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"The village behind the great gates is a place filled with fear as outside these gates reside the monsters and giants of the stories he heard of since he was a boy. When Vren, confiding in his family about his ability to do things with his mind, is outcast from his family and village as one of the shadowed, people with extraordinary powers, he expects to die. Lost and confused about who or what he is, Vren finds is something altogether different:...
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"Bobby West is on the edge. As chief financial officer for a Miami holding company and a CIA front, he has overleveraged his business in the go-go 1980s financial culture. He turns to a deal-with-the-devil money laundering operation with a local gangster, Alexander French--a deal which quickly goes south when $3 million goes missing. Now Mr. French, a group of Cuban exiles, and an Israeli smuggler named Adriana Chekhov are all after Bobby West to...
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Everyman's library volume 398
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"In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for his participation in a utopian socialist discussion group. The account he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, was the first book to reveal life inside the Russian penal system. The book not only brought him fame but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead)...
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The celebrated Uruguayan writer relays the personal pain and extensive social damage brought on by authoritarian repression and exile. Through a novel voicing the profound disruptions to human relations under a regime of military dictators, Benedetti, an exile himself, denounces the political authorities and empowers the people with a passionate hope for their country and the message that spring never fails to follow even the most oppressive of winters....
71) Dragon in exile
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Liaden universe novels volume 18
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Star-trading Clan Korva, known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as "the Dragon", has been convicted of crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the Council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment,...
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In the peaceable, river-side village of Milltown, Secretary Ku has fallen into disgrace. It has been officially proven that he is not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. Refusing to renounce his high status, he--along with his teenage son--keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. Then one day a feral...
73) Banitka: powieść
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W roku Pańskim 1894 zostałem wyjęty spod prawa. W dniu tańca weselnego Ada czuje się szczęśliwa. Uwielbia swojego barczystego, nieśmiałego męża i pracę jako praktykantka położnej. Ale jej szczęście nie będzie trwało długo. Obowiązkiem każdej kobiety jest mieć dziecko, aby zastąpić te, które zginęły podczas Wielkiej Grypy. A po roku małżeństwa i bez ciąży, w mieście, w którym bezpłodne kobiety są wieszane jako...
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Library of America volume 354
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Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to Esther, Roger's much younger wife, that takes her away...
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Firewall trilogy volume 3
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"Taimin and Selena have destroyed the firewall that once trapped them in their dangerous wasteland. But with their hard-fought freedom now comes a greater threat. Outside the wasteland, under the same two scorching suns, live the bonded. This powerful ancient enemy will unleash a destructive war on the wasteland's inhabitants, and Taimin knows it's a fight they cannot win. When Zorn comes under attack, Selena uses all her power as a mystic to protect...
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The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.
The Citadel of Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known...
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Lady Diviner volume 1
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"Diamonds, Death, and Devonshire tea ... in a magical Regency England... Miss Elinor Avely's proper upbringing cannot prepare her for the tiny, spinster vampire who crashes into her sitting room and demands to be fed with a sheep. Elinor already has enough troubles without having to catch ruminants. First, her secret gift for divining jewels has landed her in scandal, exiling her from London society. Second, a nobleman of dubious repute wants her...
78) The last warrior
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Shifters unbound novel volume 13
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Rhianne, daughter of the powerful Lady Aisling, is in a jam. She's been imprisoned by an ambitious Fae lord, who is abetted by Rhianne's ruthless and cruel father. Her prison door is shattered by an incredibly powerful creature, who in a flash settles into the guise of a handsome man with a warm smile. He tells her his name is Ben and that he's been sent to be her guide and a protector. Ben, the last of a warrior race destroyed by the Fae, has lived...
79) Isolde
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"No, I'm no queen, she repeated. In fact, I'm very modern. Why do you look at me like that? Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Buick and ability to pay for dinner and champagne. Disaffected and restless, Liza, her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei enjoy...
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"Gordon Pinner es un joven periodista destinado en París en 1930. Aunque consciente de las injusticias cometidas por los bolcheviques tras la caída del imperio de los zares, Pinner es también un idealista que alberga una honda simpatía por la Revolución y que no dudará en infiltrarse en la comunidad de rusos exiliados en la capital francesa cuando sus camaradas del servicio secreto soviético se lo pidan. De la mano de una hermosa y enigmática...
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