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2) South Korea
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Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"As Korean pop music, skincare trends, food, and television dramas have exploded in popularity far beyond the borders of the nation they came from, many young people have become curious about South Korean culture. This comprehensive guide provides them with more details about South Korea's entertainment industry and cuisine, but it also presents essential facts about this nation's history, economy, language, and government. The updated main text highlights...
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London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband who doesn't exist, which allows her far more freedom than being single. When Lord Grendel, from whom...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024
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English
Description
"Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp...
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English
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"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
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Arising Together Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Texas' Emancipation Day and Juneteenth National Independence Day (both known as Juneteenth) are tremendously important holidays, but both are mired in miscommunication and inaccuracy. Examples: 1. The national holiday ?symbolically? celebrates slavery?s end - a concept often misinterpreted as ?the day slavery ended.? Fact: Texas was not the last state to outlaw slavery; 2. June 19, 1865 was the day the U.S. Army began enforcement of the Emancipation...
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English
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A comprehensive and must-have food-lover's guidebook to New York City from Eater, the online authority on where to eat and why it matters. With Eater experts leading the way, explore the best restaurants, food trucks, specialty shops, and farmers' markets, digging into New York City's key flavors and food culture, learning from those who've shaped and defined how the city eats. Eater City Guide: New York is your go-to source for getting immersed in...
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LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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This eBook offers in-depth review lessons for the topics covered on the AP® Spanish Language & Culture Exam. It also includes helpful practice questions with detailed answer explanations to review and reinforce what you’ve learned, and suggestions for further reading to help you succeed on the official exam.--Publisher.
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"American Leonora Garrison has come to England in desperate search of investors to keep her family business afloat but instead finds surprising pleasure when she visits an exclusive ladies' club and dares to kiss a stranger, who leaves her yearning for more. With a libertine for a father, Viscount Wyeth, more commonly known as Rook, vowed to live his life above reproach, with nary a hint of disgrace. Until one night, he takes a mysterious beauty...
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Real Academia Española
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Presents the classic Spanish tale of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world, accompanied by essays, notes, and a study of Cervantes's language
"Esta edición reproduce el texto crítico y las notas de Francisco Rico, a su vez coordinador del volumen, y se completa con estudios de escritores y filólogos de la talla de Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, Martín de Riquer,...
12) Todo bajo el sol
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Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Turismo de masas, especulación urbanística y drama humano. La nueva propuesta de la autora de Estamos todas bien, una de las novelas gráficas más impactantes de los últimos años. En Todo bajo el sol, la autora nos sitúa en la costa levantina a principios de los años sesenta para contarnos la historia de una familia que sufre las devastadoras consecuencias del turismo de masas, motor principal del desarrollismo económico en tiempos de Franco....
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Novel of the Oxford time travel volume 2
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Del Ray, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a hideous Victorian vase called "the bishop's bird stump" as part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right--not only to...
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English
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"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
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Rifk Ebeid
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"When Saamidah, a young Palestinian refugee, is asked by her friends what her name means, she isn't quite sure what to say. She turns to her Baba for some answers - but what she gets is an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Join Saamidah on a lyrical journey, with dazzling illustrations, that brings to life her beloved homeland and celebrates the richness of her cultural heritage and the determination to return"--Back cover
16) Far enough away
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Publisher
Kindle Direct Publishing?
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The author, a freelance columnist for the Chicago Tribune and contributing editor for Florida Sportsman Magazine, shares a collection of his essays relating his childhood and family memories and meditating on postmodern American masculinity
17) Inshallah a boy
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Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival is Jordan's Official Entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards
18) Return to Eden
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Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain. It all starts with a photograph: an ordinary scene of a young woman and her family picnicking at a Valencian beach in 1947. Now in her twilight years, Antonia cherishes this photo dearly; it holds the memories of her upbringing, her family --the key to her Eden. Taking off from this routine family outing,...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life's transitions. Carefully...
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