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  Year of Wonders

  A Novel of the Plague

  by Geraldine Brooks

  When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find... (more)
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  The Dress Lodger

  by Sheri Holman

  The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary --"Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student"--casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a... (more)
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  Paralokam Qura'nil

  by K. C. Abdulla Moulavi

  The World Here After in Qura'n - A book by the great Islamic Scholar and Leader of Kerala. The Quranic verses and descriptions are arranged in a specific oredr by the auther, so that the reader can get a better viosion about it. The book draw a pictures about the death, after death at grave, the last day and the world here after.
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  Lolita: A Screenplay

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  Originally written in 1955, this comic satire of sex and the American ways of life focuses on the love of a middle-aged European for an American nymphet. It was made into a Stanley Kubrick film in 1962, starring Peter Sellers, James Mason and Sue Lyon.