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With no fewer than nine members and a unique stage image based on grotesque masks and boiler suits, Slipknot retained a mystique that was unprecedented in the metal world, never allowing their faces to become known – so that the focus would remain on their music.
The first edition of this book published in 2001 followed the band from their inception in Des Moines, Iowa in the mid-1990s through to the release of their second album: an updated...
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"The Slipped Disc Mastery Bible: Your Blueprint for Complete Slipped Disc Management" is an authoritative guide designed to empower individuals in understanding, managing, and conquering the challenges associated with slipped discs. From demystifying the science behind slipped discs and debunking common myths to detailing the causes, symptoms, and long-term effects of untreated conditions, this book provides comprehensive insights. The medical management...
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Romances are questioned and friendships tested in the second installment of the Chalet Girls series At Europe's hottest ski resort, life is never drama free. This time, the Chalet Girls-Melissa, Harley, and Lily (a.k.a. Dove)-find their bond with one another on the line. Melissa's feelings are split between two guys, and Lily's heart is still with her boyfriend on the faraway island of Nevis. When Harley gets a chance to go to that very locale and...
4) Slipt
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A corrupt corporation crosses swords with a man possessing uncanny superpowers in this sci-fi thriller from New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster.
Old Jake Pickett is an unusual man whose mind-over-matter abilities can reduce bullets and buildings to dust and rubble. But he prefers using his "magic" to entertain the poor kids in his neighborhood near the chemical dumpsite, and to communicate telepathically with his disabled...
5) Slipper
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Meet the woman whose life inspired the world's most famous tale… Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance-a pair of glass-beaded slippers-she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIV's army, and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some...
6) Slippage
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Twenty-one works from one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth, including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx. Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece, surrounded by screenplays, an introduction by the author, interspersed...
7) A Slipper
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To send his nephew A-Bao, Uncle Guoliang came to Shanghai to visit his cousin brother Li Guocai, who was an officer. Beginning from the moment he was about to step in Li Mansion, the author wrote until he left Shanghai. Coming to Li Mansion, Uncle Guoliang dared not enter it. He decided to buy a pair of shoes. After strolling around several stores, the salesman sold him a pair of leather shoes. Afterwards, he planned to visit A-Xin, who lived in Garden...
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Katharine Wright volume 1
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
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Guess How Much I Love You volume 24
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Little Nutbrown Hare wants to ice skate as well as his friends do. / Little Nutbrown Hare discovers many uses for a stick he finds.
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Once again, the Shockoe Slip Gang find themselves caught up in a thrilling and scary new mystery when their friend Jason, now living in Williamsburg, asks for their help. He's discovered that a Native American headband, believed to have been worn by Pocahontas herself, has been stolen from the historical museum in Jamestown. Even more mysterious, Jason suspects that his friend Amy, a curator at the museum and a descendant of Pocahontas, is the person...
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When the Mask Slips gives insight into identifying a classic narcissist, their abusive behaviors, and motivations, and offers helpful ways to get away from one or help your psyche heal after experiencing a narcissist. About the Author Simply Sharon wants readers of this book to feel they are not alone. Others, so many others, have experienced this kind of abuse and manipulation, and they need to know they can survive it.
12) The wild side
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"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
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Detective Kate Morgan is stumped, trying to decide when a case is really a case and when it belongs on her desk or someone else's. She's homicide and this? … This is something else, right? Following up the leads doesn't help, only confuses the issue-until someone slips up or slips away literally.Simon wakes, choking on water, drowning in the darkness of his night, struggling to understand what madness he is connecting to now. As usual, he has few...
14) Rip Tide
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The trap is set, and time is slipping away. After narrowly escaping arrest, Luciana Betarrini hurtles back to medieval Italy. Once there, she and her brother, Domenico, must decide how far they'll go to be part of the family, and if they're willing to risk their lives to hunt down an assassin. Meanwhile, Lady Tiliani Forelli's family has disappeared in enemy territory. Fearing for their lives-and secretly hoping to cross paths with the Fiorentini...
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Kino Lorber
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1997.
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After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon (Sam Lee) drops out of high school and becomes a money collector for organized criminals the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping (Neiky Yim Hui-Chi), a daughter of one of the Triads' debtors. She is suffering from a fatal kidney disease, and to pay for her medical expenses, Autumn Moon takes an assassination contract, but as he slips deeper into the criminal underworld, he's...
16) Diva
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StudioCanal
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Eighteen year-old Jules, an opera buff and post office worker, makes a pirate tape of the celebrated DIVA Cynthia Hawkins who flatly refuses to be recorded. The next day, just before being murdered, a prostitute slips a cassette revealing a scandalous illicit business into the bag on his moped. From this point on, these priceless recordings turn Jules's life upside down, as he is hunted by the police, killers and strange Asian men. Only the enigmatic...
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After his sister - and best friend - Claire leaves home after a fight with their mother, Morgan has one chance to convince Claire to come home and put their family back together, but Claire has her own plan for the day she told Morgan she wanted to spend with him - one that will change things between them forever.
18) Time to Stop
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"You do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love." When Chelsea's ex-bodyguard is hired back to help protect her, a wrench is thrown into Tom and Chelsea's world. Sneaking around is all they have. And the sneaking does more harm than good. They fight more than ever. People sense that something is wrong. And when Dustin makes a move on Chelsea, Tom finds himself in an impossible corner to slip away from. Their attention is consumed. Heads are...
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Sesame Workshop
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When Chris sprains his ankle, Zoe, Gabrielle, and Rosita use a rope and pulley to bring him his lunch, but the rope slips off the lunch bag. What if they put the lunch bag in a basket and tie the rope to the basket handle? Let’s try!
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Sir Donald Francis Tovey was born in 1875, Donald Francis Tovey was a British musicologist and composer. He took classical honors with his B.A. at Oxford in 1898, and became a pianist of the first rank, though he never sought a virtuoso career.
This book contains all the articles which Tovey wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as they now appear there, with the exception of one on 'Modern Music' and the biographies. The book was set up from printed...
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