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It's the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30-year-old aspiring writer, has left New York City for a job teaching tennis in Munich. Aside from private lessons, he coaches the Maccabi Club men's league team, a motley group of neurotics whose eccentricities seem exacerbated by their situation as Jews living in Germany. They have made fortunes in postwar Germany but are hounded daily by the ghosts of the past...
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Star Wars The High Republic volume 1
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A new chapter begins! One hundred and fifty years before the fall of Starlight, another beacon burns bright in the galaxy - a beacon of faith and spirituality. Jedha. The Pilgrim Moon. The Kyber Heart. But tensions are rising in the holy city, and dark days are to come. Jedi Vildar Mac, safe and secure in who he is and what he could be, arrives just as Jedha's fragile peace begins to crumble. With one Jedi lying dead in an ancient shrine, another...
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George Mueller novels volume 2
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"Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958--the last months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista--to look into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebel forces fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Mueller knew Graham as an undergraduate and later they were colleagues in Berlin fighting the Soviet NKVD. Under the guise of their long acquaintance Mueller is recruited...
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It is the summer of 1982, just before the fall. The political campaign ad of its Morning in America has not yet aired, but the present era of cultural hedonism has already dawned. Against this backdrop, Edward Bennett is the All-American son of a mother who emigrated from Italy and a first-generation Italian American father. Edward has it all: good looks, pedigree, and the financial fruits of his father's business empire. As he readies for his junior...
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the melancholia exists inside us all.
the melancholia is the fog in your mind, the dizziness before the fall.
the melancholia calls us by name.
a far cry from Heaven and Hell just the same.
the melancholia is isolation, depression, loneliness, grief. the absence of feeling yet tears still slide down your cheeks.
once you've entered the melancholia, there is no escape.
the darkness will whisper sweet nothings against the skin of your nape.
the...
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What if the best way to understand good is to understand evil? What if the best way to understand light, is to understand darkness? What if you could read the Bible from the vantage point of The King of Darkness himself? Where did it all begin? Who was Satan before the fall, and what events led up to him becoming evil? Why and when did he fall from Heaven? Author J K Nittler wants to take you through a mystical journey back in time, to show...
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In recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of it has become known. Domestic abuse and violence is now of high concern to most churches because it is evident that domestic abuse figures are much the same in our churches, and possibly higher in evangelical churches where the headship of men and the submission of women is made the God-given ideal. In this book, Kevin Giles surveys competently...
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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, little was known about the crimes that were committed behind the iron curtain. The law enforcement did their best to keep the information from the western media and paint a picture of a perfect society where murder do not happen. However, one serial killer managed to keep thousands of people on their toes back in 1980s and 1990s. He was known as the Fisher or Boa, and...
90) Scrublands
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Martin Scarsden novels volume 1
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
91) Drawn Blades
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Once one of the world's greatest assassins, Aral Kingslayer has finally reclaimed his swords and his soul. But the forces that destroyed his patron Namara twelve years ago are still there, waiting, and his past as a Blade is never more than a shadow's breadth away. In the days before the fall of his goddess, only one other rivaled Aral's skills, Siri the Mythkillera woman who ruthlessly earned the title First Blade. As a friend, Aral owes her his...
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Collects Legion of X (2022) #6-10, X-Men: Before the Fall - Sons of X (2023) #1. When Judgment Day arrives, Legion is on the Celestial's chopping block! Is David Haller a hero, or will he succumb to his madness just as everyone predicts? Then, something savage is afoot! Nightcrawler develops some very demonic physical features - and he's not the only one. Goodbye, Warren Worthington III - and hello, murderous winged monster! Meanwhile, Banshee has...
93) Entanglement
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Teodor Szacki mysteries volume 1
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The morning after a group psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henry Talek is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye.P ublic prosecutor Teodor Szacki, world-weary, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui, feels that life has passed him by. But this case changes everything. Because of it he meets Monika Grzelka, a young journalist whose charms prove difficult to resist, and he discovers the frightening power of certain...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: In “Three Days in Moscow” (2018), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-writer Catherine Whitney tell a story of patriotism, courage, and ambition, about a man who went to the full extent for the sake of his nation, without ever compromising democracy.
This political biography focuses on President Ronald Reagan's agenda during his final years in office, before the fall...
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The Ohio River has nurtured Jeffersonville. The city's prime location, a bend in the river before the Falls of the Ohio, fostered its development into a regional hub of transportation and commerce. From time to time, however, the river lashes out at those who inhabit its shores. The frigid waters of winter and early spring sometimes swallow the city, leaving mud, disease, and devastation in their wake. The more than two hundred images featured in...
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Pierre Chambrun mystery novels volume 5
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A Nazi's widow comes to the Beaumont Hotel with death in her entourage As befits the manager of New York's finest hotel, Pierre Chambrun has certain standards for his guests at the Beaumont. Were it not for the pleading of the hotel's owner, no amount of money could persuade him to allow the Baroness Charmian Zetterstrom a room. She is the stunning young widow of a Nazi war criminal; her husband was an infamous sadist who escaped before the fall of...
97) Aftershock
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Pride comes before the fall.
DSV, the elite secret service tasked with fighting Daedalus, the descendants of the Nazis, are on the run. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, they are pursued not just by their mortal enemies, but the combined might of world government, as global public enemies number one.
Led by special operative Ethan Munroe, the broken and bruised remnants of the once brilliant task force must evade capture across the world in...
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Maybe you've heard of Pope John Paul II's theology of the body and wondered, vaguely, what it's all about. Maybe you've never heard of it until now and are asking, theology of the what? Maybe you're already familiar with the basics and are ready to incorporate this teaching on sex, love and marriage into your own life. Whatever your level of understanding, you're probably ready for some good news about sex in a culture littered with the bad news of...
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The path from a refugee's child to a chairman of the board of a large company leads the author to a variety of people and unforgettable experiences. Hansjuergen Nelde experiences multiple political systems: born in national socialism, he grows up in socialism and is imprinted by the later GDR. To live and work in socialism for 40 years means adaptation to avoid being left behind. The author experiences the German unification as a managing director...
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This book presents an in-depth view of the extraordinary revisionist language Shakespeare gives to his most royal of all kings, from the time Richard falls dramatically out of favor with God. Readers will find this book most useful in seeking to disentangle the plays notoriously elaborate verbal presentation, but what the author brings out in connection with Richards approach to language should move performers themselves to seek to present in future...