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David Copperfield David Copperfield Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… OL10322056W
Les Misérables Les Misérables Victor Hugo In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective… OL1063588W
The Fifties The Fifties David Halberstam The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of… OL109601W
Letters from an American farmer Letters from an American farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape … OL1097757W
Back roads America Back roads America Thomas O'Neill Contents: Winter - New England / Spring - Southern States / Summer - South and West and Alaska / Autumn - North, West, Midwest and East. OL15125801W
I Never Knew That About the English I Never Knew That About the English Christopher Winn This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures,… OL15177579W
The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century Francis Parkman Francis Parkman may have been America’s most famous historian in the 19th century, and is still well-known for books on the Oregon Trail and the French in North America. He did a lot of work on Frenc… OL15430225W
A time to dance A time to dance Richard Nevell Portraits of New England, Southern Appalachian, and Western country-dance communities accompany the words of dancers, fiddlers, callers, and musicians, a history of country dancing, and a catalog of … OL15856994W
Only Time Will Tell Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer "From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life be… OL15981099W
Southeast Asian perspectives on power Southeast Asian perspectives on power Liana Chua "Over the last half-century, Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable, far-reaching changes that have consequences not only for large-scale institutions and processes, but also for everyday life. Thi… OL16176804W
Asian popular culture in transition Asian popular culture in transition John A. Lent "Examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, Japan, and Singapore and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, … OL16319196W
A Duke's temptation A Duke's temptation Jillian Hunter The Duke of Gravenhurst, the notorious author of dark romances, is accused of corrupting the morals of the public. But among his most devoted fans is the well-born Lily Boscastle, who seeks employmen… OL16552745W
Food culture in colonial Asia Food culture in colonial Asia Cecilia Leong-Salobir "Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisin… OL16686402W
The adventuress The adventuress Nicholas Coleridge No one forgets Miss Cathy Fox in a hurry. From her scorpion tattoo to her other more worldly charms she's a woman on a mission to get what she wants. OL17951212W
Amazonian Indians from prehistory to the present Amazonian Indians from prehistory to the present Anna Curtenius Roosevelt "Compilation of articles on native inhabitants of the Amazon. Pt. 1 traces important ethnohistorical transition, a period of convulsive change in indigenous societies during European conquest and col… OL18340688W
Underworld Underworld Don DeLillo Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a bl… OL1921185W
The people and culture of Japan The people and culture of Japan Ryōtarō Shiba "The People and Culture of Japan features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human conditi… OL19755321W
Lusitania Lusitania Greg King "Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the co… OL19993180W
Life in the United Kingdom Life in the United Kingdom Home Office Ensure you are fully prepared for your Life in the UK test with the new 2013 3rd edition of the Life in the UK handbook. This eBook is the only official handbook for the new Life in the UK tests take… OL20080288W
Stigmas of the Tamil stage Stigmas of the Tamil stage Susan Seizer This is a feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in t… OL20545766W
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