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Book cover for "The strange case of Jane O".
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
Description:
"A woman born with perfect memory suddenly develops a series of eerie psychological symptoms--blackouts, hallucinations, premonitions, an inexplicable sense of dread. It is the first year after her child is born, and she and her untraditional psychiatrist struggle to solve the mystery of what is happening to Jane, to her mind. Then Jane suddenly goes missing and is found a day later lying unconscious in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, with no memory of...
Book cover for "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories".
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970L
Language:
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...
Book cover for "The graphic canon. Volume 2".
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Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
Book cover for "Paradise, WV".
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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"The teenage children of a convicted serial killer try to prove his innocence when a true-crime podcast reinvigorates interest in the case. Their fate intersects with cults, killers, cops, and convicts on the backroads of West Virginia in one brutal, unforgettable crash"-- In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known...
Book cover for "How Literatures Begin".
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Joel B. Lande is assistant professor of German at Princeton University and the author of Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature. Denis Feeney is the Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His books include Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature. A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to...
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English
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"In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated series that began with self-published eBook phenomenon Angel Killer, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared. With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the...
Book cover for "The last séance".
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat--be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales. The Last Séance gathers twenty stories, some featuring Christie's beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in...