conscience

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conscience

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & punishment

a graphic novel
2008
A graphic adaptation of the Russian novel, here set in twenty-first-century St. Petersburg, in which Raskolnikov murders a woman and is consumed by guilt.

Drink, slay, love

2011
Pearl, a sixteen-year-old vampire, shocks her family when she survives being stabbed through the heart by a unicorn and mysteriously gains the ability to withstand sunlight and, after they enroll her in high school, Pearl is tasked with luring her classmates to a feast her family is hosting for the vampire king of New England.

Beautiful souls

saying no, breaking ranks, and heeding the voice of conscience in dark times
2012
Explores the reasons ordinary people choose to defy convention, looking at the research of moral psychologists and neuroscientists as well as stories from history.

A drowned maiden's hair

a melodrama
2006
When orphaned Maud Flynn is adopted by the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister, Maud is shocked to learn that she has been selected to help stage elaborate seances for the bereaved.

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