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  • Tales of Prophet Noah (Nuh) Bilingual Edition English and Spanish
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Prophet Nuh ibn Lamech ibn Methuselah known as Prophet Noah in the Old Testament, is recognized in Islam as a prophet and apostle of Allah SWT (God). He is an important figure in Islamic tradition, as he is one of the earliest prophets sent by God to mankind. According to Islam, Noah’s mission was to save a wicked world, plunged in depravity and sin. God charged Noah with the d...
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    12,48 €

  • Queen Elizabeth
    Jacob Abbott
    Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was England’s greatest monarch. This riveting account of her life and her exploits during her mid-sixteenth century reign provide the reader with a comprehensive insight into events which have become engraved in world history. Starting with her family background, master storyteller Jacob Abbott takes the reader on a non...
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    21,27 €

  • The History of Julius Caesar
    Jacob Abbott
    The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol of imperial might, even reaching down through the centuries to give his name to the 'Kaisers' and 'Tsars' of Germany and Russia. This retelling of the story of Caesar, as recounted by master storyteller Jacob Abbott, starts with his childhood and then sketches the bac...
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    22,38 €

  • Richard II
    Jacob Abbott
    The story of King Richard II of England (1367-1400, reigned 1377-1399), as told by master storyteller Jacob Abbott. A son of the famous Edward, the Black Prince, he came to the throne at just ten years of age. During his first years as king, the government was in the hands of a series of councils whose leading member was his uncle, John of Gaunt.The first major event of the you...
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    23,36 €

  • History of Madame Roland
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    The astonishing story of one of the leading women of the French Revolution-and of her own ironic but grisly end at the guillotine-is told with typical intensity and passion by master storyteller John Abbott in this gripping account of the events leading up to the infamous Reign of Terror.Marie-Jeanne Phlippon Roland, better known as Madame Roland, and her husband, Jean-Marie Ro...
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    22,32 €

  • Pyrrhus
    Jacob Abbott
    The English saying 'a Pyrrhic victory' comes from the name of the third century BC king of Epirus, Pyrrhus. After a battle with the Romans which was won at great cost, Pyrrhus famously said, 'one more victory like that and I will be undone.' Pyrrhus, who was born only a few years after the death of Alexander the Great, was of the royal Aeacid house, and his military adventures ...
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    22,35 €

  • Hannibal
    Jacob Abbott
    Rome or Carthage: the struggle between these two great powers of the ancient world determined the course of Western civilization. This mighty clash of civilizations was fought out in Spain, the Alps, the length and breadth of Italy, and in North Africa, where the legions of Rome finally laid waste to the city of Carthage. This dramatic story, told here in full, is based on actu...
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    21,30 €

  • An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce
    Captain James Riley
    The incredible true story of an American ship’s crew taken into slavery by the Muslim slave traders of North Western Africa after being wrecked on that continent’s west coast, has riveted, fascinated, and horrified readers since its first publication two hundred years ago.Captain Riley’s ship, the Commerce, was sailing from Gibraltar to the Cape Verde Islands when it was lost i...
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    28,29 €

  • The Adventures of John Jewitt
    John Jewitt / Robert Brown
    The Adventures of John Jewitt, only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston during a Captivity of Nearly Three Years among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver IslandBy John Jewitt. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Brown, PhD.In 1803, the American ship Boston was attacked, seized, and burned by Nootka Indians while anchored off the Pacific Northwest Coast of ...
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    22,25 €

  • Alfred the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    The story of England’s greatest king of all time is a tale of war, peace, bravery, learning, and strength of character-and, in the end, the victory of enlightenment over darkness.Told by master storyteller Jacob Abbott, the tale begins with a discussion on racial origins-and an eye-opening, if brief, sweep of European racial history-before moving on to discuss the origins of th...
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    21,27 €

  • History of Louis XIV
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    The story of Louis XIV-the 'Sun King' of France, is a gripping tale of royal grandeur, despotism, corruption, and moral degeneracy, which, in its very extravagance, laid the seed for the destruction of the French royal house and the infamous revolution of 1789.During Louis XIV’s lengthy reign he engaged in what seemed to be a never-ending series of foreign wars, all the while f...
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    40,33 €

  • The History of Julius Caesar
    Jacob Abbott
    The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol of imperial might, even reaching down through the centuries to give his name to the 'Kaisers' and 'Tsars' of Germany and Russia. This retelling of the story of Caesar, as recounted by master storyteller Jacob Abbott, starts with his childhood and then sketches the bac...
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    38,33 €

  • History of Hernando Cortez
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    A masterful retelling of the incredible story of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by a handful of Spaniard Conquistadors, assisted by their far more numerous Indian allies, under the leadership of Hernando Cortez.Starting with Cortez’s family background, master storyteller John Abbott sketches the path of the young adventurer-sparing no details of the less pleasant aspects of h...
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    39,32 €

  • KIDNAPPED
    Sheila Martin Askew
    This is the true story of a young woman’s harrowing ordeal. While serving as a Missionary overseas she found herself a captive of human traffickers. Yet, through the divine protection of angelic beings, she was rescued. ...
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    15,30 €

