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The Remains of the Corps tells the story of a fictional United States Marine Corps family history and is a tribute to this legendary fighting force.
The United States Marine Corps has been a household name for generations. True to the lyrics of its official hymn, the Corps has fought its country's battles in the air, on land, and sea for more than two hundred years. For many, serving in the Corps has been and continues to be a "family business."...
68) The Remains
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After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora García travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.
The way you hold a cello, the way light lands on a Caravaggio, the way the castrati hit notes like no one else could-a lifetime of conversations about art and music and history unfolds for Nora García as she and a crowd of friends and fans send off her recently deceased ex-husband, Juan....
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How can a person who reads no Hebrew get closer to the text and feel of the Hebrew scriptures?
This is a question that readers frequently ask, wondering whether they are getting an adequate immersion in the culture, rhythms, and vocabulary of those who wrote long ago.
Bob MacDonald, author of the monumental work Seeing the Psalter (Energion Publications, 2013), has continued his work studying the rhythm, music, and structure of the Hebrew scriptures...
73) The Remains Saga
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The world as we know it is in ruins. The rich and powerful have gone into space. Those that live in the shambles of what was once the Bay Area find themselves behind two twenty-foot walls. In the walled city there are rumors of monsters roaming in the dead zones. Inside of the walled city the seven lines that make up the Remains work to make their community perfect. There is little to no crime in the Remains. Annually, there is a no holds barred life...
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The Remains of Glory, the sequel to Urdahl's Three Paths to Glory, follows two Minnesota Union soldiers and a Confederate officer from Tennessee through the bloody and harrowing final two years of the American Civil War in the western theater. Tod Carter, Clint Cilley, and Jimmy Dunn experience the horror, triumphs, and losses of this epic moment in our nation's history. The action centers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana, leading to...
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This is how it goes.
First, the snatch of flame - the shaking, the breaking, the burnout, the death of a dream, the loss of a loved one, the line between before and after.
What follows is the cooling of coals -waking that can only be done in the absence of a flame; it's impossible to sleep when you're freezing.
In time, it is understood that ashes are of great value, and with courage, grief folds into gratefulness.
In writing, it is my intention...
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Winner of the King County Arts Commission Publication Prize, 1998
Briggs' novel opens with Artie and Janice Graham, former hippies, fleeing as the police close in on their marijuana farm. They show little remorse at leaving their two school-aged sons behind to fend for themselves. These former flower children possess no ideals or purpose and live for the moment through the fifteen-year span of the novel, while their children, trapped in a cycle...
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While touring the Cotswolds of England, Viola Roberts and her boyfriend, Lucas Salvatore, are stranded by a downpour of epic proportions. The quaint village of Chipping Poggs has only one inn, and just their luck, it's a haunted mansion. Viola tries to make the best of her rainy vacation by "ghost hunting" and poking her nose where it doesn't belong. Until she pokes it right into the middle of a murder.With the village cut off by flooding from the...
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Everyman's library volume 349
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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.
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In the vault of the National Westminster Bank in Marylebone High Street, London, an iron deed box lay undisturbed for eighty years. When, under the terms of its deposit, the box was opened in the spring of 2010 it was found to contain the manuscript records of fifty-six previously unknown cases of Sherlock Holmes, written by Dr John H. Watson between around 1890 and 1930. This is the fancy behind The Remains of Sherlock Holmes. The author, Paul W....
80) The Remains
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It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret.
Rebecca, alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange and anonymous text messages-the first with just her name. Is Molly trying to communicate with her?
And it couldn't be their attacker from so many years ago. Surely, he'd still...
