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The Duel [Secure eReader]
by Barbara Metzger
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Originally in print in 2005, now available as an ebook! If only he could go back in time. Then Ian, Karl ol Marden, would not have dueled, and he would not have hit an innocent bystander -- a sickly lad, no less. And he certainly would never have brought the boy's sister, Athena Renslow, to stay at his house without a chaperone. On top of it all, the nineteen-year-old beauty is under the mistaken impression that Ian is the gentle hero who rescued her brother instead of the rogue who practically... more info>>
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A Green Bay Tree [MultiFormat]
by Margaret James
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During the Industrial Revolution in England, smart, ambitious ironmaster's grand-daughter Rebecca Searle is determined to make her way in a man's world, and feels no need for a husband. But when she falls in love with landowner Ellis Darrow, she follows her heart into a blissful marriage--much to the dismay of Ellis's cruel, greedy and jealous sister Lalage, who schemes to destroy Rebecca and won't stop short of murder. Historical Fiction by Margaret James; originally published by Severn House (Published: 1994)
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Battle in the Ashes [Ashes: 17] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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Chilling rumors of a new Nazi movement reach the rebel camp of Ben Raines and his freedom fighters. Led by descendants of Hitler's Third Reich, Commanding General Jesus Mendoza Hoffman has assembled a massive army in the mountains of South America. Estimated at more than 200,000 strong, Hoffman and his New Army of Liberation terrorists will stop at nothing to spread their doctrine of evil across the free world. Striking northward, they march into Mexico, where the Mexican Army--under the command... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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Death in the Ashes [Ashes: 11] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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The war against the Night People continues as Ben Raines and his rebel army set forth on a scorched-earth policy, systematically destroying the favorite living places of the cannibalistic mutants--the once great cities of America--and forcing the half-human, half-hellborn monsters into the open. As the rebel mop-up team pushes through the smoking rubble that once was Dallas, Ben Raines comes within a hair's breadth of being shot and killed. The death squad is dispatched by none other than Matt C... more info>> (Published: 1990)
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Fire in the Ashes [Ashes: 2] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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The year is 1999 and the world is a smoldering shell of its former self, ravaged by the tragic spoils of nuclear warfare. Amid the holocaust, there are survivors. Although few, there are enough to rebuild and enough to oppress others. Ben Raines was a mercenary, a soldier of fortune, but his fortune has taken a turn now that he is the only man alive capable of bringing together a band of rebels and creating a new America. But there is a fiendish force at work determined to quash their efforts an... more info>> (Published: 1984)
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Out of the Ashes [Ashes: 1] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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Ben Raines is searching for his family in the chaos that remains after devastation hits America. Thieves and gangsters take the streets in the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse. Fearful American citizens band together searching for a leader. Luckily, there is Ben Raines, a rebel mercenary, soldier and patriot. Ben forges together the remains of the cities to join with the Resistance forces and create a new future for America. During their struggles, the final battle arises with an attack by govern... more info>> (Published: 1983)
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Survival in the Ashes [Ashes: 12] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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Hell On Three Sides. Ben Raines and his freedom-fighting guerrillas are camped along the banks of what was once the Mississippi River, plotting strategy and readying weapons. A massive pack of heavily armed troops looms on the horizon, marching straight for the Rebels. They are the insidious mercenaries of Kenny Par and Lan Viller, and by midday only the Mississippi separates Raines from the ten thousand blood-hungry warriors all sworn to turn the Rebels' dream into a hellish nightmare. Just as ... more info>> (Published: 1990)
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The Amarnan Kings Book 2: Scarab -- Smenkhkare [MultiFormat]
by Max Overton
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Scarab -- Smenkhkare follows on from the first book in this series as King Akhenaten, distraught at the rebellion and exile of his beloved wife Nefertiti, withdraws from public life, content to leave the affairs of Egypt in the hands of his younger half-brother Smenkhkare. When Smenkhkare disappears on a hunting expedition, his sister Beketaten, known as Scarab, is forced to flee for her life. Finding refuge among her mother's people, the Khabiru, Scarab has resigned herself to a life in exile... more info>>
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A Different Winter [MultiFormat]
by James Kanady
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In 1892, orphan Luke Jacbos finds himself on the sprawling Jaffee Ranch in Texas, a mini Empire in flux. A legendary Man of the West, Nate Thomas, who is trying to live out his remaining days in peace, takes Luke under his wing. With winter approaching, both are laid off from the ranch and face bleak prospects as they ramble through a shrinking western landscape. A chance meeting with an old friend of Nate's, Rance Butler, changes their fate forever.
