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"Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, did more to change the style of fiction in English than any other writer of his time with his economical prose and terse, declarative sentences that conceal more than they reveal. In Our Time, published in 1925, was the collection that first drew the world's attention to Hemingway. Besides revealing his versatility as a writer and throwing fascinating light on the themes of his major...
2) The refugees
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English
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"Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly...
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English
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James Patterson presents two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities. Tell me your best story: Anne McWilliams has lost everything. Her marriage fell apart so she turned to photography, only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne takes to the road to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
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Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins. A long time ago, a group of refugees arrived on a foreign shore. The local king met them,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
80 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"A rebel dreamer of a girl daydreams about her role in making the world a better place--and since dreams bleed into reality, maybe she really does. Shahrzad and the Angry King is a contemporary reimagining of the Scheherazade tale, starring scooter-riding, story-loving Shahrzad. Shahrzad loves stories and looks for them everywhere. When she meets a boy and asks him to tell her his story, he recounts fleeing a country that was peaceful and happy, until...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, Every Day Is for the Thief is a wholly original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City, was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than twenty publications. Fifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It feels longer still because I...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. 'Tender, touching, original, and rich with delicious period detail of Hollywood's heyday--buckle up, because you'll definitely want to go on a road trip after reading this delightful book!'--Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home. In the 1950s, movie star Louise Wilde is caught between...
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen silver anniverary ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Season 1: episodes 1-6. Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor.
Disc 2. Season 2: episodes 7-13. Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his modernizing methods.
Disc 3. Season 3: episodes 14-20. In this final...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 1464 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The result of a collaboration between Sydney's Macquarie University and International PEN Sydney Centre, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council, The Literature of Australia gathers the most distinctive and most significant of the nation's writing. Highlights include: Coverage of over two hundred years of literature in all genres, from the 1700s to the present, and over 500 entries from...
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