddling psychotherapists, and an inexplicably non-linear time pattern conspiring against him, Barry must do battle to unleash the ninja within and rescue his father from an ancient army, a dark sorcerer, and a raging inferno.

In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery. Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect. He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand.

Seven great chapters of topics related to Bible prophecy reveal how close we are to the end times.

Graham is trying his hardest to save his marriage. When his wife, Cressida, invites two new friends over for dinner he offers to cook even though he has no experience with vegan food. Something troubles Graham about the couple, but he can’t quite put his finger on it. He takes a journey into Facebook to find a terrible truth which creates a sinister consequence.

This quick guide is straightforward and jam-packed with information. It contains the exact steps thousands of others have followed to achieve their goals. Become the passive millionaire you were born to be.

The two dragons have slept for 2,000 long years. They embody the worst of humanity's fears. They have dreamt of destruction and fire and smoke. Now they're heading out west, these two blasts from the past. Their intentions are cruel. The die has been cast. But a quest has begun for a shield and a spear - the long-missing marvels the two dragons fear. And the prince and his friends join this perilous quest to discover the weapons and rescue the West.

A classroom hamster has to be ready for anything, but suddenly there are LOTS-LOTS-LOTS of big surprises in Humphrey's world. Some are exciting, like a new hamster ball. But some are scary, like a run-in with a cat and a new janitor who might be from another planet. But even with all that's going on, Humphrey finds time to help his classmates with their problems. But will Mrs. Brisbane's unsqueakable surprise be too much for Humphrey to handle?

Captured by bandits! Things couldn't get worse for Prince Martin and Ray in this story in verse! They're unarmed. They're tied up. No one knows they've been caught! These thieves are bad news, and their leader has got a most dastardly plan for the prince and Sir Ray.... They should never have entered the forest that day! Now they're hanging from snares that are tied to a tree. But sometimes things happen we cannot foresee.... What if one act of kindness can alter events? What if payback is owed to Sir Ray and the prince?

Learn all about the day-to-day life of a cowboy in the Old West, from round-ups and trail drives to meals around the campfire and nights under the stars.