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From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and the French over the future of New France. Written and published after Parker's move to England, the novel attempts to romanticize French Canada without alienating...
82) Margarito and Me
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Shortly after his mother's death in the early 1970s, Ricardo Deveaux, leaves college and walks off his job. Without knowing why or what lies in store for him, he packs a few clothes in a backpack and hitchhikes across two thirds of the country to the only destination he can think of... New Mexico and his maternal grandmother. Whom he hasn't seen in twelve years.
Things don't always go smoothly in an isolated mountain village for a young man raised...
83) Malafemmena
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Louisa Ermelino's vibrant stories follow women living dangerously near and far. At home in New York, they break ancient Italian taboos and fall victim to mobsters. Overseas, they smoke opium-laced hashish and sleep with strangers. Ermelino delivers dynamic, memorable characters in thoroughly engrossing prose.
84) The Sand Rose
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Only in complete silencewill you hear the desert. Bedouin Proverb Gaylen Mackenzie, a young, single American woman from Texas, is offered a position at her company's headquarters in Saudi Arabia. While excited by the idea of living and working in another country, she must confront the challenges of residing in a society that largely excludes women from just about every freedom she grew up taking for granted. Gaylen settles into her new job and living...
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This is a Summary & Analysis of A Spool of Blue Thread. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is the poignant story of four generations of the Whitshank family living in Baltimore. They are an ordinary family like any other, but they are also special in their own quirky ways. The members of the family love and care for each other, but they also harbor jealousies, rivalries, and carry secrets. This companion to A Spool of Blue Thread includes: • Summary...
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Meet Marialena Villanueva, a twenty-six-year-old Mexican-American, living in a city overflowing with strangers. Marialena prefers the companionship of films with stories she can lose herself in; especially films by her favorite director, Esteban Gutierrez.
Esteban Gutierrez is nearing fifty. His confidence is at an all-time low due to a writer's block he hasn't been able to kick. It isn't until he's introduced to Marialena through a hysterical case...
87) The Druids
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Irish Short Stories: The Druids is a combination of research and fictional stories about the early wise men of ancient Ireland.This is the time before St. Patrick 432 AD. The druids were men who predicted weather, war, and seasons of the year. They began the tradition of story-telling, poetry, and legends of ancient Ireland: Eire. Some say the reading is heavy and ponderous. Most say it is thought provoking and captures the mood of the druid. Enjoy...
88) Winter's Fire
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In the England of James I, it is better to keep one's own counsel, especially when the Gunpowder Plot is afoot. Lady Elizabeth Cary has been invited for a stay at Baynards Castle by her friend and mentor Countess Mary Herbert. The two are attending a play at the Globe when Countess Mary's son Philip appears and tells his mother of the plot against the king. When the play ends, Countess Mary's party returns to Baynard's, where all await news of the...
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In 1999 in Santa Cruz, California, 19-year-old Johnny Bartooth is unexpectedly visited by Heron, an ageing hippy, his father's old friend. Heron has come to give Johnny a journal which the boy's father, Bartooth, wrote many years before. In 1978, Bartooth went to China, and one night made the fateful mistake of going for a walk by himself through dark streets in Guangzhou. He was attacked, stabbed and clubbed by a gang of bandits. He found himself...
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Book II Song of Chagos: Hunger and Heroes, Songs Across the Sea A long sea voyage to a distant land after losing hearth and home… broken hearts adrift at sea… a storm of memories in the midst of treacherous weather… an imagination running wild releasing the bonds of a world entrapped by greed a future brewing with unknowns…. finding ways to live, called "surviving" Music, dreams and a call for justice… After the long sea passage from the...
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Studying aboard is supposed to be the most exciting time in one's life. Not for Casey. After living in Essen, Germany for ten months. Casey becomes severely depressed. After finally coming home Casey gets a jobs at a golf course and thinks about life and the cultural differences between the U.S. and the E.U.
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This book is dedicated to the present generation of American children whose lives are enriched by the multi-cultural diversity of people coming from all over the world. In particular, this book focuses on the traditions and customs of Filipino culture and how Filipino American children could trace and find the roots of their identity through their parents beautiful cultural heritage.
93) Poor White
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Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially...
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When Mike Bennek's ailing grandfather asks him to take time off from work for a research holiday to Ukraine, Mike eagerly accepts. Along with his brothers and a few friends, he looks forward to connecting with his family's past.
Mike finds his grandfather's birthplace with the help of the beautiful, strong-willed Natasha. Through her, he learns more about his culture and family than either he or his grandfather thought possible.
Five years after...
95) Cave of bones
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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series. When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned...
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In 865AD, Vikings attack the female Bramingham Monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria. The building is looted with everything of value taken by the pagans. Abbess Jane and senior nuns are slaughtered and the younger nuns abducted into slavery. Maiden Kendra, minding the monastery sheep on the top plateau during the attack survives. This is her story. PART 1 KNOW THINE ENEMY In 865AD Vikings attack the female Bramingham Monastery in the Kingdom of...
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The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel traces the shifting relations among three human beings and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house called Poynton. Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, formed the collection over decades only...
98) Circles
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A Dream Vision, a terrifying destiny, a journey of a lifetime-the future of an entire Peoples may rest on the shoulders of one young boy.WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Historical Fiction"This novel of historic fiction is a must for any fan of Native American history, or seeker of knowledge, or lover of life. It is expertly crafted with vivid imagery and characters that will become beloved. If you don't know what it means to sing someone...
99) The Clovis Dig
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When a shocking discovery is found among the primeval relics at a dig site, an investigation of a different kind begins, as Claire Courtney tries desperately to salvage what's left of the orchard and her life.Amidst the beauty of the Wenatchee Valley at the feet of the Cascade Mountains, orchardist Claire Courtney struggles to make a living from her apple orchard. It's the late eighties, and an environmental health scare over a chemical used in apple...
100) The Full Catastrophe
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The Full Catastrophe is the story of Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, and his grandfather, Oscar, a ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor and Charlie's best friend and confidante. Because the Nazis disrupted Oscar's opportunity for a bar mitzvah, Charlie decides to right the historical wrong and arrange for a joint bar mitzvah for himself and his zeide.
Living with his artist mother in a derelict, loft in downtown...
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