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My Father's America - Volume One - The New World    by Walter Lorenz
Price: $4.99 USD. 171800 words. Published on July 12, 2011. .

The first of an eight book series by the late Walter Lorenz about the history of America. The first volume begins by focusing on the formation of the continent, the migration of the Cro-Magnon, and the vast array of Native Americans. Also a look at the world outside the continent. It continues with the voyage of Columbus and those that followed, with special focus on the Conquistadors.
Leonardo's Lion    by Steven R. Southard
Price: $3.99 USD. 9010 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on September 17, 2011. .

In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion to entertain the King of France. The fate of that strange clockwork creation, and its real purpose, have remained unknown...until now.
My Father's America - Volume Two - The Colonies    by Walter Lorenz
Price: $4.99 USD. 175370 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

England was ready. Of all the nations in Europe, 17th-century England was most peculiarly suited to succeed in peopling the North American continent. This was a strange turn of events. England had been the very last of the Western powers to show any kind of interest in the world beyond Europe. Yet once they got started, the English were destined to succeed in the most spectacular way.
The Huguenots in London    by Hazlett Lynch
Price: $0.99 USD. 1210 words. Published by Hazlett Lynch on January 7, 2012. .

A snapshot of the history of Huguenot refugees from France when they settled in London in the 17th and 18th centuries. Catholic Louis XIV had persecuted the Protestants and they were forced to flee their homes to save their lives. Many came to London, though some continued to Ireland. This story zooms in on one such central London church.
The Huguenots Come To Ballyronan, Northern Ireland    by Hazlett Lynch
Price: $0.99 USD. 1020 words. Published by Hazlett Lynch on January 11, 2012. .

The story of how the French Huguenots came to Ballyronan, Northern Ireland, in the late seventeenth century, what they achieved, and the local connections they established. Of interest social historians and lovers of Ireland and her history.