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Games Untold
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
****NEW****
Short stories set before, during, and after the 'Inheritance Games' series"
Discover their stories of love and loss, power, puzzles, and life-and-death secrets in this mind-blowingly romantic collection that proves that when you love the way Hawthornes love, there is no going back.--Provided by publisher.
This collection includes:
That Night in Prague (novella)
The Same Backward as Forward (novella)
The Cowboy and the Goth
Five Times Xander Tackled Someone (and One Time He Didn't)
One Hawthorne Night*
What Happens in the Treehouse*
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Pain at the Right Gun
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
--Abraham Lincoln
--Abraham Lincoln
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:
Feb 15 399 BC Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety
Feb 15, 1932 As a member of the gold medal-winning US four-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid, Eddie Eagan becomes the only Olympian to win gold medals at both the Summer (boxing gold in Antwerp 1920) and Winter Games in different sports
Feb 16, 1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus
Feb 17, 1621 Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony
Feb 18, 1879 French Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a US patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
Feb 19, 1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
Feb 19, 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris, France
Feb 19, 1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
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