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1) Purgatory
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Getting away from the farm is all Hollis Fairfield can think about. But when the only job she can find is doing laundry at Camp Pinewood, she becomes a witness to horrific events she never dreamed could be real. Powerless to change anything, she despairs until her attention is snared by a young girl whom she vows to help. But what can one woman do when so much stands against her?Delilah Thorn is stuck in Atlanta engaged in diplomatic work and is desperate...
2) Purgatory
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They came in the night and took away every inhabitant of the isolated mining town that they could capture. Men, women, and the one child had been taken from the town that they rightly called Purgatory. But one man who had fought heroically against the invaders, John King, who they had left for dead, was left to fight back against the biggest injustice of his life. With little left to lose, he was going to track down the men who had taken what was...
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August Purgatory Underground volume 2
August Purgatory Underground volume 1
August Purgatory Underground volume 4
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August Purgatory Underground volume 1
August Purgatory Underground volume 4
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The final hours of Captain August! Shaken and crippled after his confrontation with his arch-enemy, August launches a desperate plan to save as many of his new allies as he can from the villainous rebel fleet and their cyborg commander. He's been hounded, hurt and humbled- but he's not going down without a fight! The astonishing conclusion of August: Purgatory Underground!
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'A fabulously funny celestial crime caper, full of wit, warmth and heart.' Helen Lederer How do you solve your own murder when you're already dead? Purgatory (noun):1. Where the dead are sent to atone.2. A place of suffering or torment.3. A youth hostel where the occupants play Scrabble and the mattresses are paper thin. When Dave wakes up in his own personal purgatory (St Ives Youth Hostel circa 1992), he's shocked to discover he's dead. And worse...
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Staging a musical in Purgatory can be absolute hell. Lonnie Coleridge last saw the sun in 1968. Since then, he's been consigned to Limbo, still wearing the same tie-dyed T-shirt and bell-bottomed jeans he had on when he left his life behind. He and others like him have one chance each year at redemption: produce a show for the Greek pantheon. Whoever pleases this very specific-and temperamental-fan group could earn the right to move on. But after...
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This book of poetry deals with the conflict where science is dominant in working its wonders, and the religious has become questionable regarding its relevance. It results in our culture's tendency to view science as our major source of defining and controlling reality. This is suggested in Arthur C. Clarks novel, Childhood's End, as well as in the classic Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The point being that we are no longer children dependent...
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Jaime Connor was once one of the mightiest archangels in heaven. Sent to earth to stop demons from claiming another victim in their sleep, she has battled far too long. Tired of all the killing, she awaits the demon who will overpower her and send her back to heaven. Yet her life lingers on and a dream she can't remember plagues her thoughts.
Only remnants of her memory remain in the image of a gorgeous demon who circled her before the kill-the scent...
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Team Omega just went through hell to find their prey, the madman Simon Haddo, only to have him escape at the last moment. These mercs didn't just do battle with a Mecha-Satan for nothing, so are determined to bring Haddo down and get paid for their efforts. They follow him, with the help of their enigmatic android guide, to the planet Mercury and a fortress factory known only as Purgatory, where they must face yet another gruesomely engineered nightmare...
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Play the Game or die.
Alone in a desolate world ravaged by war and alien invasion, Eileen Paine offers herself to indentured servitude in Purgatory City-a chance at a different life.
No one knows what happens beyond the gates, but it has to be better than the peril in the Blastlands. Nothing could have prepared her for the darkness, the tests, the changes, or the people she meets. Least of all being changed and controlled by the aliens in power.
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This is the story of a lonely girl who has a penchant for the macabre. Although she has never been the type to believe in ghosts, she can't help but indulge in fantasies of romance beyond the veil. However, when an arrogant spirit with a dangerous obsession drags her into the depths of a private purgatory of blood and decay, what was once a naive fantasy soon turns into a volatile negotiation that could cost the girl her life.
11) Purgatory Blood
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Smile, and the world smiles with you. Cause an apocalypse, and the Hounds drag you to Purgatory.
After the events of Final Magic, Alec finds himself in a place where life is cheap and death is a constant companion.
Time to win new friends and avoid new enemies.
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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His many books include Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He is a general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into...
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Man's will to survive the most dismal of odds is well-documented throughout history. Many of the more miraculous entries into the legendary canon of such tales involve individuals of such stout inner fortitude-perhaps shaped in personal faith or simply a psyche forged of pure iron-that the chances of escaping the reaper's sharp-edged scythe improve by default. Welcome then, into the desolate, stony confines of The Purgatory Inn, where the limits of...
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Visiting the sick leads a curious clergyman into a web of danger and greed at a secretive nursing home . . .
Part of Rev. Oxford Christie's duty is to comfort the sick, but the nursing home where he shows up to see a patient feels strange and unsettling. One of the many facilities owned and operated by The Group, Incorporated, brings in profits far exceeding that of the typical nursing home-and some residents seem to have mysteriously disappeared....
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Two men are involved in a car crash: Brad dies, and Danny-who can't stand the thought of living without him-kills himself, convinced that with so little time having elapsed between their deaths, he'll be able to catch up to Brad on his way to Judgment. The novel becomes a modern Pilgrim's Progress, detailing the tests inseparable from a journey through purgatory.
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The Divine Beauty Parlor: Rediscovering Purgatory is a captivating narrative that examines purgatory through the multifaceted approach of theology, philosophy, history, Christian anthropology, Catholic teaching, and Protestant objections. Extensively researched by Meggie K. Daly, the book is written from a Catholic perspective but with an ecumenical eye toward understanding the roots of Christian denominational differences regarding purgatory's existence.
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"Madness embraces us / There is no rest / Fighting for a cause / Without reason or test." The Great Migration of the 1910s – 1940s was both a flight and a pursuit, as African Americans moved north and west in hopes of leaving behind the South's violence and finding the freedom of equality. Journalist and author Art Cribbs tells the story of his family's pursuit of that dream in Los Angeles County, and the racism which undermined it.
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ased on real events during the unification of Spain.
Spain, led by Ferdinand the Second and Isabella of Castile, soared to the height of its power. The policy of the cunning king bore rich fruit. The whole country was taken away from the king of Portugal. By deceit the southern fiefdoms were cut off from France. The master of southern Europe and northern Africa he - King Ferdinand, or rather by his hands and the instruction of Isabella, brought out...
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Thirty-one years ago, Bowker solved the brutal murder of a teenage schoolgirl as a senior constable in the one-copper Mallee town of Manangatang.
Now, he must return to the area to investigate another killing.
The victim: the original killer, who had just been released, following his lengthy prison sentence.
The scene of the crime: the exact location the schoolgirl had been murdered years earlier.
Bowker is sure the two murders are connected....