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  Learn to Speak Cantonese I - A...

  Jade Jia Ying Wu

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  Imagine falling in love with someone, but not speaking the same language as their extended family. This is the case for Gabriel, the narrator of this textbook, who is an American boy learning Cantonese to impress his girlfriend’s mom. In this Cantonese learning book, you will join Gabriel in his first meeting with Jenny’s mother, who is from Hong Kong and can only speak Cantonese. From having dim sum to describing his favorite pastimes, Gabriel will teach you everything you need to know to master basic conversational Cantonese. Free flashcards downloadable from www.inspirlang.com/resource.

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  Yuge! - 30 Years of Doonesbury...

  G. B. Trudeau

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  The New York Times–bestselling comic strip collection that proves “how Doonesbury predicted Donald Trump’s presidential run twenty-nine years ago” (The Washington Post). 
   
  He tried to warn us. Ever since the release of the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987, Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau has tirelessly tracked and highlighted the unsavory career of the most unqualified candidate to ever aspire to the White House. It’s all there—the hilarious narcissism, the schoolyard bullying, the loathsome misogyny, the breathtaking ignorance; and a good portion of the Doonesbury cast has been tangled up in it. Join Duke, Honey, Earl, J. J., Mike, Mark, Roland, Boopsie, B. D., Sal, Alice, Elmont, Sid, Zonker, Sam, Bernie, Rev. Sloan, and even the Red Rascal as they cross storylines with the big, orange airhorn who’s giving the GOP such fits. 
   
  Garry Trudeau is the “sleazeball” “third-rate talent” who draws the “overrated” comic strip Doonesbury, which “very few people read.” He lives in New York City with his wife Jane Pauley, who “has far more talent than he has.” 
   
  “Why so surprised, America? Doonesbury has been preparing us for President Trump since 1987.” —USA Today 
   
   
   
  “Trump and ‘Doonesbury’: The Comic Gift That Keeps on Giving.” —The New York Times 
   
  “If anybody thinks Trump can do a presidential pivot and change his personality Yuge! should be required reading.” —The Daily Kos 
   
  “[Trudeau is] practically the court artist of Castle Trump, and no one can beat him (not even Trump, whose capacity for self-parody can’t be overstated).” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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  The crazy World of the Border...

  Heinz Grundel

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  Life isn't always easy for Border Collies and the sheep entrusted to them. But they take it with a good sense of humour - just as does cartoonist Heinz Grundel, who portrays these lively dogs to the point. Every Border Collie owner will recognize many of the sketched out characteristics. Also sheep lovers will get their money's worth, since of course it's them who are the real top dogs...

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  On The Edge of Now - The Departure

  Brian McCullough

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  Brian McCullough’s On the Edge of Now, Book I—The Departure, the first in a seven-book, teen and young adult science fiction award-winning series, transports readers to a parallel realm mirroring Tag’s own existence—but things aren’t the same. Cities look like his with only slight nuances to buildings and culture—until, that is, he finds himself immersed in a universe ruled by those who crave unity. And, power. 
  "It was time. She retreated to her position directly in front of the archway feeling the immense void of the light’s source drawing her toward its opening, filling her with an almost physical compulsion to step inside. The voices! Closer now! With little time to think, her mind formed a picture of her mother looking back at her, smiling. 
  “Oh, what the hell!”

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  Captains Courageous

  Rudyard Kipling

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  From the author of The Jungle Book comes the tale of one man’s life-changing summer on the high seas. At the start of Captains Courageous, one of literature's most beloved stories of the sea, a spoiled rich boy is literally swept away — dashed overboard from an ocean liner. Luckily, young Harvey Cheyne is rescued by a passing fishing vessel. As it turns out, Harvey's apparent misfortune in tumbling from a life of pampered luxury into the humble company of a fishing schooner becomes a blessing in disguise. Compelled by the captain to earn his keep, Harvey loses his affectations as he learns the rewards of an honest day's labor amid the gruff and hearty companionship of the crewmen, who teach him to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The author's only novel to unfold in an American setting, this lively tale resounds with Kipling's customary blend of adventure and humor. This attractive new audio-book edition offers an irresistible invitation to a master storyteller's enduring tale of a boy's initiation into adulthood.

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  New West - Hill Country - Act 2...

  Seamus John

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  Act 2 - A Will to Pleasure follows the Colonel as he seeks to find pleasure in the violence and betrayal of the Hill Country. The Colonel is the khan of a desolate world, surrounded by powerful men and opposed by Sheriff John Newman. Life, with all its pain and beauty, is theater to him. He is the ringmaster and he will teach Sheriff John Newman, and everyone watching, a lesson to be remembered.

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