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25) The widow queen
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"Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one, they call her--too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's schemes; she seeks a throne of her own, with no husband...
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Contains three works of Holocaust literature, including "Night, " an account of the author's experiences as a boy at Auschwitz; "Dawn, " a short novel about a young Palestinian terrorist who spends the night waiting to execute a British prisoner; and "The Accident, " the story of a Holocaust survivor who must choose whether to live or die after being hit by a car.
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The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, Dante must ultimately...
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