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1) Dissolution
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 1
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It is England in the year 1537, and Thomas Cromwell is Henry VIII's vicar-general and in the process of dissolving all of the large monastic houses, granting the land to his favorites or the highest bidders. When one of his commissioners is murdered at the monastery in Scarnsea, Cromwell sends the hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake and Mark, his young assistant, to solve the mystery. They find that not only has the murder been covered up but also...
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A masterful achievement that ranks with "Brave New World" and "1984", this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959. "Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim".--"Chicago Tribune."
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[1997]
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Brother Blacktooth St. George, a resident of the Abbey of San Leibowitz in the thirty-second century, is torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, but a whole new world is opened to him when he accepts an assignment that leads him out of the shelter of monastic life.
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