  • History of Hortense
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    The story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s stepdaughter-and mother of Emperor Napoleon III-is as interesting as those of her more well-known family members, as revealed in this penetrating study by master storyteller John S. C. Abbott.Written while many of the personalities discussed in the book were still alive, this work tells of the life and times of Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauha...
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    23,29 €

  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    John Muir
    A fascinating autobiography of John Muir (1838-1914)-founder and first president of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.Muir is renowned to the present-day as one of the most famous American naturalists, authors, amateur inventors, and early advocates of preservation of wilderness in the United States, and as la...
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    22,31 €

  • Conqueror of the World
    Jacob Abbott
    This incredible story of a young king, barely out of his teens, who took on the might of the Persian Empire and won military victories of staggering significance, is one of the greatest true tales ever told. From his homeland in the north of Greece, Alexander swept through southern Greece, crossed the Hellespont and marched through all of Asia Minor, the Middle East, Mesopotami...
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    21,30 €

  • History of Darius the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    The story of the founder of the Achaemenid, or the First Persian Empire, Darius I (c. 550-486 BC), is one of the best documented from that ancient time primarily because of a trilingual monumental relief on Mount Behistun which was written between the time of his coronation and his death.By drawing upon this record, and other primary sources, master storyteller Jacob Abbott tak...
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    22,31 €

  • History of Genghis Khan
    Jacob Abbott
    Genghis Khan, or Temujin, famous in the West for his and his descendants’ incursions into Eastern Europe, conquered far more territory and achieved greater political deeds in Asia than anywhere else. In this splendid review of the life and times of the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, master storyteller Jacob Abbott once again succeeds in retelling history...
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    22,22 €

  • History of Louis Philippe
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    A fascinating account of the life, trials, tribulations-and ultimately failure-of one of Europe’s first notable 'constitutional monarchs,' Louis Philippe (1773-1850).The first king to be properly elected by the National Assembly, his reign was based on the principle of union of king and people, and marked the first real shift away from the 'divine right to rule' approach to kin...
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    23,26 €

  • History of Louis XIV
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    The story of Louis XIV-the 'Sun King' of France, is a gripping tale of royal grandeur, despotism, corruption, and moral degeneracy, which, in its very extravagance, laid the seed for the destruction of the French royal house and the infamous revolution of 1789.During Louis XIV’s lengthy reign he engaged in what seemed to be a never-ending series of foreign wars, all the while f...
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    23,23 €

  • Richard I
    Jacob Abbott
    One of the greatest kings of England who hardly ever set foot in that country, Richard I is remembered in history by his epithet Richard Lionheart, mainly for his incredible series of wars and military victories, both within Europe and in the European counterattack (known as the Crusades) which opposed Islamic aggression against Christian lands in the Middle East. Made king of ...
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    39,35 €

  • The Devil in Religion
    C M Brantley
    The motivation behind this book is to address many issues that we as people experience in some way, form, or fashion. While it brings light to the unfortunate shadows of a game we all play, the true intent of this book is to give light to those who have been completely unraveled by the actions addressed herein and alike. We all have vices. My vice just happened to be in my fami...
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    47,57 €

  • The Shadow of David (Paperback Edition)
    Romy Erikson
    The Shadow of David is an illustrated poetry collection by Romy Erikson about power, love, hope, depression and insanity as a poet awaits her lover who is in reality a cruel non-empathetic demon called David who devotes his attention to the poet with the only purpose of destroying her, resulting in her sainthood upon death, and her return to life as a spirit free of shadows. Th...
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    22,54 €

  • The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends (Esprios Classics)
    Henry R. Schoolcraft / Henry RSchoolcraft
    Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 'discovery' in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. His wife’s knowledge on Native American legends shared with Schoolcraft formed in part the source material for Longfellow’s epic poem, The Song of Hiawat...
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    25,11 €

  • The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends (Esprios Classics)
    Henry R. Schoolcraft / Henry RSchoolcraft
    Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 'discovery' in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. His wife’s knowledge on Native American legends shared with Schoolcraft formed in part the source material for Longfellow’s epic poem, The Song of Hiawat...
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    25,11 €

  • fragments of loss
    Annie Smith
    Fragments of Loss is a poeticized take on a journal the author kept during the last year of her first husband’s life. ...
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    10,99 €

  • TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, A FILMMAKER’S MEMOIR
    Rick Schmidt
    No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will 'fill in the blanks' on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking Penguin, 1988, 1995, 2000). Schmidt’s outside the box approach has resulted in the launch of coun...
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    21,18 €

  • Chinese Folklore The Man With Golden Heart Bilingual Edition English and French
    Maya Aminah Sakura
    In a certain well-known and populous city in one of the north-western provinces of China, there once resided a man of the name of Meng. Everyone knew about him. His fame had spread not only throughout the town, but also far away into the country beyond; for of all the merchants who carried on business in this great commercial centre he was the wealthiest and the most enterprisi...
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    11,39 €

  • History of Romulus
    Jacob Abbott
    More than just a marvelously-told history of the life of the founder of Rome, this work by storyteller extraordinaire Jacob Abbott shows how early historical accounts weaved fact and fiction into a founding story so appealing that it has persisted through the millennia.Abbott pulls together the historical and mythological strands from all the existing accounts to set the stage ...
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    39,35 €


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