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The Witch: Friend to the unicorns, lover of pancakes, and wielder of potent artefacts, star agent Cordelia “Ves” Vesper will stop at nothing - okay, very little - to drag ancient magicks back out of the grave. ![]() But to the Society for Magickal Heritage, that just isn’t good enough. As the pace of modern life accelerates, the old ways wither and die. ![]() ![]() ![]() *The VRC series beginning with How to Vex a Vampire, by Alice Winters. Humor, emotion, excitement all wrapped up in one great series. ![]() These books supply the excitement of a law enforcement team shifters of different kinds (including the big cat variety) mates and bonding as well as possessive alpha males and the humans or shifters they love. *The Thirds series by Charlie Cochet beginning with Hell and High Water. 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Author Patrick Rothfuss is well-known in the United States for his works of heroic fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. ![]() ![]() Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize īetween January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace.It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created-Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel-whose troubles haunt us still. A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() This phrase inspires readers to dream and set goals in their life, through hardships and failures. 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