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  • The Silent Brigade
    Ron Elliott
    The True Story of How One Woman Outwitted the Night Riders ...
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    26,24 €

  • Almayer’s Folly
    Joseph Conrad
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    117,85 €

  • Empress
    Evelyn B. McCune / Evelyn BMcCune / Evelyn McCune
    Following its heroine from concubine to ruler of China, Empress sweeps through the exotic, turbulent century of the Tang dynasty--and the life of an extraordinary woman. An epic in the bestselling traditions of The Tokaido Road and Silk Road. ...
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    21,53 €

  • Itsuka
    Joy Kogawa
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    17,59 €

  • The Playmaker
    Thomas Keneally
    Keneally’s magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement. ...
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    19,77 €

  • Lempriere’s Dictionary
    Lawrence Norfolk
    In 18th-century London, a young writer of a classic mythology dictionary finds himself heir to a mystery--one that leads to a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the rich East India Company. As he begins to untangle years of deceit, people begin to die in ways that mirror the very myths he has been researching. A W. Somerset Maugham Award winner. ...
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    16,17 €

  • Gentlemen from England
    Maud H. Lovelace / Maud HLovelace
    Maud Hart Lovelace—internationally famed author of the Betsy-Tacy children's books—joined literary forces with her husband, Delos, to produce Gentlemen from England, first published in 1937. It's the fictionalized story of a real nineteenth-century English colony near Fairmont, Minnesota, located not far from Maud Lovelace's hometown of Mankato.Tales of the immigran...
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    19,68 €

  • Pesa Zako Zinanuka
    Ben Mtobwa
    Mwandishi mmoja mashuhuri hapa duniani aliwahi kuandika katika kitabu chake, ‘No Money Smells’, kwamba hakuna pesa zinazonuka. Lakini mwandishi wa riwaya hii anadai “zipo, na zanuka”. Ni pesa zipi hizi? Na vipi zinuke? Hii ni riwaya nzito ya kihistoria. Mwandishi anaivulia jamii miwani na kuitazama kwa makini bila uoga, huku akimulika unafiki na ukatili uliofichika katika mioyo...
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    19,68 €

  • The Lively Lady
    Kenneth Lewis Roberts / Kenneth Roberts
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    14,33 €

  • So Red the Rose
    Stark Young
    Young’s novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. 'If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.'-New York Times. Southern Classics Series. ...
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    19,31 €

  • The Great Meadow
    Elizabeth Madox Roberts / JSSanders / M. E. Bradford / MEBradford
    Set at the time of the western migration from Piedmont Virginia to her native Kentucky, Ms. Roberts’s novel recounts the heroism of the Kentucky pioneer. Roberts was that rare thing, a true artist.. She was one of the indispensables.-Robert Penn Warren. Southern Classics Series. ...
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    16,96 €

  • Black Thunder
    Arna Wendell Bontemps
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    19,73 €

  • The Presidents Marshal
    La Merle Hodges
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    16,12 €

  • Emigrants
    Johan Bojer
    Bojer's novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who leave the Old World to seek a better life. Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota, where they find that breaking the sod and surviving blizzards are easier than feeling at home in this new land. ...
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    16,95 €

  • The Property of a Lady
    Elizabeth Adler
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    23,09 €

  • Oh, Kentucky!
    Betty Layman Receveur
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    24,54 €

  • Of Life and Ecstasy
    Charles J. Bonomelli / Charles JBonomelli
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    12,76 €

  • Showdown
    Jorge Amado / Gregory Rabassa
    In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Amado has created a South American 'Western' and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood. ...
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    21,26 €

  • Biscayne
    Barry Jay Kaplan
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    24,06 €

  • Segu
    Maryse Conde
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    24,93 €

  • A Stretch on the River
    Richard P. Bissell / Richard PBissell
    In this largely autobiographical story, the lively and nonstop dialogue portrays the excitement, humor, and independence of a hard-working steamboat crew on the upper Mississippi. ...
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    17,41 €

  • Only When They’re Little
    Kate Pickens Day
    A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They’re Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day’s family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative. A middle c...
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    20,39 €

  • The Bones of Plenty
    Lois Phillips Hudson
    A powerful and absorbing novel about the struggles of a proud North Dakota wheat-farming family during the Great Depression. ...
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    25,81 €

  • The Idylls of the Queen
    Phyllis Ann Karr
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    20,16 €

  • The Forest
    Georges Bugnet / David Carpenter
    In this tale of a young French couple’s struggle to survive as settlers in a seemingly hostile wilderness, Bugnet reveals an acute awareness of nature and presents it with great force and originality. 3 ...
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    12,37 €

  • Happy Hunting Grounds
    Stanley Vestal
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    31,11 €

  • The Dream of the Red Chamber
    Tsao Hsueh-Chin
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    119,94 €

  • Chita
    Lafcadio Hearn
    This is an unusual exotic novel of coastal Louisiana, unique in the local color movement for its impressionistic use of the southern landscape. Introduction by Arlin Turner.Originally published in 1969.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previousl...
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    64,29 €

  • Oil for the Lamps of China
    Alice Tisdale Hobart
    Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring “light” and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps, but who is caught between Chinese revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s and the heartless...
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    27,32 €

  • Oil for the Lamps of China
    Alice Tisdale Hobart
    Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring “light” and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps, but who is caught between Chinese revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s and the heartless...
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    16,49 €


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