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The Bowl with Gold Seams

Ellen Prentiss Campbell

The Bowl with Gold Seams

Acclaimed writer and literary critic Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s debut novel is a moving, intimate story inspired by an unusual chapter in the history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in southern Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1945, the resort served as the detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families. The novel tells Hazel Shaw’s story as a young Quaker woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong...

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Up the Hill to Home

Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

Up the Hill to Home

Cherished only child of Charley and Emma Beck, she is the unlikely issue of an improbable union. Beloved wife of Ferd Voith, she is the happy mother of a tribe of nine, and newly expecting her tenth. It is the family of her earliest dreams. Seven forty-one, the house that Charley built on his little plot of farmland just outside of Washington City in the District of Columbia, is the only home she’s ever known. So vast before, the house seems to shrink with each new child, until Charley...

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Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

The Last Government Girl

Ellen Herbert

The Last Government Girl

In the summer of 1944, Edwina, known as Eddie, a young high school teacher of English and German travels to Washington to work for the war effort unaware a killer is there, targeting government girls. And he's closer than she could ever imagine. Eddie finds Washington crowded and exciting, a city at war, where folks act as if each day is their last. She rushes at life, longing to live her own version of Casablanca, believing the only enemies are Over There, the Nazis, Hitler, Hirohito. And...

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Ellen Herbert

HORROR

Phil Hore

HORROR

The modern political environment is not the first time America’s paranoia infected the world. In the 1950s the western world went to war against an enemy they saw was destroying their children, Comic Books. This is a tale based on the true stories of those affected by these strange times.

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Phil Hore

KAerlighedens samfund

Bertel Nygaard

KAerlighedens samfund

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Bertel Nygaard

Oplysningens verden

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Oplysningens verden

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Den islandske revolution

Soren Mentz

Den islandske revolution

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Soren Mentz

Vidnesbyrd

Stefan Iversen

Vidnesbyrd

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Stefan Iversen

Re-Mapping Exile

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Re-Mapping Exile

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Narrating Peoplehood amidst Diversi...

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Narrating Peoplehood amidst Diversity

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Love and Marriage at Harpers

Rosie Clarke

Love and Marriage at Harpers

From the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series. Oxford St, London, 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears.Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship and pain and friendship and love.

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Rosie Clarke

Marrow of Tradition, The The

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Marrow of Tradition, The The

Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings. As racial tension mounts, Carteret struggles on the domestic front. His wife and child are unwell and his niece, Clara, is courted by Tom Delamer, a lush aristocrat. Meanwhile, William...

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The Wheelwright's Daughter

Eleanor Porter

The Wheelwright's Daughter

Can she save herself from a witch's fate? Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community driven by religious bigotry and poverty. As she is able to read and is well-versed in herbal remedies she is suspected of...

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Eleanor Porter

Sumo Sport & Tradition

J. A. Sargeant

Sumo Sport & Tradition

This lighthearted guide to Japanese sumo is a great introduction to the sport for westerners.Author J.A. Sargeant, sports editor for the English-language, Asahi Evening News, realized that there were many foreigners who would enjoy Sumo more if they knew more of the essential facts about it. Utilizing his knowledge and first-hand information on the sport, he produced this sumo book to meet this need.Written in the humorous, easy-to-read fashion with which the many readers of his sports column...

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J. A. Sargeant

Flower Mat

Shugoro Yamamoto

Flower Mat

First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group.It tells of a young bride, Ichi, born into such a tradition, groomed in the virtues of ideal womanhood, and finally tempered by tragedy. Her life and fate are bound up inexorably with the fortunes of her in-laws, high-ranking officials. She soon...

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Shugoro Yamamoto

Pensionatets kulturhistorie

Mette Tapdrup Mortensen

Pensionatets kulturhistorie

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Mette Tapdrup Mortensen

KirkesprAengningen og Danmark

Thorkild C Lyby

KirkesprAengningen og Danmark

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Thorkild C Lyby

Europe and its Interior Other(s)

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Europe and its Interior Other(s)

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Reformationen

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Reformationen

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Batik Art & Craft

Ila Keller

Batik Art & Craft

This complete guide to Batik is an invaluable resource for those interested in Batik history, design, and weaving.Here in this volume, the author has not only given a comprehensive and fascinating account of the origins and history of batik, with examples of techniques and design, but also includes a complete «How-To-Do-It» section on modern methods of creating batik.The text is lucid and easy to follow, and the simple step-by-step format will enable the art enthusiast to investigate this...

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Ila Keller

Japanese are Like That

Ichiro Kawasaki

Japanese are Like That

This classic book on Japanese culture and etiquette takes a candid look at Asia's most modern, yet misread society.Here is a different book about the Japanese. A far cry from the purple prose of the starry-eyed Western visitor or the sterile style of the government gazette, The Japanese Are Like That is a down to earth scrutiny of the so called «inscrutable» Japanese. Armed with a cool head, the gift of clear expression, and an objectivity born of years of foreign residence, the author...

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Ichiro Kawasaki

Okinawa: A People and Their Gods

Robinson

Okinawa: A People and Their Gods

Okinawa is a fascinating account of the most unusual religious practices of the Okinawan people.Subject throughout their long history to many foreign influences, the Okinawan people still retain to a remarkable degree a strong reverence for their prehistoric animistic beliefs. nevertheless, in accommodating themselves to the infiltration of Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, and Christian influences they have been most receptive, with the result that what might seem confusing, illogical, and...

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Robinson

Salmagundi Vietnam

Don Pratt

Salmagundi Vietnam

This collection of some 200 anecdotes emanating from the war in Vietnam presents a realistic picture of the ups and downs of American's Best serving a tour in Vietnam. A potpourri of booze, sex, satire, humor, and, of course, not to be forgotten, fire-fights with «Charlie,» and death.Author’s say «when the hard-core Bonnie Rat returns home from a tour in Vietnam, he also has no qualms about telling it how it is.» This is precisely what the authors have done in Salmagundi Vietnam....

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Don Pratt

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto...

Richard Raskin

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto and With Raised Hands

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Richard Raskin

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