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ViewIn the words of Alexander McCall Smith: "You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And...
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ViewOne night in Tokyo, four healthy teenagers die one after another of heart failure. A journalist, the uncle of one of the victims and intrigued by the coincidence, investigates and learns of a videotape that...
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ViewGovernment official turned sleuth Akitada Sugawara, on his way home to attend the sickbed of his bitter, aging mother, is spending the night at a monastery when he finds himself drawn to a brilliantly illustrated screen depicting the horrors of hell. His brief stay is...
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ViewLos relatos del gran maestro ruso del siglo XIX. Esta colección de relatos intenta abarcar todo el período de actividad de Fiódor M. Dostoievski como escritor, desde sus comienzos literarios en 1845 hasta 1877, año en que empezó Los hermanos Karamazov. Las historias que se incluyen...
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ViewHis holiday has just begun: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbor gets a phone call, Martin Beck finds himself...
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ViewBenny Cooperman, the most endearing private eye in literature, is sprung from small-town Grantham and working in Toronto. A dealer in rare books asks him to investigate the theft of an ancient Jewish manuscript. While Benny is immersed in the strange world of antique book collectors,...
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ViewThe novel, with the subtitle Moeurs de province ("Provincial Customs"), first appeared in installments in the Revue from October 1 to December 15, 1856. It ushered in a new age of realism in literature. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert took a commonplace story of adultery and made of...
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ViewThe Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world’s leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influence the...
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ViewIt was, by all accounts, a slug-ugly crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi'kmaq and part African, were both hanged for the killing. Those facts...
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ViewA suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards' most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns...
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ViewKiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the new family of Third...
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ViewIn pursuit of her Master's degree in Imperial Russian History, 24 year-old Molly Abramovitz is heading to Moscow for a week long seminar. Never one to miss an opportunity for genealogical research;methodical and meticulous Molly plans a side trip to Ukraine. Intriguingly, her mother, Judith, evokes a favorite Yiddish proverb,...
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ViewHardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions to walking trees to winged beasts in the woods to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe...
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View"Each poem and photograph in this book honors the patch of Earth we have carved our home in; its squelch of mud, whale song, the berry balanced on a white bear's tongue....
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ViewGood Meat is a collection of mostly observational poems that revolve around food -- more specifically, the varying complex relationships we have with the things we eat. In these poems, food feeds both disease and celebration, sometimes in the same breath. Whether we are eating out of necessity...
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ViewAfter spending years travelling through some of the poorest nations of the world, seeking out the people’s story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author John Stackhouse turns his keen eye toward his own country.Most people who travel across Canada begin...
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ViewIn This Land, Governor General's Award-winning children's author Kit Pearson has collected stories that not only entertain readers both young and old, but also offer remarkable impressions of the vast and varied land in...
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ViewKate's father is a builder for the Canadian Pacific Railway as it snakes its way across the mountains and through the Fraser Canyon. Everyone is excited about the 'Iron Horse' but...
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ViewShe'd resigned herself to her dismal fate. Tanya had no money, and now with the death of her uncle, no home. The solution was a virtual prison sentence: she must take a job as companion...
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ViewIt was a world of blazing jewels and sweeping silk dresses, of lavish parties and innocent flirtations, and lovely Daisy Pelham was caught up in it all. Fleeing from the rejection of her childhood...
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ViewA sumptuous historical novel set in pre-Revolutionary Russia and Paris -Marguerite Laurent is summoned to the Imperial Court of Empress Elizabeth to work as the Empress's personal embroiderer. The journey is long and dangerous, but Marguerite makes...
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ViewThe second volume in a 3-book seriesDuress – the extreme experience war produces – brings out the most remarkable human qualities, and letters written in wartime contain some of the most intense emotion imaginable. This anthology includes letters that date as far back...
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ViewSixteen-year-old Alice suspects that this is the year she’s going to bloom, graduating from the ranks of the marginal into the realm of the practically normal. That’s immediately confirmed when, lured by the $400 clothing allowance, she becomes the official Rod & Gun Club...
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ViewA gripping novel of love and war, risk and responsibilityArcadia Hearne is a war researcher, specializing in military intervention. But her immersion in contemporary war is offset by her refusal to put herself at...
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View"Jack McClelland was a pioneer in Canadian publishing. In the late fifties and sixties - at a time when many Canadians did not believe that they had a literature, or if they did have one, it wasn't very good or interesting...
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ViewAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from...
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ViewOlga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Like the fingers on a hand--first headstrong Olga; thenTatiana, the tallest; Maria the most hopeful for a ring; and Anastasia, the smallest. These are the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, grand duchesses...
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ViewSt. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at...
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ViewRomantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934,...
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ViewIn the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades, the deceptive calm of small-town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book...
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ViewA Vengeful Longing confirms what RN Morris' previous novel, A Gentle Axe, suggested - that here is major talent in the increasingly overcrowded historical crime field. On the evidence here, Morris is writing novels that rival...
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ViewA gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic...
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ViewJean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life....
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ViewNella prefazione del libro il sedicente psicanalista Dottor S. dichiara che vuole pubblicare "per vendetta" alcune memorie, redatte in forma autobiografica di un suo paziente, Zeno Cosini, che si è sottratto alla...
