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Fordlandia: A Novel

by Eduardo Sguiglia

Published: 2001-10-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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With this haunting novel set in Fordlandia, an actual Brazilian plantation town devised by Henry Ford as a way to break the British hold on rubber, Eduardo Sguiglia has imagined a poignant tale of the essential conflict between man and nature.

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

by Greg Grandin

Published: 2009-06-09

Hardcover: 432 pages

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The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the AmazonIn 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the pro...

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Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China

by Rachel DeWoskin

Published: 2006-04-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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?For a real insider's look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.??Sophie Beach, The EconomistDetermined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a ?fiery? life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based ...

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Foreign Bodies

by Cynthia Ozick

Published: 2010-11-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors?the work he considered his best?but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed....

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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

by Geraldine Brooks

Published: 1999-01-19

Paperback: 217 pages

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As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Br...

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The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel

by Alan Furst

Published: 2007-05-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls ?America's preeminent spy novelist,? comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom?the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets ...

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Foreign Influence: A Thriller (Scot Harvath)

by Brad Thor

Published: 2010-06-29

Hardcover: 384 pages

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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Brad Thor's hottest political thriller yet. � Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created.� Unfettered by the oversi...

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The Foreign Student: A Novel

by Susan Choi

Published: 1999-09-01

Paperback: 325 pages

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Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly,...

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The Foreigner: A Novel

by Francie Lin

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 309 pages

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The Foreigners

by Maxine Swann

Published: 2011-08-18

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A glittering, energetic novel about three women-each experiencing an awakening in the gloriously conflicted and sexy city of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a city of Parisian affections and national anxiety, of amorous young lovers, seedy ports, flooded slums, and a dazzling social elite....