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Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much to her surprise though, she\"s turned away at the gangway; apparently, Chinese people aren\"t allowed into America....

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Cirrhosis: a practical guide to management provides gastroenterologists and hepatologists with an up-to-date clinical guide presenting the very best evidence-based practice in the diagnosis, treatment and management of liver cirrhosis and its many complications....

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Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she\"s been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom-and her obsession with SLK, K-pop\"s top boyband-to herself....

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Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring....

New Topik Master Final 2. is a book to prepare Topik 2 Intermediate- Advance (levels 3-6).Actually, it is a set of two books. In the first one, there are 10 Topik exams. In the second book, there are the answers and explanations of the answers in English....

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Five of Spider-Man\"s most vicious villains take the spotlight! First, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduce the poisonous Scorpion - and young Peter Parker feels the lethal sting of his tail! Then, it\"s a knock-down, drag-out, no-holds-barred throwdown between Spidey and the Kingpin of Crime himself, Wilson Fisk!...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....