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1) Purgatory
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Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil, ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance to expiate their sins on earth. There are the proud - forced to circle their terrace for eons bent double in humility, the slothful - running around crying out examples of zeal and sloth, while the lustful are purged by fire.
2) Purgatory
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Purgatory is a morality story that reflects man's spiritual journey through life. Resnik is presented with a path that could redeem humanity. That adventure begins beyond the horizon on a city in space. As this somewhat sexy tale unfolds, Resnik is confronted by temptations, evil people, and the dark creatures that linger in the vastness of space.
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A hidden key. A secret passage. A dead girl who wants to play games. Ripley is determined to discover just what the key opens. Even if it means breaking and entering. Scott is the new kid in town and when he finds Ripley sneaking around his home, he is drawn into the search. Together they find a world where the past still lives. Scott and Ripley are going to have to get a little creative if they ever want to get home. But first, they have to avoid...
4) Purgatory
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Getting away from the farm is all Hollis Fairfield can think about. But when the only job she can find is doing laundry at Camp Pinewood, she becomes a witness to horrific events she never dreamed could be real. Powerless to change anything, she despairs until her attention is snared by a young girl whom she vows to help. But what can one woman do when so much stands against her?Delilah Thorn is stuck in Atlanta engaged in diplomatic work and is desperate...
5) Purgatory
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They came in the night and took away every inhabitant of the isolated mining town that they could capture. Men, women, and the one child had been taken from the town that they rightly called Purgatory. But one man who had fought heroically against the invaders, John King, who they had left for dead, was left to fight back against the biggest injustice of his life. With little left to lose, he was going to track down the men who had taken what was...
6) Purgatory
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In the darkest time of European civilisation, a time riddled with witchcraft, religious bigotry, persecution, superstition and power play, two young people – Tarjei, a redeemed slave, and Janice, a wealthy young girl – meet randomly and find love and happiness. Events take them through horrors and tribulations that exceed all descriptions.
What secret power and authority do the feared Spanish inquisitor, Peter Titelmann, and his dreaded followers,...
7) Purgatory
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Thomas Nightshade has landed in Mexico. He has resigned from his U.N. job. Going solo into territory where the enemy has complete control. With the help of his brother, Thomas has smuggled plenty of weapons to make his one-man war even.
Suddenly Thomas finds himself entangled in a kidnap situation against an ally he believed was on his side.
Nightshade ends up in a life-threatening position. And he's going to need help to survive. Meanwhile, after...
8) Purgatory
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IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S.
Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town.
Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'.
He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family...
9) Purgatory
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William W. Johnstone's breathtaking Mountain Man series set the standard for Western adventure. Now, the adopted son of Smoke Jensen takes his place on the unforgiving American frontier. . .
Sentenced To Die
Purgatory, Arizona, is the last place you'll ever cross the law. Because in this town, the law is the personal fiefdom of an evil man--as Matt Jensen discovered on his first day in town, when an unavoidable gunfight and a dead deputy landed...
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August Purgatory Underground volume 2
August Purgatory Underground volume 1
August Purgatory Underground volume 4
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August Purgatory Underground volume 1
August Purgatory Underground volume 4
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The final hours of Captain August! Shaken and crippled after his confrontation with his arch-enemy, August launches a desperate plan to save as many of his new allies as he can from the villainous rebel fleet and their cyborg commander. He's been hounded, hurt and humbled- but he's not going down without a fight! The astonishing conclusion of August: Purgatory Underground!
11) Purgatory road
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"A couple finds themselves stranded in the Mojave Desert with dwindling hope of survival--until a mysterious man shows up. Will he help them or does he have more sinister plans?" --
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In the spring of 1858, Thompson Grey, a younger farmer, travels to his father’s estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief. During his wanderings, he encounters emigrants along the Santa Fe Trail who force him to assert...
13) Purgatory Plot
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An armed cadre of fundamentalist extremists threatens the security of the interstellar Empire, while uprisings of separatist traitors spark outrage on dozens of planets around the galaxy. The agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service must find the common thread and de-fang these vipers before the wildfire of revolution engulfs the galaxy.
14) Purgatory Oaths
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From Amazon best-selling and award-winning author David Edward comes the world of Purgatory Oaths.A story that spans from the American Civil War to the roaring twenties, Edward offers a complex moral philosophy wrapped in a wildly imaginative adventurous reimagining of classic monster tropes, including ghosts, werewolves, and zombies. But these books are more than the sum of their parts; a cowboy western, early 20th-century detective story, and end-of-the-world...
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Staging a musical in Purgatory can be absolute hell. Lonnie Coleridge last saw the sun in 1968. Since then, he's been consigned to Limbo, still wearing the same tie-dyed T-shirt and bell-bottomed jeans he had on when he left his life behind. He and others like him have one chance each year at redemption: produce a show for the Greek pantheon. Whoever pleases this very specific-and temperamental-fan group could earn the right to move on. But after...
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American Purgatory is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe if that they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a journey that will take them away from work, belief, and even each other, until the protagonist uncovers the...
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This book of poetry deals with the conflict where science is dominant in working its wonders, and the religious has become questionable regarding its relevance. It results in our culture's tendency to view science as our major source of defining and controlling reality. This is suggested in Arthur C. Clarks novel, Childhood's End, as well as in the classic Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The point being that we are no longer children dependent...
18) Purgatory Papers
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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - the PURGATORY PAPERS!FROM: WATCHER of the DAMNEDTO: YOUMISSION: READ the PURGATORY PAPERS, a dossier chock full of Reprobates, Renegades and Revolutionaries! The LoneStar Revolution's Star rises in Purgatory, a Hell of a Town - and YOU are there! Ride with the Watcher and his Posse of Mutant Cowboys as you access maps, rumors, monsters, portraits, trivia and more. Then prepare to go on even greater adventures with gripping new...
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Brian Green and Sara Reed were two young kids in love. They were what small town dreams were made of. They become separated by Brians moving off to college. They started growing apart and Sara found intrigue and distraction in the new kids in Amberwood. Kevin Videl, handsome as a model, and his kooky cousin Beth generate talk all throughout town. The new kids have started a partying group. Sara young and niave only views their company as a "way to...
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Team Omega just went through hell to find their prey, the madman Simon Haddo, only to have him escape at the last moment. These mercs didn't just do battle with a Mecha-Satan for nothing, so are determined to bring Haddo down and get paid for their efforts. They follow him, with the help of their enigmatic android guide, to the planet Mercury and a fortress factory known only as Purgatory, where they must face yet another gruesomely engineered nightmare...
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