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A Pair of Wings [MultiFormat]
by Lorna K. Grant
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Colleen Vaughn, a US Army nurse, has experienced the effects of war firsthand. When she's told her fiancee's been killed in action, she vows never to fall in love again. Until she meets a pair of haunting blue eyes and dimples. Only problem is--he's another pilot flying into danger. As a P-51 pilot, Captain Daniel Ryan has one mission: protect the bombers and get back alive. The last thing he needs is to fall in love. Soon he wonders just who is more dangerous -- the enemy firing back at him or... more info>>
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Affinity & Trust [MultiFormat]
by Ross Richdale
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Zuzana Milenkova, rescued from her fate as a sex slave of a rebel militia group in war-torn Bosnia, finds herself alone in a strange new country. There are many obstacles to overcome, a new language to learn, different customs, and a new career, but she also has to come to terms with the horror of the past before she can move on and create a new future. (Published: 2000)
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Alone in the Ashes [Ashes: 5] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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America the beautiful has gone hellishly awry. Nuclear war has descended on Main St. USA and left two things in its horrible wake: apocalyptic anarchy and Ben Raines, a lone patriot with a compulsion for pulling the trigger. He's a crusader for all the things he thought America stood for. But with the fallout of nuclear and germ warfare all around, survival is the nation's new favorite pastime. Raines finds out that it's a whole new ball game as he is hunted from state to smoldering state, a pri... more info>> (Published: 1985)
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Always...Only You [MultiFormat]
by Leanne Burroughs
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Five Christian stories of love and loss?and the beauty of Christmas. ~~~ The most widespread war in history, World War II affected not only the men and women fighting for freedom in Europe. It greatly affected those left behind on the homefront? ~~~ Wartime economy shifted, causing women to join the workforce. Follow the lives of two men and women as they struggle to survive the harsh cruelties of war? ~~~ The American Old West grew as people left their homes in the East. Often myths of the West... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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America: A Wild New Land [MultiFormat]
by Rick Magers
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A love of travel throughout the entire United States and Mexico, where the author met, worked with, drank with, ate with, raised hell with, and lived with at times during the past half century, has provided enough material for several books of western and Indian stories. If we don't keep writing stories about the days when the west was still wild, and Indians inhabited the beautiful country of Western America, then future generations will think it's always been like it is now?hop in the car and ... more info>>
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An Endless Exile [MultiFormat]
by Mary Lancaster
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An Endless Exile is the story of the eleventh century hero, Hereward "the Wake", the only Englishman to have defied and defeated William the Conqueror. Torfrida is thirty-two years old, cynical, secretive, confident of her own wisdom and learning. Yet even she is taken by surprise when Hereward is brutally killed by his Norman guests. Lonely and embittered, it is with reluctance that she remembers the past, from her first childhood meeting with the tumultuous Hereward, through their stormy court... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Anarchy in the Ashes [Ashes: 3] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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In the aftermath of germ and nuclear warfare, of plague and pillage and bloody anarchy, the fate of a divided world hangs by a slender thread. Ben Raines and his SUSA Rebels are on one side ... the enemies of freedom are on the other. There's only a slim chance America will make it, but it's a chance that wasn't there before. And Ben Raines has sworn to make the dream of government by the people a reality. Until ruthless mercenary Sam Hartline puts together a mammoth army of invading Russians th... more info>> (Published: 1984)
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Anna: A Farewell to Juarez [Secure eReader]
by Sara V. Olds, T. M. Roy
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In the early 1900s, several colonies of Americans living in Mexico were forced to leave the country and everything they owned behind as the soldiers of Pancho Villa swept through the area. They were simple, hardworking people, many of them farmers. They lived peacefully with their Mexican neighbors. Anna is the middle child in one of these American families. Although she has to work hard to help her family, she loves having fun and has many adventures just being a kid. But her ordered, peaceful ... more info>>
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Belonging [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Henderson
