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2) Life Goes On
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From total happiness to total loss is a hard journey and one Neil is not sure he will ever get over. Brought back into action because of the real threat of the old allies waging war. He needs to act as an assassin. Not a role he is comfortable playing. Spies, drug cartel overlords, power-hungry politicians. It is not possible or is it? Will he take this last job? Can a man brought down by grief and loss rise again to save the world for the worse scenario...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Jonathan Leach's service with the 95th Rifles throughout the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns placed him in an authoritative position to write a short exposition on the Field Services of the Rifle Brigade. Although brief the document is a valuable addition to the works on this famous corps.
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xi, 463 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount locked in a struggle for control of the film industry, a grasping...
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In the glittering expanse of Hollywood's golden age, where dreams unfolded on the silver screen and illusions dazzled the masses, "Silent Shadows: Unmasking Hollywood's Noir" plunges readers into a riveting tale that transcends the boundaries of the reel and the real. The year is 1922, and the city of dreams is thrust into a noir odyssey as the murder of celebrated director William Desmond Taylor unravels a tapestry of intrigue, shadows, and unspoken...
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xvii, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"The history of a generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a Bohemian utopia on the windblown shores of Cape Cod"--
Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, activists gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism,...
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Music in The Dark is a compelling novel set in Prohibition-era Montreal when alcohol, drugs and jazz music ruled "Sin City." Taylor Williams is a young black musician struggling to find fame in the Montreal Harlem District amid gangsters, racism and bootleggers. As a young boy, Taylor escaped a terrifying ordeal that haunts him as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jazz musician.
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Trusting him is dangerous... When a mission goes disastrously wrong, search-and-rescue team lead Taylor Williams is left with indescribable terror at the prospect of climbing. But she knows she has to face her fear to overcome it. Now she's at a ranch in New Mexico, where her climbing recertification is in the hands of cowboy climber Quinn Monroe. Only this devilishly handsome rancher is about as friendly as a spur in the backside... As they prepare...
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xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
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En octubre de 1968, la adolescente Denise Reid se queda dormida una noche igual que siempre. Igualmente, Taylor Williams, en octubre del 2012, también de diecisiete años. En la mañana, descubren que han intercambiado personalidades. Denise despierta en el años 2012, en el cuerpo de Taylor. Taylor ahora está en el cuerpo y año de Denise. Cada una debe de aprender a a enfrentar el intercambio con diferencia de cuarenta y cuatro años. Y cada...
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244 pages ; 30 cm
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T. C. Cannon is one of the most influential and inventive Native American artists of the twentieth century. At work during the socially and politically turbulent 1960s and 1970s, Cannon created a signature visual vocabulary influenced by his Kiowa and Caddo heritage, and artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Robert Rauschenberg. In this vividly illustrated book, Cannon's paintings, prints, and drawings are illuminated alongside his...
17) Assassin Years
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Assassin Years
In October 1968, teenager Denise Reid falls asleep one evening just like every night. So does, in October, 2012, Taylor Williams, also 17-years-old.
In the morning, they discover they exchanged personalities.
Denise wakes up in 2012, in Taylor's body. Taylor now occupies Denise's body and time.
Each must learn to cope with the forty-four year-switch. And each attends a presidential campaign speech central to a European billionaire's...
18) Henry V
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Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's "Henry V" forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays, which includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part I", and "Henry IV, Part II". The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his...
20) White nights
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1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union years ago, finds himself back in the motherland--trapped--thanks to an emergency airplane landing. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by 'persuading' him to become Russian again. That is why he is sent to Siberia, to Raymond Greenwood and his Russian wife Darya. Greenwood is an American tap dancer who defected to Russia in opposition...
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