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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
14) Telling tales
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The Nobel Prize-winning author brings together twenty-one short stories in a special anthology aimed at HIVAIDS preventative education and treatment for the people in southern Africa, with contributions by Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Amos Oz, Kenzaburo Oe, Arthur Miller, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, and other notable authors.
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"In this fascinating guide Martha Sammons, author of A Guide Through Narnia, takes the reader on an adventure of discovery as she explores the depths of Lewis' vision. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at why Lewis wrote the Trilogy, the medieval cosmology that informs it, the role of Arthurian legend in That Hideous Strength, the sources for major and minor characters, and countless other fascinating details." --
18) The clouds
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The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo Brady, choral interpretation by Josephine McGarry Callan, setting and lighting by James D. Waring, costumes by Joseph Lewis.
19) Cat's cradle
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From the Publisher: Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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"In this debut collection, John Murray meshes fact with fiction, taking his inspiration from the worlds of science, medicine, and nature. The stories are set in locations across the globe - a cholera tent in the slums of Bombay, a United Nations refugee camp in the mountains of Africa, a Key West hideaway - where his characters, among them doctors, nurses, research scientists, explorers, and collectors, can be found reading The Manual of Clinical...
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