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Boy Who Followed Ripley, The – Highsmith, Patricia

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Name: Boy Who Followed Ripley, The – Highsmith, Patricia
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Title: The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Author: Highsmith, Patricia
Language: English
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fiction, General, Suspense, Thrillers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393344752
Total pages: N/A

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"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that ‘penniless young man without a past’ who will stop at nothing."-Frank Rich
Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith’s favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley’s bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin’s seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

From Library Journal
To coincide with the premiere of the paperback publication of 1992’s Ripley Under Water ( LJ 10/1/92), Vintage is releasing a brace of Highsmith’s earlier adventures of Ripley, the cordial young man with the talent for murder. Dubbed "especially brilliant" by LJ ‘s reviewer, Ripley’s Game ( LJ 5/1/74) finds the protagonist continually bungling a hit, while The Boy Who Followed Ripley ( LJ 5/1/80) finds him trying to protect a young man on the run after murdering his wealthy father.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy’s behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin’s seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods – and sinister acumen – for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate protector. With this psychologically intricate and hauntingly perverse masterwork, Patricia Highsmith warps all notions of friendship, gender, and morality as she explores the relationship of a young man with a guilty conscience and older one who has no conscience at all.

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Bourdain, Anthony – Medium Raw A Bloody Valentine to the Worldood and the People Who Cook [Cookbook] – Bourdain, Anthony

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Title: Bourdain, Anthony – Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook [Cookbook]
Author: Bourdain, Anthony
Language: English
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cooking, General, American, Middle Atlantic States, Biography & Autobiography, Regional & Ethnic
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
ISBN: 1408809745
Total pages: 304 str.

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SUMMARY: A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential- for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant businessand for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author’s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he’s seen and what he’s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: ‘Why cook?’ Or the harder one to answer: ‘Why cook well?’ Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.

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Bornstein, Ernst Israel – The Long Night A True Story – Bornstein, Ernst Israel

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Title: Bornstein, Ernst Israel – The Long Night: A True Story
Author: Bornstein, Ernst Israel
Language: English
Year: 2016
Subjects: Autobiography, Biography, History, Judaism, Religion, World
Publisher: Toby Press
ISBN: 9781592644407
Total pages: 129 str.

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The Night lasted five years and eight days.
Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old¬ who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle of friends and relatives. But in the autumn of 1939, decades of anti-Semitic propaganda turned into full-fledged violence. Bornstein’s family was subsequently sent to Auschwitz where his parents and siblings were gassed to death.
The Long Night is Bornstein’s firsthand account of what he witnessed in seven concentration camps. Written with remarkable insight and raw emotion, The Long Night paints a portrait of human psychology in the darkest of times. Bornstein tells the stories of those who did all they could do to withstand physical and psychological torture, starvation, and sickness, and openly describes those who were forced to inflict suffering on others. The narrative is simple, yet profound; unbridled, honest, and dignified.
The Long Night was written shortly after the war when the author’s memories were fresh and emotions ran strong. Originally published in German in 1967 as Die Lange Nacht, this is the first English translation of this work.
**

About the Author
Dr. Ernst Israel Bornstein was born in Zawiercie, a city in the Silesian province of southern Poland (60 km from Auschwitz) on the 26 November 1922. He was the oldest of four children. He was educated in Jewish schools and won a national essay prize at the age of fifteen. He was incarcerated in seven concentration camps, enduring the infamous “death march” until finally being liberated by American soldiers near Lake Starnberg in Bavaria on 30 April 1945. Thereafter, he lived in Munich, Germany, studied at the University of Munich graduating as a Dentist (Dr. Med Dent) in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine (Dr. Med) in 1958. He practiced as an oral surgeon. He married Renée (née Koenig) on the 20 December 1964 and they had three children, Noemie (Lopian) born August 1966, Muriel (Davis) born July 1967, and Asher Alain born May 1971. Dr. Bornstein died on the 14 August 1978 aged 55. Dr. Bornstein was the founder of the Association of Ex-Concentration Camp Inmates in Munich, whose chairman he remained until he died, was a member of the executive committee of the Jewish Community in Munich and chairman of the Consortium of Associations of Persecutees in Bavaria. He originally wrote this book, “Die Lange Nacht” (The Long Night) shortly after the War,setting out his Holocaust experiences, whilst his memories were fresh and his feelings raw. This book was originally published in Germany, in 1967.

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Bonnie K Winn – Substitute Father (retail) (epub)

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Title: Substitute Father
Author: Bonnie K. Winn
Language: English
Year: 2001
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: N/A

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Three orphaned children were definitely not on his shopping list!
Luke Duncan never would have believed that going grocery shopping would lead to becoming foster father to three orphans. But no matter how he met them, it was clear that Brian, Hannah and Troy needed him. Now all he has to do is convince the social worker assigned to their case that a single man can be the perfect caregiver.
Too bad the social worker is Kealey Fitzpatrick. After their disastrous blind date, he would have sworn she’d never darken his door again.

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Bond, Gwenda – Strange Alchemy – Bond, Gwenda

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Title: Bond, Gwenda – Strange Alchemy
Author: Bond, Gwenda
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: 9781630790769;fiction;Switch Press;romance/historical;romance/paranormal;historical/United States/19th Century
Publisher: Switch Press
ISBN: 9781782027966
Total pages: 286 str.

