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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
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A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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"Piolet d'Or recipient Graham Zimmerman is widely recognized as one of the most talented climbers of the twenty-first century, yet one of his greatest accomplishments has been learning to pursue his love of adventure and climbing while crafting a meaningful life grounded in responsibility and purpose. In this engaging and provocative memoir, Zimmerman, who learned to climb in Washington's Cascade range, maintains a delicate balancing act: appreciating...
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"Disruption tells the story of the conspiracy to simultaneously destroy several passenger jets over the Atlantic Ocean in 2006 and the desperate efforts by the British, Americans, and Pakistanis to crush the conspiracy before the bombs went off in the largest counterterrorism investigation in history"--
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A sequence of scattered frames on this Planet, of stories at first glance disconnected and dragged along by the rush of contemporary society, turns into a fine balance of chance and necessity.What may seem like an ordinary day in our existence is reduced to twenty-four simultaneous stories contained within the span of a single hour.A turn of the clock that punctuates Time, the true master of today's Odyssey in which we are immersed, transcending history...
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Rich Bride Poor Bride volume 17
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Linda and Graeme definitely have different views for their ideal wedding day. Linda wants an ultra-hip and modern look while Graeme imagines a traditional wedding from start to finish. Wedding planner Jay Wheatley must strike a fine balance between this conflicted couple before she can help them plan anything. This wedding planner has a tough challenge: deliver one wedding that has both something old and something new.
7) The storm
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"Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese...
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A captivating love story with persuasive characters and provocative love moments after falling in love, Don and Abena, as couples, realized the difficulties ahead of them in navigating their own family customs and traditions in contrast to their own lifestyles and the need to strike a fine balance to please both themselves and their families together. How does Don and Abena achieve their dream of living together under one roof as happily married and...
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World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 1
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When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
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These stories explore the complexities of contemporary family life with a fine balance of humor and insight. This Distance We Call Love takes its title, from the interwoven themes of connection and disconnection in our most, intimate relationships: sisters battle issues of duty and obligation, when one sister becomes homeless, a mother and daughter take a trip to Mexico, only to be followed by the daughter's stalker; a family living in Rome must contend...
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Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.
In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. An uncle crushes oxycodone into "a thousand red granules." Hawks wheel above a dark, indifferent river. "I left that town / forever," Holbert writes, but its bruises appear everywhere, in dreams...
12) Free-fire zone
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Vietnam volume 3
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Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
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The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, and José Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine balance between scholarly and creative expression. The volume provides students and professionals...
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Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country.
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together.Haunted by dreams of violence and death, Morris makes it his personal mission to watch over his friends--and the best...
15) Sharpshooter
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Vietnam volume 2
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"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to...
16) Shelter My Heart
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Po'Boy, Wrench, and Crissy show how they're meant to be in this saucy and sassy story about love, and change, and doing a whole lot more than just getting by.
Now that Po'Boy has found his happy with the two people he loves more than life itself, he just has to figure out how to keep it. Their triad relationship walks a finely balanced line between the demands of their outside lives and in bed, and Po'Boy is determined to keep things good and sweet...
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Harvey Mackay takes readers back to the most basic tool that all of our speech is composed of: the alphabet.
In The ABCs of Business Success, each individual letter holds a sacred significance in business, relationships, and life itself.
In his classic "to-the-point" style, Harvey casts light upon the keystone concepts in the most foundational areas of business. The format of the book is delightful and engaging, with each section composed of an alphabetical...
18) Having It All
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Having it all, but at what cost for a career nurse and devoted mother?When one of my early mentors suggested that my nursing qualification, as a Registered General Nurse, would be my ticket to 'Having It All' I could not envisage what that would mean for me. As a nurse and a woman, who intended to have a family, I did not think too far ahead and any thoughts on how it would manifest itself in relation to my nursing career were limited to family-friendly...
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"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews
Chris Lynch concludes his gritty, thoughtful, and critically acclaimed WWII fiction series -- providing entirely new insight into "The Good War."The US Marines Corps is home to some of the roughest, toughest combatants in World War II. Their courage and daring are legendary. And the best of the best -- the boldest among them -- are...
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World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 2
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After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga, Bradford.
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