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The Name Of The Rose

The year is 1327. Fran­cis­cans in a wealthy Ital­ian abbey are sus­pect­ed of heresy, and Broth­er William of Baskerville arrives to inves­ti­gate. When his del­i­cate mis­sion is sud­den­ly over­shad­owed by sev­en bizarre deaths, Broth­er William turns detective.

William col­lects evi­dence, deci­phers secret sym­bols and cod­ed man­u­scripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extra­or­di­nary things are hap­pen­ing under the cov­er of night. A spec­tac­u­lar pop­u­lar and crit­i­cal suc­cess, The Name of the Rose is not only a nar­ra­tive of a mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion but an aston­ish­ing chron­i­cle of the Mid­dle Ages.

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The Man In The High Castle

It is 1962 and the Sec­ond World War has been over for sev­en­teen years: peo­ple have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it’s not been easy. The Mediter­ranean has been drained to make farm­land, the pop­u­la­tion of Africa has vir­tu­al­ly been wiped out and Amer­i­ca has been divid­ed between the Nazis and the Japan­ese. In the neu­tral buffer zone that divides the two super­pow­ers lives the man in the high cas­tle, the author of an under­ground best­seller, a work of fic­tion that offers an alter­na­tive the­o­ry of world his­to­ry in which the Axis pow­ers did­n’t win the war. The nov­el is a ral­ly­ing cry for all those who dream of over­throw­ing the occu­piers. But could it be more than that?

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French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France

Bat­tling it out with the old men on butch­ers’ bikes across the plains of Aquitaine and pur­sued by cat­tle over Europe’s sec­ond high­est road, Moore soon finds him­self resort­ing to nar­cot­ic assis­tance, sys­tem­at­ic overeat­ing, and waxed legs before sum­mon­ing a sup­port vehi­cle staffed by cru­el­ly scep­ti­cal fam­i­ly and friends.

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Why Not Me? A Lifelong Journey of 1%ers & Becoming a World Champion

Jes­si­ca Dou­glas is a three-time World Cham­pi­on moun­tain bik­er. With­out a chance diag­no­sis of can­cer at age 14, this may nev­er have hap­pened. Accord­ing to Jess, through adver­si­ty, the suc­ces­sion of life lessons were ‘gifts’, choos­ing to see the oppor­tu­ni­ties in hard­ships and view fail­ure as the way to unlock the secrets to success. 

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The Remains Of The Day

In the sum­mer of 1956, Stevens, the age­ing but­ler of Dar­ling­ton Hall, embarks on a leisure­ly hol­i­day that will take him deep into the Eng­lish coun­try­side and into his past…

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