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Journey from the Land of No
From the Hardcover“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the...
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Twilight in the Forbidden City
As part of China's 2008 Olympic welcome to visitors Xiaomina Press, presents this book about the last emperor of China. This book is essential reading for all visitors to China The Author Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston was a Scottish diplomat and the...
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River Town
In the heart of China's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai. But...
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Tales of Belkin
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales...
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Acide sulfurique
« Vint le moment où la souffrance des autres ne leur suffit plus : il leur en fallut le spectacle. »Concentration : la dernière-née des émissions télévisées. On enlève des gens, on recrute des kapos,...
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The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales
Written by Kenyan author Ndiritu Wahome, The Sad Artist and Other Fairy Tales delightfully blends mystical realism with emotional, political, and artistic messages. While written as traditional children’s fairy tales, The Sad Artist reaches out to...
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Paris in Love
A pair of scarlet-rimmed coffee cups, two glasses of Bordeaux, light glowing rosily from a street lamp, a bouquet of bright red flowers—Nichole Robertson's follow-up to the beloved Paris in Color captures the hidden corners and secret...
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Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh
Come gather round, young and old, and hear these stories from Africa, retold and illustrated by the incomparable Ashley Bryan. The fourteen stories in this collection are some of his favorites, previously published in The Ox of the Wonderful...
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The Well Of Days
There needs to be a new verb tense created for the work of Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin -- something that indicates that something has happened, happens again, and is likely to happen forever in that vastness of Russian village life. The Well of...
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Friends
Thanks - I'm told Kobo's (or is it Abe's ???) short stories are very good. Do you know of a good collection of them? They're up there with The Woman in the Dunes and Inter Ice Age 4 on my 2009 reading list.
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Operation China
This unique resource is the first attempt ever made to profile all the people groups of China!• Based on field research, it is the harvest of more than ten years' work. It includes important new ethnographical and anthropological material;...
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In The Eye Of The Storm
He is an acclaimed British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution .He has written several books on the current plight of Africa. Colonialism and...
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China
China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest-- a vast land with 1.4 billion...
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Lonely Planet Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway
Discover Pakistan & the Karakoram HighwayTravel the Karakoram Highway along the route of the fabled Silk Road Come face to face with ancient Indus Valley civilizations at Moenjodaro Answer the call of a million-dollar mosque...
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Warriors
This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII. Warriors describes...
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A History of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state...
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Red Hand
s/t: The Historical Context of Northern Ireland's Present Crisis
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The House of Hunger
When I was reading House of Hunger, I thought to myself that in our class discussion on Tuesday, many people are going to criticize the novella for anti-feminist characteristics. I don't know if the entire novella should be branded with this label...
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Easy French Reader, Second Edition
The fun and easy way to quickly enhance your French reading skills"Easy French Reader" is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level...
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Down Second Avenue
Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the...
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It's Our Turn to Eat
Speaking of my own country, there goes a lot I know only in skimpy details. Thanks to this book, I delved into a deeper understanding of stuff I used to see in the news (and let pass disinterestedly) when I was in High School. Grand corruption has...
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Naguib Mahfouz
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty...
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Sporadic Memories
This is not a novel in the normal sense of the word but a novel of poetry; it is about love and loss and about time and life. The apple on the cover symbolizes ecstasy, fertility, abundance and love, and when an apple tree is planted on pg. 160, it...
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Confessions
In this dazzling debut, Sasha Campbell delivers a sexy, suspenseful tale of two women whose marriages will be put to the ultimate test. . .For almost ten years, radio talk show host Nikki Truth has shared life's ups and downs with her...
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Sellout
People who date interracially are often called traitors to their own kind. Self-haters. Sellouts. Loan Officer Tammy McDonald has just come out of another failed relationship with a wannabe thug. To break this destructive pattern, she leaves her...
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Discover Japan
Experience The Best of JapanMake the most of your trip abroad Lonely Planet 's full color Discover guides highlight the best a country has to offer while still providing an authentic and memorable experience. Full Color ThroughoutFull of...
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Ciao Asmara
Asmara is the capital of Eritrea - a surreally Italian city at the centre of an ex-Italian colony that has been at war with its neighbour, Ethiopia (who claims sovereignty over Eritrea), for over ten years. Amidst broken palaces (built by the late...
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The Forbidden City
This blend of history, anecdotal narrative, biographical portraits & illustrations evokes 500 years of imperial China through the story of its palace, the Forbidden City. It describes the emperor's ceremonial life, the world of his concubines,...
