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81) Suitcase Charlie
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"Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night. Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks ten years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves...
82) Desertion
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"The consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence. Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert and collapses at the feet of Hassanali's a local shopkeeper. As Hassanali's sister, Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks. Its reverberations will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affairs...
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Scotty's family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand.
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"Unbeknownst to eleven year old Theresa (Tessie) Finley, she's in over her head. After hearing a scream and catching a glimpse of a mysterious man carrying a body beneath the flickering streetlights in the cemetery behind her house, Tessie adds solving a murder case to her already quite full to do list. Tessie has elected herself president of the crime-stopping Mutual admiration Society " ... (which also includes her younger sister Birdie and best...
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'The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany. In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker...
89) As good as true
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"August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daughter of Syrian immigrants living in segregated Alabama, Anna has never belonged, and now her world is about to erupt. Days before, Anna set in motion an explosive chain of events by allowing the first black postman to deliver the mail to her house. But it's her impulsive act of inviting...
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In Chicago in July 1959, eleven-year-old Michael Friedman roamed the hot summer streets to hide from home. Any place was better than the dark apartment where his mother suffered mysterious ailments and was lost in her own world. Anywhere was better than home when his father was there. Despite working two jobs, David Friedman felt financial ruin creeping ever closer and he took his anger and frustration out on his wife and his children. All of the...
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En 1956, Boston Estudiante de colegio Marilyn Connor conoce a Carl Brezner en el metro estancado. Él es un viudo con dos hijos de Texas. Atraída por él, se ofrece a presentar a los niños alrededor de Boston durante su estancia allí. Volviendo a su dormitorio de la universidad, se entera de que hay un rumor de que su hermandad va a prometer una niña de negro, algo inédito en ese memento. Cuando eso resulta ser de hecho un rumor, ella personalmente...
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Pielęgniarki volume tom 3
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Trzeci tom bestsellerowej serii o wspaniałych, pełnych poświęcenia pielęgniarkach. Anglia, lata 50. XX wieku. Dla wielu powojennych matek, które z trudem wiążą koniec z końcem, wielka rodzina, jaką tworzą pracownicy szpitala St Angelus, jest jedyną nadzieją. Noleen sprząta w St Angelus. Pracuje nocą, a w dzień zajmuje się domem. Jej mąż nie może znaleźć pracy, odkąd na wojnie stracił nogę. Tymczasem ich wybitnie uzdolniony...
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It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist--the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany...
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To Kill a Mockingbird--Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much. Go Set a Watchman--Taking place...
95) Pánico
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Freddy Otash es el hombre informado y el hombre a conocer en Tinseltown. Opera con dos reglas simples: hará cualquier cosa menos asesinar, y nunca trabajará con comunistas. Freddy es un policía corrupto de Los Ángeles en los patines. Ejecutó a un asesino de policías llamado Horvath y lo cornea. Así que el Capitán 'Whiskey' Bill Parker lo enlata. Ahora, Freddy se pone una variedad de nuevos sombreros: detective privado sórdido, artista de...
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En 2010, Serena y James regresan a Baltimore desde Filadelfia, donde ella ha conocido a los padres de él y ha podido hacerse una idea del concepto tan distinto que ambos tienen de la familia. Durante el viaje, Serena revisa el pasado de la suya. Contada en varios tiempos, la historia de los Garrett comienza en 1959, cuando su abuelo Robin hace algo insólito: dejar el negocio en manos de su ayudante y disfrutar de unos días con los suyos en una...
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