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Venice : Birth of a City
Published: 1988-04-05
Hardcover: 36 pages
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Traces the history of the city built on islands in the Adriatic Sea from its establishment in A.D. 452 to the height of its political and economic power as a colonial empire and cultural center in the 1400's to its conquest by Napoleon in 1797.
Venom (Elemental Assassin, Book 3)
Published: 2010-09-28
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
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What kind of assassin works pro bono?It's hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab Monroe, the Fire elemental who murdered my family. Which means protecting...
Venus in Furs
Published: 2010-10-27
Paperback: 114 pages
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If you've ever been curious about where the term "masochism" comes from, you will find it laden in the pages of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece, Venus in Furs, for whom the term was named. Drawn in part from his own life experiences, Sacher-Masoch's novel develops an eroticism unlike any other....
Veracity
Published: 2010-01-05
Hardcover: 384 pages
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Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned s...
Verbena
Published: 2003-10-07
Paperback: 368 pages
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When Bobby died in a car wreck with another woman at his side, Bena was left with five kids, a small house, and a big empty place in her heart. Five years later, she's got two daughters who've run off with no-good men, a backyard full of marijuana plants none of her kids will own up to, and a semi-personal...
Vermeer's Hat
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Published: 2007-12-26
Hardcover: 288 pages
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In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a D...
Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy
Published: 2007-10-30
Hardcover: 288 pages
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In late January of 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced, for the first time, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America's Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger the Justice Department was ...
Vernon God Little
Published: 2003
Hardcover: 279 pages
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In the town jail of Martirio, Texas--under the terrifying care of the dynastic Gurie family, and wearing only his New Jack trainers and underpants--15-year-old Vernon Little is in trouble. His friend, the mysterious Jesus, has just blown away 16 of his classmates before turning the gun on himself.
Veronica
Published: 2006-07-18
Paperback: 257 pages
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Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice,...
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