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King Shaka: Zulu Legend
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Friendship
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Now king of the southern chiefdoms, Shaka seeks to uplift his people, consolidate alliances, and expand the reach of his power, but challenges both external and internal threaten his rule. A rogue military unit exacts revenge on its enemies. Land-hungry Europeans ingratiate themselves with Shaka while plotting their own path to power. And closer to home, Shaka’s own brothers conspire in secret.
Shaka Rising
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A charismatic young warrior prince emerges from exile to usurp the old order and forge a new, mighty Zulu kingdom.
Late 18th century. It is a time of bloody conflict and great turmoil. The slave trade expands from the east African coast. Europeans spread inland from the south. And one young boy is destined to change the future of southern Africa.
A Christmas Carol
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Family
Faith
Holiday
Supernatural
From Stephen L. Stern, writer of Markosia’s masterful Beowulf Graphic Novel, and acclaimed artist Douglas A. Sirois, comes this superb full-color adaptation of Dickens’ timeless classic. Sacrificing none of Dickens’ rich language and filled with cinematic artwork, A Christmas Carol is a wonderfully faithful adaptation of the quintessential Christmas story.
Nowhere USA
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Modern
Political
Psychological
NOWHERE USA is set in post-9/11 Afghanistan where Private First Class David White counts the days until he is released from active duty and sent home. Surrounded by soldiers with no regard for human life and an onslaught of IED attacks, David finds himself more and more isolated. When informed that his crew will not be sent home but instead stationed for an additional six months or more, David...
Book of Ruth
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Faith
Friendship
Leading Ladies
Love
Widowed as a young woman, Ruth leaves behind everything she knows and follow her bereaved mother-in-law to Bethlehem. While Naomi rails against God for his seeming abandonment of her family, Ruth holds only a quiet, and sincere faith that God has a plan. It is her courage and unwavering faith that shine like a beacon for all who feel lost, especially a retired soldier turned farmer named Boaz.
The Way to Wealth: Benjamin Franklin on Matters of Money and Lessons on Livelihood
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Political
What is the way to wealth? And... how do you get there? Benjamin Franklin has a few ideas. He did write the book after all.
There are quite literally thousands of tomes that purport to point the way, but it was Ben Franklin who collected the golden rules he peppered throughout his wildly popular Poor Richard's Almanac and produced a perennial best-seller in 1758, The Way to Wealth, or Poor...
Chasing Hitler Trade Paperback
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Military
Political
As WWII draws to an end and the Allies surround Berlin, Adolf Hitler realizes that all is lost. Or is it? Two Allied servicemen are tasked with verifying Hitler's death. When they can't, the chase begins!
In the Valley of Death
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Fighting
1916 had been a bad year for both sides in the First World War. On Saturday, July 1st it became a sunlit picture of Hell as the Battle of the Somme begins. The first day of the conflict will become one of the bloodiest in the history of warfare and will contribute to the structure of a war that will define the shape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Marx: A Tale of Neglect
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Family
Faith
Military
Political
Onrie must embark on the difficult task of unraveling his grandfather's dark past before his story is lost forever. MARX is the epic and inspiring story of a Russian Jewish man, born during the rise of the Soviet Union, thrust into war against Nazi Germany and persecuted by his own government. A man who miraculously survived events that claimed the lives of millions.
Madame Livingstone: The Great War in the Congo
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Based on the true story of two vastly different men—one Belgian, one African—who take on one impossible mission: the sinking of a German battleship in the Congo during WWI.
Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives in Congo in 1915 on orders to sink a critical German warship. To find the ship’s position, he is assigned a guide, a local man nicknamed "Mrs. Livingstone".
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa
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Friendship
Leading Ladies
Military
Murder
Political
Six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country’s colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. From immigrants and miners to tram workers and washerwomen, these ordinary, working-class women and men defied a nation and defended the disempowered. A graphic history written six parts, each illustrated by a different South African artist.
Dust Ship Glory
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Family
Western
Elaine M. Will’s adaptation of Andreas Schroeder’s novel Dustship Glory tells the story of Damanus ‘Tom’ Sukanen, a Finnish immigrant farmer who came to Canada during the economic Depression of the 1930s. Haunted by his past and devastated by the economic slump and drought conditions that laid waste to the Canadian prairies in the 1930s, Sukanen responded by building a full-sized ship in...
