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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0944072585ISBN 13: 9780944072585
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Product Description Twelve stories describe the experiences of Chinese officers and soldiers stationed along the Chinese-Russian border From Publishers Weekly Set on the Chinese-Russian border in the early 1970s, these short stories by this poet (Between Silences) and veteran of the People's Army, quickly draws the reader into Chinese army life with all its rivalries, propaganda and poignancy. "Dragon Head" follows a fascinating battle of wits between an army commander and a local militia commander ("If this were the Old China, no doubt Dragon Head would become a small warlord") through the twists and turns of betrayal and political intrigue. In "Miss Jee," about a soldier who is the helpless butt of his comrades' jokes, Jin also shows a genuine talent for humor. But the author is at his best when telling the stories of soldiers forced to choose between ideology and love. Whether it is love of a woman or love of knowledge, Jin's characters make hard choices that will move not just readers interested in China or the army life, but any reader vulnerable to good writing and simple human drama. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author Ha Jin teaches at Emory University.
Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 1883642264ISBN 13: 9781883642266
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED as The Tenth Moon, Come Back to Sorrento is the second of Powells "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the village shoemakers wife, always wanted an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, once spent time abroad studying piano. The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other and translating the surface monotony of their lives into drama richer than reality.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 1581950268ISBN 13: 9781581950267
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Kohler, Sheila.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 0944072925ISBN 13: 9780944072929
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Details life in the small factory town of Dismount Fort in northern China through the eyes of Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 1581950098ISBN 13: 9781581950090
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Vladimir Nabokov had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s he was an acknowledged expert on "Blues," a family of butterflies that inhabit some of the remotest parts of Latin and South America. In 1945 he published a radical new classification of Blues, a paper that initially caused a stir in the rarified field of lepidoptery. However, it was fifty years before scientists followed up on his pioneering work. Part biography and part detective story, Nabokov's Blues explores the rich and varied place butterflies hold in Nabokov's fiction, as well as far-reaching questions of biogeography and evolution, and the worldwide crisis of ecology and biodiversity."A view of Nabokov's science and art that is both eerily evocative and stunningly new, that makes delectable reading without patronizing the reader."-Dmitri Nabokov"Vivid and varied, surprising and thoughtful, wry and poignant, Nabokov's Blues will appeal to anyone with a taste for adventure and contrast."-Brian BoydChapter: The Most Famous Lepidopterist in the World"Frankly, I never thought of letters as a career. Writing has always been for me a blend of dejection and high spirits, a torture and a pastime-but I never expected it to be a source of income. On the other hand, I have often dreamt of a long and exciting career as an obscure curator of lepidoptera in a great museum."-Vladimir Nabokov, Strong OpinionsLepidoptery, the branch of science dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths, has its own legendary figures, and its history is both long and glorious. But for lepidopterists, as in fact for most entomologists, the light of celebrity seldom shines outside a narrow but passionate circle of scientists and collectors.During the Age of Exploration, when the influx of exotic new plants and animals from the four corners of a seemingly boundless globe astounded Europe, the study of biology, often a preserve of the well-born, offered a path to wealth and fame. Sir Joseph Banks, the 18th century English biologist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his three-year circumnavigation aboard the British ship Endeavor, was a friend of King George III and one of the most fam.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1989
ISBN 10: 0944072097ISBN 13: 9780944072097
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. illustrated edition. Review 1979 Advice Agnes, 1953 Agriculture Amnesia Angels Apple Pie Apricot Tree Aquileia Arrival At The Clinic Aubade Bad The Bad Mother Barbara's Poem Black Bread Blue Walls Bones The Book Of Maps Boudicca Bread The Butterfly Careless Love The Charm Clairvoyance The Cleaning Lady Thinks Of Lizzie Borden Courage A Distance From Drowning Domestic Violence Domina Dream Poem Drought Eclipse Eggs The Elect Elizabeth Disguised As A Dancer An Evening Evening Faces Fire The First Mother Flower Child Frontier The Garden Gifts Gold Granite Grass Widow Grief Hawkins Point Hiberation Hid Out Hiding Homecoming The House Il Marchese In The Mines: 1. Another Place In The Mines: 2. Leaves In The Mines: 3. Green Mountains In The Mines: 4. Outside In The Mines: 5. Autumn Sky In The Mines: 6. In The Mines In The World Industry Island Jamaica Plain Poem Joan Of Arc Kathryn Piccard Lament The Lemon-house Letters From The Colonies Loss The Lost World Lot's Wife Love The Lovers Manchester, 1856 The Marsh Moon The Mother's Poem Mount Auburn Cemetery Mountains Moving Muse Nauset Beach Neighbour The New House Nightwalking Nocturne On Losing The Miracle In China The Painter Pastoral The Picnic Polecat The Potter Prison Visit The Rag-picker Ravioli Fiorentini Rebecca Recovery Red Boots Remedies Rules For The Cleaning Lady Salamander Sarah's Place The Ship The Shy Woman Silence Siren Small Stones Snapshot South Window Upstairs The Spell Spelling Our Language The Spoiled Child Spring In The City Spring Poem Spy Stolen Poem Stones Summerhouse Swimming At Night The Swing Three Houses Three Ravens To A Friend The Travel Artist True Lies The Truth Of These Warlike Women Untitled The Value Of Literature Venice, 1949 The Visit Water The Weaver Where White Tents The Wife's Poem Wild Grapes The Woman Who Knits Zhenia -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder Product Description Hawley, Beatrice.
Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 1581950020ISBN 13: 9781581950021
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Cultural Writing. Folklore. Carribbean Studies. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Intoxicating in its language, lush in its evocation of Creole island culture, SEVEN DREAMS OF ELMIRA: A TALE OF MARTINIQUE is a vivid and hallucinatory fable, written by widely acclaimed author Patrick Chamoiseau and illustrated with stunning photographic portraits by Jean Luc-Laguardigue. Based on interviews, observation, and invention, this story takes as its canvas the everyday lives of the workers at the old St. Etienne rum distillery in the hills of Martinique, and the strange vision of the beautiful Elmira who appears to a select few.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 1883642272ISBN 13: 9781883642273
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. IF A YOUNG MAN finds his own father inconveniently ordinary, can he choose another? Jonathan Jaimison, the engagingly amoral hero, comes to New York from Silver City, Ohio for exactly such a purpose. Combing through his mothers diaries and the bars and cafés of Greenwich Village, Jonathan seeks out the writer or painter whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been, all the while committing numerous indiscretions of his own. By the end of the novel, Jonathan has figured out not only his paternity, but his maternity, and best of all, himself. Published in 1962, The Golden Spur was Dawn Powells last novel.
Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 0944072453ISBN 13: 9780944072455
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Porter, Anne.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 1586420712ISBN 13: 9781586420710
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. SPANNING SIX GENERATIONS and three continents, My Name, a Living Memory is a fictionalized saga of author Giorgio van Stratens family from the Napoleonic era through World War II. The story begins in Rotterdam in 1811, when Hartog son of Alexander - father, cucumber salesman, and Dutch Jew - is forced by Napoleonic edict to choose a last name. He chooses Straaten, the Dutch word for street.The name presages a journey through history that flings Hartogs descendants as far afield as San Francisco, London, Odessa, Sao Paolo, and Tbilisi. They witness the Gold Rush, the Russian Revolution, the Stalinist purges, and, finally, the Holocaust. Some are uprooted by business interests, including the authors grandfather, who lost one of the As in his surname en route. As the political climate grows increasingly perilous for Jews throughout Europe, several are forced to flee for their lives, and many fail to return from Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Bergen-Belsen.Historical fiction of a very personal sort, van Straten weaves his relatives stories together, much as an art restorer reconstructs the missing portions of a fresco, guided by the evidence that remains. A gold watch, a few photographs, crumpled documents and letters, family lore; these are the artifacts from which lives are re-created. In the end, the story of van Stratens family can be read as a testament to the rich and varied history and culture of Jews in Europe and the Americas.
Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0944072801ISBN 13: 9780944072806
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A finely observed, richly textured novel of young and beautiful Meg Mobry's marriage examines the painful choice between fidelity and betrayal, and the doubts and consequences that decision may provoke. IP.
Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 1883642825ISBN 13: 9781883642822
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1994
ISBN 10: 0944072429ISBN 13: 9780944072424
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1993
ISBN 10: 0944072313ISBN 13: 9780944072318
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Published by Zoland Books, 384 Huron Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1586420208ISBN 13: 9781586420208
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith. When the German occupation of Rome becomes imminent, Cesira packs a few provisions, sews her life savings into the seams of her dress, and flees with Rosetta to her native province of Ciociara, a poor, mountainous region south of Rome.Cesira's currency soon loses its value, and a vicious barter economy, fraught with shifty traffickers and thieves, emerges among the mountain peasants and refugees. Mother and daughter endure nine months of hunger, cold, and filth as they await the arrival of the Allied forces. Cesira scarcely cares who wins the war, so long as victory comes soon and brings with it a return to her quiet shopkeeper's life.Instead, the Liberation brings tragedy. While heading back to Rome the pair are attacked by a group of Allied Moroccan soldiers, who rape Rosetta and beat Cesira unconscious. This act of violence and its resulting loss of innocence so embitters Rosetta that she falls numbly into a life of prostitution. Throughout these hardships Moravia offers up an intimate portrayal of the anguish and destruction wrought by war, both on the battlefield and upon those far from the fray.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 1883642817ISBN 13: 9781883642815
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1581950284ISBN 13: 9781581950281
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 1581950209ISBN 13: 9781581950205
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 1581950241ISBN 13: 9781581950243
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2006
ISBN 10: 1586420992ISBN 13: 9781586420994
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2006
ISBN 10: 1581952198ISBN 13: 9781581952193
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 1586420054ISBN 13: 9781586420055
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1581950330ISBN 13: 9781581950335
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Zoland Books, 1994
ISBN 10: 0944072445ISBN 13: 9780944072448
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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