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Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place...
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In San Francisco, Cheney-with the support of Shiloh-fights with the hospital staff of St. Francis for the fair treatment of their city's "undesirables." Then catastrophe strikes, and she discovers that none of her medical education has prepared her for such an overwhelming disaster. With so many severe injuries, who will help her?
3) Even money
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Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a book-maker so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings at Royal Ascot. When a man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told that both his parents died when he was a baby. Barely an hour later, his father stabbed by an unknown assailant. Before dying, he warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds...
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Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
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2017
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"In fairy tales, doesn't everything seem just too perfect? The prettiest princesses, the wisest wizards, the deadliest dragons, however nobody is perfect, not mermaids, not unicorns, not elves, not even fairies."
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Parma Books
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[2020]
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We live in uncertain economic times. The United States is facing the most significant unemployment rate since the Great Depression. What can we learn from those who lived through those troubling times? The depression-era frugality tips, tricks, and life-hacks are lessons that we in modern times can utilize. In my book, Depression Era Frugality, I will show you how our grandparents and great-grandparents made it successfully through the Great Depression....