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London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical...
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London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical...
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London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical...
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London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical...
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London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical...
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Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
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The High Mountains of Portugal part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century and through the human soul.
8) Ilo Ilo
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Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Ilo Ilo chronicles the day-to-day drama of the Lim family and their live-in maid Teresa, a Filipino immigrant. An outsider in both the family and Singapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to find her footing in her new community. Just as Teresa becomes an unspoken part of the family, unforeseen circumstances in an uncertain economy will challenge the new normal yet again.
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It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale and interpreted hundreds of times in a dozen languages, its influence is felt in story, song, popular culture, even language. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla.
Qais and Layla were madly in love. So in love, it has been said, that the young man could not contain his passion for his beloved, such that he was given the nickname "Majnun" - The Madman. But their love could...
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Lissabon, 1904: In einem Automobil begibt sich der junge Tomás auf eine abenteuerliche Expedition in Die hohen Berge Portugals. Ein tragikomischer Roadtrip beginnt, der ein unvermutetes Ende nimmt. Doch das ist erst der Anfang einer fantastischen Geschichte, die die einsame Gegend noch Jahrzehnte später umweht wie ein unauslöschlicher Zauber ... Ein unglaubliches und doch absolut glaubhaftes Meisterwerk über das Leben, den Tod und die Liebe -...
11) Morpheus
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Dans une Europe terrassée par un virus plongeant l'humanité dans le sommeil, une femme se lance dans un dangereux péripl
Depuis l'apparition du virus Morpheus, l'humanité est condamnée au sommeil vingt heures par jour. Pour tenter de survivre à ce chaos, les principales capitales ont déclaré leur indépendance dans une Europe au bord de l'implosion.
A Prague, la mercenaire Juliette tente d'offrir une vie décente à sa fille en multipliant...
12) Declutter Challenge: The Ultimate Guide on How to Declutter Your Life, Learn Excellent Tips and t
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Declutter Challenge: The Ultimate Guide on How to Declutter Your Life, Learn Excellent Tips and the Best Ways to Declutter and Organize Your Home to Live a More Peaceful Life
Do you feel overwhelmed in life? How many times have you said, "I will do it tomorrow," and six months later you still haven't emptied that drawer! Procrastination is the thief of time. It will rob you of your joy, rob you of your time and ten years down the line you will look...
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Four stories by the Booker Prize-winning author. Includes "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios," "the Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Ranking String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton," "Manners of Dying," and "The Mirror Machine," each in its entirety. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon....
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Healing Organization Bundle, 2 IN 1 Bundle: Declutter Challenge and Beyond Order
Feeling totally overwhelmed: that's the mantra most commonly uttered by those who find themselves in the midst of the chaos of clutter that grows with every mail delivery, notice from the school, a ring of the telephone, arrived home from a shopping trip. The piles grow because decisions must be made, and decisions cannot be made because the options seem to be never-ending....
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Acclaimed director Laurent Pelly is one of the most renowned and prolific interpreters of Offenbach's brilliantly inventive operettas, including several productions for the Opéra de Lyon. The composer's satirical and hilarious opéra bouffe version of Charles Perrault's 17th Century tale of the serial wife-murdering Bluebeard (in which no-one actually gets murdered!), deftly tows the line between humour and cruelty, with a star performance from Yann...