“Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda” is considered a unique experiment in story telling. A short novel, that may also be viewed as a set of connected mini-narratives, it can also be considered as one of the foremost instances of metafiction in twentieth century Hindi literature. This book talks...

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Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeannette Winter. Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book!Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan...

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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South...

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Gajto Gazdanov emigreerde in 1920 vanuit Wit-Rusland naar Parijs, waar hij acht jaar lang werkte als havenarbeider, schoonmaker van locomotieven en arbeider in de Citroën fabriek. Gedurende lange perioden van werkeloosheid sliep hij op bankjes...

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André Schwarz-Bart nello scrivere questo romanzo, romanzo che sfocia nell'immane tragedia dell'Olocausto, con l'intento di ricostruire il lungo percorso dell'essere ebraico e di una continuità storica che era innanzitutto continuità spirituale. Il legame tra passato e presente, il filo unico di questa continuità è...

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A winsome armadillo from Brazil takes a trip to Paris in this delightful new picture book from Julie Kraulis. Arlo is an armadillo who is always up for adventure. His grandfather, Augustin, loved adventure too. When Arlo was born, Augustin...

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Paro is a heroic temptress, alluring and rapacious, the stuff of legend. Wandering through the world of privilege and Scotch whiskey that the rich inhabit, she is observed constantly by the acid...

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Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on...

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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, after a series of titanic struggles against the French and various local rulers during the eighteenth century, Britain had gained mastery of the subcontinent. This period, and the century and a half that followed, saw two powerful cultures locked...

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Western women’s involvement in Persia dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when female adventurers and missionaries first encountered their veiled Muslim “sisters.” Twentieth-century Western and state-sponsored Iranian feminists continued to use the image of the veiled woman as the embodiment of backwardness. Yet,...

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Jhootha Sach is arguably the most outstanding piece of Hindi literature written about the Partiton. Reviving life in Lahore as it was before 1947, the book opens on a nostalgic note, with vivid descriptions of the people that lived in the city’s streets and lanes like Bhola Pandhe Ki...

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تنتهي قصة الأندلس. أو أيبيريا الإسلامية، لدى الكثيرين عندما عام 1492 م. ولا يعلمون أ، ما يقرب من نصف مليون مسلم ظلوا يعيشون فى إسبانيا بعد سقوط آخر الممالك الإسلامية: غرناطة. لكن كيف كانت نهاية الأندلس، وماذا حدث...

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Un orsacchiotto e due piccoli tedeschi: compagni di gioco inseparabili, vengono improvvisamente divisi perché un giorno David è costretto a cucirsi sugli abiti una stella gialla ed è portato via...

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A thirteenth century castle, Château de Doux Rêves, has been forgotten for generations, left to ruin in a storybook forest nestled deep in France’s picturesque Loire Valley. It survived a sacking in the French Revolution, was brought back to...

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Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses...

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وقعت آلاف الحروب، قصيرة ومديدة، عرفنا تفاصيل بعضها وغابت تفاصيل أخرى بين جثث الضحايا. كثيرون كتبوا، لكن دوماً كتب الرجال عن الرجال. كلُّ ما عرفناه عن الحرب، عرفناه من خلال...

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Faced with the tragic loss of his mother, Ben Elliot is forced into a move he hates. He has had to give up his home and friends in the city to move with his father and younger brother to the tiny village of Ship Cove on...

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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), "Atlas" is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections--"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"--the novel reimagines Victoria through...

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In this companion to Urs Widmer’s novel My Mother’s Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents’ stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is...

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The Indiscreet Jewels (also translated as The Talking Pussy) is perhaps the most daring of Diderot's 'philosophical' novels—a fearlessly libertine fable on the order of such ribald classics as "Boccaccio" and "Rabelais." Published in...

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"Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."--"Interior Design" Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade...

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Sein Buch gebe ein altes Rätsel auf, hat der 65-jährige israelische Schriftsteller Amos Oz über den Inhalt seines stark autobiografisch gefärbten Roman Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Finsternis geschrieben: „Wie können zwei gute Menschen eine schreckliche Katastrophe herbeiführen? Wie kann es kommen, dass die Heirat zweier Menschen, die...

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It is January 1961 and Margaret Spencer and Nat Southby are relaxing on a ski holiday when their vacation takes a bone-chilling turn. While cross-country skiing the couple comes across the frozen body of Maurice Dubois, a man who went missing from a fishing resort the month before. When Maurice’s...

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The voices of fifty-seven young American Indians emerge in a powerful collection of original writing coedited by the anthologist of YOU HEAR ME? and THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU. When the night isgone and the day isstill coming,we will be taken awayfrom this...

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Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work has...

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Life is noisy and hard but full of love for 12-year-old Kathleen Murphy and her family. Kathleen dreams of living with her favorite aunt, Polly, far from her crowded home and the...

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كتاب فيلهلم "المهاجرون" هو قصة ملحمية تحكي قصة هجرة السويديين إلى أمريكا الشماليةوفي روايته يصور موبيرغ تلك الانتقالة المفصلية في حياة المهاجرين، ويتعقب بحساسية هائلةتناوب مشاعر الأمل والحنين، والظروف التي ترغم الانسان على اختيار المنفى.وتحدث فيها عن أكبر...

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First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke...

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The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part because Western...

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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic...

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century A.D., China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a...

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"Als im Jahre 1911 in China das Kaisertum abgeschafft und die Republikausgerufen wurde, hörte eine Institution auf zu existieren, die zweitausendJahre hindurch dem ""Reich der Mitte"" das Gepräge verliehen hatte. Dielange und wechselvolle Geschichte...

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From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream-and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped...

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Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as...

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire a millennium and a half in the making was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no...

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International sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor.Born on the ninth day of the ninth month...

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In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion,...

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Mexico’s Day of the Dead fascinates U.S readers, whether for its joyful celebration of an unusual tradition or because it simply feels like home. San Vicente lets children join the celebration as they watch the skeletons rock, rattle, and roll those long old bones...

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Here comes Percy Joyce. From one of Canada’s most acclaimed, beloved storytellers: The Son of a Certain Woman is Wayne Johnston’s funniest, sexiest novel yet, controversial in its issues, wise, generous and then...

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Quando in un quartiere periferico di Cracovia viene creato d’autorità il ghetto ebraico, il 3 marzo 1941, Tadeusz Pankiewicz ne diventa suo malgrado un abitante. Pur senza essere ebreo, infatti, gestisce l’unica farmacia del quartiere: contro...

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Bestselling author Treasure E. Blue returns with a gritty against-all-odds urban fairy tale set in the same unforgiving neighborhood as that of his breakout debut novel Harlem Girl Lost. Desire was born on the streets of Harlem–literally. Her mom, a crack-addicted prostitute, delivered her on a bitter winter’s night after...

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