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Shazam! : the junior novel
\"By shouting just one word--SHAZAM!--Billy Batson, the street-wise fourteen-year-old foster kid from Philadelphia, can magically transform into the adult super hero Shazam, courtesy of an ancient wizard. Will Billy and his new foster brother, Freddy, learn to harness Billy's newfound superpowers like flight and bullet immunity in time to fight the dangerous forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana?\"-- From publisher's website.
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Imaginary Crimes
4 CITIES, 4 LIVES, 1 CRIME - In Madrid, an Argentinian bookseller gets caught up in the scheme of an American professor to prevent an appalling crime. Her sidekicks soon include a Gambian migrant in Paris and a Spanish waitress in London. Seeking some sort of companionship in their exiles, the four characters join forces in a quest that becomes a dangerous obsession. All four lives seem to be fatefully connected. But how to get people to take the crime seriously if it does not yet exist? In Buenos Aires, the criminals are remorselessly pursued. They cross paths with a Nigerian judge, the wife of one of General Franco's thugs, a caretaker to the wealthy, and Peter Halbtsen, an expert in Chinese culture. It is early March 2004. Halbtsen has spent years deciphering a book which may hold the key to the mystery. But where is the crime? Who is the criminal? And can anything be done to prevent humanity from reaping the whirlwind?
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The management style of the Supreme Beings
When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place. Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of right and wrong, while welcomed by some, raises certain concerns amongst those still attached to the previous team's management style. In particular, there's one of the old gods who didn't move out with the others. A reclusive chap, he lives somewhere up north, and only a handful even believe in him. But he's watching. And he really does need to know if you've been naughty or nice.
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Realistic Romanticism , Sentimentalism and Critique of National Character in Shi Tuo's Records from the Orchard Town
Shi Tuo's short story cycle Records from the Orchard Town (1946) depicts the love and hate of ordinary people in a small town in China, aiming to unravel the good and evil in humanity as well as its external manifestations. The author eulogizes the humble and enduring women in the countryside who fight against the injustices and atrocities in their lives with stubborn and even stupid ways. He also criticizes the local despots and villains who bully ordinary people and thus digging their own graves, which suggests the inevitabilities and causality loops in one's life. Shi Tuo expresses his sorrows towards the fact that all good things come to an end. Besides, the author adopts the second-person narratives to strike conversations with the readers. Records from the Orchard Town demonstrates a modern stance and a gesture of rebellion against the feudal cultural tradition. Zbigniew Slupski reckons that Shi Tuo's fiction contains a \"departure from narrow literary Realism,\" which is right to the point. Therefore, An
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Half lost
Nathan Byrn is running again. The Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed. Scattered and demoralized, constantly pursued by the Council's Hunters, only a bold new strategy can save the rebels from total defeat. They need the missing half of Gabriel's amulet - an ancient artifact with the power to render its bearer invincible in battle. But the amulet's guardian - the reclusive and awesomely powerful witch Ledger - has her own agenda. To win her trust, Nathan must travel to America and persuade her to give him the amulet. Combined with his own Gifts, the amulet might just be enough turn the tide for the Alliance and end the bloody civil war between Black and White witches once and for all ...
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Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers new insights for both. Examining the relations between morality, art, and beauty, McGinn argues, controversially, that morality is an area of objective truth and genuine knowledge; and shows the value of literary texts as sources of moral illum.
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Death goddess dance
\"Charlie Tristan Moore became the unwilling acolyte of The Man In Black, a treacherous elder god also known as Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. Charlie fought her way past bloodthirsty gods and demons to rescue her lover's stolen soul, only to put all of Creation at risk. Now she must stop the Man In Black from achieving his ultimate goal: freeing his dread father, Azathoth, from endless confinement to feast upon humanity for all eternity. But before she can confront her inhuman mentor for the final time, Charlie must make her way to the heart of a hellish, otherworldly prison--and call upon the darkest powers at her command.\"--Publisher.
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The devil's captain
Author ofNazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a military officer during the occupation of Paris, where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and with visiting German celebrities like Martin Heidegger, was at the center of disputes concerning his career. Spending more than three years in the French capital, he regularly recorded in a journal revealing impressions of Parisian life and also managed to establish various meaningful social contacts, with the intriguing Sophie Ravoux for one. By focusing on this episode, the most important of Junger's adult life, the author brings to bear a wide reading of journals and correspondence to reveal Junger's professional and personal experience in wartime and thereafter. This new perspective on the war years adds significantly to our understanding of France's darkest hour.
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