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The Builder

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Professor Felix Acuna, physics teacher at Dumaguete University, is a busy man. Awaiting the birth of his firstborn, building a family home, urging his students to speed up their work , he must also take responsibility for the school administrator’s middling son. Then as he ends his physics class one morning he is jolted into the daylight violence across the street .
Suddenly his life takes on a detective purpose. Now he must go in pursuit of an enigmatic outlaw and two purloined documents in an attempt to solve an unsettling domestic crime.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Edith
L. Tiempo

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
27/01/2025
Country
Phillipines
Original Language
English
Publisher
Anvil Publishing Inc.

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