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J. P. Donleavy's Ireland
The bestselling author of The Ginger Man writes of his own life and his Ireland--an island he adores, but of which he can still be wittily critical--in a volume beautifully illustrated with his own, previously unpublished, photographs.
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Zola
Few writers have been - simultaneously - political hero, intellectual master, and literary giant. But Emile Zola (1840-1902) was: his monumental cycle of twenty novels extended the reach of fiction for all subsequent generations; he gave new meaning...
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Brazil on the Move
John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his...
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History of My Life, Vols. 5 & 6
So essential for one's library that it is silly to even mention it. Casanova rocks his world - and not just the women I might add. Get all volumes. It's a hoot and quite an adventure at the same time.It's kind of mean of me to add all...
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Les Perroquets de la place d'Arezzo
Autour de la place d'Arezzo, où les grands platanes ont été envahis par les perruches et les perroquets, vit une des populations les plus huppées de Bruxelles. S'y croisent, dans un voisinage élégant et contrasté,...
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On ira voir la mer
Romancier de renom, Olivier Adam connaît un succès populaire et critique indéniable qui le place parmi les écrivains les plus connus de sa génération. Ancien étudiant en gestion des entreprises culturelles, il...
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The Restoration Artist
The journey of a man who loses everything in one terrible momentLeo Millar is a young painter in Paris who seems to have it all—a beautiful French wife, a talented young son, a thriving career. And then in one terrible moment he loses...
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Jouer juste
Nous sommes en pleine finale d’une Coupe d’Europe de football. A la fin de la deuxième mi-temps plus exactement, juste avant les prolongations, à ce moment précis où l’un des deux entraîneurs - et narrateur omniscient de ce...
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Client State
Japan is the world’s No. 2 economy, greater in GDP than Britain and France together and almost double that of China. It is also the most durable, generous, and unquestioning ally of the US, attaching priority to its Washington ties over all else. In...
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France in the Making 843-1180
Covering the centuries between the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the rise of the French monarchy, this book traces the long period of gestation that ended with the emergence of the kingdom of France as a recognizable entity, both on...
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Marketing Dictatorship
Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is...
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Myths & Legends Of The Swahili
Although I am interested in everything East African, I found some of these legends disturbing in their sexist propaganda and being short stories, it didn't sustain my interest.
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Le Petit Chose
Le Petit Chose est une des œuvres de jeunesse d’Alphonse Daudet, une œuvre fraîche, inspirée de ses souvenirs d’enfance et de jeune adulte. Bien que certains passages reflètent le bonheur et l’insouciance, la...
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Sounds of the River
In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of...
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Backing Hitler
The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration...
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Three Views Of Crystal Water
Vera is only a child when her mother dies, and her father has long since been absent. Her rather colourful grandfather eventually returns from his travels, complete with his Japanese lover, Keiko, a pearl diver. Vera lives with them, and visits...
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, showed all the cunning of his namesake, seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating...
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Dans un mois, dans un an
Les Maligrasse, éditeurs parisiens, reçoivent beaucoup à Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Alain, le maître de maison, aime en secret une comédienne en quête de gloire. Bernard, romancier velléitaire, tente en vain de...
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Oliver VII
Anybody coming fresh to this novel might assume it was a straightforward comic novel set in some Ruritanian backwater. Many times I found myself thinking that it would make an excellent stage play — its plotting is as complex as a Feydeau farce, and...
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An Honest Thief and Other Stories
This was an interesting story; I kind of knew that it was by the title that it was going to be a different story. The names where harder to say, but other then that it was a good story. I like how it ended when Emelyan told Astafy that he stole the...
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Tokyo
Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan's capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo – the Imperial Palace – Richie branches outwards, taking in other areas such as Yoshiwara, the original...
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Modern Egypt
This second edition of scholar Arthur Goldschmidt presents a concise survey of Egyptian history since the mid-eighteenth century. It focuses on Egypt's evolution as a nation-state, dispelling common misconceptions about Egypt's modern history....
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Breathless
Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. It had a tremendous influence on French filmmakers and on world cinema in general. Beyond its significance in...
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Gilded Prism
This book tells the story of the virtually unknown Konstantinovichi branch of the Romanov family - the descendents of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich (son of Tsar Nicholas I). Greg King and Penny Wilson are great biographers - their research is...
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Aurelia, Oder, Der Traum Und Das Leben
Dans Aurélia, Nerval retrace avec une admirable lucidité ses troubles mentaux et l'itinéraire spirituel qu'ils figurent. On notera en particulier la soudaine transfiguration du réel et le tragique désarroi qui envahit...
