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  Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

  Why We Love France But Not the French

  by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow

  At last, a fresh take on a country that no one can seem to understand. The French smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans. They take seven weeks of paid vacation per year, yet have the world’s highest productivity index. From a distance, modern France looks like a riddle. But up close, it all makes sense. Sixty Million Frenchmen... (more)
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  Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825 (Dialogos (Albuquerque, N.M.).)

  by Kenneth J. Andrien

  This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. At the same time, Professor Andrien explains how the indigenous peoples merged these changes with their own political, socioeconomic, and... (more)
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  Art on the Line

  by Jack Hirschman

  Art on the Line presents essays by artists speaking to, or from, the point where their commitment and art interact. Socially-engaged artists speak to the issue of an art that moves people to action in defense of human rights and civil liberties out of the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and James Baldwin. Essays from various countries are represented, including such authors as Arturo Arias, Amiri Baraka, Ernesto... (more)
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  The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors, Seventh Edition

  by Stephen Greenblatt

  Beginning with Seamus Heaney's brilliant new translation of Beowulf , and continuing through ten centuries of remarkable literature to the contemporary works of Derek Walcott, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie, the new Major Authors edition is a library between two covers--an indispensable addition to the family bookshelf.
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  Naughty Games

  Naughty Games

  by Lena Matthews

  Seven Minutes in HeavenNaughty Games, Book OneIn honor of her friend's birthday, Bev Navarro does something she swore never to do again, enter Holden Lancaster's home. At one time the two had been part of a close-knit group of friends, but that all changed thanks to one game of Seven Minutes in Heaven.Holden can't understand why Bev is avoiding him. He can only hope tonight's festivities will give them the time... (more)
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  It Had to Be You

  by Marilyn Lee

  Emotional sparks fly the moment Annalise Lewis and Reed Phillips meet. However, neither is in a position to take advantage of their immediate attraction. Reed is on the verge of proposing to Taylor, the woman he's chosen as step-mom to his two precocious children. Annalise has spent the previous twenty months struggling to recover from a serious religious stumble which shook her faith. Nevertheless, their... (more)