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Perveen Mistry novels volume 4
Language
English
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"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
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Pub. Date
[2010-]
Language
English
Description
"From the jagged peaks of the Scottish Highlands and dramatic moors of the Peak District, to the sweeping sands of Norfolk and Northumberland, Great Britain promises miles of spectacular terrain to hike, bike and explore. Dotted across the landscape, cities like London, Edinburgh and Bristol surge with restless energy, showcasing some of the world's most innovative art, music and culinary scenes. Our guide brings Great Britain to life, transporting...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, embedded with the East Indian Army in Sri Lanka, sunning himself alongside the Romantic poets in Pisa. He travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1921, and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay. Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day, but he's beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health, and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Tarzán de los monos es la primera de una serie de novelas escritas por Edgar Rice Burroughs acerca del personaje ficticio Tarzán. Esta historia fue publicada por primera vez en la revista pulp All Story Magazine en octubre de 1912 y editada como libro por primera vez en 1914. La historia se inicia en 1888, con la misión que la Corona británica le encomienda a John Clayton, lord Greystoke: visitar la aldea africana de Freetown en Sierra Leona y...
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Series
Box 88 volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend Martha Raine are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency Box 88, but also for his relationship with Martha. 2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from Kite's days at school...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Beatles are the biggest band in the history of pop music. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day: Friday 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. For Britain to produce two iconic successes on this level, on the same...
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Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Teenage Flora, still reeling from the loss of her mom, leaves England for sunny Miami, where her constant self-doubt about life, including romance, leads her straight into a love triangle."--
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Series
The British are coming volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Whitcombe, Viscount Willowthorpe, comes to America to experience the great Wild West for himself before it disappears for good. The adventure comes with a convenient bonus--it postpones his father's edict that he take a wife from the British aristocracy. Sebastian isn't so much against marriage as he is an arranged marriage to the wrong woman. Jocelyn Overstreet hasn't returned to her family's eastern Idaho cattle ranch in six years. She's...
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