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  • Tales from Africa
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    In this delightful book about African mission life, Josephine Cunnington Edwards shares stories of the Malamulo Mission in Nyasaland. She describes with great detail the native life of Africa, with all its triumph and tragedy, humor and sadness. As a mission teacher, she heard thrilling true adventures during her years serving at Malamulo. Lions and leopards, deer and crocodile...
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    25,29 €

  • Wings of Faith
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    'Listen, Em, I’ll tell you a secret. I believe we are really going to make a machine that flies. You’ll see,' said Orville.And Orville was right! Together he and his brother made America’s very first flying machine. But Emerson Chadwick had his own problems. His foremost concern was to make enough money so that he could get away from his cousin Lem. Just when his little tin box...
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    22,10 €

  • A Light Shining in Cornwall
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    In the middle of Cornwall, near the ancient city of Truro, lies a small village named Twelveheads. Here on the first of June, 1794, a baby boy named Billy Bray was born. Billy served the devil with all his might in his early years, often drinking and frolicking the night away. He rarely came home sober. Twice he was nearly killed, once in a mine accident and again as he drunken...
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    22,43 €

  • Reuben’s Portion
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards / Josphine Cunnington Edwards
    Reuben gazes over the charred remains the Northern soldiers had left of his family home at the end of the Civil War. Everything is gone. He had spent months fighting for the South—starving, sick, and putting his life on the line—only to return to this black mass of nothing. At that moment he vows to rebuild his legacy and to have a future of wealth and success that no one or no...
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    24,38 €

  • Son of the Vikings
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    The prison cell door clanged shut behind Oscar. Feeling suddenly weak, he sat down on the narrow cot dominating the room. His fingers pressed against the rough blanket draped across the cot. He would be sleeping on it, he realized, sleeping on it as a military criminal.Only seven days before he had been wandering along the Danish coast, enjoying the delights of a peaceful Sabba...
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    22,43 €

  • With an Holy Calling
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    The blizzard came swiftly and unexpectedly upon Mother Vandeman and Herbie that early spring morning as they were on their way home from Aurickaree Creek. The pushed the full barrels of water off the old batten door to make it easier pulling for the horses. But in moments the countryside was shrouded in deep, billowy drifts of snow. The horses floundered. Mother and son lost al...
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    22,50 €

  • Swift Arrow
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    When seven-year-old George Boylan is captured by Indians during a frontier raid in Pennsylvania, his life changes forever. Torn from his loving family and thrust into the wilderness, George must learn to survive in a world vastly different from his peaceful settlement home. Adopted by Chief Big Wolf and given the name Swift Arrow, George grows from a frightened boy into a skill...
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    22,52 €

  • The Enchanted Pillowcase and Other Stories
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    Looking at Lena, slim, lithe, and pretty, his taste for the Tonga girls were spoiled. They were fond of boring holed in their lips and putting in wooden discs till the holes in their lip flapped like a curtain when they were champing on mealies. Then they were contented with little cloth flaps hanging down 'fore and aft' for dresses, not a quarter of a yard at all. How could he...
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    22,44 €

  • Kamwendo
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    'During the years we were missionaries in British Central Africa, my husband and I heard many stories of the long, long ago. It was a great pleasure to the old grandfathers and grandmothers to find someone willing to listen to tales of the dark and terrible days before the white men brought both curse and blessing to the native people.'Some would be eager to tell legends and st...
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    19,91 €

  • Lydia, A Seller of Purple
    Josephine Cunnington Edwards
    One of the most important steps in every young person’s life is coming to the place where you decide for yourself what you believe in.Lydia, A Seller of Purple is the true story of a Pennsylvania girl looking for answers and her purpose in the closing decades of the last century. Containing all the elements of drama, suspense, romance, and narrative, this book will capture ever...
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    18,45 €