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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 62
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English
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U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the month was April, and there was a closeness in the air, a threat of the long, stifling midday hours. Occasional faint breaths of wind, seeming cool by contrast, stirred the newly drenched orchids that hung from the eaves. Beyond the orchids one could see the dusty, curved trunk of a palm tree, and then the blazing ultramarine...
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After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life. For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic, The Little Prince, has captured readers' hearts. The whimsical story with a fairy tale feel has sold over 3 million copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes the complete...
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 14
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English
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An exciting realism of air adventure-through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts of the Andes--combined with prose.
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These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 75
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English
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In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.
Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party-so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities-from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground-gathered in an ongoing...
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Collection Folio volume 3200
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 39
Collection Folio junior volume 453
Collection Folio volume 3200
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 39
Collection Folio junior volume 453
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Français
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An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life.
8) Night flight
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL63
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English
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An adventure story about the men who risked their lives flying the first commercial air mail routes in the early 1930's.
9) t zero
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 70
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English
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The author's second collection of imaginative stories about the evolution of the universe transcends the boundaries of space and time while mixing comedy with higher mathematics.
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"Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by...
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This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics "demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous" (The New York Times).
Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy's greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century's greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity.
In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at...
12) Cosmicomics
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 69
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English
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Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?"--Publisher description.
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 73
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1977, ©1962
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English
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Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
15) Behind the door
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 66
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976, c1972
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English
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