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Harry S. Truman, the president of the United States, and his military advisers were committed to using all available means to finish the war as soon as possible. Around 80,000 people were killed when the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6 by the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. More than 40,000 people were killed by another atomic bomb codenamed Fat Man that was dropped over Nagasaki three days later on August...
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We make our own hells…...and some of those hells are deadlier than others.Six years ago, Jean-Luc's wife, Bella, died. He never thought he'd see her again, believe her gone forever.Then she appeared at the entrance to Hell.A literal Hell created by the twice-fallen angel Penemue. And what's more - it seems that the fates of this fallen angel and Bella are now intertwined.Jean-Luc must save Penemue to save Bella.Now Jean-Luc must traverse the inner...
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Chase Brennan's life came crashing down on the fateful night his daughter was brutally taken from him.After following the wrong road for some time, the qualified firefighter, who had never given up that 'the one' was just around the corner and would one day find him, returned to the living.What he didn't know was how she would appear in his life and just how fast and hard he would fall.Jamie Lawrence was the darling of the Australian tennis circuit.For...
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In the hushed corridors of the New York Public Library, Penelope Harp, a bright-eyed intern librarian, lives her dream amidst a sea of ancient texts and whispers of history. Her world turns upside down when she's reassigned to the enigmatic rare manuscripts division. Here, Penelope stumbles upon a mysterious, age-old tome, its pages etched in a cryptic language that, to her shock, she can decipher with unnerving ease. But her curiosity unleashes a...
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom....
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