Nathan Osgood
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In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson-now a British citizen-set out again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages, he follows a straight line through the island-from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath-and shows us every...
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2024
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"The Richest Man in Babylon," a classic in the realm of personal finance literature, was originally penned by George S. Clason in 1926. Transporting readers to ancient Babylon, the book weaves together a series of parables and stories to impart timeless financial wisdom. At the heart of the narrative is the tale of Arkad, the eponymous richest man in Babylon, who imparts his financial acumen to a group of friends in search of prosperity. His teachings...
3) Dogs of War
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Dogs of war volume 1
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2021.
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My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, Rex is part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. As a gentically engineered Bioform, Rex is a deadly weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that...
4) The sorrows
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2018.
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The Sorrows and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie to stay a month in the castle. What they find is more horrific than any movie. A malevolent being has been trapped for nearly a century. And he's ready to feed.
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1980.
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Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one's heart is safe ...
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2022.
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"Winners of the Paul Ehrlich Prize The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against COVID-19. Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was...