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Enough is Enough
While not as magnificent as the critical and political tour-de-force that was "Ship of Fools", O'Toole's sequel to that book is still compulsive reading for anyone interested in Irish politics, or socio-political global change in general. Start with...
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Across the Black Waters
'Across the Black Waters' is an English novel by the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. It describes the experience of Lalu, a sepoy in the Indian Army fighting on behalf of Britain against the Germans in France during World War...
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The Lion & the Throne
Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the Iranian Book of Kings (Shahnameh, in Persian). This prodigious national epic, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between 980 and 1010 AD, tells the story of...
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Liliane est au lycée
Normand Baillargeon, intellectueur à gages extraordinaire, fait ici un playdoyer efficace en faveur d'une culture, d'une éducation et des savoirs capables de fournir le terreau dans lequel germeront les idées de liberté, de...
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Histoires - Tome IV
Le livre IV des Histoires est par bien des aspects le livre des extrêmes, aussi bien géographiques que littéraires : à la frontière de l’histoire, Hérodote évoque autant les peuples mythiques telles les Amazones,...
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La resa di Roma
Il 9 giugno del 53 a.C., sulla pianura di Carre, nell'Alta Mesopotamia, un esercito di cavalieri venuti dall'Iran e dall'Asia centrale sbaraglia un'armata di oltre cinquantamila uomini, inviati da Roma a conquistare l'impero rivale dei Parti. Le...
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General Smuts
GENERAL SMUTS: THE FATHER OF RECONCILIATION?An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green ChambersThe World Cup may have raised South Africa’s sporting profile, but for our money, her history is much...
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L'annulaire
Σε ένα παλιό ερημικό οικοτροφείο κοριτσιών, που...
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Blood Brothers
Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty.Blood Brothers is the only known novel...
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Cosmo Cosmolino
This is an unusual collection of stories with two short stories and a novella. There is cross-over between some of the characters, seen as young people in the short stories and then re-appear in the novella as middle-aged, disappointed adults left...
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No More!
"An excellent account of the many ways in which slaves participated in bringing down the greatest evil in our nation's history." - KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)A man who cannot swim leaps off a slave ship into the dark...
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Choses et autres
Jacques Prévert est un poète et scénariste français, né le 4 février 1900 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, et mort le 11 avril 1977 à Omonville-la-Petite (Manche). Auteur d'un premier succès, le recueil de...
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Tom Is Dead
In its original French, Tom Est Mort was nominated for the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt. This edition is translated by Lia Hills.Tom died when he was four. To stop herself from forgetting him, his mother tries to write Tom's...
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The Seagull
I just noticed this is my 100th review. Or perhaps it is my 98th if you only count the sober ones (unless of course you’re using the Alex method, in which case I’ve only written two reviews because it’s only the drunken ones that count), and so I...
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Japan's Modern Myths
Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these...
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Fidelity Doesn't Make the News
Pour un coup d'essai, ce fut un coup d'éclat. Avec ce premier recueil de nouvelles, la jeune auteure Nadine Bismuth a collectionné les récompenses, dont le prix des Libraires du Québec et le prix Adrienne-Choquette de la...
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Chinese Theories of Fiction
In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese...
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One Day in My Life
Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Long Kesh, outside...
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La hija del caníbal
Lucía y Ramón llevan juntos diez años, unidos más por la costumbre que por el amor. Deciden pasar el fin de año en Viena, pero en el aeropuerto, minutos antes de que salga el vuelo, Ramón desaparece. Tras denunciar el...
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Japanese Inn
If you are interested about leaning Japanese history in a fun manner, this is a book for you. That is what I thought when I began this book. I do not think it now. Some of the stories are quite boring, others are OK! I simply did not like the...
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March Was Made of Yarn
11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan - magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes - unleashed a 50-foot tsunami that within fifteen minutes had slammed its way ashore, rushing inland six miles, crushing all in its...
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The Old Man and the Medal
Ferdinand Oyono's "The Old Man and the Medal", first published as "Le Vieux Nègre et La Médaille" in 1956, is one of the best of the African novels dealing with the clash of cultures during the era of European colonial rule in Africa. The...
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Rules of the Wild
A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa. Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a...
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The Journey
This touching allegorical novel about a man who is almost destroyed by his lust for money and the accumulation of wealth is a masterful depiction of the new moral reality facing post-war Japan.Author Bio: Jiro Osaragi (a pen name) was born in...
