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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An Italian woman's stay among the Anglo whites of Kenya. Everyone sleeps with everyone else and they are as racist as their forefathers, but she does find love with two men. One is a safari guide and shows her the Africa of tourists, the other is a journalist and shows her the Africa of poverty and wars.
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Austen Keller was living her dream. She landed a career-defining job which moved her and her husband to Paris. Shortly thereafter, she was divorced. This wasn?t the plan. Yet there she was?pushing 40 and starting over.A decade after she?d last been single, Austen enters the dating scene playing by a new set of rules in a different language, culture, and lingerie standards. She experiences every type of miserable first date imaginable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona. This features the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain. It is the story of flamboyant Lady Brett Ashely and the hapless Jake Barnes in an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions." --
8) Ain't no mo'
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through a blend of sketch, satire, avant-garde theatre and a dose of drag, Ain't No Mo' answers the incendiary question: What if the United States government offered Black Americans one-way plane tickets to Africa? This unpredictable comedy speeds through the turbulent skies of being Black in today's America. A kaleidoscope of moments surrounding this great exodus are told by an ensemble cast featuring Peaches, a larger-than-life flight agent boarding...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1867 forty Irish-American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. Yet they never got a chance to fight. British authorities arrested them for treason as soon as they landed, sparking an international conflict that dragged the United States and England to the brink of war. Under the Starry Flag recounts this gripping legal saga, a prelude to today's immigration battles. The...
12) Barcelona
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In Barcelona, Spain during the last decade of the Cold War, Ted Boynton, the Spanish representative for a Chicago electric engine firm, plays host to his cousin, Fred Boynton, a lieutenant in the Navy. Ted is earnest and ambitious, but not a typical American salesman. Fred is an advance man for the Sixth Fleet's upcoming shore leave. They are smart but somewhat naive white-collar workers, who wear suits, are very serious about themselves, and who...
15) The beasts
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
"An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of "hill people" families who have toiled on the land for generations"--
