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Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
2. Dracula
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"--
"By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...
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An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award-winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," called the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement....
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Thomas Nelson
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English
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"Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still...
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Thomas Nelson
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DOES THE GOVERNMENT EXIST TO SERVE US OR TO MASTER US? If the government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality? The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. Within the pages of It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government...
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Marvel
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2021
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English
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Logan has begun to experience memories of time spent serving in the Canadian army during World War II. When he digs deeper he discovers that he was held as a prisoner of war at a concentration camp, and experimented on by a ruthless Nazi scientist determined to unlock the secrets of Logan's mutant healing properties. What Logan doesn't know is that the scientist is still at large, his thirst for immortality unquenched by time. Now that he knows Logan...
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Lynn Burke
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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An obsessive, kinky devil. A woman broken by her past. One twisted plan to possess … and heal. Hacking is my specialty, extortion my means of keeping the Vicious Vipers MC in the money. I'm a devil who thrives on forcing sinners to atone for their corrupt ways since the one who damaged my soul escaped punishment. When a battered, too-young woman shows up at our club searching for sanctuary, finding a way through her walls becomes my obsession. She...
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AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Turf. Space. Territory. For thousands of years its been worth fighting for, sometimes at all costs. Today, real estate remains one of the most coveted investment targets, and combat tactics are often necessary for financial victory. Real estate investing is financial, not military warfare. In the investment battlefields winners build war chests through territorial expansion. Losers retreat, surrendering land holdings. Military battles and real estate...
10. The Traveller
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Space Monkey Creations
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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It's not every day you witness someone's brains blown out over the scorching desert sand, much less survive a meteorite strike. This day has included both.The media manipulates, politicians lie, banks steal and the world is not what you've been taught to believe it is by those in power, the education system or even your parents. We were once endless possibilities, now we are the property of limited liability companies. And nobody has bothered to inform...
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Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
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2024
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English
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"The Tarzan Collection - Volume III" collects the seventh, eighth and ninth novels from the enormously popular twenty-four volume Tarzan series of novels by adventure fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs into one volume. This collection contains "Tarzan the Untamed," "Tarzan the Terrible" and "Tarzan and the Golden Lion." In the first of these tales, we find that Tarzan has suffered a great loss: Tarzan's jungle plantation - attacked by German troops...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Do you, like me, think to yourself that something is going wrong in our world, that things are changing, and not for the better? At my age I notice profound changes in generations, a lack of self-discipline, and not taking the initiative to get up off their arses and put their ideas into action. We humans are prone to what is known as getting in a rut. We are inherently lazy and lack confidence. Social media, Facebook, Twitter etc. and virtual games...
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Naughty Literati
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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A collection of BESTSELLING PARANORMAL STORIESWritten by the Naughty Literati™Belle Scarlett, Berengaria Brown, Katherine Kingston, and Nicole Austin.Contents: HOW TO BLACKMAIL A VAMPIREBelle ScarlettIn the spring, a vampire's fancy turns to the blood lust mating hunt. A pretty, human blackmailer becomes the object of his thirst, but she's not into vampires. Yet.MISSING PIXIEKatherine KingstonIt started with an escaped pixie and then Lauren's involvement...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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The darkest of secrets sometimes linger for a lifetime. When they are finally exposed they can be like the discovery of an ancient tomb, perhaps better left alone, although never ignored. Aristotle Mercury's father knew too much, so he was silenced. With the help of his friends in the Russian mob, Aristotle's Uncle Jacob is able to move in and take over as the new head of the now successful factory that his own brother created. The year is 1968. As...
15. The Untold Sin
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BookBaby
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2014
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English
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Although nearly three decades have passed since Melvin Price returned from Vietnam, he is still haunted by dreams of the war, of his friends dying, of the people he'd killed. Worse, though, are the memories of his return. The country was in a turmoil so severe that somehow the ire turned on the servicemen. Never in America's history had veterans been treated so poorly. When a band of old hippies protest the conflict in Iran, Mel declares his own war....
16. Trust and Safety
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Verve Books
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A wry yet tenderhearted novel about a couple who attempt to buy their way into a 'wild and precious' existence in the Hudson Valley, where they become entangled with a queer couple living the dream analog life. Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate - one full of beauty and simplicity. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, her tech-bro husband, Jordan, acquiesces...
17. His Property
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Nicole Cypher
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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I've never been one for rules. Being a soldier for the Gruco Crime Family has done more for me than I can fully express. It's given me purpose, a home, and above all else, an outlet for my more sinister desires. But for as much as the familia gives, the rules they put in place to tame me take away. For years, I've used my position to feed my demons, but they've never been fully satiated. I never knew just how starved I was until I meet the curly-haired...