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62) Oliver Twist
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English
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In tracing the parish boy's progress, Dickens did not write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality, he created a story about the survival of good, and the exploitation of violence.
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When the Hardy boys eagerly agree to assist their friend Jack Dodd and his father in locating a family treasure, the two young detectives are unaware of the baffling complications that will arise. The only clue to the long-lost treasure is a cryptic message written by a Pilgrim ancestor. But when Mr. Dodd and Jack are accused of stealing cars and then mysteriously disappear, Frank and Joe are confronted with a triple mystery. Have their friends run...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser-known...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted (with Alex Abramovich), rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes: $750,000, to be exact. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn...
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Who would want to impersonate a one-time contributing editor who had been fired from the New York 'Times' magazine for fabricating parts of a story? Mike Finkel was amazed to discover that a wanted killer from Oregon named Christian Longo had done just that as he fled after killing his wife and three children and hid out in Cancun. This is the story of the strange relationship that developed between Finkel and the killer after his capture and Finkel's...
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