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1) Night
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
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While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
3) Dawn
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Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
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From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: the Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; the Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and the Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carsons, a homosexual gunslinger...
5) Night fire
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"Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley Cochrane, a sadistic old man who abuses her. When he dies, she believes herself free. But she's not. Burke Drummond, Earl of Ravensworth?a young man she'd worshipped three years before?is home from the wars, and he wants her. When he catches her, he's in for an appalling surprise" --from the publisher.
6) Night shadow
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The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England
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You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He's the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin's three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What's even worse-Ugly Arnold is hard on...
7) Night storm
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Dear Reader, You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force--in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988. The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She dresses like "Eugene" and wants to build her own sailing ships without male interference. Alec, a man...
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Night's dawn trilogy volume 3
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The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the "possessed" to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the...
9) Day
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A Holocaust survivor who cannot seem to forge ahead with his life, steps off a curb into the path of a taxi in Times Square, and hovers between life and death while reliving the horror and tragedy of his past.
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Night angel trilogy volume 3
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In the spellbinding conclusion to the Night Angel trilogy, Kylar is hired for one last job--to assassinate a goddess.
11) Shadow's edge
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Night angel trilogy volume 2
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Kylar has rejected the assassin's life in the wake of the Godking's violent coup, but when he learns that Logan Gyre, heir to Cenaria's throne, might be alive, trapped and in hiding, Kylar faces an impossible choice.
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Night angel trilogy volume 1
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Determined to escape the Warrens, Azoth seeks out Durzo Blint, the city's most ruthless assassin, to persuade him to take him on as an apprentice and to teach him the deadly Way of Shadows.
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Night angel trilogy volume 1-3
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In three novels, Azoth learns the Way of Shadows from Durzo, the city's best assassin, leaves the profession after his master and best friend are killed in a raid, and faces a tough decision involving an assignment that can save his friends.
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"In the wake of her older sister's suicide, Finn Sullivan and her father move to a quaint town in upstate New York. Populated with socialites, hippies, and dramatic artists, every corner of this new place holds bright possibilities--and dark enigmas, including the devastatingly attractive Jack Fata, scion of one of the town's most powerful families"--
15) Briar queen
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Serafina discovers an eerie supernatural underworld in her new town of Fair Hollow, New York, that leads to a fairy world of secrets, legacies, and the truth behind her sister's death.
16) Enamorada
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One night trilogy volume 3
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""Soy su posesión más preciada. Un título que me encanta llevar, aunque también supone una carga, porque sé que el santuario que hemos creado aquí es sólo temporal. Afrontar ese oscuro mundo es una batalla que planea en el horizonte de nuestra actual casi perfecta existencia." Livy nunca había conocido el deseo puro. El imponente Miller la ha cautivado, la ha seducido y la adora de formas que jamás había experimentado; conoce sus...
17) Love is red
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"This electrifying, stunningly written debut opens with a killer preying on the women of New York City, but as the body count rises over the course of a summer it becomes clear that he is being driven by something beyond our comprehension--igniting a trilogy that brings a darkly sophisticated twist to the epic fantasy of Deborah Harkness, Lev Grossman, and Diana Gabaldon"--
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One night trilogy volume 1
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"Una noche nunca será suficiente "--Todo lo que puedo ofrecerte es una noche. No necesito preguntar a qué se refiere. El leve dolor que siento en el estómago me lo dice exactamente. --¿Por qué? --No estoy disponible emocionalmente, Livy. Pero necesito tenerte." Siente su presencia nada más entrar en la cafetería. Es imponente, con una mirada azul tan penetrante que Livy casi se distrae al tomar nota de su pedido. Cuando se marcha, ella...
19) Traicionada
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One night trilogy volume 2
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"La historia entre Livy y Miller continúa-- "Estoy enamorada de un hombre al que no puedo tener. Pasé demasiado tiempo simplemente existiendo, y él me hizo sentir viva por primera vez, pero ahora se ha llevado esos maravillosos sentimientos y me ha dejado a solas con mi dolor. Mi espíritu está más muerto ahora que antes de conocerle." En Deseada, Miller le prometió a Livy que sólo le podía ofrecer una noche. Veinticuatro horas para...
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The mesmerizing conclusion to the Night and Nothing series - part Buffy the Vampire Slayer and part Alice in Wonderland - finds Finn fighting against the land of the dead. When her beloved Jack disappears, Finn vows to find him - even if it means a daring odyssey into the land of the dead. But saving Jack comes at a terrible price: a dangerous fissure has opened, giving the dead access to the true world. The lines between worlds are more blurred than...