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  Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon...

  Annie Whitehead

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  The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior 
   
  Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about his mother, who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide.  
   
  A royal abbess educated five bishops and was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of fratricide. Royal mothers wielded power: Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons. Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, and was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly educated.  
   
  Ranging from seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters.

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  Vampire - The Richard Chase Murders

  Kevin Sullivan

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  The author of The Bundy Murders tells the harrowing true story of “one of the most bizarre serial killers in America” (Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of Confession of a Serial Killer).   A city under siege, held captive while a psychopathic vampire serial killer instills fear in its residents, taunts the authorities, and brutally kills his victims.   This book is a chilling and stomach-churning look into the life of a twisted, sick man, so evil one would wonder if he was even human. From his early days when he would liquify rabbits in a blender to drink their intestines and blood to mutilating his victims, his thirst for killing could not be satiated.   This is the story of Richard Trenton Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento. It is not for the faint of heart.   “Fraught with emotion and detail . . . a must have book for all true crime enthusiasts and collectors.” —RJ Parker, award-winning author of Escaped Killer   “Sullivan has written a fascinating account of an abnormal psyche of egregious proportions, and captures the very essence of Richard Chase’s monstrous crime spree the citizens of Sacramento will never forget.” —Gary C. King, author of Love, Lies, and Murder

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  Flakhelfer to Grenadier - Memoir...

  Karl Heinz Schlesier

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  The story of a German boy drafted into military service during WWII is vividly recounted in this memoir of combat and survival.   On January 7, 1943, the German Government ordered that boys as young as fifteen be drafted into anti-aircraft service, the Reich Labor Service, and the armed forces. Throughout the war, about 200,000 boys became Flakhelfer and served in batteries of light and heavy flak.   Drafted at fifteen, Karl Heinz Schlesier served in regions that suffered some of the heaviest air raids of the war. His memoir is a coming of age story in a world gone mad, where working beside Russian POWs, protecting industries with slave labor, courting a girl among bombed-out ruins was unremarkable. As the war approached its bitter end, Schlesier was thrown into a disintegrating frontline only fifty kilometers from his childhood home.   Basing his memoir solely on his diary notes and memories of that period, Schlesier has consciously avoided including what he learned after the war. Flakhelfer to Grenadier gives a voice to the silent generation of boys born in Germany in 1926 and 1927. This generation has been silent because the horror it knew pales in comparison to the horror of the war machine it was conscripted into.

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  Evil People - Some of the Most...

  Kelly Mass

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  This is a combo that consists of several titles, all in one document to give you a better value. 
  The following cruel dictators, mass murderers, torturers, and sadists from an extensive world history will be described and discussed in further detail: 
  Adolf Eichmann 
  Benito Mussolini 
  Enver Pasha 
  Francisco Pizarro 
  Josef Mengele 
  Oliver Cromwell 
  Paul Joseph Goebbels 
  Pol Pot 
  Robespierre 
  Rudolf Hoess 
  Torquemada 
  Are you just dying to find out more about these dire despots, these suppressing scoundrels, these evildoers whose names were so disgusting to be remembered? Then don’t wait and start reading or listening today!

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  Stars and Strikes - Baseball and...

  Dan Epstein

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  The author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass returns with “a knuckleball ride through the wonderful and wacky year . . . the national pastime changed forever” (Kirkus Reviews). 
   
  America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial celebrations and presidential primaries, of Olympic glory and busing riots, of “killer bees” hysteria and Pong fever. On the baseball diamond, Thurman Munson led the New York Yankees to their first World Series in a dozen years, but it was Joe Morgan and Cincinnati’s “Big Red Machine” who cemented a dynasty with their second consecutive World Championship. 
   
  The season was defined by the outrageous antics of team owners Bill Veeck, Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, and Charlie Finley, as well as by several memorable bench-clearing brawls, and a batting title race that became just as contentious as the presidential race. Meanwhile, as the nation celebrated its two-hundredth year of independence, Major League Baseball players waged a war for their own liberties by demanding free agency. 
   
  From the road to the White House to the shorts-wearing White Sox, Stars and Strikes tracks the tumultuous year after which the sport—and the nation—would never be the same.

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  Halloween Short Stories

  George MacDonald, Vincent...

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  Vampires, werewolves and things that go BUMP in the night!

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