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A beautifully illustrated book full of good ideas for city gardening on terraces and in small plots. AUTHOR: Stephen Anderton
PUBLISHER: Timber Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening 
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 | Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Description not available.In 1965 Saigon, French planters, American democratizers, and the Vietnamese become caught up in the growing unrest in Southeast Asia, in a novel that follows political scientist Sydney Parade as he begins to discover the roots of the conflict that is tearing the country apart. 50,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Ward Just
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Sorrow by Carolyn Forche, Claribel Alegria
The well-known and prolific human-rights advocate writes poems in memory of her husband, who died in 1995. The spare, mournful poems were translated from the Spanish by Carolyn Forche, who is a friend of Alegria's. Chosen as a favorite collection of 2000 by the San Francisco Chronicle. AUTHOR: Carolyn Forche, Claribel Alegria
PUBLISHER: Curbstone Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Animal Farm by George Orwell, Richard Green
Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. AUTHOR: George Orwell, Richard Green
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Crooked Man by Philip Davison
Description not available.A freelance operative for Britain's MI5, Harry Fielding is given the task of cleaning up the crime scene where a murder committed by a high-ranking cabinet minister and ensuring that the guilty man does not become a suspect in the killing. Original. AUTHOR: Philip Davison
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
The best writing we've had from the long war in Vietnam has been prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau changes that. AUTHOR: Yusef Komunyakaa
PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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