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The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale—a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsBarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written...Categorized as:
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![The Devil's Den by Irina Shapiro]()
The Devil's Den by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1540, newly married and pregnant Isobel Devlin vanished from a tiny island in Lancashire, never to be seen again.In 2020, leaving London for the first time since the pandemic began, Nicole Rayburn and Kyle Walsh head to a guesthouse in the Lake District for a much-needed holiday...Categorized as:
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![The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo]()
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVictor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him... -
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![The Northern Throne by Steven A. McKay]()
The Northern Throne by Steven A. McKay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAD431, SpringBellicus the Druid and his friend Duro, a former Roman centurion, have suffered a great deal in recent years but, for them, things are about to get much worse.Britain is changing. The Romans have gone and warriors from many different places seek to fill the void the legions left behind... -
![The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend by Oliver Pötzsch]()
The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA young man’s destined quest becomes a dance with the devil in a mesmerizing retelling of the Faust legend by the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter Tales series.It’s the fifteenth century and only heretics are curious about the universe.Germany, 1494. Born under a rare alignment of the stars, Johann Georg Gerlach, “the lucky one” to his mother—is fated for greatness... -
![The Reign Of Greed by José Rizal]()
The Reign Of Greed by José Rizal
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"El Filibusterismo" ("The Subversive") is the second novel by Jose Rizal (1861-1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known "Noli Me Tangere", the "Fili" was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages... -
![Blood Infernal by James Rollins, Венцислав Божилов]()
Blood Infernal by James Rollins, Венцислав Божилов
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn a masterpiece of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell bring to a thunderous conclusion their epic trilogy of novels set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very gates of Hell must be shattered to discover the true fate of humankind in..Categorized as:
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![Koruna démonů by James Rollins]()
Koruna démonů by James Rollins
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTo save mankind’s future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil’s bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this gripping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins... -
![The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction by Charles William Eliot]()
The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction by Charles William Eliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a man who interviews and studies successful men and women, I set out to create the ultimate Kindle edition of Benjamin Franklin’s timeless wisdom. I wanted to create an easy to use Kindle book that included his amazing writings at a fantastic price...Categorized as:
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![Kings of Fate by A.E. Rayne]()
Kings of Fate by A.E. Rayne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘Wow, more twists and turns than a roller coaster.... I love this series!!!’Lothar the Usurper has stolen his brother’s throne. And now he squats upon it, thinking of how to get rid of his troublesome niece, Jael Furyck. Brekka’s most famous warrior. The one they thought would be queen after her father’s death.Her presence hangs over him like an axe... -
![The Midnight Hour: All Hallows' Brides: A Gothic Regency Historical Romance collection by Kathryn Le Veque, Meara Platt]()
The Midnight Hour: All Hallows' Brides: A Gothic Regency Historical Romance collection by Kathryn Le Veque, Meara Platt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen doors creak and ghostly whispers are heard in the midnight hour, this stunning collection of Gothic Regency Historical Romance is sure to leave you breathless with Poe-inspired, romantic dreams… Welcome to the All-Hallows’ Brides collection... -
![The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor by Catherine Coulter]()
The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Grayson Sherbrooke’s second Otherworldly Adventure, he goes to Scotland to Vere Castle, the home of his aunt and uncle, the Earl and Countess of Ashburnam. His aunt Sinjun had written to him that her resident ghost, Pearlin’ Jane, warned that evil was coming. But Grayson doesn’t make it to Vere Castle... -
![The Killing Snows by Charles Egan]()
The Killing Snows by Charles Egan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage. In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine... -
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![The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks, Rajendra A. Chitnis]()
The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks, Rajendra A. Chitnis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.”—Giovanni Papini It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II... -
![A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš, William T. Vollmann]()
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš, William T. Vollmann
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsComposed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate... -
![The Werewolf of Bamberg by Oliver Pötzsch]()
The Werewolf of Bamberg by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon are traveling to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: there is a murderer in Bamberg who is leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city... -
![The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House by Catherine Coulter]()
