55 books
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29 voters
Listopia > Rosa's votes on the list "Wretched Writing" Booklist (99 Books)
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House of Shadows (Enchantment in Crimson, #1)
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"A blindingly handsome young man was sitting on one of the barstools, nursing an imported beer. "
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Galaxy 666
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Irene Iddesleigh
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Helen Huddleson
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The Wooden Spectacles
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Winkler
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Storehouses of the Snow
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"All the men were acutely aware of the tremendous events taking place: the change in the earth’s axis; the great earthquakes which had apparently occurred; the sudden eruptions of many old and new volcanoes; the breaking up of the Great Ross Ice Shelf; the torrents of meltwater, and evident speeding up of the flood of glacial ice tossing thousands of giant icebergs into the sea. Making several trips, they brought out many cans. Some of them were dented."
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The Monocled Monster
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"Since it had been brought by her so belatedly with respect to his departure, use it Barry Wayne had not even bothered to do, for fully dressed he had already been by then—and combed, as well, through the sense of fear also, had been his hair."
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The Gunfighters
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Men Who Die Twice (Mind Brothers, #3)
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"Starr’s hands were going numb and his arms were slowly drifting away from their sockets."
Rosa
added it to to-read
See Review |
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Black Swan Green
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"If Dawn Madden’s breasts were a pair of Danishes, Debby Crombie’s got two Space Hoppers. Each armed with a gribbly nipple."
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Furious Gulf (Galactic Center, #5)
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"Jocelyn came through the fog wall, muttering, her breasts swaying like two angry red eyes looking for a fight."
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The Case of the Violent Virgin (Ed Noon, #7)
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"Her hips were beautifully arched and her breasts were like proud flags waving triumphantly."
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The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse (Ed Noon, #8)
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"Her breasts were twin mounds of female muscle that quivered and hung and quivered and hung again."
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Audacious (Kris Longknife, #5)
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"Suddenly Kris had boobs. Boobs that she knew all too well how to make go boom."
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The Number of the Beast
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"Our teeth grated, and my nipples went spung!"
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War Games
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"Even through two layers of combat armor, I felt her nipples brush against my back..."
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Spectre of Darkness
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"“Grrr,” said the telephone.
“Can you speak up?” Fear had enveloped the girl. “Grr, er ur arr,” said the telephone again. Lana held it away from her as if it were a supernatural monster. “Who are you? What do you want?” “Grr, rrr, arrr, spptttzzz,” said the telephone." |
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The Gallery of Pigeons (Classic Reprint): And Other Poems
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The Sea, the Railway Journey: And Other Poems
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Seven Ancient Wonders
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"Now with all eight of his people in one swamprunner, West needed help and the Halicarnassus Was about to provide it. Two missiles lanced out from its belly-pods, missing one Apache by inches, but hitting the one behind it.
Boom. Fireball." |
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Star
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Swan
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A Shore Thing
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"Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky."
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Ode to Happiness
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Bronwyn: Silk & Steel (Bronwyn, 1)
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The Strange Will
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"Redwayne TerVyne, known to the Chinese of America, because of his passion for Chinese items in his nationally syndicated column, as “The Great White Prynose,” and to New York in general as “The Keyhole,” hopped out of his luxurious $10,000 purple car in front of the row of de luxe art shops on Fifth Avenue."
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The Hellfire Club
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"A door closed, and the Italian girl, Maria, the short grey-haired woman who decades ago had replaced the famous Helen Day, called the Cup Bearer, at other times referred to more mysteriously as O’Dotto, came out of Daisy’s studio carrying an empty tray."
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Faith Gartney's Girlhood
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Maharaja's Mistress (Young, Hot & Royal Book 2)
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"“We’re going to clean up your act and send you out looking like a princess,” a pretty dark-haired Eastern European called Xheni who had recently been scouted by one of the top model agencies assured her."
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Mackerel By Moonlight
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"They turned around like deer in the headlights. Deer who had also been shot."
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Chasing the Cyclone: A Father's Unending Love for His Son
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Raiders of Gor (Gor #6)
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"Beams and timbers of misery and wanting clashed within me."
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Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan, #2)
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"“What is it, Arthur?” Admiral Greer asked, wearing a cheap golf shirt."
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Merlin's Wood (Mythago Wood, #5)
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"Her interest was as pointed as the breasts on which she gently splashed cold water."
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Prey
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Junior
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Trail of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man, #3)
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Android
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"He pressed the button of the vibratory emulator; there was an inaudible beam, a wavelength of death, a movement that was less than a movement, and a motion that was more than a motion. And yet there were movements and motions that were more than movements and motions."
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Colossus
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"They were both roughly the same age, in their early fifties, though a hundred years earlier they would have appeared much younger."
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A Murder Too Many
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The Greek's Million-Dollar Baby Bargain
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"To hell with warnings about playing with fire—it was too damn late for that. He'd not just played with fire—he'd set the bed ablaze! And it, and he, had gone up in a sheet of flame."
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The Mysterious Mr. I
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"And here was I—at 4:20 in the morning—with not less than the tail-end—if not the tail itself!—of certain information by which $100,000 might be made to change hands—if and maybe, to be sure!—sitting in the office of MacLeish MacPherson, M.D.!"
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The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
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The Case Of The 16 Beans
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Gun Hawk
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The Garden of Last Days
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"This dancing woman upon the stage wears nothing but the hat of cowboys…This David Lee Roth, if there was time, Bassam would find him and kill him."
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Delina Delaney
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Buck Alice and the Actor Robot
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The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain: A Tale of the Western North Carolina Mountains
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Pamela
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The Marceau Case
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Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory
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"The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains."
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The Continental Philosophy Reader
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"Since thought is seen to be “rhizomatic” rather than “arboreal,” the movement of differentiation and becoming is already imbued with its own positive trajectory."
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The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology, History
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Twelve (12) Views of Manet's Bar
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Women On Ice
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"Punctuated by what became ubiquitous sound bites—Tonya dashing after the tow truck, Nancy sailing the ice with one leg reached to heaven—this melodrama parsed the transgressive hybridity of un-narrativized representative bodies back into recognizable hetero-visual codes."
Rosa
added it to maybe
See Review |
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Foundation: Matter the Body Itself
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The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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"It looked entirely normal, except that the sheath was made entirely of lead, and it covered the sword entirely."
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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
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Endymion Spring
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"His eyes roamed around the workshop, knocking over tables and equipment, until they settled on my Master…"
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Salome the Wandering Jewess: My First Two Thousand Years of Love (2000 Years, #2)
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"“Seigneur, I have invented forty new dishes for tonight's banquet,” François said pathetically, his eyes creeping out until they hung on the rims of their sockets like desperate people wavering on the edges of precipices."
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The Silver Squire
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The Corpse in the Snowman (Nigel Strangeways, #7)
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"The hostess firmly put an end to the morbid discussion by collecting the ladies’ eyes."
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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Eastern Standard Tribe
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"He smiles down at her nipple, which is brown as a bar of Belgian chocolate, aureole the size of a round of individual cheese and nipple itself a surprisingly chunky square of crinkled flesh."
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Act of Revenge (Butch Karp, #11)
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"And then he was fully socketed to her, like a pipe wrench in a crock of warm chili."
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The Bite Before Christmas
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Hungry for You (Argeneau, #14)
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"Despite being tight, his jeans fell away like butter sliding off a roasted turkey, and his erection spilled out, swollen and wanting."
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Bride of Terror
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"On the way back they passed a billboard advertising an airline. In the warm glow of happiness that enveloped her, the caption on the billboard did not strike her as even faintly ominous. It said, "Fly Now—Pay Later.""
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The End of Sparta
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The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
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Almuric
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"They told me of the Yagas...in the grim city of Yugga, on the rock Yuthla, by the river Yogh, in the land of Yagg...Their ruler was a black queen named Gasmen."
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The Bewitched Viking (Viking I, #4)
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Love, Cherish Me (Aguilar's Fate, #1)
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Sunrise Surrender (Jarrett Family Saga, #3)
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"The most intimate, begging part of her...the moist folds that seeped with desire."
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Every Wish Fulfilled
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"Pink, weeping flesh, the tiny kernel of flesh hidden in her cleft."
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The Brazen Bride (Black Cobra Quartet, #3)
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"The weeping furnace of her sheath."
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Desired
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"Christian's manroot jumped against her thigh and she imagined it a velvet-tipped iron spear. He would render her vulnerable, she would yield, then he would conquer her with his formidable weapon!"
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Eye of the Beholder
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""Is that your tallywhacker?""
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The Teeth of the Tiger (Jack Ryan Jr, #1; Jack Ryan Universe, #12)
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""Who's wog number two, I wonder," Brian said. "I don't know, and we can't freelance. You packin'?" Dominic asked. "Bet your bippy, bro. You?" "Hang a big roger on that," Dominic answered."
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
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"She still thought it was a sign of social bravery to be a crude-talking, hard-partying, cotton candy lipstick-wearing, thong-snapping, balls-to-the-wall disciple in the church of Lady Gaga.
With his friends he was all "Yo! Douchebag!" but in parental and polite adult company he used a language and set of mannerisms based on the pretense that he had never gone through puberty." |
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Commune 2000 A.D.
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""Back in the twentieth century," he explained, "Bellman of the Rand Corporation predicted 2% of the workforce would be able to produce all the country could consume by the year 2000 and..." "Don't roach me, funker," she said. "And don't shirk off in your electro-steamer. This mopsy wants to poke.""
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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Charleston
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"Eliza said, "Your father really thinks it's dangerous for us to remain here? It's ever so peaceful. I love the river, my garden, the wild deer that visit. I love all the wildlife except the alligators that sleep on our bank. I saw a huge fellow sunning himself this morning. When I was nine, one ate my favorite cat…""
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Blinding Light
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Dreams, Demons and Desire
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Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
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"Excitement leapt like a trout in the public trousers."
Rosa
rated it 2 stars
See Review |
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Arc of the Dream (Radix, #3)
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The Crimson Petal and the White
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The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street (Shadowmancer, #2)
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Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
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Stargate
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Don't Blink
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Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
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Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder
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The Overton Window (Overton Window, #1)
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POB²
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