Shelly

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Lies and Sorcery

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

by Richard Cohen

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Biography, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, and Science fiction

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