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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 4
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Minotaur Books
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2023.
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"From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with...
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Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants to deal with on her return to work is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents. The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a sixties' child star in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who lives in an isolated farmhouse. Is she putting on an act and wasting police time, or is someone really trying to frighten...
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Meet the mysterious Gaston Dembélé, a handsome gentleman of means. He wears a mask, one which hides his true identity and the memories of a grotesque deformity.. The man harbors a dark and deadly secretDiscover what he hides and travel through a looking glass of time. Can love transcend time? Miranda Owens is about to find out.In the tradition of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' journey through time and experience a romance that will take your breath...
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"How could any successful, famous person who is rolling in money and who is surrounded by adoring fans be depressed? Happiness comes from what happens to us, and if good things are happening, we should be happy. So why the depression? That is the question that they and we ask ourselves. Why?" The World Health Organization says that 350,000,000 people suffer from depression. God provides answers as to why and how to stop this horrid trend. We have...
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The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their own words, soldiers, sailors and airmen now aged between 95 and 101 vividly recount the experiences that they endured more than seventy-five years ago. This is oral history at its best, from officers and men of 14th Army, which comprised some 100,000 British and other Commonwealth personnel, 340,000 from...
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Sidney St. James wrote "The Final Curtain Call," a renowned detective novel that exemplifies the locked-room mystery subgenre in detective fiction. In these stories, a crime, typically a murder, occurs under seemingly impossible circumstances.The story unfolds in the gloomy, fog-laden Oak Hill area of Austin's West End. It begins with the shocking discovery of Ronald D. Parks' gruesome murder. Someone has cut his throat in his room, which was locked...
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What do our boys have in store for us this time around?Through pain, attempted suicide, addiction and loss their bond never faltered. They've watched other bands come and go; some weren't cut out for life on the road. Others simply…disappeared.But they climbed their way to the top, one painstaking grip at a time. So, what's up next for our boys?Book 5, After the Final Curtain is the fifth and final installment in the Social Sinners series.
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Spectacular Spider-Man volume 6
Publisher
Diamond [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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You know her name. You know the legend. A beautiful vampire from a strange land who has sworn to save us all from the forces of Chaos. She is...Vampirella! The final act of Dynamite's first ongoing Vampirella series is collected in this volume! What begins in the shadowy jungles of a voodoo island empire will reach its astonishing conclusion in Hell itself! Everyone's favorite dark heroine will be pushed to the breaking point as her sanctuary is threatened,...
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After decades of theatrical ventures and performing together, 1957 would be the last time Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh would work together, with a European tour and London season of Shakespeare's seldom-performed Titus Andronicus.
Strangely, not much has been written about one of the most prestigious touring theatre productions of all time, which visited six European capitals and became the first British Shakespearean company to perform beyond...
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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English
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Murdoch and the gang attend a play starring John Brackenreid, but when one of the actresses is shot onstage in front of the audience, the theatre becomes a crime scene, and all the actors become suspects.
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Homicide Hills volume 4
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Deutsch
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An amateur actor is shot dead on stage.
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Librarians volume 10
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English
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The Librarians discover that Prospero's renewed magic is wreaking havoc with the technology of the world. He is recreating an idyllic forest utopia. In order to stop him, Flynn and Baird must travel back to 1611, while the rest of the team battles Prospero in the present. Little do they realize that they can only defeat Prospero in each time by finding a way to work together.
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For half a century Everald Compton has been an active and passionate advocate for Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD), campaigning for the right to make a choice as to whether or not people may end their lives this way.
Now Everald has written a fascinating novel that tells the story of four very different people facing death, and within each he finds the humane and very human story of coming to terms with the end of one's life.
Three practice...
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(Just entered the short book description again. I may put together a longer version at some point. I had to put something in this box to be able to continue with the survey.)
What if a person was walking the Earth who knew the answers to the greatest mysteries of life and the Universe?
What if everyone on the planet suddenly needed that person?
What if that person was a six year old girl?
Wonder of the Waves is the story of Hannah Blake, a child...
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The harrowing, bone-crunching finale! Hiroaki Samura's long-running manga series ends with a massive, 280-page volume filled with action and suspense. Who will survive? Disgraced Edo officer Habaki faces the devious Anotsu in a decisive showdown, while Manga, Rin, and only a few others witness the end of an era. Rin's quest concludes with a violent bang--then things get weirder! Hiroaki Samura's final volume overflows with heartbreak and bloodshed!...
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"A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed...
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"Being a priest is often compared to being a shepherd. People do, from time to time, need a poke here or a prod there. But mostly, they need to know someone is watching out for them. Rev. William Billow has been that gentle guiding hand for multiple communities across the nation, but he is best known for his services in Washington, DC, from St. Albans School to Washington National Cathedral. He practices 'the ministry of presence, ' witnessing and...
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"After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry-- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment...
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