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1) The Dream
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Series
Rougon-Macquart volume 16
Language
English
Description
Emile Zola's novel Le R�eve (1888) is a love idyll between a poor embroideress and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family set against the background of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France. A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels, it may at first seem a strange interlude between La Terre and La B�ete Humaine in the 20-volume sequence known as the Rougon-Macquart cycle. However, belying its appearance...
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English
Description
Shane Bearskin, a young Cree man from James Bay, and Theresa Wawati, an Algonquin woman from Northern Quebec, are united by a profound love for each other and a visceral attachment to their cultural heritage. As children both experienced the challenges that face so many young people from indigenous communities. They are university students in Montreal. Theresa is determined to become a lawyer to defend her people whose lands and way of life are constantly...
3) The Dream
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English
Description
'A superb novel . . . it must be accorded tremendous acclaim' - Scotland on Sunday'Iain Crichton Smith writes like a poet, with strong natural rhythm and precise observation' - The TimesIn the grey streets of Glasgow, Martin is dreaming of the mist-shrouded islands of his youth. Behind her desk in the travel agency his wife Jean dreams of faraway places in the sun that beckon from the brochures.Their marriage frays in the silence as Martin clings...
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English
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A controversial and haunting novel, and the first English translation of one of the foremost Korean writers. Yi Chung-jun's haunting and disturbing novel is set in the 1950s after the Korean War in the remote south of the country, home of the traditional art of pansori singing, a moving and plangently beautiful style of folk song performed by traveling musicians. The linked stories center on a family of itinerant singers: a boy and his stepfather...
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English
Description
The world, in Iain Crichton Smith's vision is a field full of folk; and one Scottish village is its microcosm. Here, the Minister wrestles with his loss of faith, and his cancer, concealing them even from his wife, but she had divined them. Mrs Berry cultivates her garden assiduously, and when Jehovah's Witnesses come quoting their texts, she tells them that the hill at the end of the village can be climbed by many paths. Old Annie has no doubts about...
6) Phoenix Song
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Language
English
Description
A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often deadly politics of mid-century China. Under the dual influences of her revolutionary parents and the White Russian intellectuals who are her tutors (and who provide her with a link, personal and tragic, to the composer Dmitri Shostakovich) she is drawn into a precarious world of ideology and espionage where music must serve not only "the masses', but also the unpredictable...
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Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Venture into the dark heart of modern-day Africa in this gripping novel of discovery and redemption. Zimbabwean-born, Perth-based Frank Cole is faced with an unusual request in his mother's will. He must journey back to his country of birth to deliver a substantial inheritance from his mother to a former family servant, Lettah Ndlovu. Set in Zimbabwe in the year prior to the 2008 elections, Lettah's Gift is a very personal journey set against a political...
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Series
Publisher
Paul Morrison
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Collected Australian Stories is a visit into the Australian mind and the various facets of this ancient land. The impressive culture of the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the land is brought to life in such stories as The Challenge and The Stone Country. Other stories such as The Wejii Man examine deeper cultural beliefs. The more recent history of Australia is also explored through such stories as Lost Souls, a story of hope and despair...
9) Long Siesta
Author
Publisher
Holland House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
1998, Seville. Summer. An elderly priest is found murdered in horrific circumstances; Inspector Velasquez assumes at first a junkie is on the loose. But then a second man of the cloth shows up in the Guadalquivir River, followed by a Russian gangster, and Velasquez realizes he has a puzzle of major proprotions on his hands. Are they politically motivated? Are the three murders linked? And if so, how? His boss, Comisario Alonso, is breathing down his...
10) Haifa Fragments
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English
Description
As a designer of jewelry, Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn't easy for a tradition-defying activist and Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. She volunteers for the Machsom Watch, an organization that helps children in the Occupied Territories cross the border to receive medical care. Frustrated by her boyfriend Ziyad and her father,...
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English
Description
Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife and survival desperate, except across the border. One night, a village is bombed for attempting to cross the border. Nine-year old Amedea is buried underground and sleeps to survive. Ten years later, she wakes with a locust embedded in her brow. A magical fable, this is a girl's journey through devastation and humanity's contemporary wound: the border. Deeply...
12) Red Dust
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Language
English
Description
Red Dust opens with Gemma Sinclair grieving the death of her husband, Adam, in a horrific plane crash and learning she's inherited the 10,000 hectare station his family has worked for generations. Despite huge scepticism from surrounding landowners, Gemma decides not to sell Billbinya, disregarding Adam's dying words that he's in trouble and she must sell the station. As if the job of keeping the station going isn't enough, a wave of innuendo sweeps...
13) Two Green Otters
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Series
Publisher
Milet Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (344 pages).
Language
English
Description
When her mother abandons her family, Nilsu loses faith in the world and everyone in it. Terrified of suffering the same fate, she breaks off relationships before they even begin. Then she meets Teo, a passionate environmentalist and one of the founders of the Turkish Green Party. Teo's close relationship with his mother has always held him back and when she commits suicide, his life slips off the rails. In this story of a young woman's struggle to...
14) Prisnms
Author
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (136 pages)
Language
English
Description
The news of an old friend's murder throws Eugene Coard, a St Lucian psychiatrist in the USA, into reflections on his own successful migrant's journey. Trouble is, Coard is a devious liar and self-inventor who has turned American paranoia about race to his own advantage. A witty and satirical novel that challenges the reader to ask: just what can they believe?. --Provided by publisher.
15) Jawaan Miyan
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Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Jawaan Miyan, a Pakistani, lived in that area too. He had come to live in a house along Broadway turning. It was not a big house, but it was very comfortable and in good condition. There were two rooms, a kitchen, a storeroom, toilet, bathroom, and a garage. For a single man, it was obviously a big house. He was a tall man with athletic body. He was said to be a very friendly person. When he met his Pakistani people he shook their hands with affection...
Author
Series
Publisher
Milet Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (280 pages).
Language
English
Description
Seemingly disparate lives are brought together in a clever, prism-like plot in this award-winning novel. The story is based on three people-Ali, Dogan, and Olcay-and vividly depicts the struggle between the older generation who were content with the new (post-Ottoman) Turkey and who are disturbed by changes sought and brought on by the rebellious young generation. In this unforgettable, epic portrait of 1960s Turkey, the personal and political are...
17) Disenchanted
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Series
Publisher
Milet Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (260 pages).
Language
English
Description
With a twisting, captivating play on perception, this novel presents a frame story about how it came to be written. Containing two main narrative strands set five years apart, the story within is about Kuzey, a former left-wing militant and now a hotel owner, who is writing a novel called The Disenchanted. Kuzey's romance with a young woman is juxtaposed with his descent into alcoholism and despair. The book is set against the backdrop of a beautiful...
18) Heat and Light
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (232 pages)
Language
English
Description
In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical, and still achingly real. Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In "Heat," we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In "Water," a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In "Light," familial ties...
Author
Publisher
Thrums Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages)
Language
English
Description
Through captivating stories and lush illustrations, this book draws on ancient myth and lore of the Maya people and gives life to wild and quirky gods, magical monsters, and strange creatures. Fiery characters such as the Lords of the Underworld, Water Lily Jaguar, and the Horrible White Bone Centipede reveal Maya creation myths from centuries ago. Fifteen stories blend the natural and the supernatural into one alluring realm, reflecting the heart...
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Language
English
Description
The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he...
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