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21) Dead souls
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Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials–all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is the wily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in “dead souls”–deceased serfs who still represent profit to those clever enough...
23) Ready or not
Pub. Date
2019
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A young bride joins her new husband's rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival
25) CultureGrams
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Axiom Press
Pub. Date
c2003
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4 v. : maps ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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A Geek in Thailand is a lighthearted look at Thailand from a young foreign visitor and resident's perspective. This alternative guide to Thailand offers a smart and concise take on Thai culture, entertainment, daily life--covering all the classics--but also revealing the path less traveled. In short articles accompanied by sidebars and numerous, colorful photographs, it paints a revealing picture of Asia's most popular travel destination. A Geek in...
28) Almost, Maine
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
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342 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that's so far north, it's almost not in the United States--it's almost in Canada. And it almost doesn't exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it's just...Almost. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken....
29) Culturgrams
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Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
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v. (loose-leaf) : maps ; 28 cm.
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A guide to the culture and society of Slovakia for tourists and business travelers, providing information about the country's land and people, values and attitudes, customs and traditions, home life, and entertainment, with advice on making friends, communicating, travel, and conducting business
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Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
32) ¡Ahora!
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Publisher
V & R Editoras
Pub. Date
2019.
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"Estaba caminando con mi hijita, Charlando a rienda suelta. De repente, ella se detiene, me mira seria y dice: "Papá, en este instante, ahorita mismo, debe haber personas en el mundo haciendo ¡Un montón de cosas diferentes!". A partir de esto, un libro fue naciendo en mi cabeza y, de mi cabeza y junto a las hermosas ilustraciones de Guilherme, ahora llegó a tus manos. ¡Que te diviertas!" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Algar
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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El monstruo del armario existe, y necesita que nuestro protagonista lo eduque porque siempre está haciendo travesuras. Enseñar a un monstruo a lavarse los dientes, a peinarse, a no tocar los enchufes y a no decir palabrotas... no es un trabajo nada fácil.
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic...
35) Faces 2023
Publisher
Cobblestone Publishing Company
Pub. Date
1984-
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volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Sadiq volume 14
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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57 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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When Sadiq and his classmates host a festival celebrating their own cultures, they find a way to make sure everyone in their class has traditions to share.
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Publisher
Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
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 the 48 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,...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is ... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or two...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2015
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1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
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