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Minor feelings: a reckoning on race and the Asian condition
For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal i…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781788165594
- Collation
- 206 p. ; 20 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 305 HON m
Red comet: the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780307951267
- Collation
- 1118 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 920 CLA r
Travels in the land of serpents and pearls
The intrepid Venetian traveller's observations of a thirteenth-century India filled with lavish jewels, chaste princes, superstitions and naked armies.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141398358
- Collation
- 56 p. ; 14 cm
- Series Title
- Penguin little black classics
- Call Number
- 910 POL t
The communists manifesto
This revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives today
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141397986
- Collation
- 51 p. ; 14 cm
- Series Title
- Penguin little black classics
- Call Number
- 335 MAR t
The dhammapada
Ancient aphorisms on endurance, self-control and perfect joy, widely acknowledged as the Buddha's own teachings
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141398815
- Collation
- 51 p. ; 14 cm
- Series Title
- Penguin little black classics
- Call Number
- 294 MAS t
The gate of the hundred sorrows
Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs - these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141398068
- Collation
- 51 p. ; 14 cm
- Series Title
- Penguin little black classics
- Call Number
- 823 KIP t
The antidote
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns h…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780593688366
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- 419 p. ; 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 823 RUS t
Prehistoric people
Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034529
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 930 JEU p
Farm animal
The cock crows at dawn, ducklings paddle, geese hiss, cows gaze, lambs frisk, and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard, the cowshed the pig sty and the fields.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851033812
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 636 JEU f
Atlas of the earth
See how wins, water and ice sculpt valleys and mountains. Witness a new island being born as a volcano erupts. Find out how landscapes are formed over millions of years
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034062
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 910 JEU a
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