Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Seattle, with its natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983950
- ISBN
- 9780295983950
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.28
€ 26.99
€ 25.28
paperback. Focuses on Lue Gim Gong, a real-life Chinese pioneer, who seized the opportunity to go to America's "Gold Mountain." This book presents the story of his attempt to assimilate the new culture, his few successes and his frequent setbacks as told by the women who cared most about him: his mother, a spinster who loved him, and a friend and co-worker. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295987149
- ISBN
- 9780295987149
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
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Paperback. * A gripping, topical novel - a detective story, a love story and a book about contemporary Britain Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349115870
- ISBN
- 9780349115870
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
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Paperback. "Timely and brave.. Leegant is a masterful weaver."-Miami Herald Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393339895
- ISBN
- 9780393339895
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.08
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Paperback. A novel about transforming organizations from the author of bestselling business books The Goal and Zapp! The Cure is a novel for managers about transforming an under-performing bureaucratic organization into a boundaryless, fact-driven management culture like the one that made Jack Welch's General Electric so consistently successful. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471268307
- ISBN
- 9780471268307
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. Written by the author of "The Floating World", this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted. Series: California Fiction S. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520207288
- ISBN
- 9780520207288
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.88
€ 21.99
€ 17.88
Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2GJ; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674796744
- ISBN
- 9780674796744
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.83
€ 40.99
€ 33.83
Paperback. Originally published 1940. First published by Princeton 1983 and assigned new ISBN when reissued as a print-on-demand title in 2014. Translator(s): Bodde, Derk. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 514 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613314
- ISBN
- 9780691613314
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Condition: New
€ 88.16€ 68.36
€ 88.16
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Paperback. Translation of: Hamamatsu Chaunagon monogatari / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume. Translator(s): Rohlich, Thomas H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613581
- ISBN
- 9780691613581
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
€ 52.99
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Hardback. Translator(s): Rohlich, Thomas H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641355
- ISBN
- 9780691641355
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Condition: New
€ 133.37
€ 133.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 443 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764225086
- ISBN
- 9780764225086
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Condition: New
€ 24.10
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Paperback. From the author of "Airs of Providence", "The Very Rich Hours", and "The Courage of Girls", this book brings together a dozen new stories. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801848537
- ISBN
- 9780801848537
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.30
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Paperback. "Robert Vivian's prose is lyrical and harrowing - harrowing in the Biblical sense," Sven Birkerts said of The Mover of Bones, the first book in Vivian's Tall Grass Trilogy. That same lyrical power carries this new volume to a place of hard-won hope and redemption at once both spiritual and earthly. Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803213807
- ISBN
- 9780803213807
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.36
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€ 21.36
Paperback. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? And imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine's point of view. This book presents a collection of short stories that re-imagine life beyond the margins of 'normality'. Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803225336
- ISBN
- 9780803225336
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.70
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Paperback. Gives full play to Svoboda's prodigious talents for finding the dark and the strange in the sunny American story Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226821
- ISBN
- 9780803226821
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
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paperback. A novel about a dystopic, future Argentina where violence rules and the government is powerless to protect its aging citizens Translator(s): Labinger, Andrea G. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803229891
- ISBN
- 9780803229891
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.26
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Paperback. The story of the residents of a small western plains town and the turmoil that results from the colliding interests of its "native" inhabitants and newcomers Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803231085
- ISBN
- 9780803231085
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
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Paperback. Prize-winning collection of short stories about finding happiness, and the pain necessary to achieve such bliss Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803232617
- ISBN
- 9780803232617
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
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Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803240551
- ISBN
- 9780803240551
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.84
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Paperback. A collection of stories that focus on female subjectivity. It features stories such as: "The Nocturnal Butterflies"; "Shadows in the Shadows"; and, "The Shunammite". Translator(s): Steele, Cynthia. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259270
- ISBN
- 9780803259270
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.45
€ 16.99
€ 16.45