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Johnny I Hardly Knew You
I think I must apologize for the single star. The prose is indeed well-written and lyrical, the subject matter intriguing and hard to handle, so the unending inner monologue seems to be quite suitable here. The book is sad and aloof, and...
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The American Connection
Jack Holland was an amazing writer, able to tell the ever-changing, incredibly complex story that is Northern Ireland. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Irish Americans influenced the war between the IRA and Britain in...
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Medieval Spain
This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional, and religious communities that co-existed in the...
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Dead Again
Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was “Russia’s greatest contribution to world civilization.” Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility for the fate of...
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The Nine Muses
Wonderful book, informative, insightful and thought provoking. It's like a practical guide to inspiration and creativity by illuminating them through the lens of the Muses. There is a section dedicated to each Muse and the aspect she represents,...
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From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi
In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawing international attention to the genocide also...
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Gracias Y Desgracias Del Ojo Del Culo
Gracias y desgracias del ojo del culo es un texto satírico que enumera con humor los avatares de esa región del cuerpo humano.
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Le cahier bleu (Les cahiers de Céline, #3)
Pendant qu'à Paris les événements de mai 1968 tournent au drame et qu'à Montréal se mettent en branle les préparatifs de l'Osstidcho qui va révolutionner la musique rock au Québec, Céline Poulin entre...
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Morenga
A gripping historical novel about colonial power and tribal rebellion, set in German-occupied Southwest Africa. Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage) has been described in The New Yorker as "an...
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Snapshots
Mom had tickets and wanted me to go with her to watch a young lad play cricket , who would later on go on to be The Wall. I had been doing Madame Agatha Christie almost alphabetically and wanted something lighter, cosier for the Sunday. So refused...
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An Old Woman's Reflections
Peig Sayers, 'the Queen of Gaelic story-tellers', spent the greater part of her long life on the Great Blasket Island. She was a natural orator, and students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. In this book, as an...
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Uzaklar
Ah! yollara çıkmak lazım şimdi... Geride tükenmez krizler, nafile rutinler, virane ilişkiler bırakarak yelkenleri şişirmek lazım...Doldurup bavula ertelenmiş coşkuları,...
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By the Grace of God
Gracie Gregory owns Full of Grace Fitness Gym. Her business is successful and she loves being an aerobics instructor even if she does have to rise with the sun for her first class. She has loving, supportive parents, a fiancé, Dillian, and a...
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Anthology of Japanese Literature
The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a...
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The Galosh
In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoschenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920's and...
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The Squabble
Nikolai Gogol’s short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd. Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the greatest of...
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Les Années
La reconstitution de la mémoire à partir de photographies que l'auteur ne livre pas, mais décrit, réfléchit, interprète, est passionnante . J'ai été transportée par cette tentative d'user des formes du...
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Mirrorwork
This unique anthology presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century. Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors...
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No Man's River
With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of 1947, putting the death...
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The Big Blue Book of French Verbs
New "bible" of French verbs makes learning faster and easier . . When we set out to build a bigger, better French verb "bible," we made certain it would be a quantum leap over "Barron's 501 French Verbs "and every other source available today. The...
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Comrade Loves of the Samurai
Forget vampires and werewolves, the next big trend in prurient romantic literature should be samurai! Oh yes, get me some of that intense devotion and comradely love. Honor, duels, and self-sacrifice. Put Yukio Mishima's bodybuilding pics on the...
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Coming to Terms with the Nation
China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to...
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Ten Years of Madness
This book puts everything in life into perspective. In those ten years of absolute absurdity, the most ridiculous story may actually be someone's reality. What's displayed in this book are both the lowest low and the highest high in mankind: Twisted...
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Clans and Tartans
The system of clans grew out of ancient Celtic tribal traditions and is based on a fierce love for both family and homeland. People the world over eagerly trace their ancestry to claim they are descended from ancient clans, and new tartans are...
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Sleeping Dragons All Around
From the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia: "Sheree Fitch is an educator, literacy activist and author of award winning poetry, picture books, nonfiction, plays and novels for all ages. Her first book, Toes in My Nose, illustrated by Molly...
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Angela's Ashes
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Angela's Ashes is based on the bestselling novel by Frank McCourt.
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The Three Perils of Man
The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg's most ambitious work of fiction. The book's extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious, and the historically realistic must be unique in literature. The adventures of its...
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Place of Reeds
24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the 'Place of Reeds', and the two began their lives together. Eager to...
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A New World/Un Nouveau Monde
This new title in the illustrated "Let's Read! " language-learning series is a real page-turner! It's written in a bilingual French and English format, which encourages boys and girls who are independent readers in their own language to begin...
