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"We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears... and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world--a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become...
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Little Brown and Company
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[2024]
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"In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler...
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
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2018.
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English
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Alexander Hamilton is a familiar name in American history because of the amazing life he led. From his early life as an orphan to traveling to New York City and becoming an influential Founding Father, Hamilton s life was full of drama and achievements. This book looks at some of the most remarkable things about his life, giving a glimpse into his life in the Caribbean as well as the battles he had with other Founding Fathers to pass his financial...
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Thames & Hudson
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2024.
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English
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A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of constant creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome's history has been explored by countless classicists, historians, poets and authors, but...
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