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37801) The Strangler's Waltz
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Vienna 1913: The capital of a sprawling empire, Vienna is also one of the world's most cultured and vibrant cities. It's a city devoted to the swank//grand pursuit of life's pleasures. But suddenly, the city is shaken when a vicious serial killer, who targets young, attractive women starts a reign of terror. And, leaves no useful clues behind. Before long, residents of Vienna are terrified that their city has spawned its own Jack the Ripper. Assigned...
37802) Wicked Mobile
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Since its founding in 1702 as the first capital of the French colony of Louisiana, Mobile has witnessed all manner of salacious scandals. An 1847 murder resulted in the hanging of Charles Boyington, who maintained his innocence to the very end, and a great oak tree near his gravesite seems to support him. Many believe the notorious Copeland gang started one of the city's worst fires as cover to escape with stolen loot. A 1932 murder case involved...
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The Acclaimed, Authentic Biography of the Early Church's Greatest Evangelist--the
Apostle Paul.Master storyteller John Pollock makes Paul and his amazing
story freshly alive, so that you can know the greatest apostle much as Luke
and Timothy did as they traveled with him. As you turn the pages, you'll sense
Paul's motives, his aims and priorities; what mattered to him; and what he was
willing to die for. Pollock brings Paul and his...
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Uncover the stories from one of the greatest-novelists of all time in this beautiful anthology of tales from Charles Dickens, rewritten and adapted in an accessible way for children.
This book introduces children to eight of Dickens' greatest works, accompanied by beautiful, colourful illustrations which breathes new life into these timeless classics. Includes favourites such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations....
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Trois femmes aux destins liés par l'Histoire
Maria, Marine et Irène sont toutes les trois gardiennes d'une mémoire enfouie, cachée et enfin exhumée par la plus jeune d'entre elles.
Trois itinéraires de femme o chacune, tel un gardien de phare, veille sur le temps, scrutant l'obscurité pour rappeler ces lumières anonymes qui précédèrent leurs existences et en furent à l'origine.
Une histoire de famille parallèle à la grande histoire,...
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"The very name of 'Judas' raises among Christians an instinctive reaction of criticism and condemnation...The betrayal of Judas remains...a mystery."
-Pope Benedict XVI, October 2006
The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot sheds new light on the mystery of Judas, including his motives for the betrayal and what happened to him after the crucifixion-by retelling the story of Jesus through the eyes of Judas, using the canonical texts as...
37807) After the Train
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Peter Liebig can't wait for summer. He's tired of classrooms, teachers, and the endless lectures about the horrible Nazis. The war has been over for ten years, and besides, his town of Rolfen, West Germany, has moved on nicely. Despite its bombed-out church, it looks just as calm and pretty as ever. There is money to be made at the beach, and there are whole days to spend with Father at his job. And, of course, there's soccer. Plenty for a thirteen-year-old...
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The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.
Livia-wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a cunning and sinister schemer to reveal Livia as a...
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The year is 1862. Dan Fields, a Corporal in Stonewall Jackson's Rebel Army, is marching near Bath, Virginia. At the height of a blizzard, he touches the cross at his neck and remembers his Granny's warning: "You won't die in this war, but you may wish you had." Seeking refuge, he stumbles into a cave, and suddenly finds himself in 2010. Cold and starving, Dan stumbles onto the farm of beautiful Allie Johnson, who saves his life. But Dan has been followed...
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Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle shocked respectable Americans in 1906. Repeated economic crises punctuated rapidly growing industrial output, casting millions of people out of work and onto the streets. Conventional thinking was that these events were transient phenomena and that hard work and clean living would deliver individual prosperity in time. Many Americans saw slums, vice and squalor as signs of individual shortcomings – nothing more...
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Seti I is most frequently known as the father of Ramesses II, but in fact, he was a great pharaoh himself, though with a relatively short reign of just eleven years. A great warrior king, a strategic thinker, and a man who knew the life of the ordinary people, he was an extraordinary ruler. His brand was excellence, and he used that in many forms to win his people to a king who was not born royal. A warrior with the soul of an artist, his Great Hypostyle...
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Sophénète est un enfant de Sparte. Destiné à faire la guerre jusqu'à la mort, il sait que seuls les plus grands héros peuvent prétendre à un repos aux champs Élysées. Mais, alors qu'il achève sa kryptie, l'épreuve initiatique finale pour intégrer la cité et rejoindre l'élite des hoplites, les conflits contre Athènes ont cessé.
Le jeune homme ne peut pourtant pas envisager son avenir sans faire la guerre pour conquérir sa gloire....
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In charmant musikalischer Sprache, versehen mit Einsprengseln des Karlsruher Dialekts, erzählt Paul Oskar Höcker sechzehn prägende Jahre seines Lebens. Anekdotenreich und humorvoll beschreibt er, wie er als Kind das damals noch kleinstädtische und provinzielle Karlsruhe des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts wahrgenommen hat, wobei er als Zugezogener und Nicht-Zugehöriger des badischen Bürgertums vieles sah und durchschaute, was anderen, vergleichbaren...
37814) In the Silence of Decay
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New Mexico, 1979: After a career in the military as a CID detective, all James Pinter wants to do is drive his rig and mind his own damn business. But when his daughter, Molly, finds a dead woman behind a gas station and a disabled boy at her side, he's forced to reckon with his former life. The State Police record the death as an overdose-just another drug addict from the reservation-but James can't ignore the clues they're conveniently overlooking....
37815) Disappear With Me
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In 1910, the United Kingdom is in turmoil. King Edward dies after only nine years on the throne. The social class system that upheld British society for centuries is being chipped away by social, political, and economic unrest across the Empire. Amidst this backdrop, Reverend Leander Norris is accused of sodomy. After discovering his own self-worth and the meaning of unconditional love, Leander finds the courage to stand up for what he believes is...
37816) Age of Innocence
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Its 1969 and the sexual revolution is in full swing while a war rages in Vietnam. America is transitioning into a liberation movement while ROTC buildings go up in flames and white crosses burn in Mississippi. The Age of Aquarius is dawning, and young people are caught up in the vision of a utopian world of peace, free love, and sexual exploration.
But, for five friends, these nostalgic, exciting and idealistic visions will disappear one by one.
Madeline...
37817) The Methodist Man
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It's 1840, and Robert Terrill Rundle-sent from Cornwall, England, to Christianize the "wild" Indians of the Canadian plains-enters a harsh world. The whites cling to their isolated forts, while the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Plains Cree Alliance struggle for control of their hunting grounds and the diminishing buffalo herds. So sets the stage for The Methodist Man, a novel by Terrence Rundle West.
Rundle was one of four Methodists the Hudson Bay...
37818) A Snowlit Christmas Kiss
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He just lost his arm. She just found her backbone. Being stranded in a snowstorm may just help them both find love. Battle scarred and bone-weary, the prodigal Lord Redford finally journeys home after losing a lot more than his optimism while fighting Napoleon. Trudging through the snow he never expects to find an educated miss (digging a grave!) in the freezing night. Though still grappling with the loss of his arm, he offers assistance, more intrigued...
37819) Black Cypress
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A family gathering and a body on the beach keep the sleuthing couple busy in this tale.
Pat and Jean Abbott are in lovely Laguna Beach, invited to visit some distant relatives at the Black Cypress estate. But the invitation is more professional than personal, since Pat is a PI and family member Enid Ponsonby appears to be targeted by a killer. Whether her disagreeable personality has anything to do with it remains to be seen-but in the meanwhile,...
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Henri Bencolin mysteries volume 1
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.
With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat."
We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital.
In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar...