![]() OL19964727W Page_number_confidence 90.86 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200828183513 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 399 Scandate 20200827083851 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007491261 Tts_version 3. Le Roi de fer was published in 1955, and has the English title The Iron King. Martin has acknowledged the series as an inspiration for his Game of Thrones epic. You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation The Iron King - Philip the Fair - is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. Urn:lcp:ironking0000druo:epub:c752705d-71c1-401a-b39a-16d909e74156 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier ironking0000druo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9m41zx3r Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780007491261Ġ007491263 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA16995 Openlibrary_edition Between 19, Maurice Druon wrote Les Rois maudits, a sequence of seven historical novels about the French monarchy in the 14th century. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:02:05 Associated-names Hare, Humphrey Boxid IA1917324 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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I do not control the electronic rights to all my work- in some cases, publishers paid me good money for those rights, and if they choose to limit the formats in which my books are available, there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m sorry that not every format is represented. ![]() I’ll be uploading new books and stories all the time, so if you can’t find something you want, check back in a few weeks or months and see if it’s become available. EBOOK PAGE Here is a complete-as-possible list of my works available in e-formats. ![]() ![]() Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students-but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true-only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. 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I knew Marc was leading, and I knew I probably needed a caution to help us.” But the track seemed to come to us tonight. “When I’m in a tight pack, the car seems to get tight. “I need to use a lot of the track,” he said after the win. Ronnie Johnson admitted after the race that if the feature had gone all green, he probably didn’t have a chance. Three more cautions put the Johnsons side-by-side, but each time, Ronnie Johnson came off the inside, broke Marc Johnson’s momentum coming out of the second turn and maintained the lead until starter Rich Peterson threw the checkered flag. ![]() Marc Johnson chose the inside lane, but Ronnie Johnson quickly built up momentum on the outside and grabbed the lead on lap 25. ![]() The first yellow flag of the race came out on lap 24, when Jack Lehner limped into the pits with a right rear suspension problem, setting up the first restart between the Johnsons. 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