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The Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Illustrated Edition): Illustrated Victorian children's classics of orphans, gardens, social class, and courage

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Nazis after Hitler: How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth

by Donald M. McKale

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The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America's First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists

by Jeffrey D. Simon

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The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by Christopher Golden

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He was doing it again, building bridges to places that didn’t exist, wanting it all too much, too openly.

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“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

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“You notice the pain when the tears are dry.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

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“Both had lost parents at an early age, and while Albert did not have a rift with his father as Victoria did with her mother, both ached for an idyllic domesticity they had dreamed of as children.”
― Julia Baird, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

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“She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.”
― James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV Idols

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“It’s the nature of our society that I’m considered unworthy of huge financial reward for that risk. But what can be earned is a certain nobility—not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior and living.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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