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|  | | Once Upon a Time in Iraq
This charming, humorous, and insightful autobiographical book builds a bridge between two cultures, Iraqi and American, that know little of each other and are now fatefully involved.
span style="font-size: small">span style="font-family: Arial">This charming, humorous, and insightful autobiographical book builds a bridge between two cultures, Iraqi and American, that know little of each other and are now fatefully involved. /span>/span>
span style="font-size: small">span style="font-family: Arial">This book takes readers through a forgotten era of what is now the largest war zone in the Middle East. Because American friends find in his boyhood stories an Iraq they hadn’t imagined, Balian feels there’s a place for a book that gives an insight in | |  | | Rocambole - Volume 1
An adventurer and a criminal on the wrong side of the law, redeems himself and turns to helping people in need.
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font size="3">Before there was a Sherlock Holmes, Scarlet Pimpernel, Hercule Poirot, the Saint, and Arsene Lupin, there was Rocambole. The story of Rocambole by Ponson du Terrail has been acknowledged as the transition between the old-fashioned Gothic novel to modern heroic fiction, thus marking the beginning of the genre of adventure crime fiction novels. The Rocambole saga has captivated readers around the world for nearly two centuries. It is the story of an adventurer and a criminal who started life on the wrong side of the law, redeemed himself, and then de | |  | | Rocambole - Volume 2
The continuation of the Rocambole series.
In Volume 2 of Rocambole starts with a redeemed Rocambole escaping the Toulon hard labor prison with a nucleus of followers who would become his gang to help him fight evil and injustice. His network of followers increases when he is chosen to lead a gang of Parisian thieves, among them is the young Marmouset who becomes Rocambole’s protégé. Rocambole converts the thieves into a patriotic force fighting a new menace that has invaded Europe from India – The Stranglers.
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The third and last Rocambole series books
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">This is the third and last volume of the Rocambole Saga. It starts while Rocambole is in India and entrusts his protégé, Marmouset, to protect a boy whose father, Marquis de Maurevers, had mysteriously disappeared. This led Marmouset into a dangerous battle of wits with a ruthless and vengeful woman known as the Beautiful Gardener. Rocambole returned to France just in time to save Marmouset but soon after found himself involved in the Irish Rebellion in neighb |
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