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1) Whereabouts
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Follows the routines of a misfit city dweller who experiences a year of remarkable transformation in the aftermath of a parent’s death.
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between...
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
5) The kingdom
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English
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A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
7) Suited
Author
Series
Veiled worlds trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tanyayna, stuck inside a powerful suit, has been made a debris collector and becomes involved in the battle between the Keeper and the Puppet Men over the city of Movoc-under-Keeper.
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A story inspired by the question, "What are people doing right now on the other side of the world?" depicts natural and human events happening all over the world -- from New York and Turkey to South Africa and Greece -- at the same second.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 B.C. He...
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Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Paranoia runs wild. As survivors of the alien invasion of Lower Crowchurch try to cope with what happened to their small town, the military arrives in an attempt to cover up the "incident." Town residents are immediately detained, questioned, and treated with suspicion. Clive, Susan, and the others will need to escape imprisonment if they're to get the word out and warn the rest of the world before the aliens return
14) El reino
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Publisher
Roja y Negra/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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En lo alto de una montana, en los paramos de Noruega, hay un viejo caseron habitado por un hombre solitario. Se llama Roy, es experto en pajaros, lleva la gasolinera del pueblo y en cada casa corre un rumor sobre el. Su vida gris se reabre con la vuelta de Carl, su hermano pequeno. No se ven desde que se fue a estudiar a Estados Unidos hace quince anos, tras la muerte tragica de sus padres en un accidente de coche. El hijo prodigo trae consigo a su...
15) Megacities
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents an in-depth look at five megacities and discusses safety measures and how people survive in each major city.
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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A Great Basin Mosaic looks beyond the popular Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Las Vegas regions of Nevada and reflects on the cultures of smaller towns. Oftentimes these other 'Nevadas' become short-changed by academic historians at the state level, resulting in adisconnect between the cultures that actually exist within these Nevada communities and the public's perception of them. This text remedies such neglect by adding to the research and writings about...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Early in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants--close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreón--were massacred over the course of three days. It is considered the largest slaughter of Chinese people in the history of the Americas, but more than a century later, the facts continue to be elusive, mistaken, and repressed....
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