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	The Philistines Be Upon Thee 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cripple Creek (Turner, #2)

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Hypnotic and brilliant. A new star appears in the sky, a black metal band are brutally murdered in a forest, an organ doner wakes up mid-surgery, the dead don't seem to die, in fact some of them seem to walk the earth, and reality seems to slip at ti ...more
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