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Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village's rich history in the face of industrialization. Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked stories of fifteen artisans as their lives intersect over the course of a century"--Provided by publisher....
302) The safety net
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963, always on the same day, March 27 and always the same shot; the outside wall of a...
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1982]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by O'Reilly Media in the United States and Canada
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiii, 334 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Sales of wireless LANs to home users and small businesses will soar this year, with products using IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) technology leading the way, according to a report by Cahners research. Worldwide, consumers will buy 7.3 million wireless LAN nodes--which include client and network hub devices--up from about 4 million last year. This third book in the "HACKING" series from Syngress is written by the SoCalFreeNet Wireless Users Group and will cover...
305) The good postman
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bulgarian
Description
"A small and stubborn Bulgarian village facing the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Roman and Ottoman Empires. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is deciding on future of Europe. For centuries, the village has been called the 'Great Gate' because of its strategic location as one of Europe's first gateways from Turkey. Its bewildered inhabitants find themselves in the middle of an international crisis,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village in the central highlands of Vietnam.
307) Complete novels
Author
Series
Library of America volume 189
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
933 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
310) The last rose
Author
Series
Sisters ever after volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
To rescue her beautiful older sister from the vicious Beast, Mera enters the Beast’s eerie, magic-haunted castle, where nothing is quite what it seems, and must face dark secrets that have bound her village to the Beast for so long to set them all free.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In modern Singapore, the paths of a grieving WWII survivor and a young boy converge as they seek to heal long-buried wounds. When Wang Di's husband, Soon Wei, dies, she realizes that her fearful refusal to discuss their war experiences has left her with no knowledge of his life before they married. Prickling with regret, Wang Di searches for the story she couldn't bear to hear from him and relives her own harrowing experience as a 'comfort woman'...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
5 Blu-rays + 5 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays (569 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Saboteur: A young factory worker is accused of sabotage and sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase to clear his name.
Shadow of a doubt: A teenage girl comes to suspect that the uncle she idolizes may in fact be the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
The trouble with Harry: While no one really minds that Harry is dead, everyone has a different idea about what should be done with his body.
Marnie: Marnie is a compulsive...
315) The hidden palace
Author
Series
Daughters of war volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
521 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request - to find her vanished sister, who...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.
318) Cheater
Author
Series
San Diego case files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting high-stakes thriller. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick...
319) Plain murder
Author
Series
Amish mystery volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a man winds up dead in her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture, former Amish woman Rachel Mast returns to her Amish community to help her uncle prove his innocence.
Publisher
Distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 10 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
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