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Everyman's library volume 33
Language
English
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A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.
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Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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‘Why are Scandinavians constantly topping the happiness table?' ‘How do you get more Scandi-style in your life?' ‘Just how do you use lagom ?' Like her viking ancestors before her, Brontë Aurell left Denmark to explore the world beyond home shores and in her travels has come to understand the fascination with her kinfolk, as well as seeing the idiosyncrasies of the Scandinavian lifestyle that locals take for granted. Whether you want your...
51) Pilgrims
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Language
English
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A collection of twelve short stories by contemporary American author Elizabeth Gilbert.
52) Wild child
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A collection of fourteen short fiction stories from T. C. Boyle, including the title selection in which Victor, a feral boy living in France during the early nineteenth century, is captured while running through the forests, and others.
53) I live in Tokyo
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Mimiko shows the reader what Tokyo is like, then Japanese festivals from each month are depicted.
54) Don Quixote
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English
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Hailed by Dostoyevsky as The final and greatest utterance of the human mind," Don Quixote constitutes a founding work of modern Western literature. Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than sixty languages, and the novel's fantasy-driven "knight," Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, rank among fiction's most recognized characters. Their adventures have been interpreted for film, opera, and ballet, and they head a cast...
55) After this
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution,...
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English
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Finn is the only son of a successful Irish doctor, Dr Malachi Finn of Killaloe, County Clare, who sends him to London to become a lawyer. He proves to be a lackadaisical student, but being pleasant company and strikingly handsome to boot, he makes many influential friends. One of them, a politician, Barrington Erle, suggests that he stand for Parliament in the coming election. From Wikipedia.
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Kuperard
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Guide to Afghan culture and society, to turn your visit into a memorable an denriching experience.
Afghanistan is situated at the crossroads of Asia, a strategically important location that connects the Middle East with Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Down the ages it has been subjected to continuous foreign invasion and intervention--from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, and as a pawn in the struggle between the British and Russian...
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