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"For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World's Fair feels like a gift. But only once he's there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off-a healthy boy “to a good home.” The winning ticket belongs to the flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel,...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Into this family of illiterate shepherds is...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
While in prison awaiting a brutal execution, Boethius produced arguably the most famous work of early medieval philosophy and literature, the celebrated Consolation of Philosophy. In alternating sections of prose and poetry, Boethius describes the circumstances of his rapid fall from the upper echelons of society and power. In a conversation with lady Philosophy,...
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Microsoft Corporation
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Zaza
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Xbox One, the best experience in games and entertainment. The console designed to play the best games of the past, present, and future Xbox One has over 1,300 great games including today's blockbusters, 200 console exclusives, and 400 Xbox classics. This bundle includes the Xbox One console and 2 Xbox One wireless controllers.
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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St. Charles Public Library - Beyond Books - Entertainment
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St. Charles Public Library - The Loft Equipment
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St. Charles Public Library - The Loft Equipment
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"Play your way with the Nintendo Switch gaming system. Whether you're at home or on-the-go, solo or with friends, the Nintendo Switch system is designed to fit your life. Dock your Nintendo Switch to enjoy HD gaming on your TV. Heading out? Just undock your console and keep playing in handheld mode. This bundle includes the Nintendo Switch console and Nintendo Switch dock in black, with left and right Joy-Con controllers. It also includes two Joy-Con...
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its...
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2019
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Zaza
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Beyond Books Collection at Elmwood Park Public Library
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"Introducing Nintendo Switch Lite, a new version of the Nintendo Switch system that's optimized for personal, handheld play. Nintendo Switch Lite is a small and light Nintendo Switch system. With a built-in +Control Pad, and a sleek, unibody design, Nintendo Switch Lite is great for on-the-go gaming."--provided by publisher.
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It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the videogame industry--in development as a feature film from Sony PicturesIn 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the videogame industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations...
19) Console gaming
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Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about console gaming. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7" --
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