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Jeffrey has lived all his fourteen years in India. He eats, behaves, talks, thinks like an Indian; he has an Indian name, Ganesh. He is Indian. Forced to go and live with his aunt in America when his father dies, he is a foreigner. He doesn't understand American manners, or meals, or the way his schoolmates, always so noisy and restless, think. But Jeffrey does understand that a place to belong is important. And when the State decides to build a highway through his aunt's house - the house Jeffrey's great-grandfather built, where she and his father were born - he knows it must be stopped. To do that, he must persuade Americans to think like Indians. A tall order - but Ganesh the Elephant God is, after all, the Remover of Obstacles . . .
Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious clock.
Offering the literary delight of the season, Bosse has captured the pulse and character of London in the 1770s in an exuberant tale that intertwines the lives of Henry Fielding, the Earl of Sandwich, and John Wilkes, among others, with the fate of a livery boy who has come to the city to make his fortune. Adventure, misadventure, and the affair of the boy and a kept woman combine to endlessly surpise and entertain. Illustrated.
"A complete and detailed guide to crime on film: prison dramas, film noir, heist movies, juvenile delinquents, serial killers, bank robbers, and many other subgenres and motifs. The historical and social background to movie crime is covered by articles on the FBI, the Mafia, the Japanese yakuza, prohibition, boxing, union rackets, drugs, poisoning, prostitution, and many other topics."--Cover.
"Not since Shogun has a Western novelist so succeeded in capturing the essence of Asia" - New York Times It is 1948 and Mao is beginning his rise to power. A girl is gone and Philip Embree must find her, or he tells himself. Sonia, the daughter of Philip's estranged wife, has run away with her lover, Chamlong. But Philip has never been a man of his word. Let lose in China, he ends up involved in an American scheme and under fire from all sides. And while Philip is getting into trouble, the girl is getting into worse. Sonia and Chamlong are carrying a message for the communists and have been forced to go underground. But as Sonia loses interest in Chamlong, she becomes obsessed with getting c...
In the wake of the decimation of human life across the U.S. by virus V70--a mutant offshoot of AIDS--a multi-racial group of ravaged survivors join forces under the leadership of a blind visionary named "Mister Touch". Beset by violent gangs, vicious dogs, and shortages of food and medicine, the modern pioneer family embarks on an epic trip across America.
Statins are widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels and claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease. Believed to be completely safe and capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions, they are the most profitable drug in the history of medicine. In this groundbreaking book, GP Malcolm Kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype. He will change the way we think about cholesterol forever. Rubbishing the diet-heart hypothesis, in which clinical trials 'prove' that high cholesterol causes heart disease and a high-fat diet leads to heart disease, Kendrick lambastes a powerful pharmaceutical industry and unquestioning medical profession, who, he claims, perpet...
This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.
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