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1) Night Train
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English
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Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case, this case, has gotten under her skin.
When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop, now top brass, takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel...
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English
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A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behavior Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls, Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality....
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings.
The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic.
House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
From one the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life, and love, among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz.
Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel “Time's Arrow”. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet", the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz....
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English
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The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, Saul Bellow transformed modern literature. This film traces Bellow's rise to eminence and examines his many identities: chronicler of post-war American Jewish life, reluctant public intellectual, 'serial husband', father, Chicagoan, Jew and American.
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Night Class at Cross Academy has been abolished. Zero still attends the Day Class while carrying out his duties as a vampire hunter. Yuki now lives hidden away at the Kuran residence with Kaname, but can she embrace the life of a pureblood vampire?