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  • Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire

    An excellent one volume portrait of Napoleon III and the short-lived second French Empire which was brought to ruins by the 1870 Franco-Prussian war."ONCE again J. M. Thompson has given us a colorful, arresting, and interpretative account of a period of French history—this time of the Second Empire. In this instance, as in previous works, the author makes the biography of a man (Louis Napoleon) ... Read more

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  • Robespierre

    First published in 1935, this is widely regarded as the most definitive and comprehensive biography of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), the French lawyer and politician who would become one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.As a member of the Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly and the ... Read more

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  • Running Is a Kind of Dreaming

    A Memoir

    A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life."Voluntary or involuntary?" asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that ... Read more

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  • My Grand Daughter

    My Grand Daughter # 2, #1

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Series Book 1 - My Grand Daughter
    Jan owned a liquor store, he had two women working for him. He was a bitter man inside and he harboured hatred for people of colour. He joined a radical movement whose aim was to restore a white government. They caused havoc by creating faction wars in the rural areas. In the townships, they bombed essential plants, they planted explosives on railway lines causing unnecessary deaths. The police ... Read more

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  • Leaders of the French Revolution

    1789-1795 were years of revolutionary drama in France—of struggle protest, war-fever, exasperation, terror, ambition and bloodshed. Few of the many who are remembered from the time were great men, but they lived under the microscope of great times, which gave to their most insignificant qualities portentous proportions. Perhaps, too, their age and country encouraged variety and extravagance of ... Read more

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  • The Wizard's Box: A Tale From the Royal Road

    Royal Road Sketches and Stories, #1

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Series Book 1 - Royal Road Sketches and Stories
    What does one do with a wizard's discarded container of dubious functionality?The Royal Road in the kingdom of Kesteva runs nearly 1,000 miles from the southeastern marchlands to the northwest coast. A tavern tale sometimes told by upperclass engineering students at the Royal University in Roxen starts with the proposition that the Road's meandering path was laid hundreds of years before Kesteva's ... Read more

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  • Invisible People

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Isaac grew up in the rural area near Queenstown.He had a problem with his speech, he could not finish a sentence without stuttering. His classmates always made fun of him. He wrote his final high school examinations and he passed with two distinctions.He was living with his grandma at the time. His mother passed on soon after he was born. No one ever mentioned his father. He never bothered to seek ... Read more

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  • Why the Edmund Fitzgerald Sank

    On the night of November 10, 1975, shortly after seven fifteen, the 729-foot long iron ore freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, nose-dived to the bottom of Great Lake Superior. The end was so sudden and catastrophic that not a single mayday was transmitted. All hands were lost. There weren’t any survivors. Ever since that tragedy took place, countless theories have been advanced as to why this happened. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Value Of My Life 2

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Stella and Nomsa had been friends sine childhood days but Stella's sister does not trust Nomsa for whatever reason. by then Stella and her friend were living with Stella's sister, Boniswa and Jose her husband. he offered to pay the girls' tuition but Nomsa was not interested. All that she wanted was to have a husband and babies. Stella chose to go to university with the intention of becoming an ... Read more

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  • Tales From The Royal Road

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Seven stories from The Royal Road, a highway of merchants, pilgrims, princes and commoners, translated from Old Kestevan into modern English. Here are stories of hedge wizards, real wizards, trolls, gnolls, adventurers and kitchen-scrubbers. The translator makes no claims as to their provenance or accuracy. ... Read more

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  • Illusion 3, Werewolf in Denial

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Jenny and Annette received a light sentence for their transgressions. Bridgette was furious with the presiding magistrate, She was hoping for a tougher sentence. She thought that she would resign as a prosecutor and become a housewife soon after becoming Johann's wife. She was still not sure about her pregnancy. She was hoping that Johann was the father.Daniel was running the affairs of the farm ... Read more

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  • Patience is a Virtue book 2

    by J.M. Thompson ...
    Tshidi was living with Maggie in Maggie's mansion. They were like sisters.Maggie had a heart condition and she decided to instruct her attorney to draft a will for her. the main beneficiary was Tito her live in boyfriend. Tshidi was next and the other servants receioved the least. Maggie died in a planned attack on her life. Her attorney then summoned all the people who were working for Maggie. ... Read more

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