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241 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Maya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the family's former glory - of what was had, and what was lost. And then Kojo arrives one Christmas, like an annunciation: Maya's cousin, and her mother's...
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260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes an exploration of the power of selling, which each of us does every day--whether we know it or not. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. More than fifteen million people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales--but so do the...
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265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Freddie Watson is a stilted young man who has not gotten over older brother George's disappearance on the Western Front during WWI. It is now 10 years since the Armistice, and Freddie, after a stay in a mental institution, has come to the French Pyrenees to find peace. While motoring through a snowstorm, he crashes his car and ends up in the small village of Nulle, where he meets a beautiful young woman named Fabrissa. In the course of an evening,...
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the three most influential and pivotal artists of the Rock age. This film goes behind the music to discover one of the defining artists of the 20th Century. Interviews from Bob Dylan's schooldays include his English teacher and the guitarist from his first schoolboy band. The film follows his progress through his rebel days in college in Minneapolis to his development in the burgeoning folk clubs of New York's Greenwich...
5) Austenland
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1 videodisc (approximately 97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.
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London, 1858. Noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. Ashton reveals that thanks to significant, if unrecognized, turning points the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. She mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in...
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xxix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"While in the short term -- militarily -- the North won the Civil War, in the long term -- ideologically -- victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic...
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