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ViewSet in Newfoundland, One for Sorrow chronicles a pivotal year in the life of Issy Heffernan, one of the most complex and appealing young heroines in YA fiction. Saddled with a mean and bedridden mother; an older, increasingly bitter schoolmarm of...
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ViewSet against the background of the decaying Russian Empire when the mad monk Rasputin ruled in the royal court, when Tartars threatened to sack the Ukraine, and when the Jew's life was forfeit to whim, THE CANDLESTICKS AND THE CROSS is an intense, enthralling epic. It surges through the last...
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ViewThe setting of Days and Nights is the massive and terrible struggle for Stalingrad, where Russia turned the Nazi tide.The story is a simple one. It is the tale of seventy days and nights in which a young Red Army officer...
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ViewShanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably: idealist and intellectual Kyo Gisors, one of the...
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ViewIn this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry,...
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ViewA dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics.Jackson's...
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ViewThe year is 1917. Penny and her little sisters, Emily and Maggie, live with their father in a small house in Halifax. The girls' mother died giving birth to Maggie the year before. Her father, a...
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ViewSous son titre sage et méthodique mais dont on saisit vite l'ambivalence, L'Emploi du temps est d'abord un roman policier, bâti, selon la définition qu'en donne l'auteur, « sur deux meurtres dont le premier, commis par l'assassin, n'est que l'occasion du second, dans...
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ViewThe exciting series for teens that explores life and love around the world.Studying abroad isn't at all like Kelly thought it would be. Instead of shopping for fine Italian leather and living in an apartment with a...
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ViewIn a western Ukraine wine cellar in 1985, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath discloses the unnecessary risks associated with the power plant to his brother, Kiev Militia detective Lazlo. Spawned by a desire to protect his family, Lazlo investigates—irritating his superiors, drawing the...
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ViewEine Reihe vermisster Personen aus dem Jahr 1987, die durch eine Person und deren entsetzliches Schicksal verbunden sind: Nete Hermansen. Eine junge Frau ohne jede Chance auf ein selbstbestimmtes Leben, von Menschen grausam misshandelt, wird zwangssterilisiert durch einen fanatischen Arzt und verbannt nach Sprogø, der...
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View'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood...
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ViewAfter his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an...
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ViewLatin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers,...
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ViewCesare Pavese (1908-1950) çağdaş İtalyan edebiyatında öykü ve romanlarıyla önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Bizde ve dünya edebiyatında da usta bir öykücü ve romancı olarak tanınır. Pavese’nin şair kimliği uzun bir süre göz ardı edildikten sonra yavaş yavaş ortaya çıkmaktadır.Bu kitapta, şair Pavese’nin...
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ViewIt is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. As the forests blaze, Alan West heads into their shadows, returning from university to his grandfather's home in the remote Kootenay Valley, where the man who raised him has suffered a heart attack....
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ViewDua tahun setelah kematian istrinya, Nikolai Mayevskyj yang berumur 84 tahun jatuh cinta pada Valentina, janda pirang seksi dari Ukraina yang berumur 36 tahun. Perbedaan usia yang begitu besar tidak menghalanginya untuk mendatangkan Valentina ke Inggris dan menikahinya.Kedua putri Nikolai---Vera dan Nadezhda---terpaksa melupakan...
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ViewDe nos jours. Dans un pays imaginaire d'Afrique noire...Après plusieurs années d'études en Europe, la « fille de l'étrangère », Ayané, retourne à Eku, son village natal, au chevet de...
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View"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y." So opens Marjorie Celona's highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on...
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ViewA mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin, from a startling new voice in Irish fictionAnthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin. He fears...
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View"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and...
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View- Miksi te intellektuellit tai miten kutsuttekin itseänne sälytätte meille taakkoja, joita emme lainkaan vaadi omaksemme. Minut on koulutettu tappajaksi. Käytän hankkimaani taitoa yhteiskuntani hyväksi. Miksi sinut on koulutettu? Olen tarkkaillut kaakaokampanjoitasi, olen seuraillut kiertuettasi ja olen tullut siihen tulokseen, että sinun elämäntehtäväsi...
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ViewLomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria's brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he's writing. Yet when his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry...
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ViewHeated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way...
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ViewLa soul food est la nourriture de l'âme des Afro-Américains. Soulfood, nom d'une gargotte qui fut l'âme de Douala, donne son titre à cet " Exquis " d'une grande densité, où Léonora Miano se livre à...
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ViewRuth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces...
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ViewNé dans l'Hexagone, Antoine Kingué, dit Snow, n'arrive pas à surmonter la rancoeur qu'il nourrit envers sa mère, coupable de ne l'avoir pas assez aimé. Elle l'a laissé en pension alors qu'il n'avait que sept ans et envoyer passer les grandes vacances seul au Mboasu, ce pays subsaharien...
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ViewFolk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brotherhood of man. This volume of West African folk tales includes a number of such tales, among them, "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Greedy Hare,"...
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ViewWhen Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by a young student...
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ViewFrom the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors...
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ViewPatrice Lumumba’s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo’s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were...
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ViewAchille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as...
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