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The Mysterious Island (Wordsworth Classics)

by Jules Verne

Published: 2010-03-15

Paperback: 528 pages

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With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his...

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Chinese Edition)

by Jul Verne

Published: 2011-03-01

Paperback: 250 pages

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Otto Lidenbrock, a German mineralogy professor, found in an ancient book a piece of parchment. After decoding the words, he started an adventure to the center of the earth with his nephew and Icelander Hans. they went down in one volcano on Iceland, overcoming all kinds of difficulties such as in short...

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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

by Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman

Published: 2010-04-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. In the early hours of Monday, F...

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Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

by Aja Raden

Published: 2015-12-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious.What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account o...

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Satin Island (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Tom McCarthy

Published: 2016-01-26

Paperback: 208 pages

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Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeIn Satin Island, Tom McCarthy—the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Remainder and C—captures the way we experience our world and our efforts to find meaning in the narratives we think of as our lives. U., a “corporate anthropologist,...

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In the Country: Stories

by Mia Alvar

Published: 2015-06-16

Hardcover: 368 pages

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These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East...

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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

by Pamela Newkirk

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 336 pages

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2016 NAACP Image Award WinnerAn award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the trad...

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A Planet for Rent

by Yoss

Published: 2015-06-23

Paperback: 272 pages

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Out of the modern-day dystopia of Cuba comes an instant classic from the island’s most celebrated science fiction author: a raucous tale of a future in which a failing Earth is at the mercy of powerful capitalist alien colonizers.One of the most successful, decorated, and controversial s...

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Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture (Refiguring American Music)

by Allison McCracken

Published: 2015-09-25

Paperback: 448 pages

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The crooner Rudy Vallée's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallée and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular cult...

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Shadowshaper

by Daniel José Older

Published: 2015-06-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of  making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neig...