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"A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake?...
3) Boomer1
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"Daniel Torday is a two-time National Jewish Book Award recipient and winner of the 2017 Sami Rohr Choice Award for The Last Flight of Poxl West. Torday's work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Paris Review Daily, Esquire, The Kenyon Review, and Tin House, and has been honored in both the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays series. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College."--
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6) 3 dollars
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At once humorous and dramatic, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this is the nineties and the world values other things. A brilliantly deft and poignant portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family, and his sense of humor in a corporate world.
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Hana i Liwia volume 2
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Polish
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"Liwia Duńczyk zawodowo zajmuje się zarządzeniem kryzysowym, a pesymistyczne scenariusze wypełniają jej każdy dzień. Na szczęście wytchnienie przynoszą jej czarno-białe filmy i muzyka z dawnych lat. Pełna tajemnic dziewczyna pragnie spokojnej i bezpiecznej codzienności. Jednak pewnego dnia jej uporządkowany świat zatrzęsie się w posadach. Czy Liwia wykorzysta szansę, jaką daje jej los i zmieni swoje życie? Czy oprócz chłodnej...
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Wen zi sen lin xi lie volume 028
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中文(繁體)
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2022 Honya Awards TOP5 There is a kind of "maliciousness" that is deeper than murder. If you can win a better future, are you willing to "lie"? An immersive psychological battle where you can never guess the murderer. Japanese bookstore staff and readers are highly praised by word of mouth. It belongs to the current generation and sold 150,000 copies. Movies, stage plays, and comics adapted from phenomenal IPs have never entered the "interview room"....
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