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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
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Hitchhiker volume 1
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On a hot night in August 1995, Douglas Adams gave a barnstorming performance to an invited audience at the Almeida Theatre in London. This recording is of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, The Universe and Everything.
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[released 2008], c2008
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1 sound media player (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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A collection of newspaper columns providing insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in. Whether it be writing about animals (from dogs to elepants to geese!), his powerful and moving comments about his own and other families, his comments on life's foibles and farces, or his interviews and interactions with people who are memorable and unusual in their own right, these stories make us laugh and cry, and they make us think.
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Foreword / by Henry Nash Smith. -- Letters from the Earth. -- Papers of the Adam family: Extract from Methuselah's diary ; A later extract from Methuselah's diary ; Extract from Eve's autobiography ; Passage from Eve's autobiography ; The world in the year 920 after creation ; Two fragments from a suppressed book called "Glances at history" or "Outlines of history" ; Extract from Shem's diary of 920 A.C. -- Letter to the Earth. -- A cat-tale. -- Cooper's...