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CARTER SLUBY, PATRICIA
The Inventive Spirit of African Americans : Patented Ingenuity / Carter Sluby, Patricia ... – USA : Praeger, 2004. - 313 p. . . – 978-0-313-35156-3 : 900 tg.
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001
Shelf code:
Р 2012/4793
Subject headings
- Science
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The most comprehensive work on African American inventors to date, this book provides information on patent holders in all fields from colonial to modern times
Keywords
science, science in America, African American inventors
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GLASS, JULIA
Three Junes / Glass, Julia ... – New York : Anchor books, 2002. - 353 p.– (National Bestseller. . . – 0-385-72142-0 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35264
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
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An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises
Keywords
novels, stories, fiction, american fiction, bestseller
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BURNETT, FRANCES HADGSON
The Secret Garden / Burnett, Frances Hadgson ... – USA : Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005. - 238 p.– (Barnes and Noble Classics. . . – 978-1-59308-277-2, 1-59308-277-0 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34157
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Mary also discovers a literal secret garden, hidden behind a locked gate on her uncle’s estate, neglected for the ten years since Colin’s birth and his mother’s death. Together with a local child named Dickon, Mary and Colin transform the garden into a paradise bursting with life and color
Keywords
novels, stories, fiction
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CHABON, MICHAEL
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Chabon, Michael ... – USA : Picador, 2000. - 648 p. . . – 0-312-28299-0, 978-0-312-28299-8 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.11(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35256
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
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This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book
Keywords
comic book strips, heroes in mass media, Czech American writers, stories, novels, fiction about artists
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POWERS, RICHARD
The echo maker / Powers, Richard ... – USA : Picador, 2006. - 451 p.– (Picador. . . – 978-0-312-42643-9, 0-312-42643-7 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73) - 3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34128
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
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In this book, author proves himself to be one of the boldest nd most entertaining novelists. The book narrates a story of a young man, who found himself a victim of Capgras syndrome after near-fatal car accident.The illness made him think that people around him are imposters
Keywords
stories, novels, Fiction
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JOHNSON, DENIS
Tree of Smoke / Johnson, Denis ... – USA : Picador, 2008. - 702 p. . . – 978-0-312-42774-0, 0-312-42774-3 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34112
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA-engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war"
Keywords
novels, stories, fiction
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TUCK, LILY
The News From Paraguay / Tuck, Lily ... – USA : HarperPerennial, 2005. - 248 p.– (Harper Perennial. . . – 978-0-06-093486-6, 0-06-093486-7 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34137
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -the future dictator of Paraguay -begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress
Keywords
novels, american novels, stories, fiction, detective story, historical novels
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BROCKMAN, JOHN
This Will Change Everything : Ideas that will shape the future / Brockman, John ... – USA : Harper Perennial, 2010. - 390 p. . . – 978-0-06-189967-6 : 500 tg.
UDC:
159.9
Shelf code:
Л 2012/33174
Subject headings
- Psychology
Annotation
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world
Keywords
evolution changes everything, change in Who We Are, robotic moment, personal genomics, psychology
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DIAZ, JUNOT
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Diaz, Junot ... – USA : Riverhead Books, 2007. - 339 p. . . – 978-1-59448-958-7 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/33214
Subject headings
- Fiction of America. Prose
Annotation
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister— dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
Keywords
American story, fiction, story, stories, stories in English, english stories, prose, Oscar Wao, fuku, Wao Oscar
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DU BOIS, W. E. B.
The Souls of Black Folk / Du Bois, W. E. B. ... – USA : Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003. - 209 p.– (Barnes and Noble Classics. . . – 978-1-59308-014-3, 1-59308-014-X : 400 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73) - 3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34148
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Du Bois’s essays were the first to articulate many of Black America’s thoughts and feelings, including the dilemma posed by the black psyche’s “double consciousness,” which Du Bois described as “this twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings . . . in one dark body.” Every essay in The Souls of Black Folk is a jewel of intellectual prowess, eloquent language, and groundbreaking insight
Keywords
novels, tales, stories
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CARTER SLUBY, PATRICIA
THE INVENTIVE SPIRIT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS (2004)
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CHABON, MICHAEL
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (2000)
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