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Motherless Child - Stories from a Life
Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and after years of trying to find her, she finds you. Now come the hard questions. She's healthy, beautiful, and successful, but she wants to know why you gave her away and why you didn't...
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The Clash of Empires
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare,...
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There Once Was a Camel
There Once Was A Camel, a delightful new picture book by Canada's revered poet P.K. Page, introduces children to endearing animal friends who offer a bold approach to life. Combining the fun of a nonsense rhyme with the wisdom of Aesop's fables, it...
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A Time of Golden Dragons
Through the ages, the dragon has been an important symbol for the Chinese. A time of Golden Dragons is the most auspicious possible. In fascinating text and beautiful paintings, Song Nan and Hao Yu Zhang trace the dragon’s history. Perhaps inspired...
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Free Ireland
"Free Ireland: Towards a Lasting Peace" is Gerry Adams' personal statement on the meaning, importance, and inspiration of modern Irish republicanism. Adams reviews the history of Irish nationalism and British policies toward it, and catalogues...
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The Imaginary Institution of India
For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country,...
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Le français dans tous les sens
Qui connaît l’origine du mot bureau ? La bure, étoffe grossière protégeant un meuble, a vécu bien des aventures avant de devenir un espace de travail… La langue française réputée si formelle, recèle...
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Secrets of the Sands
Did the civilization of the pharaohs and the pyramids spring from an oasis in Egypt's Western Desert? Read the evidence in this enthralling scientific detective story, about how more than 400,000 years of human history are being uncovered in a...
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The Ancient Kushites
Who were people of the ancient world? What was it like to be a farmer or a soldier or an artisan in ancient times? This series creates portraits of life in ancient civilizations through the inhabitants. Each chapter focuses on a different part of...
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The Holy Terrors
Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - Cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book came into its own for...
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Casa Rossa
A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Strada’s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it. Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harbors—in particular of three women whose...
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In Search Of A Distant Voice
From humorous beginning to exotic end, this story, In Search of a Distant Voice, is an exciting and fast paced quest for truth and self-discovery. Yamada Taichi always enchants with his exceptional depictions of life, where reality gives...
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Show Business
Ashok Banjara is one of India's mega-movie stars, a man of great ambition and dubious morals. With irrepressible charm and a genius for satire, Tharoor portrays the Indian film world in all its Hollywoodesque glitz and glamor as a metaphor for...
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Leslie
The New York Times bestselling novel about a beautiful young woman with a dangerous secret At the historically black Dillard University in the lush city of New Orleans, Leslie Beaudet struggles with a dark secret of...
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Demain
Elle est son passé...... il est son avenir.Emma vit à New York. À 32 ans, elle continue de chercher l homme de sa vie.Matthew habite à Boston. Il a perdu sa femme dans un terrible accident et élève seul...
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Iran
In this timely report, a bipartisan group of experts concludes that the Islamic Republic is solidly entrenched and that the urgency of the concerns around Irans policies mandates that Washington deal with the current regime rather than wait it out....
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The Lost Domain
The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend François Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand...
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Beneath the Pyramids
Beneath the pyramids of Egypt lies a lost underworld of catacombs, hewn chambers, and cave tunnels. They are alluded to in ancient texts and Arab legends, but have been left unexplored until today. They have now been rediscovered and investigated...
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Tokyo Tales
Renae Lucas-Hall leads the reader into an enchanting, life-affirming and inspiring world of Japanese short stories in Tokyo Tales. You’ll love the way each story embraces the charm and allure of Japan and you’ll enjoy these stories even if you have...
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The lynchers
Almost 30 years before 9/11, John Edgar Wideman published his third novel, a revolutionary and controversial story about four African-American men who hatch a terrorist plot to shake a complacent America to its foundations. They see their plan to...
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The Insurrection in Dublin
In the Land of Youth recounts the rivalry between the courtly Queen Meave and Eochaid, the earthy king. It is filled with scenes of ribaldry and revelry and acts as a prelude to Maeve’s war with the men of Ulster.Stephens's two novellas,...
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The Weather in Berlin
In this astute novel of Americans abroad, Ward Just turns his keen eye toward the dark underpinnings of nationalism, fame, and artistic integrity. When a famous Hollywood director travels to post-Wall Germany to rekindle his genius, he is...
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50 Burning Questions
"A red-hot feast of fiery facts -- the first book in Annick's new 50 Questions series"If we took the time to examine flames in our world -- fires that have built civilizations, sparked entire religions and literally changed the surface of...
