Dan Simmons
1) Olympos
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English
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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible...
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Summer of night volume 1
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English
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In the summer of 1960, in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the town residents know that it marks the end of innocence.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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German physicist Paul Haber fled to America to work on the atomic bomb and avenge the loss of his family to the Nazis, but when he learns that his family is alive in Nazi hands, he must spy on his new homeland to protect them.
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English
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As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, Aenea, a new messiah, comes of age and must deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples, but not before embarking on a mission to discover the very meaning of the universe.
5) Endymion
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Hyperion series volume 3
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Roca
Pub. Date
2009
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Español
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Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, "Drood" explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
El 9 de junio de 1865, mientras viajaba en tren a Londres con su amante secreta, Charles Dickens --que entonces contaba con 53 años y se hallaba en la cúspide de su carrera literaria-- se vio envuelto en un accidente ferroviario...
12) Hard as nails
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Joe Kurtz novels volume 3
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2015, c2003
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English
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"Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so narrowing down the suspects isn't easy. But Kurtz knows who's at the head of his list: Angelina Farino Ferrara, the lethal beauty who leads the Farino crime family, and her mob rival, Toma Gonzaga. The odd thing is,...
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English
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Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
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AMC Film Holdings
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with...