A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning,...

Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, and the scheming officials that turned a mysterious illness into a witch hunt.

In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...

Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.' Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish

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Highlights the major reasons for the War of 1812, important battles, and some of the results of the war.

Discusses the potato famine that devastated Ireland in the nineteenth century and led to a widespread immigration to the United States.

How much do you know about Ukraine? What are the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them? There's so much to learn about the Ukraine. In this trivia book, you'll learn more about Ukraine's history, pop culture, folklore, and so much more!--Back cover.