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Tours Of Vietnam : War, Travel Guides, And Memory

The Lacuna : A Novel

In Afghanistan : Two Hundred Years Of British, Russian And American Occupation

The Scenic Route : A Novel

  • The Scenic Route : A Novel
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    Binnie Kirshenbaum
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    Book, 1st ed, Harper Perennial, 2009
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    Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife’s money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent?as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends, of dead ducks and Alma Mahler. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     BROWSING (MAIN)  PS3561.I775 S34 2009  AVAILABLE

The Weight Of Heaven : A Novel

  • The Weight Of Heaven : A Novel
  • Attribution

    Thrity Umrigar
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, Harper, 2009
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    When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise?and peril?when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of the grieving man’s attentions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     BROWSING (MAIN)  PS3621.M75 W45 2009  AVAILABLE

Six Seconds

Enlightenment For Idiots : A Novel

  • Enlightenment For Idiots : A Novel
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    Anne Cushman
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    Book, 1st ed, Shaye Areheart Books, 2008
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    After some breakup sex, she?s off to India to find a new, more spiritual life. What she finds, though, is an ashram run by investment bankers, a yoga master who trashes her knee, and a guru with a weakness for fashion models. And when a holy lunatic on the street offers her an enigmatic blessing, Amanda realizes a new life may be in store for her?just not the one she was expecting. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3603.U824 E55 2008  AVAILABLE

Telex From Cuba : A Novel

  • Telex From Cuba : A Novel
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    Rachel Kushner
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    Book, 1st Scribner hardcover ed, Scribner, 2008
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    Rachel Kushner has written an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro’s revolution — a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. Kushner’s first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3611.U7386 T45 2008  AVAILABLE

Gravity’s Rainbow

La Perdida

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner : A Memoir

International Jobs : Where They Are, How To Get Them

The Last Chinese Chef

The Rosetta Key

  • The Rosetta Key
  • Attribution

    William Dietrich
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins Pub, 2008
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    Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon’s army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. Pursuing Napoleon to France, where the general hopes ancient secrets will catapult him to power, the wily and inventive Gage faces old enemies with unlikely new friends, and must use wit, humor, derring-do, and an archaeological key to prevent dark powers from seizing control of the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3554.I367 R67 2008  AVAILABLE

Touchstone

  • Touchstone
  • Attribution

    Laurie R. King
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    Book, Bantam Books, 2008
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    Once studied by British intelligence for his unique abilities, Grey has withdrawn from a rapidly changing world—until an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to investigate for himself Grey’s potential as a weapon in a vicious new kind of warfare. Agent Harris Stuyvesant desperately needs Grey’s help entering a world where the rich and the radical exist side by side—a heady mix of the powerful and the celebrated, among whom lurks an enemy ready to strike a deadly blow at democracy on both sides of the Atlantic. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3561.I4813 T68 2008  AVAILABLE