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Authors, Catalan 20th century Biography Clébert, Jean-Paul FICTION / Biographical Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Karlovac (Karlovac, Croatia) History 20th century Mars (Planet) Fiction Pla, Josep 1897-1981 Diaries Space warfare Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Veterans Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Croatia Karlovac (Karlovac)Grossman, Vasily
Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROChevallier, Gabriel
Summary: "Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEFermor, Patrick Leigh.
Summary: The author describes his travels through the mountains of southern Greece, exploring the isolated peninsula of Mani, at which time could only be accessed by boat during the early twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.9522 FERGresham, William Lindsay
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREWharton, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHAWilliams, John Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILChatterjee, Upamanyu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAOwens, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2010
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Summary: In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEFFI, N.A TEFClébert, Jean-Paul
Summary: "Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEDundy, Elaine.
Summary: The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNJansson, Tove.
Summary: Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANSimenon, Georges
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCarr, J. L. (Joseph Lloyd)
Summary: "Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2000
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Summary: At the end of World War One, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland and to his fiancee, Angela Spencer; however, her family's fortune and their once thriving hotel is in a state of decline, the major becomes interested in another woman, and violence in eastern Ireland begins to mount.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Farrell 2002Goldstein, Slavko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.72 GOLDSTEIN, SLAVKO GOLPla, Josep
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLA, JOSEP PLAWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2005