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"Drako is back to finish what he started! Now with his own label, Reality Records, up and running and a few won't-back-down soldiers behind it, nothing can stop him. He still has his list of white collar schemes to be carried out, as well as his knack for staying under the radar. Meanwhile, Wiz is up to his neck in hip-hop scandals. Now with even more beautiful vixens, fast cars and jewels, the media and Feds are watching his every move. Wiz is definitely...
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"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave-he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
84) Pikovai͡a dama
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Znamenityy shedevr A. Pushkina - "Pikovaya dama" aktualen i vostrebovan i v nashi dni. Ved' azart, alchnost', zhelaniye dostich' svoikh tseley lyubymi sredstvami neistrebimy v cheloveke. Tema igry, talantlivo podkhvachennaya i osmyslennaya F. Dostoyevskim v povesti "Igrok", razrabotana velikim Pushkinym kak sud'bonosnaya fatal'nost', a stavsheye aforizmom vyrazheniye "Troyka, semerka, tuz" - simvolom sud'by, kotoruyu nevozmozhno obmanut'.
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The settlement of Grey's Bluffs is a prosperous town. An independent community dwelling in the shadows of the mountains known only as The Hungers. Esther Foxman and Siobhan O'Clery have grown up in Grey's Bluffs, thriving out on the western territories in the aftermath of the Civil War. Devoted to one another and their home, the two set out to complete a regular pact at the Hungers to ensure that Grey's Bluffs continues to prosper. Cyril Redstone...
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After spending nearly a decade behind bars, Drako finally has something to smile about. His mentor, Toney Domacio, had taught him the workings of the underworld, and Drako was primed to take advantage. Along with his girlfriend Diamond, a new home, flashy cars and millions being thrown his way from his longtime friend and Red Rum Records CEO, Wiz, most people would be content. But Drako still wasn't satisfied. In his mind, he deserved everything that...
87) ʹUqidat al-afāʹī
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"The masterpiece of one of the greatest modern Catholic writers, The Knot of Vipers tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered ageing lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them, and to himself, why his soul has been deformed, why his heart seems like a foul nest of twisted serpents. Mauriac's novel masterfully explores the corruption caused by pride, avarice and hatred, and its...
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Aviary Gate trilogy volume 3
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1611. James I has recently succeeded to the throne and the Elizabethan age is over. A new artistic and intellectual Renaissance comes to England. As trade routes open up, a rich and cosmopolitan middle class emerges, with an interest in architecture, gardens and textiles. Seven years after he was all but destroyed in his quest to take possession of the Pindar Diamond, Levant Company merchant and former ambassador to Constantinople Paul Pindar returns...
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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob...
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For years the members of the large and pathologically litigious Gaines family have seen one another only across the courtroom or across the casket. For this family, a revered and time-honored tradition has been, as soon as one member dies, to lose no time in contesting the will, aided by the warring (and related) law firms of Shapolsky and Shapolsky and Shapolsky & Shapolsky. Now their endless family squabble takes a new turn when fresh-faced young...
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"David Lazar by best-selling author Robert Kalich is a semi-autobiographical novel that blurs the lines between memoir and fiction. A modern love story with a twist of a mystery, it portrays the inner-life of a complex everyman and the incredible externalities of wealth, power and lifestyle that a super successful city dweller acquires. David Lazar is an octogenarian penning his memoir. With mortality dancing on the horizon, Lazar's thoughts drift...
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