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"A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the Victorian human body? Check mate."...
63) Lunar New Year
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"An overview of Lunar New Year, from the origin of the celebration to how it is practiced today." -- Publisher's summary.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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xiv, 588 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
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"It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame. Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann's Way moves further through childhood and into adolescence, as the author brilliantly examines themes of love and youth, in settings in Paris and by the sea in Normandy. The reader again encounters Swann, now married to his former mistress and largely fallen...
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Sinful suitors volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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When a too-persistent suitor forces her into a marriage of convenience with Edwin Barlow, the Earl of Blakeborough, the unexpected passion that Lady Clarissa Lindsey finds with her husband is threatened by her stalker.
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"Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and magnetic, The Wonder is a searing examination of doubt,...
67) Button man
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1930s, New York's Lower East Side. At the death of their father, Morris Rabishevsky, twelve, apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry fell in with a gang of thugs. Morris steadily climbs through the ranks at the factory, goes out on his own, and convinces Sol to come work with him. But Harry can't be lured away from the power and the money that come from his association with Louis Buchalter,...
Pub. Date
2015.
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380 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm
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Culinaria France invites the reader to a culinary journey through this paradise for gourmets. Take a look at Paris' top gastronomy, learn about the origins of rural cuisine, breathe the air of Provence, and peak into the nets of France's fishermen on the northern coasts. Lavishly illustrated with wonderful photographs, this volume provides a living portrait of French specialties and whets the appetite for culinary pleasures a la francaise.
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44 Scotland Street volume 12
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"When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small things such as a cup of coffee and a book, or major events such as Stuart's application for promotion and his wife Irene's...
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The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go...
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go...
73) The prince's boy
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Pub. Date
2014.
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151 pages ; 22 cm.
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Sent to Paris in 1927, by his father, Dinu Grigorescu visits the Bains du Ballon d'Alsace, a notorious establishment, where he meets Razvan, a fellow Romanian who instructs him in the way of the world.
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Kopp sisters novels volume 4
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"Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series"--
75) Cuba
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Pub. Date
2019.
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm.
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"Take a tour of Cuba to learn about its history and culture and find out what it is like to live there."--Provided by publisher.
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c2012
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24 sound discs (ca. 24 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of these lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and elderly, as well as the refugees, slaves, women, children,...
77) India
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Pub. Date
2018.
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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
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"Engaging images accompany information about India. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm
Description
Awakened by strange sounds, Anyaugo discovers a giant chicken in her kitchen and has to muster the courage to remove it before the chicken destroys her family's preparations for the New Yam Festival.
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