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A political novel by the author of Widows, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero and Mascara, which describes the tense and chaotic days before Chile's military coup in the early 1970s and relates the experiences of a repressed and divided people.

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NIRMAL VERMA (1929-2005) was an acknowledged master of Hindi prose and one of the pioneers of the  Nai Kahani  (new story) movement in Hindi. Throughout his life he was known as a major voice among the Indian intelligentsia for consist...

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This baroque feminist fantasy successfully combines erudition with irreverence.

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Detectives and criminals engage in a battle of wits across turn-of-the-20th century Europe from Odessa to Budapest.

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The seven-year-old narrator shares her observances of her parents, a wealthy landowner and his wife, and a nurturing Indian servant who has cared for the girl and her brother since birth.

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The simple life of Mila, young and naive, abruptly ends when she is raped by Anima, a friend of her husband, Matias.

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In this extraordinary, prizewinning novel, Monika Maron says farewell to the East Germany where she grew up as the stepchild of an élite communist official not unlike retired Professor Beerenbaum, who hires disaffected writer Rosalind Polkowski to...

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"I had fallen into the situation [of previous Polish exiles] if not their role. In this unfortunate trap I found one ally most helpful: London itself. In those days it still held to its foggy tradition.... It isolated, snuggled and covered." from...

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Three modern Maria's weave tales, poems and meditations about modern women's lives.

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American Rocket Math is a math program to help students in elementary school improve their mathematics skills. Both teachers and parents will find my program useful in advancing their children's skills. Areas of focus are on addition, subtraction ...

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Rocket Writing was created to help teachers and parents to further their children's skills in in writing academic areas. Writing is an important aspect in learning. With help students can become the bets authors and writers they can be. I break do...

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"Satirical, darkly comic novel set in 1950s Cuba (see HLAS 48:5405) depicts a nuclear family through the eyes of Narcisa, the unwanted ugly duckling. Explores inequality inherent in gender roles and oppression of women in Cuban society. Story...

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Beata is a 20-year-old drop-out, daughter of a millionaire of dubious connections. She embraces lover after lover, as well as causes new to Eastern Europe, in this satirical look at Prague today.

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Poland's recent history from Solidarity to martial law, from martial law to the end of communism and today's rough and tumble politics are all encompassed in this collection of stories by Janusz Anderman's relentlessly honest gaze and his stark 't...

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In the world of the two Koreas, the North draws our attention with its nukes and strident parades, but the South has built an economic miracle on the backs of ordinary people like us preoccupied by housing, debt, and the daily grind, always guardi...

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A great novel by a great South African black writer. A father's search for his runaway son carries the older man on a journey through the confusion and violence that marked the closing years of apartheid .

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This book was created for high school students who are preparing for all the possible tests they face in their junior and senior years. These vocabulary words can even be useful for first year college students preparing for specific general educat...

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