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I Am the Night

The Ultimate Unauthorized History of Batman: The Animated Series

by Daniel Dockery ...

A narrative history of the popular television show Batman: The Animated Series, including exclusive interviews and never-before-shared stories from the making of the series.At a time when televised cartoons—especially within the superhero genre—were often over-looked, Batman: The Animated Series introduced an entire generation of soon-to-be Batman fanatics to the caped crusader. The series ... Read more

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A narrative history of the popular television show Batman: The Animated Series, including exclusive interviews and never-before-shared stories from the making of the series.At a time when televised cartoons—especially within the superhero genre—were often over-looked, Batman: The Animated Series introduced an entire generation of soon-to-be Batman fanatics to the caped crusader. The series
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Smuggler's Rebellion: Dawn of Defiance

Wild Frontier Chronicles, #1

by Daniel P. Douglas ...

Series Book 1 - Wild Frontier Chronicles
Smuggler's Rebellion: Dawn of Defiance"Blending razor-sharp action with emotional depth, Smuggler's Rebellion is a pulse-pounding ride through a galaxy on the brink. Jake Jones, a reluctant hero with a code of his own, anchors a story rich in found family, rebellion, and courage. Douglas crafts vivid worlds and weighty stakes without ever losing the thread of humanity. With a princess, a soccer ... Read more

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Smuggler's Rebellion: Dawn of Defiance"Blending razor-sharp action with emotional depth, Smuggler's Rebellion is a pulse-pounding ride through a galaxy on the brink. Jake Jones, a reluctant hero with a code of his own, anchors a story rich in found family, rebellion, and courage. Douglas crafts vivid worlds and weighty stakes without ever losing the thread of humanity. With a princess, a soccer
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A Dawn of Dragonfire

Requiem: Dragonlore Book 1

by Daniel Arenson ...

Series Book 1 - Requiem: Dragonlore
The people of Requiem, an ancient kingdom, can grow wings and scales, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons. Their hearts are noble, their wisdom great, their kingdom a land of beauty and peace.This peace will soon burn. From the south, a fire rises. Birds of flame take flight. The phoenixes soar, beasts of heat and wrath, large as dragons and cruel as wildfire. Their purpose is one: destroy ... Read more

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The people of Requiem, an ancient kingdom, can grow wings and scales, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons. Their hearts are noble, their wisdom great, their kingdom a land of beauty and peace.This peace will soon burn. From the south, a fire rises. Birds of flame take flight. The phoenixes soar, beasts of heat and wrath, large as dragons and cruel as wildfire. Their purpose is one: destroy
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The Kill Artist

by Daniel Silva ...

Series Book 1 - Gabriel Allon
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon.Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon keeps his past well behind him. But now he is being called back into the game—and teamed with an agent who hides behind her own mask.. ... Read more

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon.Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon keeps his past well behind him. But now he is being called back into the game—and teamed with an agent who hides behind her own mask..
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The Girl Next Door

Collector's Edition Screenplay

by Daniel Farrands, Philip Nutman, Jack Ketchum ...

The Girl Next Door Collector's Edition Screenplay is a screenplay adaptation of the novel "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum. The book is loosely based on true events surrounding the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski during the summer of 1965. Set in 1958, the screenplay follows the story of two adolescent girls, Meg and Susan who, upon losing their ... Read more

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The Girl Next Door Collector's Edition Screenplay is a screenplay adaptation of the novel "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum. The book is loosely based on true events surrounding the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski during the summer of 1965. Set in 1958, the screenplay follows the story of two adolescent girls, Meg and Susan who, upon losing their
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The Menace of Prosperity

New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981

by Daniel Wortel-London ...

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities. Convinced that local finances depend on attracting wealthy firms and residents, municipal governments lavish public ... Read more

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Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities. Convinced that local finances depend on attracting wealthy firms and residents, municipal governments lavish public
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Sister Aimee

The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson

by Daniel Mark Epstein ...

The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review).Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United ... Read more

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The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review).Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United
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Gofers

On the Front Lines of Film and Television

by Daniel Scarpati ...

Winner: 2021 IndieReader Discover Awards - Entertainment NonfictionFinalist: 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Career NonfictionEver hear of an entry-level job where the office moves daily, co-workers change constantly and responsibilities could range from unclogging a backed-up dressing room toilet to cueing the controlled explosion of a spaceship in the middle of a busy city park? Well it ... Read more

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Winner: 2021 IndieReader Discover Awards - Entertainment NonfictionFinalist: 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Career NonfictionEver hear of an entry-level job where the office moves daily, co-workers change constantly and responsibilities could range from unclogging a backed-up dressing room toilet to cueing the controlled explosion of a spaceship in the middle of a busy city park? Well it
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Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes

The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction - The Classic Literature & The Greatest Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Carlyle, Theodor Storm, Plato, Theodor Fontane, René Descartes, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, Victor Hugo, David Hume, Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas De Quincey, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Washington Irving, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Juan Valera, Alfred de Musset, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Charles W. Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson, Honoré Balzac, Alexander L. Kielland ...

The Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes is an expansive anthology that masterfully encapsulates the enduring themes of human thought, creativity, and inquiry. From the philosophical musings of Plato and Descartes to the emotive literature of Shakespeare and Goethe, this collection offers a panoramic view of the intellectual landscape from antiquity to the modern era. The selection ... Read more

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The Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes is an expansive anthology that masterfully encapsulates the enduring themes of human thought, creativity, and inquiry. From the philosophical musings of Plato and Descartes to the emotive literature of Shakespeare and Goethe, this collection offers a panoramic view of the intellectual landscape from antiquity to the modern era. The selection
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The Burden of Guilt

How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914

by Daniel Allen Butler ...

A military historian's "thought-provoking" examination of Germany's role in the outbreak of the First World War ( Soldier Magazine).The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermenting across the Continent ... Read more

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A military historian's "thought-provoking" examination of Germany's role in the outbreak of the First World War ( Soldier Magazine).The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermenting across the Continent
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The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by Daniel James Brown ...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois
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The New York Conspiracy: A History of the Negro Plot

With the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New York in the Years 1741-2

by Daniel Horsmanden ...

In 1741, Manhattan had the second-largest slave population of any city in the Thirteen Colonies after Charleston, South Carolina. As a result The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Negro Plot of 1741 broke out in New York. This rebellion is marked as one of the most controversial events in the early American history because most historians disagree as to whether such a plot existed and, if ... Read more

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In 1741, Manhattan had the second-largest slave population of any city in the Thirteen Colonies after Charleston, South Carolina. As a result The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Negro Plot of 1741 broke out in New York. This rebellion is marked as one of the most controversial events in the early American history because most historians disagree as to whether such a plot existed and, if
... Read more