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"From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control....
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English
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"Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship an what happens to those friendships when men fall in love. William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bold treatment...
4) Shark wars
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English
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Gray is already bigger than all the other sharks in his clan, or shiver. He can't stop growing, and when his hunger gets him into trouble, he's banished from the reef with his best friend Barkley. Their hunt for food forces them to journey deep into Goblin Shiver territory, where they have no choice but to join the shiver. They'll help fight against rival sharks in return for training, protection, and food. But who can Gray and Barkley trust when...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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Series
Tide lords volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
461 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The enslaved Arkady despairs of ever seeing her husband alive again and risks everything to learn the truth about her new owner; while Stellan, in asylum in Caelum, gains the support of the returning Tide Lords.
10) The postcard
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A formally brilliant and powerful volume from "one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today" (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times). Moving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in...
12) The coup
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Updike presents the story of a fictitious modern African state called Kush, narrated tongue-in-cheek by Kush's exiled president, Colonel Felix Ellellou.
15) The German room
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Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Could we claim that The German Room invents a new genre? It would be an exaggeration, of course, but we can certainly say that this novel represents what we could call a non-coming of age tale. A female protagonist - a young woman- travels from Argentina to Germany trapped by emotional conflicts. When she arrives, she is constantly exposed to all kinds of adventures and incidents, some funny, others tragic. She never fully understands her situation....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 508 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the role of exiles in the evolution of Spanish culture traces the contributions of the Spanish state's racial minorities and dissidents over the course of five hundred years, arguing that Spanish exiles became universal products of their changed culture.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late nineteenth-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption....
19) The emigrants
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 853
Publisher
New Directions
Physical Desc
237 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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