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Herinneringen van een prettig gestoorde jongeman
Mark Marronnier, 24 jaar, zapt zich een kleurrijk maar vooral zinloos leven van Parijse clubs naar Praagse bars, van de mondaine bals van Venetië en Wenen naar de nachttreinen van de Côte d'Azur. Maar sinds hij plots naast Anne kwam te...
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Early Samurai AD 200-1500
War played a central part in the history of Japan. Warring clans controlled much of the country. The wars were usually about land, the struggle for control of which eventually gave rise to perhaps the most formidable warriors of all time: the...
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Bushido The Way Of The Warrior
Bushido - The Way of the Warrior, offers a fascinating insight into a timeless military tradition, and shows its continuing relevance to the Japanese today. Sumptuously illustrated with over 250 rare manuscripts and photographs this book will appeal...
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Nanozine 8
“Quando escrevo erótica – sem papas na língua” por Ana Ferreira. Nem tudo o que tem sexo é erótica e é mais importante como se descreve do que o que se descreve. Pronto, resumidamente é isto. Para aqueles que não...
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Carlos V. Un hombre para Europa
La vida y la obra de uno de los personajes históricos más importantes de la Historia europea. Carlos V, el emperador, es, sin duda, una de las figuras históricas que más reclaman la atención tanto de los historiadores como...
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later, Dr Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily-& increasingly intimate-contact with Mao & his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was...
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China Wakes
The authors, married Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalists, write about the emergence of capitalist China in the mid-1990s. Alternating authorship of the chapters, they analyze China in terms of its progress in the areas of civil rights...
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Mãn
Mãn est une histoire d'amour entre une femme et celles qui l'ont, tour à tour, fait naître, allaitée, élevée. Elle a été déposée dans le potager d'un temple bouddhiste sur le bord d'un des bras du...
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طوبا و معنای شب
" With this] bold, insightful novel . . . Parsipur makes a stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Parsipur should be admired both as a courageous woman who endured jail and...
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Pas pleurer
Deux voix entrelacées.Celle, révoltée, de Bernanos, témoin direct de la guerre civile espagnole, qui dénonce la terreur exercée par les Nationaux avec la bénédiction de l’Église contre « les mauvais...
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The Heart Of The Continent
I enjoyed this book even more this time. It is the beautifully written story of two women, Alix and her daughter Caro. Alix was the daughter of well-to-do landowners who studied nursing and worked in a small clinic in the Australian outback. She...
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Une histoire sans nom
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts...
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An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia
Award winning book that tells the story of Nova Scotia. From explorers, fishermen, adventurers, priests- all came to Nova Scotia. Informative and entertaining with great illustrations.
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The Rise of Modern Japan, 3rd Edition
This clear and authoritative book surveys the history of Japan from the mid 19th century up to the present day. It charts the spectacular rise of Japan, a society which leapt in little more than a generation from the feudal to early industrial forms...
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Australian Classics
A good browsing book. A definite pick if you want to find more Australian authors. Looking forward to checking out The Man Who loved Children, The Pea-pickers, Voss and a bunch of other Aussie Classics.
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The Stone Angel
One summer changed Stella Boyd forever.It was 1975. And his name was Zeph.Fifteen years later, Stella's life is full of excitement and danger as she travels the world writing magazine articles about women. But then one day she receives...
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The Italians and the Holocaust
Eighty-five percent of Italy’s Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by terror. Susan Zuccotti relates hundreds of stories showing...
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Wind In The Tower
"In Wind in the Tower, Han Suyin concludes the epic story of China's long march towards social and cultural revolution under the visionary leadership of mo Tse Tung". (From the cover)
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Nurturing Walls
"The book itself a work of art. Each copy has brown craft-paper pages actually silk-screened with Meena designs. Instead of merely presenting photographs, Nuturing Walls offers the work itself, with the thick brown paper acting as the clay walls of...
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Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent
Set in modern-day Luanda, this satirical crime novel introduces readers to Jaime Bunda, an overweight, incompetent detective set on the trail of a murderer. Through misstep and mistake, Bunda finds himself embroiled in crimes of passion and...
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Fur Hat
October 2012Soviet writer Yefim Rakhlin writes about "decent people," fearless adventurers whose conflicts with nature create no controversy, challenge no one, and pass the censors with ease. So when the Writer's Union begins to give fur...
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Jacaranda Vines
After years of dominating Australia's wine industry, Jock Witney dies, leaving his family's business in a shambles. Despite offer worth hundreds of millions for the company, the family is split and unable to agree on the future of Jacaranda Vines....
