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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new...
2) The Terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
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Series
Publisher
Kuperard
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Culture Smart! Canada gives a broad overview of the geography, history, and politics of the land. It describes Canadian values and attitudes, how people relax in their spare time, and how you can make friends with them. There is a chapter on business for those who need to know what to expect in the corporate world. By preparing you for the reactions, emotions, and events that you will experience during your visit, it will deepen your understanding...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars...
10) The chosen one
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A car salesman, whose life is heading downhill, is proclaimed to be a spiritual leader by a tribe of holy men from a foreign land.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A woman eats a man out of love. Tereza, a Polish student in New York realizes she can never possess Jose, a Brazilian anthropologist researching cannibalism, because he is married and a father. The only way to keep him, she decides, is to kill and eat him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kuperard, an imprint of Bravo Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Taking readers beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and tulips, this pocket-sized guide helps visitors understand the complex layers of identity in this small, densely populated country on Europe's northwestern seaboard. With roots as a maritime nation that built a network for transportation, defense, and trade, the Netherlands of today is still a prime economic hub of Europe. The Netherlands is also famous for its liberal attitudes,...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Persian
Description
A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew impatient.
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