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  • The Dead Know Nothing

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    Are doors to the past ever really shut? Are some crimes more understandable than others?Disgraced after failing the seminary exams, Thankachan has returned to his old life. On Fathima Island in the Ashtamudi archipelago, his days are clouded over by the fear of never making anything of himself, but soon, strange events begin to happen on the island. A dead body surfaces one day, then another. Soon ... Read more

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  • The H-Function

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    TheH-function or popularly known in the literature as Fox’sH-function has recently found applications in a large variety of problems connected with reaction, diffusion, reaction–diffusion, engineering and communication, fractional differ- tial and integral equations, many areas of theoretical physics, statistical distribution theory, etc. One of the standard books and most cited book on the topic ... Read more

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    With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Travels on My Elephant is the story ... Read more

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  • Hojoki

    Visions of a Torn World

    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
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  • The Sly Company of People Who Care

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    In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of ... Read more

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  • A Scot Returns - A Journey from Bali to Skye

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    Long, long ago there lived a man called Sentaro. His surname meant "Millionaire," but although he was not so rich as all that, he was still very far removed from being poor. He had inherited a small fortune from his father and lived on this, spending his time carelessly, without any serious thoughts of work, till he was about thirty-two years of age.One day, without any reason whatsoever, the ... Read more

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  • Saudade

    A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to thecolony's independence, Saudade focuseson a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and theirdependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title (saudade means 'melancholy' inPortuguese) speaks to the longing for homeland that haunts its characters, andespecially the young girl who is the book's ... Read more

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