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In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents are brought together when sudden tragedy strikes. The lives of these travelers and local residents is shared including their dreams, hopes and fears.
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The Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex. Dispossessed young nobleman Uhtred has no love for King Alfred. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack out of a wintry darkness to shatter the last English kingdom, Uhtred finds himself at Alfred's side.
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It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life...
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2007
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Calamity confronts two big life transitions when her father dies and she starts menopause.
What's in a name? A lot, according to Caribbean-born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now in her fifties, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: Her beloved father has just died, and she is starting menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her special gift for finding lost things. Suddenly she is...
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Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.
10) The fall
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Strain trilogy volume 2
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"A vampiric virus is spreading across the country. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather-head of the Center for Disease Control's team and the leader of a small group who has banded together to fight these bloodthirsty monsters-has finally identified the parasite causing the infection. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring...
11) Hard times
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2001.
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A dramatised version of Charles Dickens' tale of poverty and industry in Victorian society.