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Biblioasis international translation volume 26
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In the winter in Montreal, 2002, a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. Owing the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and drowning in lies he tells his friends and cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at a high-end restaurant.
3) Wolves
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"An 18-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team, a good student, has a longtime girlfriend and some good friends. But at home he's struggling with his troubled father who has a gambling addiction. His mother tries to keep the family afloat but does so with great emotional and financial sacrifice."--www.imdb.com.
4) On thin ice
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The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
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Leo Desroches mysteries volume 3
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After just been released from jail, Leo is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young native man, Leo witnesses some rocks falling out of the body bag, at first he believes they are crack but discovers that the rocks are really diamonds and Leo gets dragged into a deadly conflict between the mining companies and a murderous native street gang.
6) Righteous
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IQ novels volume 2
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"Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. Righteous is the story of Isaiah's investigation...
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"Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most...
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The matrix: Neo-mild-mannered software author by day, feared hacker by night-is recruited into a cell of cyber-rebels, led by Morpheus and the warrior Trinity. They have made a fundamental discovery about the world: It does not exist. It is only a seedy utopia where humanity is preserved, protected, and endlessly recycled by a mega-computer. Cypher turns traitorous for access to comforts unmatched by the drab post-apocalyptic real world, while Agent...
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