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"Donna Leon's latest New York Times bestseller "is one of her best" (Booklist, starred review) Twenty years ago Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti and his creator, Donna Leon, first introduced readers to the delights-and dangers-of Venice. Now they have millions of devoted fans. In Drawing Conclusions, a young woman arrives home and senses that all is not right in the apartment below. When she investigates, she finds her neighbor lying lifeless on...
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In 2016, Rob Delaney's one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob's wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob's fame--thanks to his role as co-creator and co-star of the hit series...
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Life isn't going so well for ex-actress Portia Redvers, in her new role as a temporary chef to the rich and snooty. Not only has her current employer, the Dowager Duchess of Cauldron-the late Duke's second wife-been pushed to her death down Cauldron Manor's dungeon steps, but the senior investigating officer, DI James McCulloch, is the man she lost her heart to after he arrested her on suspicion of murder in a previous investigation. Portia never...
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A psychographed work from 1911, but totally current thanks to the vigorous imagination of the author. A magician full of powers travels through different epochs in time, arriving at a not-too-distant future with news that will affect the planet Earth as a whole. Then, the characters become aware of the impending reality."For many days the temperature had become less and less pleasant. It was heavy, dense and saturated with a caustic aroma that made...
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The Death of the Gods (1895) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth century humanity. The Death of the Gods the first work in the trilogy, is followed by Resurrection of the Gods (1900) and Peter and Alexis (1904). Well received internationally,...
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"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
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Benjamin Chriton has been traveling to other worlds in secret, on his own, for years, through a wormhole technology that he created called the 'space-stream'. Through the aid of an 'exo-suit', an advanced piece of armor technology that he has upgraded with alien technology, Benjamin is able to travel, and adaptively survive regardless of the alien environment on the other side.
Now, for the first time, his son, Derek Chriton will aid him in his travels,...
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An epic account of how the Royal Navy tracked down, cornered, and sank one of the most fearsome German warships of the Second World War.
The Scharnhorst was a state-of-the-art capital ship of Nazi Germany's navy. Launched in 1936 she had terrorized Allied shipping since the beginning of the war, famously destroying the aircraft destroyer HMS Glorious in June 1940. Since then, she had made numerous sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant...
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People thought him a saint. He wasn't. Sam Wilkinson, a counsellor, known for his listening skills and empathy, is found murdered in his London flat. Why would anyone kill a man whose job was to make people feel better about themselves? Perhaps he knew too much about one of his clients? DI Benedict Paige is called to investigate. He soon realises that Wilkinson was not the saint his clients thought him to be. Indeed, there was something deeply disturbing...
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This thoughtful spy novel cum love story is set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. A group of young pro-independence dissidents devise an elaborate scheme for smuggling copies of KGB files out of the country, and their fates become entangled, through family and romantic ties, with the security services never far behind them.
Through multiple viewpoints the author evokes the curious...
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They came out of nowhere to attack America's towns and suburbs: Giant mutant crabs and other creatures, grown to enormous size due to nuclear radiation and bent on destroying the American way of life. But while many fall to the monster attacks, an advertising executive finds the unexpected strength to survive and fight back for the sake of his family...
This is a short story of 5300 words or approximately 20 print pages.
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"After the sudden death of a beloved patriarch who promised eternal life to his followers, a topsy-turvy society attempts to reconcile the deluded teachings of their late leader with the harsh reality he left behind"--Provided by publisher.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 20
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Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
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Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies.
The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation," All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and...
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In the 1980s, physicists at a lab in the Soviet Union find traces of strange data in the cosmic background radiation. Because powerful forces in the military believe these findings can be turned into a weapon for use in the cold war, the information gleaned by the physicists is kept under strictest secrecy.
The scientists are limited to primitive 1980s' technology, but what they find has roots in much, much older times. They finally try an experiment...
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At the moment, the two party system seems to be alive and well. But, not so fast! Given partisan stiffness, one might say otherwise. This writing presents the lead into the death of the two party system ...and the likely aftermath of it as well. Uniquely sequenced and presented with common conditions universal to all families, the author presents both common ...and uncommon sense. His futuristic chapters show controversial thinking where economics...
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While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of "the animal" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach...
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