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201) Hrabina Cosel
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Series
Hrabina Cosel volume 1
Language
Polish
Description
"Hrabina Cosel to najbarwniejsza postać saksońskiej historii. Król August II Mocny, usłyszawszy o jej wielkiej urodzie, spowodował, że przyjechała do Drezna, a wkrótce namówił młodą piękność, by stała się jego oficjalną metresą. Jednak Anna Cosel obwarowała swą zgodę twardymi warunkami, przede wszystkim obietnicą króla, że w przyszłości zostanie jego legalną żoną. Przez wiele lat wiodła u jego boku bajkowe życie. Niestety,...
202) Brides of Rome
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Series
Vesta shadows volume 1
Language
English
Description
It is a world of power and privilege, secrets and sacred duty. It is the world of ancient Rome. And it is the esteemed Vestal Virgins-priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the home and hearth-who protect the Eternal Flame that protects the Eternal City. Dedicated to a thirty-year vow of chaste service, Priestess Pomponia finds herself swept up in the intrigue, violence, wars, and bedroom politics of Rome's elite-Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian...
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English
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"Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett were a very influential couple in old Chicago. Augustus served two terms as mayor of Chicago. The story of his wife Eliza, the chronicle of a spiritual journey, reflects the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed every unhappy event as divinely determined"--
205) Flights of courage
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English
Description
In Flights of courage, take a trip back to the first cross-country daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. In the Red Baron, a biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron, who shot down eighty Allied planes before he was killed. Lindbergh & the Spirit of St. Louis tells about Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three hour flight from New York to Paris on May 10, 1927. Extra features cover the beginnings of aviation with the Wright Brothers'...