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Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by. This book will recount the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the slave traders. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Their...
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Publisher:
Thorndike Pr
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Book cover for "Chronicles of a Rochester Major Crimes Detect".
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Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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A longtime Rochester, New York, police detective tells the behind-the-scenes stories of four of his most memorable cases. Patrick Crough served more than twenty years as a Monroe County Major Crimes detective, where he investigated some of the region's most tragic crimes. They include horrifying acts, like that of a Valentine's Day killing rampage that left four people dead, as well as the case against Ed Laraby, the serial rapist who terrorized women...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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"The Pack" tells a story of five boys entering adolescence near the end of World War II. All face wrenching problems at home or from the war but find laughter and temporary salvation in their love for one another. Yet sexuality and the gradual death of the pack bring a time of exaltation, fear, and irretrievable loss. The story opens at night in a snowstorm as the five discover intruders in their much-prized hut. Inside are a man, who arouses their...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Chronicles of a Rochester Major Crimes Detective details the detective work of Patrick Crough. Patrick Crough served more than twenty years as a Monroe County Major Crimes detective, where he investigated some of the region's most tragic crimes. They include horrifying acts, like that of a Valentine's Day killing rampage that left four people dead, as well as the case against Ed Laraby, the serial rapist who terrorized women in Rochester and Monroe...
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Publisher:
Steven A. LaChance
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Known as the 1949 St. Louis Exorcism, the story of possessed boy was, immortalized in the groundbreaking novel and film, The Exorcist. Much has been, written about the case, but the truth has been shrouded in now. Join Steven A. LaChance, as he shares the shocking evidence for how a family's grief over the death of an aunt progressed into a full-blown demonic possession. While the conventional story is that the boy brought the demonic infestation...
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Publisher:
Sounds True
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The Challenge of Our Time: To Know Your Light and Wield Your True Power. If you don't understand the nature of evil, how can you be a force for good? As Caroline Myss teaches, "evil" and "good" are not simply abstract concepts-they are fundamental cosmic energies you can learn to feel in your body and soul. With The Courage to Confront Evil, Caroline Myss delivers one of her most powerful presentations yet: a sweeping training in the practice of standing...
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Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free. They embraced Christianity as the source of liberty, humanity, and justice in which God was on their side, Jesus was their friend, and the Holy Spirit was their guide to all truth. Their stories are...
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Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.

10. Dracula

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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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...

11. Spawn

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Publisher:
Image Comics
Language:
English
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Beginning The Satan Saga Wars! The Four-Part Story Chronicling The Final Fate Of Wanda Simmons Soul! This Story Will Forever Change The Way Spawn Will Live His Life! In the entire run of the Spawn comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself! Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize Wanda's soul. This story will...
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English
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4.7 stars
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In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
Book cover for "Beyond Good and Evil".
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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...

14. Night

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4 stars
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of 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 a man.

15. It

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Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
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Series:
Alex Cross volume 21
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses...
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English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...
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English
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A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began nineteen years ago. In beautiful Key West, she had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a baby on the way. Yet Nina's...

19. Rebecca

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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish...
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Series:
Wings of fire volume 07
Wings of fire volume 7
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family, unlike his sister Icicle, who has been raised to challenge IceWing queen--but now that Icicle has broken the truce and escaped from Jade Mountain Academy, so Winter, accompanied by his new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, embarks on his own quest to free his brother from the clutches of Queen Scarlet, and win the respect of his family.