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2) Lord Jim
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Language
English
Description
When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation - a ripping good yarn, if you like (one critic in The Academy complained that the narrator 'was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours'). Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires...
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English
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Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of friends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately...
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Language
English
Description
"A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister...
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Language
English
Description
Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and a successful career as a magazine writer, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. This is an account of her yearlong worldwide pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, guidance, and what she really wanted...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this Indonesian version of the Cinderella story, a girl named Damura escapes her cruel stepmother and stepsister and marries a handsome prince with the help of Grandmother Crocodile.
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Language
English
Description
As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Loyola University. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been...
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English
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When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale. On the eve of the...
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English
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"Son, weŕe going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDRś favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasnt́ a fair fight, but the men of...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photo-essay exploring the cultural and environmental aspects of traditional Balinese rice farming, which can serve as a model of sustainable food production. Includes a map, foreword, and author's note.
13) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 347 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.
14) Indonesia
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
9th ed.
Physical Desc
908 p. : col. ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This up-to-date guide to Indonesia features interviews with locals who share their top travel and destination tips.
15) Indonesia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, geography, and people of Indonesia as well as the country's rich culture and traditions and its beautiful natural areas.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion East
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the world-renowned author of The Mute's Soliloquy and The Buru Quartet comes a heartbreaking novel about innocence and power.
In feudal Java, where both privilege and poverty lived side-by-side, women were little more than chattel. Pramoedya's The Girl From the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind,...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
18) Rice is life
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations demonstrate the importance of rice to life on the island of Bali in the country of Indonesia, where rice is consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson). One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history,...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologists examine a humanlike skeleton excavated from a cave on Flores Island in Indonesia that turned out to be an adult woman of extremely small stature,and studies evidence to the discovery of a race of small humans 12,000 years ago.
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