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For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947. Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once...
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"As for my books, I regret not having published each one under a different nom de plume: that way I would feel freer to start again from scratch each time, just as I always try to do anyway." - from Hermit in Paris This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in...
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness,...
64) Black Flies
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Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, the unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. This story features lives that hang in the balance, including a single job with a misdiagnosed...
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"Just like every collection, this one is a diary as well: a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods . . . The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation." - from Collection of Sand
Italo Calvino's unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his works published during...
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To solve the enigma of her past, a brilliant but troubled young woman joins a deadly global treasure hunt.
Strange hallucinations have plagued PhD student Andie Robertson throughout her life. After years of consulting doctors, she decided the visions were a glitch in her own mind--until her mentor, the famous physicist Dr. James Corwin, is murdered in Italy, and Andie finds a stack of ink drawings in his office that bear a remarkable resemblance...
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Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.
68) The Extractor
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When governments won't help, when the police are out of leads, and when people are out of answers, there's only one man left they can turn to. The Extractor.
Luke Bridge is a former CIA agent and his client's current last hope. Whether the job is a rescue mission, finding a kidnapped victim, or returning stolen property, he's got the skills to get the job done. He restores hope in a hopeless situation.
69) Hostage, The
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Bridge is hired by a man employed by the CIA to find and rescue three kidnapped aid workers. After a rough start to their mission, Bridge gets the feeling that there is more to the story than he's been told.
Bridge and Nicole are given a couple of men local to the area to help facilitate the safe return of the aid workers. But can these men be trusted? Or are they loyal to the rebels that took the workers in the first place?
One thing's for sure....
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"Enlightenment"-is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now-and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions.
For decades, one of the most engaging teachers of our time has illuminated the...
71) Ripple Effect
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Bridge and Nicole are hired by a wealthy businessman to find his daughter, who's been kidnapped. Ava Dermott has been taken by someone named Gemini, and Bridge follows the clues, with the case taking him back to an old place he'd rather not go. But there's something more to this case than meets the eye. It's not a simple kidnapping. There's something else at play. But will Bridge and Nicole find out what it is before it's too late? Someone will get...
72) The Con Man
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Bridge and Nicole are hired by a woman who's lost her gold coins. They follow the man that took them down to South America, where he intends to sell them to the highest bidder. Things don't quite go according to plan, though, as they run into the con man before he's able to rid himself of the coins. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Bridge and the con man, who acts more like a friend than a foe. Can Bridge and Nicole take the coins before the...
73) Kill Notice
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DC's psychopathic killer just singled out the only detective with the skills to outmatch his twisted game.
"Devious, fast-paced and packed with relatable characters." -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Dogs of War.
A new kind of hero emerges on the streets of Washington. Kate Bowers is gritty, compassionate, and deadly. Her battle scars constantly remind her of the friends she lost in combat. Now one of DC's top homicide detectives,...
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Get the first 3 books in one collection by bestselling Author Mike Ryan.
The Extractor
When governments won't help, when the police are out of leads, and when people are out of answers, there's only one man left they can turn to. The Extractor. Luke Bridge is a former CIA agent and his clients current last hope. Whether the job is a rescue mission, finding a kidnapped victim, or returning stolen property, he's got the skills to get the job done....
75) Past Dead
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Bridge and Nicole are hired to find five million dollars’ worth of missing diamonds. Their search for the missing diamonds take them to Los Angeles, Brazil, and finally Puerto Rico, and puts them in direct conflict with a major drug operation, the leader of which is suspected of stealing the jewels.
But all is not what it seems, and after coming up empty in their search, Bridge and Nicole have to pivot with their suspects. Maybe the thief has been...
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Bridge and Nicole are given a job by Eric Happ. And like most jobs that are assigned by the government, there is more than meets the eye with this one. Their assignment seems simple enough at first. They just have to take out a man in Venezuela, who's trying to start his own criminal empire down there.
But the simple assignment will quickly become more complicated as unfriendly faces recognize Bridge, which could throw the whole job into chaos. Bridge...
77) Speaking Out
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Ce volume reunit les trente-quatre textes connus des prises de parole publiques d'Albert Camus, s'achevant sur la transcription inedite de son allocution au diner de L'Algerienne, le 13 novembre 1958 a Paris. D'une conference a l'autre, l'ecrivain diagnostique une "crise de l'homme", s'attache a redonner voix et dignite a ceux qui en ont ete prives par un demi-siecle de bruit et de fureur. C'est bien de civilisation qu'il s'agit ici. Pour Albert Camus,...
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Three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk-a monster with a thousand giant hands;...
79) Black Souls
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The modern Italian classic about Calabrian organized crime-now an award-winning motion picture-makes its English-language debut. In the remote Aspromonte Mountains in southern Calabria, Italy, three best friends embark on a life of crime in order to raise themselves up out of the poverty of their childhoods and the suffering of their parents. Brainy Luciano, the behind-the-scenes schemer, was orphaned as a little boy when the local mob boss had his...
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Get out of here, Joyce. Go home. You don't need bad news.
Joyce always had an uneasy feeling about her son, Michael. Serious baby, then a serious kid, then a serious grown-up. His large, dark eyes. He always kept everything inside. When he misses coming home for his birthday, Joyce believes the worst and takes a drive upstate, desperate to find him. What she finds will strain her sanity.
Intimate and unsettling, The Wolfs Mother Speaks is perfect...