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Shashi Tharoor
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The Great Indian Novel takes its title not from the auther's estimate of its contents but in deference to its primary source of inspiration, the ancient epic the Mahabharata. In this widely acclaimed novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the 2,000-year-old epic The Mahabharata with fictional, but highly recognizable, events... more
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Frank Blaichman ,
Martin Gilbert
[Paperback 2011]
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A gripping story of suffering, endurance, and the triumph against massive odds of the human spirit. Sir Martin Gilbert, from his Introduction... more
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Jasper Ridley
[Paperback 2011]
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For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a dual reputation: powerful-often munificent-rulers, politicians, and artists whose works have enhanced our world; and members of a dread secret society bent on... more
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Robert Hough
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With the suspense of a thriller, "The Stowaway" is an adventure story of the highest caliber and a riveting tale of good and evil, all the more moving because it is based on actual events. The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based... more
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Michael Busselle
[Paperback 1994]
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Millions of tourists visit France every year to revel in its history and culture, but few venture beyond Paris and the Riviera. This opulent but practical guide for visitors or armchair travelers explores the paths less taken, from Normandy and Provence to Burgundy and Bordeaux. 100 color photographs. Millions of... more
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Ismail Kadare
[Paperback 1989]
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In the mid 1930s, two young American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands, the last remaining natural habitat of the oral epic, with one of the world's first tape recorders in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works such as The Iliad and The Odyssey without... more
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Julius Lester
[Hardcover]
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8.
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Joanne Greenberg
[Paperback 1993]
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A rich cornucopia of Joanne Greenberg's recent shorter prose, including a brilliant futuristic novella and a dozen of her best short stories. The title novella deals with time travel and reliving one's life, the results of which are both moving and tragic. All of the dozen stories are small gems,... more
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By
Sean Bryan ,
Tom Murphy
[Hardcover 2011]
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A lonely little boy teaches a grouchy, type-A bear to stop and smell the lilacs called charming and fanciful by School Library Journal.... more
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Edward Behr
[Paperback 2011]
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The basis of a forthcoming television series on the Arts and Entertainment cable network, an illustrated survey of the age of Prohibition covers the ill-fated Eighteenth Amendment, the St. Valentine's Day massacre, the speakeasies, the gangsters, and the bootleggers. Tour. When the Constitution declared on January 16, 1920, that Americans... more
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Prioleau Alexander
[Paperback 2011]
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Prioleau Alexander s comic tales of quitting the rat race to find meaning have a deep lesson for all of us get back in that race and run like hell! Stephen Colbert... more
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Frank Tallis
[Paperback 2012]
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A brilliant synthesis that reevaluates, in accessible language, one of the major concepts of twentieth-century science in light of the latest experiments.In this brilliant synthesis, Frank Tallis argues that the unconscious--along with quantum physics and the gene--is one of the three big ideas of twentieth-century science. Closely associated with the... more
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Melvyn Bragg
[Paperback 2011]
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Bragg's landmark history of the English language details how and where it began 1,500 years ago, and how it evolved to become the tongue of two billion people worldwide. A landmark history of the English language detailing how and where it began 1,500 years ago and how it evolved to... more
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E M Cioran ,
Richard Howard
[Paperback 2012]
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John Ayto
[Paperback 2011]
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With over 8000 entries, and written for the general market, this volume uncovers the often surprising connections between words. Written in a clear and informative style, the dictionary describes the Indo-European origins of English and includes many new words and coinages adopted each year. For reference or for fun, here... more
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Arlen J Hansen
[Paperback 2012]
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17.
By
Ira Glasser ,
Bob Adelman
[Paperback 1993]
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18.
By
Kenne Fant ,
Marianne Ruuth
[Paperback 2006]
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19.
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Mo Yan ,
Howard Goldblatt
[Paperback 2006]
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The author of the critically acclaimed Red Sorghum presents an epic story--banned in his native China--about a group of peasants who challenges the Communist authorities when they are forced to destroy their own crops. Reprint. NYT. The government encouraged the farmers to plant garlic. But a glut on the garlic... more
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Mo Yan
[Paperback 2003]
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Eight darkly humorous, surreal stories from the Chinese author of }Red Sorghum{, which was subsequently made into a film by Zhang Yimou. In these stories, we see the breathtaking range of Mo Yan's vision--which critics have compared to those of Tolstoy and Kafka. The stories range from the tragic to... more
