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1) The murder of the century: the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars
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On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of...
4) Dragonlinks
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Jelindel chronicles volume 1
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2002
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An all-powerful, enchanted mailshirt from the stars. Six links are missing. An orphan, a streetwise urchin and a swordsman must find the links before the greatest evil known descends upon Q'zar.
5) Dragonfang
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Jelindel chronicles volume 2
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2004
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The long-awaited sequel to Dragonlinks. Five pentagram gems. Two people want them. Only one can have them. After destroying the Dragonlinks mailshirt and banishing her companions Zimak and Daretor to a paraworld, Jelindel's refuge with the Sister of Verity is destroyed when the Temple is attacked. Jelindel escapes, disguises herself as a boy and joins a voyage on the ship, the Dark Empress, where she learns of an evil plot to conquer the
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The Inquisition ceased burning and torturing heretics in the 18th century; A milder punishment awaits the dissidents today, principally excommunication or banishment from official teaching positions. Paul Collins has discovered- through his own experience and extensive research that the impact of the Vatican's investigations, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, can be quite profound. Collins is the controversial Australian Catholic...
7) Dragonsight
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Jelindel chronicles volume 3
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2005
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The long-awaited sequel to Dragonfang. Three mercenaries. Poison coursing through their veins. And only six weeks to find a stolen dragon relic...
"The action never stops in Dragonsight. Countess Jelindel dek Mediesar, Daretor and Zimak are sent on a desperate quest to recover a stolen jade talisman called the dragonsight. With a slow-acting poison ticking through their veins, they have only six weeks to find the talisman and take
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Acumular sabiduría desde el siglo V a.E.C. to the modern day ha producido una colección intensamente profunda, pero simple y directa de citas de las mentes más grandes de todo el mundo: de oradores, filósofos, autores, empresarios, científicos y más. Es como tener toda una biblioteca de sabiduría contenida en un solo libro. A continuación se muestran solo algunas de las grandes mentes incluidas en esta colección:Aristóteles, Theodore Roosevelt,...
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Lieutenant Alastair Mitchell, RCNR, had two loves — HMCS Dartmouth and Second Officer Linda Halley, WRCNS. He had to choose, but he couldn't. Then, on a cold, overcast November night off Bell Island, Newfoundland, the enemy made the choice for him.
Whether called Sea Wolves or Raiders of the Deep, Nazi U-boats prowled the waters around Newfoundland...and some never left. Now Iron Coffins, they lie forgotten, rusting on the seabed along with their...
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Amasser la sagesse dès le Ve siècle avant notre ère. à l'époque moderne a produit une collection intensément profonde, mais simple et directe de citations des plus grands esprits du monde entier : des conférenciers, des philosophes, des auteurs, des entrepreneurs, des scientifiques, etc. C'est comme avoir toute une bibliothèque de sagesse contenue dans un seul livre. Vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques-uns des grands esprits inclus dans cette...
11) Mole Hunt
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Mole Hunt is the first book in a science fiction series set in the future and in a universe far beyond earth, a place with floating cities where people can regenerate at will and mankind is out of control, killing and maiming at will. The protagonist – and anti-hero -- is teenager Maximus Black, who works for galactic law enforcement agency, RIM. He is a tightly-drawn, unlikeable psychopath trained to kill – and he does: he also commissions others...
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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different...
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Amassing wisdom from as early as the 5th century B.C.E. to the modern day has produced an intensely profound, yet simple and straight to the point collection of quotes from the greatest minds all over the world: from speakers, philosophers, authors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and more. It is like having an entire library of wisdom contained within a single book. Below are just a few of the great minds included in this collection:Aristotle, Theodore...
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James Gong is training for his black belt in taekwondo. One night a camera crew turns up at training for an episode of My Life.
James is sparring a white belt who gets carried away and hammers James' foot. Sparks fly in James' brain and he gasps — all caught on national TV. James responds with a jumping spinning sidekick, which obliterates his opponent.
This is the beginning of James' woes at the club, for he has disgraced Mr Cho, the head...
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When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head... but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world.
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into...
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Paul Collins travels the globe piecing together the missing body and soul of one of our most enigmatic founding fathers: Thomas Paine.
A typical book about an American founding father doesn't start at a gay piano bar and end in a sewage ditch. But then, Tom Paine isn't your typical founding father. A firebrand rebel and a radical on the run, Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. In death, his story turns truly...
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The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare's First Folio, the world's most obsessively pursued book
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries-a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Paul Collins, lover of odd books and author of the national bestseller Sixpence House,...
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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different...
