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Wang, GangNew York : Viking, 2009.A captivating coming-of-age novel in the tradition of "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" During the darkest days of Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy named Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in Chinaas remote northwest. Here conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange among neighbors, classmates, and even friends. Into this stifling atmosphere comes a tall, clean-shaven teacher from Shanghai, wearing an elegant gray wool jacket and carrying an English dictionary under his arm. With the dictionary as his disposal, Love Liu turns to it for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life, and a whole new world opens up for him. His classmatesathe bright, troubled Sunrise Huang and the rowdy, impoverished Garbage Liaalso find hope in the unfamiliar and tantalizing sounds of English, but in an atmosphere of accusation and recrimination, one in which their teacher is deemed morally suspect and mere innuendo can cost someone his life, their ideals face a test more challenging than any theyall take in the classroom. A major bestseller in China, where it was voted best novel of the year independently by the critics and the general public, "English" is a transcendent novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery.
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Jenkins, Henry D. (Henry Davenport)1896Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to upper left. Includes ill., notes and views. In margin:...
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Great Britain. Hydrographic Office1882Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Hydrographic Office. "Soundings in fathoms." "1598."
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Monnier, P.1839In upper right-hand margin: No. 888. Historic Maps copy has labels on verso: "Current chart & part of the North Sea" and "No. 888."
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