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Mythica: The Necromancer (DVD)
Melanie Stone, Kevin Sorbo, Adam Johnson, Jake Stormoen, Nicola Posener, …
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R22
Discovery Miles 220
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Melanie Stone and Kevin Sorbo return to star in this third
instalment of the fantasy adventure franchise. Following the events
of 'Mythica: The Darkspore' (2015), Peregus Malister (Robert
Jayne), master of the Thieves Guild, has taken Thane (Adam Johnson)
hostage and it's up to Marek (Stone) and her friends to save him.
To do so, they must help Marek's former owner by tracking down a
rogue smuggler but face many unexpected dangers along the way.
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Brave Enough (Paperback)
Jessie Diggins, Todd Smith
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R557
R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
Save R68 (12%)
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Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling
journey from America's heartland to international sports history,
navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of
glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final
seconds of the women's team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins
dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she
stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight
into Olympic immortality: the first ever cross-country skiing gold
medal for the United States at the Winter Games. The 26-year-old
Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a
world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, where she first
strapped on skis. Yet, for all her history-making achievements, she
had never strayed far from the scrappy 12-year-old who had insisted
on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily
under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders: "Look! I'm doing it!"
In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her
journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid
charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her
free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the
bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of
races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of
becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond
physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of
competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing
struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she
healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others
experiencing eating disorders. Between thrilling accounts of
moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get
there-the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work,
and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can
do it. I am brave enough.
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Brave Enough (Hardcover)
Jessie Diggins, Todd Smith
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R715
R605
Discovery Miles 6 050
Save R110 (15%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling
journey from America's heartland to international sports history,
navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of
glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final
seconds of the women's team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins
dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she
stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight
into Olympic immortality: the first ever cross-country skiing gold
medal for the United States at the Winter Games. The 26-year-old
Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a
world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, where she first
strapped on skis. Yet, for all her history-making achievements, she
had never strayed far from the scrappy 12-year-old who had insisted
on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily
under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders: "Look! I'm doing it!"
In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her
journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid
charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her
free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the
bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of
races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of
becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond
physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of
competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing
struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she
healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others
experiencing eating disorders. Between thrilling accounts of
moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get
there-the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work,
and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can
do it. I am brave enough.
Bound together by social, demographic, and economic commonalities,
the territory extending from East Texas to West Florida occupies a
unique space in early American history. A masterful synthesis of
two decades of scholarly work, F. Todd Smith's Louisiana and the
Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 examines the region's history from
the eve of European colonization to the final imposition of
American hegemony. The agricultural richness of the Gulf Coast gave
rise to an extraordinarily diverse society: development of food
crops rendered local indigenous groups wealthier and more powerful
than their counterparts in New England and the West, and white
demand for plantation slave labor produced a disproportionately
large black population compared to other parts of the country.
European settlers were a heterogeneous mix as well, creating a
multinational blend of cultures and religions that did not exist on
the largely Anglo-Protestant Atlantic Coast. Because of this
diversity, which allowed no single group to gain primacy over the
rest, Smith's study characterizes the Gulf South as a frontier from
the sixteenth century to the early years of the nineteenth. Only in
the twenty years following the Louisiana Purchase did Americans
manage to remove most of the Indian tribes, overwhelm Louisiana's
French Creoles numerically and politically, and impose a racial
system in accordance with the rest of the Deep South. Moving
fluently across the boundaries of colonial possessions and state
lines, Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 is a
comprehensive and highly readable overview of the Gulf Coast's
distinctive and enthralling history.
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