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1) Numero zero
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"A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true. A fragile love story...
2) Poor white
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From Sherwood Anderson comes this classic piece of historical fiction for your enjoyment.
4) Marching Men
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that helped...
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Mission Earth dekalogy volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 03
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 03
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Earthlings: Beware! Do you know who your enemies are? Your neighbor? Your boss? Your butcher? Your wife? Only the Voltarians know for sure. They’ve successfully infiltrated our little world—and it may never be the same. They walk among us. They work among us. And they’re making themselves right at home, prepping the planet for a power play unlike any you’ve ever seen before. In this web of espionage, intrigue and betrayal, even Voltarian...
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When a mysterious houseboat appears on the river Styx, it brings an influx of famous souls who begin to flock towards the new favored location. A Houseboat on the Styx is a series of different stories that tie into one exciting narrative.
Charon is a mythological character who navigates the Styx river under the guidance of Hades. The water acts as a border between the living world and the afterlife. As a ferryman, Charon transports deceased souls...
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Je m'appelle Destiné. Prénom maudit. Ne me dites pas que j'exagère. Vous n'avez pas idée à quel quotidien, j'ai été confrontée.
Depuis l'aube des temps, j'étais prédestinée à me faire battre, à me faire humilier, à vivre isolée, meurtrie et à subir les assauts répétés d'un salaud de la pire espère: mon paternel.
Si seulement ma mère n'avait pas eu l'intelligence d'une innocente gamine dans le corps d'une adulte.
Si seulement...
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Mission Earth dekalogy volume 5
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 05
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 5
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 05
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 5
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The Voltarian invaders are getting down and dirty . . . in the deadliest of games. The price: Planet Earth. Voltarian Royal Officer Jettero Heller has heart, nerve and a quick mind on his side. His archenemy Soltan Gris has cunning, ruthlessness and a devious plan on his. But what neither of them has is money—and without that they may as well pack up and go back to Voltar. Because as every earthling knows—no pay, no play. Heller’s solution is...
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Ian Bridges liebt seinen Job. Er ist wahnsinnig gut darin, kann sich seine Zeit selbst einteilen und verdient gutes Geld. Aber er ist kein glücklicher Mann, denn dafür fehlt ihm noch die eine große Liebe, die ganz spezielle Frau an seiner Seite, mit der er seinen Erfolg teilen kann. Dumm nur, dass die meisten Frauen, deren Bekanntschaft er macht, dies nur selten überleben. Denn Ian Bridges ist ein Auftragskiller. Aber das hält ihn nicht davon...
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A Glasgow bank heist turns into an unlikely meet-cute for a disgruntled female cop in this hilarious crime novel by the master of tartan noir.
Their eyes met across a crowded room. It was a room crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and Zal's eyes were the only part of him that Angelique could see behind his mask. Officer Angelique de Xavia already had enough to be upset about before she's taken hostage by the most bizarrely unorthodox...
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"I couldn't get enough of the intricate, thrilling plot of January 6th and theMillennial Horde.... e book's characters are the type you love and hate at the sametime, which reflects the sort of duality that exists in a situation involving bad deedscarried out by well-meaning people." - San Francisco Book Review gave it 5/5 stars, a must read!
This dystopian novel asks what may have occurred if we insert two very passionate and driven...
13) Range of Light
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A journey of finding oneself in an increasingly material world...
An escape from censorship toward hoped-for redemption...
A path to forgiveness and restoration....
One bright morning in the summer of 2011, three strangers fortuitously meet at the start of Yosemite's famed Mist Trail-a disillusioned investment banker with two million dollars in cash in his tent, a Chinese dissident artist escaping political persecution but not his own demons, and...
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Jake Skowran has been laid off from his job as a factory supervisor. Fortunately, he's been offered other work. Unfortunately, it is as a hired killer. Beset by creditors and filled with fury over his situation, Jake decides he has little choice except to take it. He is going to carve off a piece of the economy or die trying . . .
15) Bad Vibrations
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What will you sacrifice to attain true health?Valerie just arrived at Doctor's hidden utopia for what was supposed to be a weekend of wellness.A weekend of eating fruits straight from the farm. Of screaming hula hoop yoga and dynamic meditation to expel toxins Valerie knew were holding her back. A retreat where she'd attain the energy needed to return home and set new personal records at the gym. To land her dream job.And of course, she'd finally...
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Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023 Eyes down to find a killer who's playing to win... An irresistible slice of murder and mystery – there's a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they're the ones to catch the culprit... Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone and everything that's going on...
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Digging Around the Pandemic: The SwiftPad Extinction, the riveting and concluding volume of the SwiftPad Trilogy, follows the last months of an election in a country that balances precariously on the knife edge of Civil War. After the Insurgency's defeat of the Incumbent's storm troopers in Portland, a desperate international struggle plays out behind the scenes and in plain sight on the ubiquitous social media platform SwiftPad. Follow the Insurgents...
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New York Times Best Selling Author, Gloria Nagy sliced through the social fabric of the North Shore of Long Island in A HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS and now she aims her razor sharp talents on Miami--the new hot spot for glamour, greed and gore. The Sunshine State will need a far higher level of SPF! People Die in Sunshine is the carnival ride through the externally glamorous, but internally twisted lives of those two people, Frederick and Coco Rothenstein...
19) Dead Hedge
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Dead Hedge is a satire. It is a fictitious novel, but based on a real case. It portrays the corruption and criminality prevalent in the global banking system today. It is the story of Cleopatra and how she and her shipping company were manipulated and cheated by powerful forces that reached into the High Courts and even governments. How Cleo was defrauded and then persecuted when she tried to expose the truth. It is not the end of the story and a...
20) Privilege
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Professor Daniel Waite is in a funk. He has a brilliant wife, tenure at the fabled University, and is well liked by colleagues and popular with students, who flock to his film studies courses. And, he hates his life. He can't bring himself to write, disdains academia, barely gets through his class lectures, and spends a lot of time hiding in his office in a stupor, pondering his collection of movie posters.
All that changes when his new teaching assistant...
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