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1) Dawn
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Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
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Celebrate Christmas and the Lone Star State with this 1950s classic that puts a spin on the Clement C. Moore classic.
This clever, Texas-sized, Texas-style tale has entertained audiences for more than forty years. A Western Santa Claus-decked out in Levis, ten-gallon Stetson, cowboy vest, and with a bandana around his neck-makes his Christmas journey on a buckboard piled high with presents.
Swooping in over the prairie to the amazement of sleepy...
4) Night
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
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Christmas has come to the mountain country of Appalachia in a delightful new version of the classic holiday verse by Clement Moore. James Rice, illustrator of the bestselling Cajun Night Before Christmas, has teamed up with Thomas Noel Turner, a long-time resident of the Appalachian region and professor of education at the University of Tennessee, to add winsome dimension to the enchanting tale.
A jolly, twinkly-eyed mountain man named Sainty...
7) Night fire
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The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England . . .
Dear Reader,
Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley Cochrane, a sadistic old man who abuses her. When he dies, she believes herself free. But she's not.
Burke Drummond, Earl of Ravensworth—a young man she'd worshipped three years before—is home from the wars, and he wants her. When he catches her, he's
...8) Night shadow
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The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England
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You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He's the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin's three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What's even worse-Ugly Arnold is hard on...
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Now reissued in full-color! Santa Claus was doing all right Christmas Eve until he hit the Southwestern Panhandle country. As soon as he did, a blue norther sweeping across the prairies sent his reindeer fleeing for the comparative warmth of the North Pole. Santa--Stetsoned, booted, and bundled to his nose--stomped through the blizzard until he came to a small sod shanty and corral. A dim flicker of firelight came through the whistling cracks in the...
10) Night storm
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Night trilogy (Catherine Coulter) volume 3
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Dear Reader, You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force--in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988. The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She dresses like "Eugene" and wants to build her own sailing ships without male interference. Alec, a man...
11) Dark star
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Night soldiers volume 2
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Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply...
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When a series of crimes involving child abuse shocks the citizens of Gotham City, Batman and Commissioner Gordon embark on a quest to find the immoral perpetrator. But when Batman is accused of being the enraged killer of the child abuser, it is up to a young battered girl to come forth and clear his name.
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Bump in the Night volume 7
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Poor Squishington, he's become an outcast, a refugee, another statistic in the ever-escalating problem of homelessness. / Bumpy and Squish play “Hide and go Freak,” a game where you turn your head inside out, make you scariest face and frighten the bejeebers out of your surpris
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Bump in the Night volume 11
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Squishington's stomach is ticking! Bumpy thinks it's a bomb! / Squish hates his face. He thinks it's worthless and boring. “Who would want a face like this?”
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Bump in the Night volume 13
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The tables are turned when strange radiations mutate a harmless slice of bread into a slavering, feeding-frenzied, piece of terror toast! / Mr. Bump is turned into a baby and sentenced to time in the Big Crib.
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Bump in the Night volume 2
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In which our main man Bumpy is chased, pummeled and forced to wear a tuxedo by the Cute Dolls in order that his friend Molly Coddle can go to a tea party she has her heart set on.
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Bump in the Night volume 1
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Bumpy is after a particularly juicy sock. Unfortunately, an ambulatory glove is after the same sock. No way, no how is Bumpy gonna let some glove get his sock. / Squishington thinks that getting kissed by a princess will turn him into a prince.
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Bump in the Night volume 3
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Squishington has a cold, and Mr. Bumpy vows to cheer his pal up by doing a magic trick” pulling a rabbit out of a hat! / Bumpy accidentally insults his best bud Squishington.
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Bump in the Night volume 8
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Molly gets the bright idea of becoming a doctor, so she sends away for a mail-order course in basic medicine. / Bumpy's ordered a really cool, neato, humungous toy robot from the back of a breakfast cereal box.