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With Kuklo's fate unknown, Sharle has to take matters into her own hands by tracking down the reclusive Angel, inventor of the Device that could one day be the difference between survival or extinction at the hands of the Titans. But Angel is no longer the same man he once was, and the journey to reach him will be a perilous one, to say nothing of actually enlisting his help...
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Zach was once the Order of Ancients' most feared warrior, beating back the hounds of hell to protect the unsuspecting human race. But since he left the Order ten years ago, he's been living as a mortal . . . until now. The gates of the underworld are breaking open, and Zach is needed in the fight once again. But before he can answer his summons, there's one person he refuses to leave behind. Shanna may think Zach has a screw loose, spouting all this...
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An expanded edition of Kinoglasnost that examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the yeas of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.
In Before the Fall, Anna Lawton shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a commentary on the dramatic changes that marked the beginning of democracy in Russia.
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24) Before the fall
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MPI Home Video
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2009
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Español
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As a meteorite heads toward Earth, ensuring its destruction, a handyman in a Spanish village tries to protect his family from Armageddon-induced lawlessness and violence.
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"In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the six children who were born in the Shell. Though he possesses birth defects common to the Six, including sterility, Pete is resolved to lead humanity to a new beginning. However, as one by one the adults of...
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One of the most remarkably inventive voices of his generation, author Will Self delivers a new and stunning work of fiction. In Walking to Hollywood, a British writer named Will Self goes on a quest through L. A. freeways and eroding English cliffs, skewering celebrity as he attempts to solve a crime: who killed the movies. When Will reconnects with his childhood friend, the world suddenly seems disproportionate. Sherman Oaks, scarcely three feet...
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Zeus doesn't ask for much. Just for Hermes to deliver his messages, run his errands, obey his every command and, oh yeah, not to interfere with the Satyroi as they quest to rescue a close friend and retrieve a mystical instrument called the syrinx from Dionysus. So Hermes shouldn't be surprised when Artemis calls in a favor and it involves something Zeus has expressly forbidden him from doing. Multiple times. Within the past forty-eight hours alone....
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Family reunions suck.
When the thing that birthed her drags Gesa back to the gryphon clan using her sister’s illness as bait, Gesa and her harem find themselves breaking out of an asylum and fleeing assassins—without really knowing who the creeps are even targeting. After all, there are so many options to choose from on the list of people who want Gesa or her lovers dead.
But the trouble doesn’t stop when she leaves clan lands. Oisin’s been...
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What if everything you knew about yourself and the world was a lie?Would you choose to live up to the lies they fed you?Or think for yourself?How could a simple birthday cause so much chaos?It wasn't supposed to be any different than the previous years, but 30 was going to be more than just a number to those that were chosen.Another year older, another year wiser...June 6th 2016 would change everything for them, but it would also signal the end of...
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A love forbidden by family. A feud spanning generations.
A woman still yearning for freedom.
Twenty years after she was, driven away from her family and the only man she ever truly loved, Jo Devereux has returned to the small Irish village where she grew up. And, this time, she wants answers.
What happened to her family during the Irish Civil War? Did her great-uncle's best friend really shoot him dead? And, what did this "war of the brothers" mean...
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Kodansha
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2014
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"Cut alive from his mother's womb afer she had been eaten by a rampaging Titan, Kuklo has spent his entire life in chains as a freakish curiosity and a feared abomination. Eventually the boy they call the "Titan's son" finds hemself sold to wealthy merchant Dario Inocencio as a plaything for his cruel and ambitious son Xavi. Kuklo knows nothing but abuse and neglect but help may come from the most unexpected place" -- p. [4] of cover.
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We've all heard about Dementia, and quite possibly, have even been touched personally by this disease. But when I researched content for this endeavor, Dementia's voice foretold of a terrifying and nameless world, one in which identities, relationships, and memories were hollowed from the inside out. It's a world in which every frame of life smoldered until the ashes fell, leaving a land so barren that the final destination was unmistakable. It was...
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In this book, first-time author Abhishek Mukherjee provides us with a fresh take on romance and relationships. The book unfolds as the protagonist tries to break free from her mediocre life and is ready to trade her life for a deal on her dreams. But she soon finds out that everything is not as it looks like when she starts living with her rescuer and discovers the mighty walls of the mansion whispering secrets about her rescuers political family....
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August 1914: as war breaks out across Europe, German student Franz Becker rushes to enlist. He is nineteen and the war appears to offer adventure and the chance to escape from his safe, dull life. Most of the volunteers are filled with enthusiasm, but Franz's closest friend, Karl von Leussow, is appalled by the conflict.Karl's family has provided the Prussian Army with officers for generations and he knows that war is brutal and bloody. But he too...
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Great Courses volume 31
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In just four years, the greatest empire the ancient world had ever seen fell - and all at the hands of Alexander the Great. How did this happen? Chart the collapse of the Persian Empire in this piercing examination of the Macedonian leader's military campaign to conquer the ancient world.