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Restoree by Anne McCaffrey
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Restoree by Anne McCaffreyRestoree by Anne McCaffrey

Sara had been torn from Earth by a nameless black force and taken to Lothar where she was forced to care for a strange man, who she discovered was the Regent. She escaped in panic, and become a fugitive in a world of multiple evils...
 
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Tags: fugitive, become, panic, escaped, world, Restoree, McCaffrey, Regent
Coelura by Anne McCaffrey
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Coelura by Anne McCaffreyCoelura by Anne McCaffrey

Casting aside her duty as the heir to the Ambassador of her world, Lady Caissa refuses to marry a man she despises and flees into the Forbidden Zone, where she meets a handsome injured man and sets a world-changing series of events in motion.
 
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Tags: world, changing, injured, handsome, series, Coelura, world, McCaffrey, meets
Volcano Trek
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Volcano TrekVolcano Trek

Welcome to the sights and sounds of the world with the Footprint Reading Library, a unique new series of graded readers for learners of English. This series offers fascinating stories from the four corners of our world, and develops the language and skills needed to understand non-fiction writing.

 
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Tags: series, world, stories, language, develops, Volcano, corners
The Young Riders of Mongolia
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The Young Riders of MongoliaThe Young Riders of Mongolia

Welcome to the sights and sounds of the world with the Footprint Reading Library, a unique new series of graded readers for learners of English. This series offers fascinating stories from the four corners of our world, and develops the language and skills needed to understand non-fiction writing.
 
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Tags: series, world, needed, skills, language, Young, Mongolia, Riders
From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology
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From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology

From Iceland to India, from prehistoric cave paintings and fertility figurines to such modern-day "myths" as the invisible hand, the Oedipal conflict and Schrodinger's cat, Leeming's intriguing treatise on comparative mythology covers a lot of ground. Out of this enormous variety of information, Leeming, a professor of comparative literature and author of The World of Myth, discerns a coherent, distinctive European mythical tradition. He traces it back to the encounter, starting in the 3rd millennium B.C., between a sedentary, agricultural "Old Europe" and nomadic, pastoral Indo-European invaders.
 
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Tags: European, Leeming, World, comparative, encounter