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Kazuo Ishiguro is an award winning British writer of Japanese descent. he has written many novels and won several awards. An Artist of the Floating World, published in 1986 was short listed for the Booker Prize and was rated one of the best 100 books ever written. It examines the nature of memory and denial and the interplay between the two in determining people's characters. Plot and Chacters here examines the storyline from a literary point of view...
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There aren't many novels that address the Second World War and its influence on Asian Countries as well as Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Neither are there many criticism of this novel. This book, therefore, intends to highlight the importance of this novel by critiquing the story and looking at its effect on Japan. In the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro highlights the conflict that results from the varying attitudes towards the Second World...
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Following the first book on Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World which examined the PLOT of the novel and the CHARACTERS this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novel to have a comprehensive view of what the novel is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of Kazuo Ishiguro in general or of this novel in particular,...
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The Jinbutso Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Gojūsan tsugi, 五十三次 is one of the most original of Hiroshige's huge production.It is a hot fantasy full of secret clues.The complete name of the series in Japanese is Tokaido Goju-san Tsugi Jinbutsu In English it is usually called Figure Tōkaidō or Jinbutsu or Jimbutsu (Figure) Tōkaidō because all the designs show people not just as tiny decorations but as important elements in the...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"--
"In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency...
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Storm dragons volume 1
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English
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In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon--believed to be extinct--and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance. Remy spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge--one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he...
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid's heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.
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World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Asteroids and comets are hard to explore up close. Their low gravity makes it difficult to land on them--and to travel on them without floating away! What if you could turn this disadvantage into an advantage? Learn how engineer Marco Pavone plans to build a rover to bounce across an asteroid"--Back cover.
11) The race to the future: 8,000 miles to Paris - the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Petrol is almost impossible to find, there are barely any roads, armed bandits and wolves lurk in the forests. Updates on their progress,...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. The price of his clandestine operation? Cia's entire family, and her leg. So, when her best friend Alice says she has a secret too, Cia wants nothing to do with it--even if it could shed light on her family's dark past. But Alice doesn't let go so easily, especially when her search for answers might help find Noah, the boy who broke...
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Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2024-
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English
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In a world where angels protect the people against demons, a young orphan with pitch-black wings may hold the key to the kingdom's fate. An exquisitely drawn, dark fantasy manga for fans of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Made in Abyss, and Witch Hat Atelier. An orphaned girl named Blue has always dreamed of joining the ranks of the noble Angels, servants of the floating palace who protect the Quartz Kingdom against demons. Yet, Blue is not like the other...
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Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad!
Join Diana on her first day as a spaceship captain in this storybook from FarFaria.
The main character Night plays a game of hide-and-seek with his sister,...