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Corelli's Mandolin
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Dr. Iannis and his daughter, Pelagia, live on the idyllic Greek island of Cephallonia in the years before World War II. Pelagia falls in love with Mandras, a fisherman, but when Italy attacks Greece in 1940, Mandras goes to war, and the villagers' quiet lives are changed forever. When an Italian officer, Corelli, is billeted with Dr. Iannis, he ...
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Birds Without Wings
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Louis de Bernières's epic novel encompasses the history of Turkey from the late 19th century to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s. Narrated by a variety of voices (including a potter, a beautiful young woman in love with a goatherd, and a man whose adulterous wife is stoned to death), BIRDS WITHOUT ...
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A Partisan's Daughter
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This new novel from the acclaimed author of "Corelli's Mandolin" is a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. Narrated in the moment and in recollection, "A Partisan's Daughter" is also a commentary on the seductions and powers of storytelling.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscien-tious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consumate ...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin Film Tie in Edition
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Bernieres Louis De
Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II, this is the story of a beautiful young woman and her two suitors: a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerrilla, and the charming mandolin-playing head of the Italian garrison on the island.
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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
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In De Bernieres's first novel, set in a poverty-stricken South American country (unnamed), Dona Constanza's autocratic decision to divert a river to fill her swimming pool results in a series of preposterous events, touched strongly by magical realism. De Bernieres, though he is English, has often been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and often ...
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Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
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Set in South America, this is the story of a young philosophy lecturer who becomes embroiled in the vicious world of the drug barons. Vivo lives a charmed life, it seems, but that protection does not extend to those he loves.
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Red Dog
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Louis De Bernieres
In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of ...
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Senor Vivo & the Coca Lord
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Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape ...
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Birds Without Wings
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Louis De Bernieres
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, "Birds Without Wings" traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is ...
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Birds Without Wings
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Louis De Bernieres
The story of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; Karatavuk and ...
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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
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In this third novel in the trilogy begun with "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" and continued in "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord", President Veracruz continues his bizarre search for sexual fulfilment while Cardinal Guzman, tormented by a mysterious illness, sets loose an evangelical crusade.
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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
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Bernieres Louis De
When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the ...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Bernieres Louis De
Following THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN, a novel set on a Greek island in 1940 about the eternal triangle that develops between a doctor's daughter, her fisherman fiance and a young officer who is billeted in the doctor's house.
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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
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Bernieres Louis De, Louis de Bernieres
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, ...
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Sunday Morning in the Centre of the World
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Bernieres Louis De, Louis de Bernieres
Taking his inspiration from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernieres chose to celebrate his ten years of life in the south London suburb, living above a small shop that had been by turns an outlet for oversized naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers and junk shop, by writing of the people that he had known and come ...
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The Story of a Nobody
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Hugh Aplin (Translator), Louis de Bernieres (Foreword by)
The Story of a Nobody is a profound and moving work of fiction, combining the political tensions of the day with a tale of deep poignancy and sorrow. With St Petersburg awash with extravagant, dissolute bureaucrats concerned only with increasing their vast riches, a member of a secret movement is infiltrated into one such household. Once there, ...
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Birds Without Wings
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Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; ...
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Straight Talk about Anxiety & Depression
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Louis de Bernieres, Michael Maloney, Rachel Kranz
With rapid biological and social changes sweeping through their lives, teenagers can become overwhelmed by the many stressful situations confronting them for the first time. In this helpful resource, Maloney and Kranz offer solid advice on dealing with everyday--and extraordinary--stress, and provide a current hotline directory to consult for help.
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Red Dog
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Bernieres Louis De
No reader, regardless of age, will fail to be captivated by this charming story of a legendary dog, in Louis de Bernieres' Canadian publishing debut. ""In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. ...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Bbc Radio Collection: Fiction and Drama S. )
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Louis De; Maloney Bernieres, Michael
Part love story, part war story, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a epic set on an idyllic Greek island which is being torn apart by Nazi occupation.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Heard on Bbc Radio 4
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Louis De Bernieres
Set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during World War II, this is the story of a beautiful young woman and her two suitors: a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerrilla, and the charming mandolin-playing head of the Italian garrison on the island.
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Corelli's Mandolin
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Straight Talk about Eating Disorders
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Louis de Bernieres, Michael Maloney, Rachel Kranz
Which is better: eating delicious foods or being as thin as a model? What if dieting leaves you tired and irritable? Can eating make you happy? This guide candidly discusses the mixed messages that society sends teens about eating, weight, diet, and looks, explains how these messages can be destructive, and provides valuable resources for help and ...
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