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La casa de su abuela llevó a Florence a encontrar lo que a ella se le ocultaba desde que era una niña, pero esto no fue suficiente, tenía que iniciar una larga búsqueda, enfrentarse a situaciones que ella no conocía, algunas de ellas adversas, otras difíciles y peligrosas, pero otras emocionantes y felices. ¿Será suficiente la valentía, la gran esperanza y fuerza de voluntad de Florence para llegar a conocer lo que se le había ocultado?
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This is Craig Lock's first novel. A short novel set in "the beloved country". A passionate and heart-breaking tale of South Africa, a true story of the bad old days, but with the hope of the new. THE END OF THE LINE "The End Of The Line" could be described as a "faction", a fiction with a serious factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore moving. It gives yet another highly individual portrait of that troubled land, and it does so through a believable...
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April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married Indiana gas magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s friend, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite,...
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Quiconque est assez vieux pour se souvenir de l'ère du Verseau, des films drive-in et de la télévision en réseau devrait apprécier, non, de faire cette « fouille » Échapper à l'innocence: une histoire d'éveil. Rencontrez David Justin, un jeune catholique italien, aux prises avec des problèmes de taille, qui tente désespérément d'échapper aux liens de la répression sexuelle et de l'innocence adolescente qui le retiennent captif dans...
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The moving portrait of a woman stranded in her lonely fame Franny Fuller, blond, buxom, and beguiling, is the sort of woman who harnesses a power that can enthrall a nation. The legendary movie star has captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and columnist Mary Maguire, who is writing her biography. But just who is the human within the celebrity? This is the story of how Fanny Marker from Utica, New York, was transformed into Franny Fuller-a...
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"Why am I still crying over the past? Am I truly saved, delivered, and healed? Why am I allowing the enemy to take my past and bring it into my today?" For many years, these questions regurgitated each time someone or something pushed me to focus on my past.Come with me on a journey through my past. I want to share my story in hopes that my past situations and mistakes will comfort you through any past or current situation in your life. In time, God...
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Award-winning novel ***** One of the best modern Czech novels *****Annotation:The autobiographical hero of the novel embarks on a promising career in the not-so-moral world of door-to-door sales. Success seems easy and tempting, but halfway through becoming the perfect "scumbag" the young man finds he has no stomach for this world and begins to look for another life. He starts working as an autopsy photographer. The novel is both a kind of personal...
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"Lucrezia Borgia as a living, feeling woman rather than just another bodice waiting to be ripped . . . an evident tribute . . . to its much maligned heroine." -New York Times
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married-one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's...
29) Copier Samurai
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The new blade, one of a sharp twin pair, slices skin and lets blood out. There's hardly even a sting at first, before the foamy shaving cream turns pink, then red, and here's the sting, for real now, as if let loose by blood. Foam redder still. It's a pretty deep cut."Damn."His right hand passes the razor to his left then dives into a blue box of paper napkins by the basin and brings one-two actually, they tend to cling together-out. He presses them...
30) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
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July 6, 1961What I dislike the most about electric shock is the smell. That, and the little sound it makes which I didn't hear at first. What with the humming of the machine, the doctors talking, and the patient moaning and even screaming sometimes, it was hard to hear, but once I did, once I did hear this sound, distinct from all the other sounds in the room, now I hear it all the time, I can't stop hearing it.What this sound is, is a tiny sizzle-as...
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Title: "Frontier Echoes: James Wesley Tiwater"In the rich tapestry of family history, the legacy of James Wesley Tiwater unfolds like a captivating novel in "Frontier Echoes." Penned with the imaginative spirit inspired by his own legendary tales, this narrative delves into the life of a man whose journey traverses the vast landscapes of the West, leaving behind a trail of mystery, resilience, and untold stories.Embarking on this literary odyssey,...
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Dream West is the New York Times bestselling fictional account of famed North America explorer John Charles Fremont, by David Nevin.
Upon its release over twenty years ago, Dream West was deemed a classic novel of the American West by both critics and the reading public. Telling the amazing true story of America's famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, it quickly found its way onto the New York...
34) Beast
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When the rules of love were written, one of them stated: "Once you put a face to the hunger of your heart, your heart cannot let go."Unaware of this rule, for love had never confided in me, I recently put a face to my heart's hunger, and this was an unwise thing to do; for with the fresh sting of hope in its nostrils, its hunger grew exponentially and fast, and soon engulfed everything: my thoughts, my dreams, my room, my day, the streets, the earth,...
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This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story...
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Desde niña tuve predilección por la literatura, por las artes en general. Gustaba de los libros, de los creadores que se destacaban en cualquier manifestación, José Ramón Mariscal Grandales fue uno de ellos.Lo admiré porque además de escuchar los criterios que sobre él se emitían, pude conocerlo personalmente.Casi todo lo decía en versos.Logré contar con su libro Lira Viajera, disfrutaba leerlo.Conocer a Mariscal fue un regalo. Pude saber...
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The lives of four Americans born between the world wars are intertwined to devastating effect in this gripping novel from one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed authors. Beautiful, sad Ellen Beniger; her younger brother, Tom, a scholar unhappily moonlighting as a TV writer; the athletic amorist Guy Cinturon; and tough little Eddie Bissle, ex-infantryman and Ellen's secret lover, struggle to come to grips with the limits of their futures...
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"The Dark Joy of Despair" is a captivating and thought-provoking collection of diverse poems. With its seamless blend of genres, this captivating poetry collection by Stephen Alexander North promises to both thrill and challenge readers. Transcend conventional storytelling boundaries with verse rather than prose, featuring the story poem 'The Revenant and the Bell'.Read now and become enveloped in The Dark Joy of Despair. Florida Man Writes!
39) Bellosguardo
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Enter an opulent world that no longer exists. Stretching from Europe to North Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, Bellosguardo: The Lives of Anna & Huguette Clark is based on a true story. It is a novel of a remarkable American family from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Enabled by one of the richest men of the Gilded Age, the mother-daughter duo lived according to the values and traditions of Old Money, pursuing luxurious privacy and...
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Confronted by his own mortality, Ben Richards must decide how he will spend his time before he shuffles off this mortal coil. He must deal with the big questions of faith and the afterlife, as well as the less important questions of 'Call of Duty' versus 'Halo'. All the while trying to tick things off from his Bucket List.They say it's not the destination, but the journey that is important - this is his journey.
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