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In Cold Blood

Non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas

The Plague

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The Masks of God

American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion

Memorial

Object which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event

The Tartar Steppe

Novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.
The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress