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1) Maclean's
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Canada's national magazine covering current affairs, politics, culture trends, ideas and personalities.
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In this novel set over the course of a day, an alcoholic, Canadian, World War I veteran attempts to find peace while shopping for a birthday present.
Twenty-five years after the Great War, John Maclean is still struggling to carve out a meaningful existence in his small New Brunswick hometown.
One late summer day he embarks on a seemingly prosaic search for a little money, a little booze, and a birthday gift for his mother. But he's haunted by memories-of...
4) Caty Maclean
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The last of the Jacobite wars took place on Culloden Moor, Scotland, on the sixteenth of April 1746, leaving a bloody path of devastation, and leaving 1,500 Jacobites dead or dying on the windswept moor in less than an hour.
The clans, left without their chief, or protector, were forced to endure royal persecution, murder, starvation, with the homeless compelled to live on the open moors. Driven to desperation, the Highlanders must leave their beloved...
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Bold men of power, pride and passionate hearts in a beautiful, troubled land . . . Highland Lairds
Married by Decree
He is her family's ancient foe, but never has Lady Joanna Macdonald seen a man she wants more. Still, she hides from Rory MacLean-the dashing lairs whom King James has ordered her to marry-hoping to save her family's honor. For the pretty young lass knows that once she is wed, her trembling passion will be a difficult secret to keep...
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Get the Summary of Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Starkweather" by Harry N. MacLean explores the life and crimes of Charles Starkweather, a notorious killer from Lincoln, Nebraska. Born in 1938, Starkweather was bullied as a child, leading to a deep-seated rage. His relationship with Caril Ann Fugate, marked by their intense bond and her troubled background, set the stage for...
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I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' – John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918.
Feared by the government, adored by workers, celebrated by Lenin and Trotsky; the head of British Military Intelligence called John Maclean 'the most dangerous man in Britain'.
This new biography explores the events that shaped the life of a momentous man – from the Great War and...
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#1 In 1950, a teenager named Barbara Johns led a strike by her fellow high school students in Prince Edward County to demand a better school. The niece of the Reverend Vernon Johns, the radical minister who later mentored the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara never consulted her Montgomery uncle about the strike.
#2 The seed was planted by Miss Davenport, who...
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Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner's office following a late-night call to find one deskman missing and the other beaten to death. Written in blood above the dead man's head is a single word: 'Confess.' It's the first time a homicide has taken place actually within the ME's office. Medical Examiner Stone works on how to spin the news while Theresa works...
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#1 On July 10, 1981, Cheryl Brown, who lived on a farm a few miles west of Skidmore, watched as the town was pushed too far. Cheryl had been working at the B B Grocery for about 15 months when violence erupted again. If McElroy intended to carry out his threats, he would either hit her father at home or come in the back of the store like he did last summer.
#2 When McElroy...
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It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. In 1941, he was called up after volunteering for the Royal Navy and served as Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. For the majority of his service, he was on HMS Royalist, a modified Dido-class light cruiser, seeing action in the Arctic, and operations against the German battleship Tirpitz . The ship then deployed to the Mediterranean...
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Four classic tales of adventure at sea, from the master of action and suspense, available for the first time in this e-bundle.
Discover why Alistair MacLean was the most popular thriller writer of his generation in these four classic stories of the sea, from the treacherous frozen seas of the north Atlantic, to the warmer but no less deadly waters of the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
San Andreas - For a British hospital ship sailing deadly U-boat...
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