The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Grayson Sherbrooke takes his son Pip (nearly five), Miranda (his love interest), her daughter, P.C. (a precocious eight-year-old), and Barnaby (an orphan who calls himself a barn cat) to Lake Windemere to the home of Lord Lyle for a month of fun and relaxation, little does he know what awaits him... -
![Deep Into Darkness by Kathryn Le Veque]()
Deep Into Darkness by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1298 A.D. - Findlater Castle in the Scottish Highlands becomes a place of mystery and doom for Jamison Munro and his wife,Havilland. Traveling across the highlands one dark and stormy night, they stumble upon a lonely Host in Findlater Castle, a pathetic soul waiting for his wife to return to him... -
![Northern Hunt by Daniel Greene, Bradford Hastings]()
Northern Hunt by Daniel Greene, Bradford Hastings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was a surefire raid to free prisoners, but it will soon become a battle for Wolf's soul.When an escaped Northern prisoner reaches Union lines, his tales of abuse at Libby Prison set up the perfect justifications for a daring raid on Richmond.Johannes Wolf has made a crucial mistake. He's volunteered for a secret raid, dragging along with him, his unit of misfits...Categorized as:
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![Fae: The Realm of Twilight by Graham Austin-King]()
Fae: The Realm of Twilight by Graham Austin-King
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Riven Wyrde Saga continues...The Wyrde is dead and gone, its protection passed into the ether. The fae have been loosed upon the world as they begin their wild hunt, a nightmare from fable and legend made flesh. At Hesk, in the heart of the Barren Isles, Ylsriss must confront a reality she never could have imagined when her son is stolen from her by the fae... -
![Bastian by Elizabeth Amber]()
Bastian by Elizabeth Amber
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMan-gods born to live and love forever, the Lords of Satyr are renowned for their sexual prowess. . .and unquenchable lust. . .Call My NameThe forum excavations in Rome go on, directed by the iron-willed, charismatic Lord Bastian Satyr. Out of nowhere, a mysterious, haunting voice calls out to him. . -
![ابق حيا by إبراهيم أحمد عيسى]()
ابق حيا by إبراهيم أحمد عيسى
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsجاءت (أبق حيا) لتحمل نذيرا ما، من بقعة بعيدة في التاريخ، القاهرة الفاطمية و احدي حقبها التي غاب عنها التدوين حد ان جهل عنها البعض.المعاناةُ تجعلنا أقوى. تُجبرنا على الصمود. تصنعُ ما نحن عليه، لنتحلى بالإصرارِ على مواصلةِ الطريق. تجعل أحلامنا المستحيلةَ قريبةً. فقط علينا أن نصبرَ حتى نجني ثمار الإيمان؛ فالكوارثُ تختبرُ إيمانَ البشر، والتضرُّع وحده لا يكفي، فالإيمانُ قولٌ وعملٌ... -
![The Seven That Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev]()
The Seven That Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSergey did not know that the colonel, having locked himself all the previous night in his little study, had deliberated upon this ritual with all his power. "We must not aggravate, but ease the last moments of our son," resolved the colonel firmly, and he carefully weighed every possible phase of the conversation, every act and movement that might take place on the following day... -
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![The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell]()
The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDavid Morrells international thrillers have no equal. Among his classic novels, this story stands as one of his most exciting and brilliant works a globe-spanning tale that brings together two generations of men and women bound by one murderous legacy...Categorized as:
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![Mephisto by Klaus Mann]()
Mephisto by Klaus Mann
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKlaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law... -
![The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki]()
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days...Categorized as:
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![Marat Sade by Peter Weiss]()
Marat Sade by Peter Weiss
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThis extraordinary play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama... -
![The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe]()
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMarlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration... -
![The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi]()
The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome.Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon... -
![The Man With No Face by Peter May]()
The Man With No Face by Peter May
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrussels, 1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman arrives in the capital of European politics intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered. A CHILD WITH NO FATHER One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: the double-assassination witnessed by the former's autistic daughter... -
![The King's Witches by Kate Foster]()
The King's Witches by Kate Foster
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgettable voice to the women at the heart of the real-life witch trials in sixteenth-century Scotland.Women whisper secrets to each other; it is how we survive.1589. Princess Anne of Denmark is betrothed to King James VI of Scotland – a royal union designed to forever unite the two countries...Categorized as:
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![Highland Vampire by Hannah Howell, Deborah Raleigh]()
Highland Vampire by Hannah Howell, Deborah Raleigh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne kiss could mean forever....the Scottish Highlands echo with legends of great battles, brave heroes and hidden deep in the swirling mists, creatures that belong to the night. "Kiss of the Vampire" by Hannah Howell, "His Eternal Bride" by Adrienne Basso and "To Tame the Beast" by Deborah Raleigh...Categorized as:
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![By Night under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz]()
By Night under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSixteenth-century Prague provides the setting for the story of the forbidden love between emperor Rudolf II and Esther, the wife of an influential financier, and of the efforts of the city's Great Rabbi to right a situation angering... -
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![My Wicked Highlander by Jen Holling]()