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Superstar India
The Book starts with infectious energy and excitement from the author. I actually found myself having goosebumps at times with her positivity about India and all things Indian. Then just when I started doubting her for going over the top in...
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Playing With Fire
Life is difficult for Sofia and her family, they don't have much money and their mother works long days in the fields to grow food for them. Sofia and her sister both do their best to bring in extra money with Sofia taking in sewing and Rosa...
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Simone
Seriously?I can't believe no one edited this book! Before I ordered this book, I read through the reviews. I know some people are grammar obsessed, so I took those reviews with a grain of salt. I shouldn't have. I...
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When the Lotus Blooms
From East Bengal to Tamil Nadu, 'When the Lotus Blooms' captures the mood and ethos of the rich landscape and diversity of India, while highlighting the universal and timeless circumstances of women and their struggle to seek happiness in a...
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An Instance of Treason
This is the only complete, authoritative account of the most brilliantly successful espionage operation of the twentieth century: the notorious Communist spy ring headed by Dr. Richard Sorge, whose cover was that of senior German journalist in Tokyo...
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Hide and Seek
Short story. A young mother is completely enraptured with her young, precocious daughter.
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Substance B
Bernard Lenteric was a French writer born in Paris in 1944. He was best know for thriller fiction works, such as La Nuit des enfants rois, where he describes the destroying madness of seven teenagers gifted with almost superhuman...
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Death of a Salaryman
Wonderfully surreal and painfully real, this is the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation on his 40th birthday and slips through to a different layer of society. In a shadowy world where curious characters show him the...
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Knights Of The Black Cross
Bryan Perrett was born in 1934 and educated at Liverpool College. He served in the Royal Armoured Corps, the 17th/21st Lancers, Westminster Dragoons, and the Royal Tank Regiment, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. During the Falklands and...
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M/T ja kertomus metsän ihmeestä
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and...
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Conversations with My Sons and Daughters
An inter-generational set of conversations about the country of our dreams and the reality on the ground. It concludes with a section that focuses on the need for healingof our woundedness as individuals, families, communities and the nation. It...
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La Petite Marchande de prose (Malaussène, #3)
Transformé en objet d'adoration universelle par la reine Zabo, éditeur de génie, Benjamin Malaussène va payer au prix fort toutes les passions déchaînées par la parution d'un best-seller dont il est censé...
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The Shiralee
The Shiralee tells the story of the itinerant rural worker Macauley - sometimes described as a 'swagman' or 'swaggie' - who suddenly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. Having returned from 'walkabout', he finds his wife entwined in...
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Secrets of the Savanna
In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and -- in the end -- themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists...
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Afloat
Afloat, originally published as Sur l’eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected...
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Day of the Oprichnik
One of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning.Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor—but wait, that’s just...
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The Noodle Maker
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts...
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The Black Man's Burden
This book is subtitled "Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State", but I assume that this was added by a timid publisher, afraid that the more accurate subtitle "Africa and the Curse of Imperialism" would make the book less salable. It would...
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A Gangster's Girl
I don't know why I Picked this book ..Maybe it was just something new & I love these type of books , even tho they are basically all the same , with different characters surroundings and what not , I just can't get enough though .Where...
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Power & Beauty (Power & Beauty, #1)
Hip-hop artist Tip "T.I." Harris has received every acclaim the music world has to offer. Now, working with bestselling celebrity collaborator David Ritz, T.I. applies all his talent and experience to the world of fiction by creating the epic...
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American MaleWhore in Tokyo
American MaleWhore in Tokyo tells the tale of a loveable (alright, likeable (alright, tolerable)) douchebag who moves to Tokyo to become a host and live out the modern day male American dream. It’s an explicit and groin-grabbingly entertaining story...
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Japan's Tipping Point
Japan's Tipping Point is a small book on a huge topic. In the post-Fukushima era, Japan is the "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world. Can Japan radically shift its energy policy, become greener, more self-sufficient, and avoid...
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Travelers of a Hundred Ages
In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the novel and the literary essay. Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book review as the century's leading expert on Japanese literature, presents a...
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Irish Male At Home And Abroad
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ Che il cielo benedica l'Irlanda,...
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Call Me Woman
The autobiography of a 72-year-old black South African Woman who has seen and been a part of her country's political history for the last fifty years. Winner of South Africa's CNS Literary Award (1987). "Among that small group of books that have...
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Bib and Bub
Adorable!!Australian children were weaned on the books of May Gibbs and I have only ever heard fond critiques from fellow generations.....lol...the "Banksia Men and the Banshees", kept us kids in tow!. :-))The first book I...
