Stephen King
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English
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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers-and our abject failure to learn from history
From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality.
How have we arrived...
105) The Sun dog
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English
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"Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There's something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town's sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon,...
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English
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"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1sr Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record...
110) Mutt dog!
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A lonely dog finally finds a home after he makes friends with a woman who works at a homeless shelter.
116) Three
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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Three, a homeless three-legged dog, skips and hops about the city until he befriends a little girl who accepts him as he is.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Primera edición de Simon & Schuster Libros en Español.
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Español
Description
The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.
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