My Wicked Highlander by Jen Holling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith Scotland in the grip of a nationwide witch hunt, Isobel MacDonell is hiding in England. But when Sir Philip Kilpatrick arrives to escort her to her betrothed in the Highlands, Isobel must face a harrowing journey through a land of fear and suspicion. Soon, however, Philip grows reluctant to deliver Isobel to the noble intended she has never met. Isobel has charmed her way into his heart.. -
![The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren]()
The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."As the narrator suggests, that is the inescapable conclusion of this slim, moving parable about a Swedish peasant family at the end of the 19th century... -
![The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed by Daniel Kraus]()
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed by Daniel Kraus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA murdered teen is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century in the second and final book in the sweeping epic that Entertainment Weekly called “utterly riveting.”Zebulon Finch has faced more violence, lust, and heartbreak than any other seventeen-year-old in history. But nothing can prepare him for what is coming next...Categorized as:
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![My Devilish Scotsman by Jen Holling]()
My Devilish Scotsman by Jen Holling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"From acclaimed author Jen Holling comes the second novel in a sensual new trilogy full of passion and intrigue about a trio of sisters with the remarkable gift of witchcraft." Gillian MacDonell has always felt lacking because, unlike her sisters, she did not inherit any mystical powers... -
![My Shadow Warrior by Jen Holling]()
My Shadow Warrior by Jen Holling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAcclaimed author Jen Holling presents the stunning final novel in her sensual trilogy, set against the windswept hills of Scotland, about a trio of sisters with witchcraft -- and passion -- in their blood. Rose, the youngest of the MacDonell sisters, is more concerned with her father's mysterious illness than with her impending marriage to her childhood sweetheart... -
![I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński]()
I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"This is a superb text of astonishing modernity, a veritable manifesto of the wretched of the earth ..."— MarianneBruno Jasienski’s I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland’s most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization in 1928 in the French magazine L’Humanité (for which Jasienski was deported)... -
![Beguiled by Alice Borchardt]()
Beguiled by Alice Borchardt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn tenth-century France, Elin, a woman of the pagan Forest People, and Owen, the young Christian bishop of Chantalon, found each other and wed, standing against the brutal onslaughts of Viking invaders. Gifted with the Forest People's powers of "sight, " Elin sees a vision of danger to Chantalon, another invasion she fears will soon be visited upon the town... -
![The Wolves of Solomon by R.L. Blackhurst]()
The Wolves of Solomon by R.L. Blackhurst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEngland, 1307 . . .Templar Knight Galeren de Massard is sent to investigate an incident where a nun claims to have been attacked by “a man who became a wolf.” When Galeren meets Catherine, he instinctively knows that her attacker was Esquin de Floyran, an old foe, and that his return is dangerous for the increasingly unpopular Templar Order... -
![Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTales of Suspense - Edgar Allen Poe - Illustrations by: Steve Salerno - THE WORLD'S BEST READING - The Reader's Digest Association...Categorized as:
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![Windswept House by Malachi Martin]()
Windswept House by Malachi Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society. Utopia.These are men with nothing in common but immense power and a towering ambition for still more... -
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![Faces of Terror by R.L. Stine]()
Faces of Terror by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConvinced by a nightmare that something terrible has happened to her brother Thomas, Elizabeth Nelson travels to Cliff House, the home of her brother's employer, to investigate...Categorized as:
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![The Horror of Devil's Root Lake by Amy Cross]()
The Horror of Devil's Root Lake by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Once upon a time, there was a monster. An actual, real monster, like you hear about in stories. And this monster killed children. Hundreds and hundreds of children.” When her son Charlie is killed in a tragic accident, Emily Carter sets out to discover the truth... -
![The Impaler's Wife by Autumn Bardot]()
The Impaler's Wife by Autumn Bardot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe year is 1464. King Matthias controls Hungary, his family, and the fate of the world’s most notorious political prisoner, Prince Vlad Dracula. Ilona Szilágy, the king’s cousin, is young and ambitious. Dracula is determined to marry into the family. It is love at first sight, but the king has other plans. The Impaler Prince, however, never takes no for an answer...Categorized as:
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![A Modest Proposal (Literary Casebook Series) by Jonathan Swift, Charles Allen Beaumont]()
A Modest Proposal (Literary Casebook Series) by Jonathan Swift, Charles Allen Beaumont
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsIt is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin–doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms... -
![A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche]()
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes...Categorized as:
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![Masks by Karen Chance]()
Masks by Karen Chance
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFifteenth century Venice is a safe haven for the masterless dregs of the vampire world, a city where they can live without the fear of retribution for violating another’s territory.Still, there are plenty of ways for a young vampire to die in the glittering city, a lesson that prince turned pauper Mircea Basarab must learn quickly...
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