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When a British student-teacher arrives, A.J. and his friends wonder if her all-black clothing and love of blood sausage mark her as a vampire, while Mr. Granite simply hopes her musician-boyfriend will stay away long enough for a math lesson.

When a British student-teacher arrives, A.J. and his friends wonder if her all-black clothing and love of blood sausage mark her as a vampire, while Mr. Granite simply hopes her musician-boyfriend will stay away long enough for a math lesson.

The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as a 1960s earth mother for a string of "screwed up" post-war chi…

On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone…

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes{u2014}fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery a…

"The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes--fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and r…

The resignatin of a distinguished cabinet minister at the height of his career, and his sudden rejection by the woman he loves, leads Martin Radford, history graduate, to seek the solution to the mystery.

Deception seems to be part of everyday life in the company town of Pullman, Illinois, where the grand Pullman Palace Car is manufactured. Samuel Howard, Olivia??'s friend and the town manager, seems to think everything is fine, but Olivia observes something quite different. Coul…

Months after leaving her infant son in Olivia Mott's care, Lady Charlotte contemplates returning to Pullman to find out what happened to her baby, while Olivia wonders if her undercover work for the railroad company is improving working conditions, as she had hoped it would.

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thriller--the kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes…

This dissertation examines the history of the translation of the European novel into Arabic from the middle of the 19th century until the 1930's primarily in Egypt and Lebanon. It studies the complex exchange in this particular context of translation under different forms of Bri…