Robert Lawrence
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After Midnight is a collection of macabre stories and poems by Robert Lawrence that showcases his morbid imagination. In these fourteen tales, we see a blood-thirsty cougar ("The Hunter"), an infestation of flesh-eating bugs ("Joe's Last Letter"), a sinister serial killer ("Spirit in the Sky"), and many more. This is a horrifying compilation that is best read after midnight.
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A fascinating 1899 work tracing the origins of common superstitions through time and civilizations, tracking how they evolved. Superstitions still have a firm hold in cultures all across the world, but where did so many of them come from, and how do myths and beliefs differ from country to country? This 1899 gem sets out to determine just that, tracing superstitious origins across the world from ancient Egypt to Viking Norway to the Asian dynasties....
5) Dirty work
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Stonewalled ... Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty -- and catastrophic -- when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Enter Carpenter -- the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in "The Short Forever" --...
6) L.A. dead
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Former cop turned lawyer Stone Barrington investigates a Hollywood homicide in this “stylish whodunit” (Detroit News) in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Stone’s trip to Venice with a fiery Mafia princess is cut short by a frantic phone call from halfway around the world. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar—and a former flame pining for Stone’s help in more ways than one. When...
Stone’s trip to Venice with a fiery Mafia princess is cut short by a frantic phone call from halfway around the world. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar—and a former flame pining for Stone’s help in more ways than one. When...
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When an elderly shop owner can no longer pay for the services of the Patrol Specials private police force, he tries to get help from his friend in the police department of San Francisco only to wind up murdered. Dismas Hardy is putting together a lawsuit against the Patrol Specials when his friend is accused of the murder. The policeman and the lawyer must try to protect each other and their nearest and dearest.
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A female cadet has collapsed and died while parading past the reviewing stand on a hot September morning. The autopsy establishes that she had sex with three different men the night before. Some claim that it's evidence of a major military scandal. Superintendent Ry Slaight fears it may be evidence of a shocking crime. His daughter - a cadet herself - is endangering her life in a quest for the truth. And among those who know the truth, the watchword...
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Nostradamus began to write his prophetic verses in the sity of Salon in 1554. they are divided into ten sections called Centuries (which refers to the number of verses in each section, not a unit of 100 years). THe Centuries were published in 1955 and 1558, and have been in print continuously ever since. Nostradamus had the visions which he later recorded in verse while staring into water or flame late at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants,...
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Shane Scully novels volume 1
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LAPD Sargeant Shane Scully is in trouble with the "tin collectors"--internal affairs--when he comes to the aid of his ex-partner's wife and ends up killing another cop in the process.
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Listen to a collection of classic stories by the world s most beloved writers. Here are the complete stories, unabridged, for you and your family to enjoy together this Christmas and for many Christmases to come. Family favorites and remembered treasures are in this collection, as well as a few light-hearted surprises. "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Read by Tom Casaletto"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, Read by Dick Hill"Is There a Santa...
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"Sean Connery is back for his final performance as superagent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller. When two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil SPECTRE organization, Agent 007 is hurled into an explosive, pulse-pounding race to save the world from nuclear terrorists"--Container.
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Decades collection volume 1970s
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Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
20) Rock star
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A rags to riches story of a wannabe musician who gets his break and becomes a rock star overnight, only to discover that being a superstar isn't everything it's cracked up to be.