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1. Trace of evil

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Author:
Blanchard, Alice
Series:
Natalie Lockhart volume 1
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"There's something wicked in Burning Lake... Natalie Lockhart is a rookie detective in Burning Lake, New York, an isolated town known for its dark past. Tasked with uncovering the whereabouts of nine missing transients who have disappeared over the years, Natalie wrestles with the town's troubled history - and the scars left by her sister's unsolved murder years ago. Then Daisy Buckner, a beloved schoolteacher, is found dead on her kitchen floor,...

2. Lord of the flies: a novel

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Author:
Golding, William, 1911-1993
Series:
Penguin great books of the 20th century
Perigee Book
Penguin drop caps
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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4.2 stars
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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral...

3. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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Dover thrift editions
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Whole story
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Lexile measure:
970L
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English
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Dr. Jekyll is a kind and generous professional of the highest rank, and yet within him is a malevolent soul who desires the freedom to pursue his most barbarous conceits without consequence. This is not only the story of good and evil but of the hypocrisy through which one denies the other. Dr. Jekyll has developed a chemical potion which allows a separation to occur between the two natures present in everyone. By isolating the dichotomous qualities...

4. Oliver Twist

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
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940L
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English
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Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. His foray into a life of crime soon lands him into the arms of the law, when Oliver's fortunes finally appear to turn as the robbery victim becomes his benefactor. But Fagin isn't about to...

5. Beyond Good and Evil

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Author:
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Series:
Library of Alexandria
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English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author. According to translator...

6. Great expectations

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics volume 10
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development...

7. Anthem

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Author:
Rand, Ayn
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880L
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English
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Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...

8. The narrow road to the deep north

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Author:
Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
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English
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"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--

9. The flowers of evil

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Author:
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Series:
Oxford world's classics
New Directions paperbook volume 71
New York Review Books poets
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English
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry. Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Rimbaud to T.S. Eliot to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, with Georges Dillon, brought out an inspired rhymed version of the book in1936. Here it is reprinted, with the French originals, for the first time in many years. Millay and Dillon's versions are virtuosic in their handling of rhyme and meter, and their take on the Flowers...

10. Killing the SS: the hunt for the worst war criminals in history

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Author:
O'Reilly, Bill
Series:
Bill O'Reilly's Killing
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded

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11. The blood gospel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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5 stars
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In his first-ever collaboration, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel. An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the...

12. The bone labyrinth: a Sigma Force novel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 11
Sigma Force novel volume 10
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English
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"In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years of human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap. But will it mark a new chapter in our development. or our extinction? A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today. In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist...

13. A necessary evil

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Author:
Kava, Alex
Series:
Maggie O'Dell volume 5
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English
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When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killings. Maggie soon discovers a disturbing Internet game that's popular among victims of abuse by Catholic priests. With this first real lead in the investigation, she wonders if the group has turned cyberspace justice into reality. Then Maggie gets

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14. The ascent of money: a financial history of the world

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Ferguson, Niall
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Chronicles the evolution of finance from its origins in Mesopotamia to the modern world's most recent upheavals, covering such topics as the stock market bubble that prompted the French Revolution and the theories behind common investment vehicles. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil....

15. Moonlight mile

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Author:
Lehane, Dennis
Series:
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 6
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English
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....

16. The everlasting rose

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Author:
Clayton, Dhonielle
Series:
Belles volume 2
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English
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Camille, Edel, and Remy, aided by The Iron Ladies and backed by alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, race to outwit Sophia, find Princess Charlotte, and return her to Orléans.

17. The woman who smashed codes: a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies

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Fagone, Jason
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Traces the life of Elizebeth Smith, who met and married groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman and worked with him to discover and expose Nazi spy rings in South America by cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine.

18. Uncle Tom's cabin

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Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Series:
Oxford world's classics volume 23
Dover thrift editions
Enriched classics
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Lexile measure:
1050L
Language:
English
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Uncle Toms Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us, in scenes of great dramatic power, the human effects of a system in which slaves were property. When a Kentucky farmer falls on hard times he is forced to sell all his slaves, and among them is Uncle Tom, who's bought by a brutal plantation owner. The novel describes the horror of...

19. The Genealogy of Morals

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Author:
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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English
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"Human history would be noting but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak." The Genealogy of Morals is a collection of essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most interesting philosophers of the 19th century. His three interrelated treatises expand and follow through on concepts Nietzsche sketched out in Beyond Good and Evil. Important works on ethics and politics, the essays contain the author's "thoughts on the origin...

20. Spawn

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Author:
McFarlane, Todd
Publisher:
Image Comics
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"War To 300," Part Two Last Issue Before Spawn 300! Witness the debut of Todd McFarlane's newest creation The Rapture! Heaven's answer to the mythic Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, these eternal warriors are tasked with eliminating the plague called humanity from the face of the Earth. The War To 300 rages! Next month, new allegiances will form, new enemies will rise, and history will be made! Hollywood News! Soon to be a major motion picture from...
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