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3) Vịt kêu đồng
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Sáu Hà, Năm Na and Hai Hên are from poor peasant families. They earn their living from raising ducks in open fields. One day, Hai Hên saves Thắm, Năm Na's daughter, and they fall in love. But Năm Na wants his daughter to get married with Út Chót who is the son of a rich egg dealer. When the H5N1 Influenza epidemic breaks out, the duck raisers are at risk of bankcruptcy and they become dissatisfied with one another and are unhappy with the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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2024 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List
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"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
«Dalio solt? una risotada que bien pudo escucharse sin el micr?fono. Blandi? las maracas y crey? ver pasar al fondo de la sala a una virgen Mar?a seguida de un tigre» Una vieja gloria del bolero y un rockero frustado se encuentran. Dos formas de ver el mundo convergen en un proyecto tan inveros?mil como su sociedad que, esperan, los llevar? a las mieles de esa gloria tan escurridiza. A ratos p?caro y c?nico, Dalio encontrar? en el joven Poli al...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After many years of happy marriage, Emma Knightley and her husband are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-not all of whom are well known to the Knightleys but are certainly beloved by every Jane Austen fan: Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Marianne and Colonel Brandon, Anne and Captain Wentworth, and Fanny and Edmund Bertram. Very much not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"The cultural battle transcends all generations, and in his second book with HarperCollins Mexico, author Agustin Laje enumerates, analyzes and details the social variants that affect the new generation of young people and the political implication in an evolving society in favor of preserving youth and family"--
10) Namerica
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La crónica definitiva de un territorio inacabable: Hispanoamérica. Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupaciones y esperanzas. La conocemos mal; conocemos sobre todo sus mitos, sus reflejos, sus lugares comunes; la pensamos tal como era en otros tiempos. Esta región se llama o se podría llamar Ñamérica y este libro quiere contarla y entenderla...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: San Andres rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before. For Victoria - whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart."--
Author
Series
Texas A and M University agriculture volume no. 8
Language
English
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Description
In today's Texas, with its growing urban populations and big-city lifestyles, it is worth remembering that in 1850 only 10 percent of Texans lived in towns with as many as 100 people. The rest.
17) Umma's table
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The joy of food and tradition brings a family together. Madang is an artist and new father who moves to a quiet home in the countryside with his wife and young baby, excited to build a new life full of hope and joy, complete with a garden and even snow. But soon reality sets in and his attention is divided between his growing happy family and his impoverished parents back in Seoul in a dingy basement apartment. With an ailing mother in and out of...
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Language
English
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Description
The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located astride communication lines linking San Antonio, El Paso, Presidio, and Chihuahua City, the United States Army’s post at Fort Davis commanded a strategic position at a military, cultural, and economic crossroads of nineteenth-century Texas. Using extensive research and careful...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate....
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