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A group of adventurous villagers attempt to escape Moldova for Italy in this novel of poverty and hope in Eastern Europe.
The Moldovian village of Larga is depressed in more ways than one and its remaining citizens long for a better life. Meanwhile, just over the border in Italy, the economy is booming. But when a group of Largans decide to take fate into their own hands and attempt to cross the border, their efforts result in a tragicomic romp of...
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Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window - four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him? Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, with only the view of a pine tree for entertainment, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of...
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Francisco and Thomas moved out to the country to escape the noise of city life. All was going as planned until their quiet, elderly neighbors passed away and world renowned painter Radwin Ali moved in next door. Radwin Ali's wild lifestyle soon catches up to him, bringing in unwanted attention that drives Francisco mad.
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Shyton, a northern town and former industrial powerhouse that once rivalled Oldham, is now more well-known for its poverty, its abandoned houses and its thriving amateur porn industry. But it's not all doom and gloom. Shyton United have been promoted to the Premier League much to the surprise of every bookmaker in England. Bad boy turned footballing hero Tommy 'Machine' Gunn is entangled in a mess created by the crooked managing director, and local...
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A novel of U.S. politics, clean and dirty, and the ways in which the specter of the past informs our every move. Ben Shamas, a gifted lawyer whose daughter's death in a boating accident has led him toward self-destruction, is tapped by a friend and old Yale classmate to help with his Midwest campaign for the U.S. Senate. Bobby Parrish is a principled and serious candidate who doesn't expect Ben to co-opt his opponent's dirty playbook. James Glickman's...
6) Miss Mapp
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The acclaimed author of Mapp and Lucia introduces the beloved Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a devious social climber, in this charming British comedy of manners.
In the English seaside village of Tilling, Miss Elizabeth Mapp keeps a thorough notebook about everyone's business, including her servants. Whatever information she can't collect through gossip, she discovers with the aid of opera glasses. Looking out from her window over High Street, she pays especially...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
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In this '80s romantic satire, what was once but a fling has grown stale. An age gap attraction has simply become sour and awkward.Liddy must break the news to Roland that she is done if she wants to go about her life and move on. One piece of her moving on happens to include finding a puppy for her roommate's daughter: a promise which she refuses to go back on.Amidst all this, Roland has news he needs to break to Liddy, as well. He's also done and...
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Deux ans déjà que le père Anselme, curé de Chafron, est mort de vieillesse en plein office. Même que ça a fait un sacré barouf ! Et depuis, l'évêque ne lui a jamais trouvé de successeur malgré les nombreuses demandes des paroissiens. Il faudrait un miracle !
Mais quand on est malin comme Honoré Honoré, le nouveau maire du village, le miracle, on peut essayer de le provoquer. Il suffirait pour cela de faire appel aux pouvoirs de...
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A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero - his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this little town and they've been grateful ever since. But Davey's home town has changed much in the intervening years. The traditional family business like...
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From the author of the bestselling California Dreamin' sweet romantic comedy series comes a new adventure in the small town of Hallmark Beach…All I wanted to do was throw my brother a surprise early wedding.As the prince of a small country, his wedding day has been eclipsed by pomp and circumstance-and he and his fiancée deserve more. So when I find myself in a charming small town on the coast of California, I decide to plan them the perfect royal...
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La petite ville était au bord du fjord. Elle ressemblait à tous les vieux bourgs danois et, comme dans beaucoup de petites villes de campagne au début du XXe siècle en Scandinavie, on y trouvait une grande piété et beaucoup de ragots. Dans cette ville, il y avait la famille Thomsen, avec la mère, Karen, et son fils doux-dingue, « Manuel », don’t les frasques faisaient les délices des commères...
Gammelkobing et ses petites gens, avec...
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"Interrupted during his preparations for the conjugal duties of his wedding night by a mysterious glowing ball of light, Griffith Smolders jumps out the window and flees across the countryside of Victorian Ontario in 1898. With his bride hot on his heels, Grif's madcap adventures come to an end when Avice, intent on exacting her revenge, finally runs him aground."--
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A debut novelist casts a satirical eye at southern society while celebrating the power of great teachers in this award-winning comedy of manners.
As an English teacher at an elite private school in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Norman Laney is as unorthodox as he is morbidly obese. A natural wonder from the blue-collar South, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook with a mission to defeat "the barbarians," introduce true civilization...
15) Saraswati Park
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A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.
Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer - the last of a dying profession - sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's true passion is collecting second-hand books; he's particularly...
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"Maurensig has created a gripping short novel that is critical of the realities of publishing, a hybrid of at least two genres, highly imaginative, and involving even beyond the final page." -Critica Letteraria"Biblical, oblique, and lying somewhere between thriller, fantasy, and legend, the new novel by Paolo Maurensig, A Devil Comes to Town, is a disturbing reflection in narrative form concerning the darker side of writing." -Il GiornaleWild rabies...
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As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country's farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands.
As the novel opens, a mysterious stranger offers a...
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Mountain Brook novels volume 3
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A newlywed woman's return to Southern society begins an epic and hilarious journey of self-discovery in this satirical novel.
Katherine Clark's The Harvard Bride begins with the wedding of Daniel Dobbs and Caroline Elmore, college sweethearts introduced in Clark's novel, All the Governor's Men. In this wry comedy of manners, their new life-complete with freshly minted Ivy League educations- begins in the "Tiny Kingdom" of Mountain Brook, Alabama.
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19) Les mes mortes
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Dans une ville provinciale de Russie, le mystérieux Tchitchikov offre aux propriétaires terriens de leur racheter leurs « âmes mortes » — leurs serfs décédés depuis le dernier recensement. Galerie de portraits, satire mordante, odyssée burlesque, Les mes mortes sont le premier grand roman russe.
Traduction intégrale et conforme au texte russe, avec une introduction et des notes, par Henri Mongault, 1925.
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La porte cochère d'une...
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Le narrateur, jeune étudiant de Saint-Pétersbourg, est appelé par son oncle dans sa propriété du village de Stépantchikovo. Toute la maisonnée semble sens dessus dessous et ne plus tourner qu'autour d'un nouveau venu: l'inénarrable Foma Fomitch. Ce roman comique et satirique publié en 1859 est le premier de Dostoïevski après ses dix années de bagne et d'exil.
Traduction intégrale d'Henri Mongault, 1947.
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Lorsque mon oncle, le...
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