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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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From the introduction by Herv? Delouche: The term Greater Paris is in vogue today, for it has an administrative cachet and seems to denote a simple extension of the capital?as if a ravenous Paris need only extend her web. However, it was not our goal to embrace the tenets of the metro area?s comprehensive plan, aka the Grand Projet, envisioned as a future El Dorado by the planners and developers. Rather, our aim was to depict the Parisian suburbs...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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"Includes 53 stories spanning evolution of short fiction in Brazil as well as Hispanic America across a broad range of writing from colonial era and 19th century to modern favorites such as Lugones, Quiroga, Lima Barreto, Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Ribeyro, Castellanos, Lispector, Ferré, and Monterroso, in versions by distinguished translators. An essay by the editor traces evolution of the genre. Brief headnotes for each period and author and a short...
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Publisher
Oberon Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an estranged...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"One of the first science-fiction utopian stories and one of the first feminist utopias by India's widely celebrated, pioneering feminist, educator, writer, and activist Rokeya Hossain A Penguin Classics Edition Sultana, a Muslim woman living in contemporary India, falls asleep and wakes up in a transformed future world: a utopia in which men rather than women are relegated to the domestic sphere. Women, now free to explore the outside world at will...
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Library wars volume 13
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"The Media Betterment Committee has silenced a famous writer, and Library Forces member Iku Kasahara and her supervisor and secret crush, Dojo, must fight to protect his right to speak--and live. As the Library Forces wage a fierce battle against censorship, Iku and Dojo's burgeoning relationship provides the team with a welcome distraction, and--unfortunately for them--some comic relief"--Page 4 of cover.
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My sister the cat volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young man is adopted into a family of cats and becomes big brother to adorable kitten Neneko-chan. Family life can be full of misunderstandings even when you're all the same species. So just imagine what would happen if your little sister was a cat! Enjoy the charming complications in the lives of Nekota, his adorable sister Neneko, and their parents and friends.
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Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
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Este libro ilustrado para niños introduce y organiza canciones de Navidad en las siguientes categorías: camino a Belén, las posadas, Nochebuena, los pastores, nanas de Navidad, San José, el árbol de Navidad, aguinaldos, y los Tres Reyes Magos. Se incluyen las partituras de seis de las canciones hacia el fin.
This illustrated book for children introduces and organizes Christmas songs into the following categories: on the road to Bethlehem, the...
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Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Raku's crush, Kosaki Onodera, has a younger sister--Haru. She's determined to protect Kosaki from what she perceives to be Raku's playboy ways. Meanwhile, assassin Paula joins Haru's class with a secret mission in mind--to set up Raku with fellow assassin Tsugumi"--Amazon.com.
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Papercutz
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Contains 3 newly-translated classic Asterix tales. Asterix is a fearless Gaul with a magic potion that grants him incredible strength to protect his village and ward off Roman Empire from invading. With his pal, Obelix, the two defend their village from not only the blundering Roman legionairies, but other odd threats as well. First, a fortune telling Soothsayer has the village under his soothing predictions, but Asterix isn’t buying it. Predict...
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