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Lyubka the Cossack
Jason wrote: "Just heard about Babel. Worth getting into would you say, for a person like me who's interested in the Napoleonic-era?"Yes, I enjoyed most of the stories I read. They are very short (Babel was very heavily influenced...
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The Tender Shoot and Other Stories
Lorsqu’en 1908 Colette publie ce recueil de textes brefs - dialogues de bêtes, évocations de la nature, méditations sur l’amour, la solitude, le passage du temp… -, elle s’est séparée de Willy, son premier mari,...
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The Seven Veils of Seth
Isan, the novel s protagonist, is either Seth himself or a latter-day avatar. A desert-wandering seer and proponent of desert life, he settles for an extended stay in a fertile oasis. If Jack Frost, the personification of the arrival of winter, were...
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Et si on dansait ?
Après 'La grammaire est une chanson douce', après 'Les Chevaliers du subjonctif', après 'La Révolte des accents', Erik Orsenna poursuit les aventures grammaticales de son héroïne Jeanne et de son frère Tom. Ou...
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Amazon Town
Amazon Town: A Study of Human Life in the Tropics is Charles Wagley's classic ethnography of peasant life in the Amazon, with updated material by Conrad Kottak and Richard Pace.
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L'anulare
Quando viene assunta dall’impeccabile signor Deshimaru, la giovane protagonista di questo libro enigmatico è alquanto disorientata. E tuttavia non ci metterà molto ad abituarsi al nuovo lavoro, che consiste nell’accogliere «con gentile...
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The Crisis of the Italian State
In the first full length English language account of the Clean Hands Crisis of the Italian government, Patrick McCarthy finds the roots of Berlusconis rise and fall in the practices of clientalism, the machinations of the Mafia, the corporate...
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Fighting for Darfur
Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, we promised to never let such...
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The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death
In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their previous...
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Guerra e Paz – Livro IV
Considerado como um dos nomes maiores da literatura, este escritor, filósofo, pedagogo e até profeta, foi um defensor acérrimo das minorias e dos mais desfavorecidos, e um dos primeiros a insurgir-se contra a escravatura. Apesar das...
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Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
This handbook is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the 21st century.
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China's Rise in Historical Perspective
China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels communist, non-Western, developing country but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us....
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Indian Horse
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to...
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African Perspectives on Colonialism
Chapter One is titled “Eve of Colonial Conquest“ and gives a background to colonialism through a look at the fundamental economic, political, and social changes that occurred in Africa just a few decades before Colonialism took root. Of the drastic...
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Jembatan Musim Gugur (Samurai, #2)
Mengetahui masa depan dan mengetahui masa lampau adalah dua hal yang bermakna sama. Apa bedanya mengetahui hal yang tak terelakkan dengan mengetahui apa yang telah terjadi?Aki-no-Hashi(1311)Sesosok wanita hadir, mengiris...
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Endings and beginnings
Redi Tlhabi, warm-hearted, charismatic and loved throughout South Africa is as well known for her 702 and Cape Talk radio show as she is for her TV performances and Sunday Times newspaper column. In this astonishing debut, Endings and beginnings,...
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Mau Tempo No Canal (Biblioteca De Autores Portugueses, Obras Completas de Vitorino Nemésio, vol. VIII)
Este livro foi-me particularmente gostoso de ler, porque para além de ser um dos melhores romances escritos em português no séc.XX, retrata uma zona do país que eu adoro, que são os Açores.A ação centra-se...
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Une année chez les Français
C'est en 1970 que le ciel tombe sur la tête de Medhi Khatib. Ébloui par l'intelligence et la boulimie de lecture de son jeune élève, son instituteur s'est battu comme un lion pour lui obtenir une bourse d'interne dans le...
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Mother Pious Lady
The writing is spontaneous, but this spontaneity is a double edged sword. On the one hand the book has charming instances of humor, anecdotal evidence of things so omniscient that we rarely notice them. In particular I loved his essay on the...
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Sources of Chinese Tradition
For four decades "Sources of Chinese Tradition" has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and...
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous...
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La Vie tranquille
Francine Veyrenattes nous raconte – ou se remémore – comment son frère Nicolas se bat à mort avec son oncle Jérôme ; quelle garde discrète et sûre la famille monte autour de l’agonisant ; comment la liberté...
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Our Enduring Spirit
I love presidential inaugural addresses. They are full of hope and pride and passion. The inspire positive patriotism and camaraderie. The reveal our national ideals and aspirations and, hopefully, make us want to be better citizens. That holds true...
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