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Bill Hefflin is a man apart--apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love. At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin--a disillusioned Romanian expat--arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions....
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"Luke, Resus, and Cleo are eager to begin their new quest. First stop, Count Negatov's castle! As the three make their way through the bleak, murky wilds of Transylvania, it looks like this adventure will be dull, but easy. Until, that is, they are kidnapped by trolls"--Provided by publisher.
24) Kiss of darkness
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Several visiting college students venture into the woods of Transylvania, ignoring the warnings of their professor, Bryan McCallister. When the students disappear, Bryan believes a dark cult is at work, and approaches psychologist Jessica Fraser for assistance. "The search takes them from the forested mountains to dimly lit clubs in New Orleans' French Quarter, where perversion goes beyond sexual to life-threatening. And everywhere, whispering on...
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Every Christmas Peter's father plays the drum in the traditional colindat - as singers and musicians carol through the village from house to house. But this year, Peter's father is gone - working in the city - and who will take his place? Peter has promised that he would, but now it's wonders how he'll ever be able to fill his father's shoes.
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A sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," set twenty-five years after the vampire was destroyed, in which Quincey, the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, having left law school to pursue an acting career, learns the secrets of his parents' past through a production of the play "Dracula," directed by Bram Stoker, and stumbles upon a plot to kill all the people involved in Count Dracula's demise.
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"This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition. A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and 'Dracula's Guest,' the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints...
32) The whistlers
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Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off
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"A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancee and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England's shores? And what is it that he hungers for so desperately?"-NoveList.