The Zurau Aphorisms
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Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918,...
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Dick Davis and Abolqasem Ferdowsi
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Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded...
Hindu Prayer Book
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The Hindu Prayer Book application is a daily prayer guide for those who worship various Hindu...
Khan Academy
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David McK (3372 KP) rated Predator's Gold (Mortal Engines #2) in Books
Oct 17, 2021
Like it's predecessor (Mortal Engines), it's definitely steampunk.
The language, and general pace/outline/plot of the story also makes you think it's aimed at the younger reader.
Until you start getting more in depth into it, and realise just how nasty some of the events in this are: kidnappings, brutal beatings, dismemberment, death, torture and the more, shall we say, intimate family moments are all part and parcel of the story - enough, perhaps, to make you imagine that this would be at least a 15 (instead of the PG) rating the language used would lead you to believe if it was translated faithfully to the silver screen?
Holy Bible. New Testament. The King James Version
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The Holy Bible. King James Version. New Testament List of chapters (New Testament): Matthew, Mark,...
ASL Dictionary HD American Sign Language
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ASL Dictionary HD - Special Edition. This app has it all. Over 5000 ASL Videos ***NOTE** DOWNLOAD...
Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century
Lyn Marven and Stuart Taberner
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After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and...
Gottfried Benn - Impromptus: Selected Poems
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The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a...
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Last Wish in Books
Aug 4, 2019
I was also aware of the held-in-great-esteem computer game of the same name (or, rather, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt), even though I'd never actually played it.
When I watched the Netflix teaser trailer, I decided to give the original tales a go.
Translated from Polish into English, this is actually a collection of short stories rather than a full-blown novel in its own right, introducing - or so I've heard - some of the key players in the later full-blown saga, aside from Geralt of Rivia himself.
I think I'll be working my way through more of these!