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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Union Pacific's Streamliners
Author: Joe WelshPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616731151
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An authoritative, lavishly illustrated history of Union Pacific's revolutionary passenger services from 1934 to the end of the railroad's passenger operations in 1971.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3310
Book Description
Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Wisconsin Magazine of History
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Railfan & Railroad
Author: Trains
Author: Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2042
Book Description
Ru
Author: Kim ThúyPublisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307359727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thúy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.