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Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant...
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 15
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 15
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 15
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 15
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 15
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English
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Anita is contacted by a Harlequin and must draw Jean-Claude and Richard and all of her friends together to make their power strong enough to thwart the death omen.
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Marie Antoinette series volume 2
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English
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The Queen's Necklace dramatises an unsavoury incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
5) Dead ice
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 24
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 24
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 24
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 24
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 24
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English
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Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She's a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude's fiancée. It's wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard ass -- to some extent. Luckily, in professional circles, she's still the go-to expert for zombie issues. And...
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The third volume of the d'Artagnan Romances, of which The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After constitute the first and second volumes, was first serialized between October 1847 to January 1850. It has subsequently been published in three, four, and five-volume editions. Our edition follows the four-volume edition. The books in this edition in their chronological order are as follows: 1. "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" (chapters 1-75), 2. "Ten Years...
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The embattled Wingfield family: Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura, a lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom's sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
The only single edition now available...
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 1
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 1
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 1
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 1
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 1
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English
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Vampire hunter Anita Blake must shift her attention from catching vampires to helping them when she is hired to stop a serial killer from murdering any more vampires.
9) Blood noir
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 16
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 16
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 16
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 16
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 16
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English
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A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake's werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean-Claude's reign and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power
10) Bullet
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 19
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English
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Necromancer Anita Blake must try to stop the assassins that are coming to kill her, master vampire Jean-Claude, and werewolf Richard Zeeman, fearing they have all grown too powerful.
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The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially...
12) The confusion
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Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 2
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English
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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves — including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack — devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues — a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.
In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most
...13) Burnt offerings
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 7
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 7
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 7
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 7
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 7
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English
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Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Philip Mansel's book is poised to become the new standard English-language biography of Louis XIV, one that takes into account the revolution in the last fifty years in knowledge about every aspect of the king's reign: the army; Catholicism; diplomacy; the arts; music; medicine; homosexuality at his court; the role of women and the publication of the entire correspondence of his second wife, Madame de Maintenon. This is a global biography of a global...
15) The betrayers
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 1
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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English
17) These old shades
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English
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When the Duke of Avon encounters a mistreated young boy on the streets of Paris, he employs the lad as his page. As the duke's closest friends ponder his actions, the precocious Léon soon becomes the talk of the aristocracy.
Léon cannot believe his good fortune after being saved from a brutal beating by his older brother. He follows the duke around like a loyal puppy, a constant source of amusement for the duke, who is seen by himself-and by society-as...
18) The black hole
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Following a scientific mishap, mankind is faced with total annihilation as a threatening black hole appears over St. Louis. Now, time is running out to obliterate the black hole and the electricity feeding alien it has unleashed
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New Cambridge modern history volume 05
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University press
Pub. Date
1961
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English
20) The assailant
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 3
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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CO-ED SLAIN. That's the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi River, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he's stuck without any leads until a second body-also strangled-turns up across town and he knows he's chasing a monster.
A talented doctor with an otherwise ordinary and enviable life, Raymond Sheffield has some...
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