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The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had...
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Shadow children volume 3
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.
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"1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful...
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New York
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Distributed by Wellspring Media
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English
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Container erroneously gives the date of production as 1994.Police superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into an explosive scenario of psychiatry, sex, and drugs, when he begins an investigation into the strange murder of the administrative head of London's Ste
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1999
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English
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Night of the meek: Christmas in the twilight zone...Art Carney is a forlorn department store Santa who takes to drinking - only to find himself experiencing the nicest Christmas ever! -- The Invaders: A flying saucer lands in the attic of an isolated house inhabited by an impoverished woman - who soon becomes panic-stricken as tiny spacemen begin to stalk her! -- Nothing in the dark: An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always...
11) The Sears Tower
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Blackbirch Press
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c1995
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English
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Tells how the Sears Tower in Chicago was designed and construction and is one of the tallest building today.
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Olympians volume 3
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First Second
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[2011]
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English
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Introduces Hera, Zeus's wife and goddess of air, sky, and the heavens, and the only thing Zeus fears.