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Gwenda Bond’s first book Blackwood has been reimagined and brought back to life with new vision.On Roanoke Island, the legend of the Lost Colony – and the 114 colonists who vanished without a trace more than four hundred years ago – still haunts the town. But that’s just a story told for the tourists. When 114 people suddenly disappear from the island in present day, it seems history is repeating itself – and an unlikely pair of seventeen-year-olds might be the only hope of bringing the missing back. Miranda Blackwood, a member of one of island’s most infamous families, and Grant Rawling, the sherrif’s son, who has demons and secrets of his own, find themselves at the center of the mystery. As the unlikely pair works to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony, they must dodge everyone from the authorities to long-dead alchemists as they race against time to save their family and friends before they too are gone for good.

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Bohjalian, Chris – The Sandcastle Girls – Bohjalian, Chris

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Title: Bohjalian, Chris – The Sandcastle Girls
Author: Bohjalian, Chris
Language: English
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fiction, Literary, Sagas, Historical
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 9781471110702
Total pages: 14 str.

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Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island-and a young social worker’s descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish.”
In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012-a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss-and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

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Bodeen, S A – Compound 01 – The Compound Series – Bodeen, S A

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Name: Bodeen, S A – Compound 01 – The Compound Series – Bodeen, S A
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Title: Bodeen, S.A – Compound 01 – The Compound Series
Author: Bodeen, S.A
Language: English
Year: 1949
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 228 str.

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Ta książka nie posiada jeszcze opisu.

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Bobby Hutchinson – Silent Light, Silent Love (retail) (epub)

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Title: Silent Light, Silent Love
Author: Bobby Hutchinson
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Bobby Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781975393687
Total pages: 260 str.

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It’s 1896 on the Canadian prairies, and Betsy Tompkins wants to be a photographer. Western prairie women have two choices: marry, and be a wife, or stay single, and be a spinster.
Betsy knows the spinster option is the only one for her. She’s deaf, and hearing men live in a different world. Also, wives simply don’t have careers-they cook, clean, and raise children.
Sergeant James Macleod of the North West Mounted has a troubling secret.
Leaving his native Scotland was a painful and life-changing choice, and he feels he can’t go back. He’s determined to make a new life for himself on the Canadian prairies.
He’d like a wife and a family, but eligible women are scarce, and he’s an educated man.
He’s just doing his job when he meets Betsy, but suddenly he sees his future in a whole new light. He wants her to be his bride.
James must honour his commitment to keep the peace on the wild…

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Bobby Akart – [Perfect Storm 04] – Perfect Storm 04 (epub)

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Name: Bobby Akart – [Perfect Storm 04] – Perfect Storm 04 (epub)
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Title: Perfect Storm 4
Author: Akart, Bobby
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.
ISBN: 9781472264510
Total pages: N/A

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A Chronicles of St Mary’s short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won’t be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

You don’t have to travel through time to experience catastrophe on an epic scale, as the disaster-magnets from St Mary’s are about to find out.

For Max, what starts off as a perfectly normal week is about to degenerate into a quagmire of egotistical film producers, monumental pub crawls, unsigned contracts, exploding rocks, Professor Rapson and his megaphone, the world’s biggest bacon butty – and Angus – the third component of the most notorious love triangle since Menelaus, Paris and Whatshername – the one with the face they launched ships off.

A Perfect Storm of calamity, devastation and misfortune only ever encountered at St Mary’s.

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Blythe, D Randall – Dark Days A Memoir – Blythe, D Randall

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Name: Blythe, D Randall – Dark Days A Memoir – Blythe, D Randall
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Title: Blythe, D. Randall – Dark Days: A Memoir
Author: Blythe, D. Randall
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306823152
Total pages: N/A

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Lamb of god vocalist D. Randall Blythe finally tells the whole incredible story of his arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic over the tragic and accidental death of a concertgoer in this riveting, gripping, biting, bold, and brave memoir.
On June 27, 2012, the long-running, hard-touring, and world-renowned metal band lamb of god landed in Prague for their first concert there in two years. Vocalist D. Randall "Randy" Blythe was looking forward to a few hours off-a rare break from the touring grind-in which to explore the elegant, old city. However, a surreal scenario worthy of Kafka began to play out at the airport as Blythe was detained, arrested for manslaughter, and taken to PankráPrison-a notorious 123-year-old institution where the Nazis’ torture units had set up camp during the German occupation of then-Czechoslovakia, and where today hundreds of prisoners are housed, awaiting trial and serving sentences in claustrophobic, sweltering, nightmare-inducing conditions.
Two years prior, a 19-year-old fan died of injuries suffered at a lamb of god show in Prague, allegedly after being pushed off stage by Blythe, who had no vivid recollection of the incident. Stage-crashing and -diving being not uncommon occurrences, as any veteran of hard rock, metal, and punk shows knows, the concert that could have left him imprisoned for years was but a vague blur in Blythe’s memory, just one of the hundreds of shows his band had performed over their decades-long career.
At the time of his arrest Blythe had been sober for nearly two years, having finally gained the upper hand over the alcoholism that nearly killed him. But here he faced a new kind of challenge: jailed in a foreign land and facing a prison sentence of up to ten years. Worst of all, a young man was dead, and Blythe was devastated for him and his family, even as the reality of his own situation began to close in behind PankráPrison’s glowering walls of crumbling concrete and razor wire.
What transpired during Blythe’s incarceration, trial, and eventual acquittal is a rock ‘n’ roll road story unlike any other, one that runs the gamut from tragedy to despair to hope and finally to redemption. While never losing sight of the sad gravity of his situation, Blythe relates the tale of his ordeal with one eye fixed firmly on the absurd (and at times bizarrely hilarious) circumstances he encountered along the way. Blythe is a natural storyteller and his voice drips with cutting humor, endearing empathy, and soulful insight. Much more than a tour diary or a prison memoir, Dark Days is D. Randall Blythe’s own story about what went down-before, during, and after-told only as he can.

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