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Butler Cross had a business to run. He has no patience for his new camp cook. She's too young, too inexperienced, and too beautiful to be working around two hundred women-starved lumberjacks. Yet there's something about her, and it's too intriguing for him to ignore. She has a secret, a big one, and he intends to find out what it is. Paige Anderson is determined to flee her pampered life and the man who rejected her. So what if she couldn't cook? She could handle this job--even if she was just a... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Blood in the Ashes [Ashes: 4] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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The year is 1999 and the world is a smoldering shell of its former self, ravaged by the tragic spoils of nuclear warfare. Amid the holocaust, there are survivors. Although few, there are enough to rebuild and enough to oppress others. Ben Raines was a mercenary, a soldier of fortune, but his fortune has taken a turn now that he is the only man alive capable of bringing together a band of rebels and creating a new America. But there is a fiendish force at work determined to quash their efforts an... more info>> (Published: 1985)
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Cato Wahl [MultiFormat]
by Judith R. Parker
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I was leading my mule, Roscoe, into town to be shod, uncertain what I was going to do after, when I saw the wagons. I knew where they were headed--west. West to Oregon. They weren't the first to come through and I'd probably have paid them no mind, except for three things. First, it was one of those fine early April days that starts the sap to running and just naturally makes a man's foot start to itch. Second, Pa and me had a fair-sized argument that morning and I was still feeling rankled. The... more info>> (Published: 2003) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
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Chaos In The Ashes [Ashes: 22] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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In the fiery aftermath of apocalypse, America, as we knew it, disappeared--and was reborn as the Tri-States. Under the Rebel law of Ben Raines, there are no slums, no gangs, and no crime. But a new breed of anarchists and malcontents have banded together to destroy everything Ben Raines and his army have risked their lives--and the future of a new America--to build. As devastating civil war turns race against race, brother against brother, and the nation's once-peaceful citizens into a modern-da... more info>> (Published: 1996)
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Copper Fire [MultiFormat]
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
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On a summer day in 1945, Louisa Gordon receives a telegram from the International Red Cross Tracing Service. Her young cousin, Elisabeth, has just been released from Dachau, a concentration camp, and Louisa is her only remaining relative. Determined to go to war-torn Germany to retrieve her cousin, Louisa is also on a mission to discover the whereabouts of Friedrich Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer who fled Copper Springs, Arizona. What Louisa never expected was to meet the man she had once loved. ... more info>>
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Courage in the Ashes [Ashes: 14] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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The Last Frontier Civilization as we know it was shattered by the nuclear nightmare of the Great War. But out of the smoldering wreckage, Ben Raines has emerged as the courageous leader of a Rebel Army that will fight not only for its own survival, but to help rebuild a country out of the rubble that was once America. Ben's dream of a nation freed from the deadly grip of outlaw gangs and armies of terrorists is close to becoming a reality. Most of the forces of lust and murder that chose to rema... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Crisis In The Ashes [Ashes: 29] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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Ben Raines and his patriot army have defeated all comers, from mutant night people to the blackshirted forces of Jesus Mendoza Hoffman and the enemy axis in the Great War. But now the socialist dictators of the USA, smarting from their defeat at the hands of the Southern United States of America, have unleashed their fury against Raines. As wave after wave of missiles is launched at the free state, the SUSA command retaliates in kind--giving better than it gets. With the North American continent... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Danger In The Ashes [Ashes: 8] [MultiFormat]
by William W. Johnstone
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During the years following the nuclear holocaust that decimated the United States, the legend of Ben Raines has flourished throughout the shattered land. Soldier and survivalist, Raines has dedicated his life to rebuilding civilization from the ruins of humanity. But for a once-great nation to rise again, the new laws that are imposed must be just but harsh--they must be Ben Raines laws. The bloody war continues against the hordes of subhuman cannibals infesting the urban wasteland. But Raines a... more info>> (Published: 1988)
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