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How can you die
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The value of “whaleness”
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Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
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Mika Waltari – The Dark Angel
The end of an era
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Loren D. Estleman – Frames
A cinema detective
Valentino is a UCLA archivist and likes to call himself a film detective, since his main occupation is to find and recover...
W.R. Burnett – Conant
Conant is a classic gangster-like thriller that sees a journalist facing a crazy crime organization and that shows some noir moments of undeniable charm.
Burnett...
Catherine Dunne – The Walled Garden
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Alexander Shurbanov – Waiting for Schliemann
Everything I’ve written
has its whereabouts
in spacetime.
Not a word is invented,
not a sound.
If one day a Schliemann
rakes the dust of the ages,
Troy the unconquerable
will...
