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A collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student.
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"With Candide, Voltaire bumptiously skewered the fashionable misinterpretation of the doctrine of philosophical optimism, unerringly offending kings, scientists, fanaticals, publishers, journalists, and even priests; composed in a mere three days, Candide's capacity to amuse, disgust, and surprise endures today, roughly ninety thousand days later. Theo Cuffe's new translation is invaluable for those English-speaking readers who cannot understand French,...
44) Chain breaker
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1 audio disc (36 min., 52 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
45) World War One
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xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. An overwhelming disaster from which the world is still recovering, World War One...
46) Divers
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1 audio disc (51 min., 52 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Joanna Newsom's first album in five years.
47) Limonada
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1 audio disc (35 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
49) High as hope
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1 audio disc (39 min., 59 sec.) : CD audio, digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Florence + the Machine return with their highly anticipated fourth album, which includes the tracks Hunger and Sky full of song. There are also contributions from Jamie xx, Sampha, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Kamasi Washington.
51) Rabbits
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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"Learning about rabbits through song in both English and Spanish"--
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8 audio discs (approximately 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm).
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Eight lectures delivered by Professor Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, exploring the life of Mozart and the thematic influences upon his work.
53) Diana's altar
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387 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest bears witness to the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest, the death is ruled a suicide, compounded by a formal confession before death. The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands is sent all the way from London to investigate. Thrown into a...
54) Summer Bird Blue
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373 pages ; 22 cm
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Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
55) Anthropoid
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
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3 videodiscs (558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter. Delightful in a murderously charming way.
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xii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and...
59) Night music
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394 pages ; 22 cm
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"Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the prodigy of her father, a renowned composer." --
Ruby-- future classical pianist, heir to the Chertok family legacy. Until she bungles her audition for the Amberley School of Music, where her father, renowned composer Martin Chertokis, is on the faculty. Oscar-- wunderkind, musical genius, conducting his own compositions...
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