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Revolution is the only way to social progress. Revolution is bought with blood and loyalty. What is a revolution and whose life is to be changed. During the revolution, we strive for new things. The world strives for the public, but it must persist in its lofty goals.
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During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, Tong Lin was driven away by his angry and injured father due to his lust for gambling. He can only make a living on his own. By coincidence, he saved Yin Zhen from danger many times and made great contributions to his accession to the throne as Yongzheng emperor.
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This book has a total of 300 chapters. It tells us that during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, Tong Lin was driven away by his father after his father was angry and injured due to his lust for gambling. He can only make a living on his own. By coincidence, he saved Yin Zhen from danger many times and made great contributions to his accession to the throne as Yongzheng emperor.
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"Eli Bell's life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli's life is Slim--a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes--who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a seedy suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old...
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How does smell work? Specifically, how do olfactory sensory neurons project to their targets in the olfactory bulb, where smell is processed? Justin McKinnon has hired fresh-faced graduate student Emily to study that question. What Justin hasn't told Emily is that two other scientists in the lab, Aeden and Allegra, are working on a very similar topic, and their findings may compete with her research. And to Emily's great surprise, her rational mind...
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Cold River novels volume 2
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The Sisters Hemingway: they couldn't be more different...or more alike. The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives-Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different-or more alike. Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. Hadley is the poised, polished wife of a senator....
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When Billie is released from a correctional facility in Decatur, her sister Rhiannon is there to meet her, even though the two haven't seen each other in months. Painful secrets and numerous unspoken betrayals linger between them--but most agonizing is the sudden passing of their mother, a renowned paleontologist. Rhiannon and Billie must overcome their differences as they set off on a road trip west, following the breadcrumb-trail of their late mother's...
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Karen Williams, author of Harlem on Lock and The People Vs. Cashmere, brings you this dark street tale. Follow the highs and lows of Cha, Goldie, and Red, who come together for fun, laughs, and sometimes treachery in Long Beach, California. For these three ladies, survival was always about getting over by using lies, deceit, and sex. But when a plan goes dangerously wrong, Cha and Goldie take a step back out of the life. Cha desperately wants to rid...
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2019
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A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities
In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students
...11) Obsession
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Tiffany is trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. The man she fell in love with turned out to be a lazy, good-for-nothing womanizer. Night after night Tiffany comes home to Blake's physical, mental, and verbal abuse. She's tried leaving in the past, but somehow he always finds her. Each time, she comes back and convinces herself things will get better. Then one day Blake beats her for the last time. Tiffany decides death is the only way out-and...
12) Won't Stop
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Hot Shot is at it again! Now that it's been revealed that he is an undercover FBI agent assigned to clean up as many urban cities as he can, Hot Shot and his trustworthy comrade Cotton take their skills to Oklahoma City to deal with some serious gangsters who run the drug trade.
Nola wants no part of a relationship with Hot Shot after her family is incarcerated. He has never loved a woman they way he loves Nola, so dealing with that loss on top...
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Terrell wasn't raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised by his aunt in uncle in a loving home in the suburbs. However, he never lost touch with his mother, whose selfish scheming sparked the fire that led to that fateful night when Terrell became disabled. Now that he's an adult, his tainted bloodline has other plans for the wheelchair-bound teenager.
Throwing away...
14) Girl in Dior
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In February of 1947, the crème de la crème of Paris haute couture have flocked to see Christian Dior's debut fashion show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway and the mesmerized audience declares the show a triumph. When Clara-a freshly hired chronicler and guide to the busy corridors of the brand-new fashion house-is hand-picked by Dior to be a model, she knows her life will never be the same. A biography...
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This epic, action-packed Western tells the incredible true story Bass Reeves (David Gyasi), the first black U.S. Marshal in the Wild West. Having escaped from slavery after the Civil War, Reeves arrives in Arkansas seeking a job with the law. To prove himself, he must hunt down a deadly outlaw (Frank Grillo) with the help of a grizzled journeyman (Ron Perlman). As he chases the criminal deeper into the Cherokee Nation, Reeves must dodge bullets and...
17) A day to die
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[2022]
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English
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A team of off-book law enforcement officers band together to tackle the city's biggest criminal and save the wife of one of their own.
18) River runs red
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[2018]
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English
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When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into their own hands.
20) A day to die
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2022
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English
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Ex-military ops officer Conner Connolly (Kevin Dillan) has one day to pay 2 million dollars in reparations to a local gang leader in order to save his kidnapped wife. With her life on the line, Conner must recruit his old crew to pull off a series of dangerous heists to repay the money he owes and settle a score with the city's corrupt police chief (Bruce Willis).