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Are you carrying the weight of your ancestors' unspoken stories? "Ancestral Shadows" delves into the profound realm of inherited family trauma, revealing how the silent echoes of our forebears' experiences continue to resonate through generations. This book is a must-read for anyone who senses the invisible burdens of the past or works professionally in psychology, genealogy, or social work. Within these pages, you will discover:The groundbreaking...
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2024.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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436 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
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"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
3) Deadly Sins
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Lust, pride, and wrath are the deadly sins private investigator Vance Devane must face when his sister-in-law and employer Maura sends her DNA to a genealogy website. She uncovers a secret that threatens to shatter her family. As Vance races to keep the skeletons in the closet, he is forced to reckon with his own past deadly sins.
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In a bid to heal from the grief of a personal loss, forensic genealogist, RaeJean Hunter, takes on a straightforward case -identify human remains found on a nearby college campus, believed to be the 180-year-old remains of Mary Rogers, a woman who died mysteriously in 1841 and was believed to have been buried in the nearby cemetery that had washed away. It should be simple enough, a project to get her back in the game. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes...
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"A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily Larson's hidden life, Ellen Baker tenderly examines personal determination, lost love, family ties, and our innate need to discover our own truth." — Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours and Before and After
Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours
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This book is about the heavenly kingdom, and this glorious eternal kingdom has a name: Jerusalem. It is about the gospel and the grand scheme of things. Here we will connect all the dots, and we will be able to see the big picture. There is only one story to tell, and two witnesses were chosen. There is only one prophecy but three prophetic instructions, and the completion will take seven thousand years.
The gospel is not just the power of God for...
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Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This characteristic, among others, has enabled Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs to reconstruct his library, and link it to the culture and reading habits of his generation.
The books of Richard III are typical of what was available to and popular with the medieval reader - religion, chivalry, history, genealogy,...
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With annotations and background information from the great grandson of David Garrett, this book details the adventures of the 6th Texas Cavalry (1861-1865) during the Civil War. It contributes to the soldier's viewpoint of the war; though beset by incredible hardships that soldier yet managed to find time to write the folks back home. The book includes a facsimile letter as well as maps, historic photographic images and genealogical information.
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The book of Matthew is the first of the four Gospels in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is a narrative of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.The book of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Jesus, tracing his lineage back to Abraham, and then proceeds to describe his birth and early life. It goes on to recount Jesus' public ministry, including his teachings, miracles, and controversies with religious leaders.One...
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The Book of Ruth is a biblical book found in the Old Testament. It is named after its central character, Ruth, a Moabite woman who becomes an ancestor of King David. The book primarily deals with themes of loyalty, kindness, faithfulness, and the providence of God.The narrative of the Book of Ruth revolves around a widow named Naomi and her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth. After the death of their husbands, Naomi decides to return to her homeland, Bethlehem,...
11) Fantasia
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Fantasia, Orion, Sky, Emmina and Drakos have been chosen as one of a few to be evacuated into a small dome shaped moon bass on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Whilst there her past catches up with her and those she thought she could trust are found to be hiding a secret..The story of a warrior princess that had lived a life on Earth believing she and her family are human, she discovers her true genealogy after being shipped away from Earth as it faces the...
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In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism's effect on individuals and society.
Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially...
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For hundreds of years, the Lees of Virginia descendants of Col. Richard Lee's son, William Lee, have been denied their heritage - denied their birthright by historians and scholars that refuse to allow the truth to be known. I am referring to the descendants of William Lee and his wife Alice Felton as the "Lost Descendants of William Lee". Because of past speculation that was considered as truths, and opinions that were published as facts by outdated...
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Meet Periwinkle Manning. Twenty-nine. B&B co-owner. Dabbler in genealogy. And ghost whisperer? When Peri gets an out-of-the-blue call from an old high school classmate, she doesn't expect to get a concussion and see a ghost for her troubles. The ghost of an old boyfriend who was murdered but can't remember who did the deed. Peri gets help from a gorgeous PI she mistook for an Uber driver, his partners, her grandmother, and several others. While they're...
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In 1988, a study by William Thorndale was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, he stated that his research proved that Col Richard Lee was the son of a John Leyes, a clothier, and his wife Jane Hancock and that Richard had been born not at of Coton Hall in Shropshire England, but in Worcester England. In this publishing, Thorndale presented what appeared to be legitimate sources and arguments which carefully and systematically...
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This book is a collection of writings and reflections in which I tell the story of people, places and experiences that shaped my life. This book is divided into three sections: "Seeking, Living and Blessed, Joys and Sorrow".Section one: "Seeking". I seek to find my identity, my genealogy from my grandparents, searching for God, church and family. All seeking a meaningful life.Section two: "Living Blessed". Includes the story of leaving Mississippi....
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This is a Tribute to my 7th great grandfather and grandmother Richard and Anne Lee, with Love, Jacqueli Finley "According to the ancient Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a singlestep." My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us, if we can, step back from the shadowsof war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, lethistory record that we, in this land, at this...
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Richard Lee was born 1677 Surrey County, Virginia to William Lee and Alice Felton. He married Mary Young in 1695 in King and Queen County, Richmond, Virginia. Richard Henry Lee died on 10 Dec 1726 in West Farnham, Parish, King and Queen County, Richmond, Colony of Virginia. He was the grandson of Colonel Richard Lee and Anne Constable, and the father of John Lee, Esquire. Many previous Lee researchers failed to note that William Lee the son of Col...
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During the Industrial Revolution Devon underwent de-population as younger people left to enter numerous occupations created by new technologies.Younger people left the countryside for jobs being created in the rapidly expanding towns and cities in Great Britain. But they also emigrated overseas and joined up with the economic development occurring globally.Since 1800, branches of the Trist family have sprung up in various parts of the world: in Canada,...
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User Guide to Microfilm and Microfiche is intended for anyone who is just that, a user of these technologies. This inexpensive guide will help anyone learn the best way to read microfilm and microfiche data, and to help preserve these somewhat fragile media. The author is a long-time Computer Science professor with considerable experience with multiple digitization projects for numerous organizations. He first used microfilm professionally and 1961...
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