The Devil's Copper
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Jamie CrothallЖанр:
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The Devil's Dictionary
Автор:
Bierce AmbroseЖанр:
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The Devil's domain
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Doherty PaulЖанр:
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The Devil's Due: A Cooper and McCall Scottish Crime Thriller
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Ramsay SinclairЖанр:
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The Devil's Elixir
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Khoury RaymondЖанр:
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FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, archaeologist Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar novels, return in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to 1700s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and so unsettling-that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? the sorcerer - and even against government authorities-to merge two divergent trails, one several hundred years old, the other as current as a heartbeat, that could drag humanity to the brink of self-...
The Devil's Eye
Автор:
McDevitt JackЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-29Язык книги:
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The Devil's footprint
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O'Reilly VictorЖанр:
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The Devil's Gold
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Berry SteveЖанр:
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TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Jefferson Keybrings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .The Devil's Gold Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he's been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child's birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost...
The Devil's Heart
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Johnstone WilliamЖанр:
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The Devil's Heart
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Candace OsmondЖанр:
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The Devil's Labyrinth
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Saul JohnЖанр:
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An Exorcist Reverses the Mysterious Art Summoning Evil Instead of Driving It Out After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable institution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can work its magic. But troubles are not unknown even at St. Isaac, where Ryan arrives to find the school awash in news of one student's violent death, another's mysterious disappearance, and growing incidents of disturbing behavior within the hallowed halls. Things begin to change when Father Sebastian joins the faculty. The young priest has been dispatched on an extraordinary and controversial mission: to prove the power of one of the Church's most...
The Devil's Looking-Glass
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Chadbourn MarkЖанр:
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Will Swyfte, Elizabethan England's answer to James Bond, returns in his third swashbuckling supernatural Swords of Albion adventure.
1593: The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr John Dee is missing.
Terror sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dee's possession is an obsidian mirror, a mysterious object of great power which legend says could set the world afire. And so the call goes out to celebrated swordsman, adventurer and rake Will Swyfte -- find Dee and his feared looking-glass and return them to London before disaster strikes. But when Will discovers the mirror may help him solve the mystery that has haunted him for years -- the fate of his lost love, Jenny -- the stakes become acutely personal.
With a frozen London under siege...
The Devil's Mistress
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David BarclayЖанр:
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The Devil's Novice
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Peters EllisЖанр:
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The Devil's Pawn
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Oliver PötzschЖанр:
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The Devil's star
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Nesbo JoЖанр:
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The Devil's Touch
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Johnstone WilliamЖанр:
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The Devils Punchbowl
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Iles GregЖанр:
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With his gift for crafting “a keep-you engaged- to-the-very-last-page thriller” (USA Today) at full throttle, Greg Iles brings back the unforgettable Penn Cage in this electrifying suspense masterpiece.
A new day has dawned . . . but the darkest evils live forever in the murky depths of a Southern town.
Penn Cage was elected mayor of Natchez, Mississippi—the hometown he returned to after the death of his wife—on a tide of support for change. Two years into his term, casino gambling has proved a sure bet for bringing new jobs and fresh money to this fading jewel of the Old South. But deep inside the Magnolia Queen, a fantastical repurposed steamboat, a depraved hidden world draws high-stakes players with money to burn on their unquenchable taste for blood sport and the...
The Devil_s Garden
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Montanari RichardЖанр:
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The Devil’s Dictionary
Автор:
Ambrose BierceЖанр:
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2022-03-18Язык книги:
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Description
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp.
There were no publications of the complete glossary...
