Set in 1930's Shanghai, a grief-stricken blind American diplomat shuts out the world and sets about creating the bar of his dreams with the help of a Japanese spy and a refugee Russian countess turned taxi dancer to support her young daughter and unappreciative in-laws. As civil...
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In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli takes a job in the gig economy: pulling cable to link together the new quantum trading market.
"Ever since he was young, Levison Wood has been fascinated by elephants and their fight for survival. While trekking the Nile he finally saw these beasts up close, and in The Last Giants, he satisfies his lifelong desire to learn more about the majestic African elephant. These gi...
Step through the looking glass. Slay the Jabberwock. Seek the King. Alice is not prepared to face what awaits beyond the Tulgey Wood. When she and the rest of Team Heart enter the fourth and final Wonderland Trial, it's up to her to lead them to victory. But this Trial is more th...
No room for a pinball machine? Now you can simply transform your Wii into 6 different, multi-level and very realistic 3D pinball machines.
Examples of primitive African art, from many different tribes, with explanations of their use and meaning. Includes statues, masks, reliefs, headdresses, and household objects, made from ivory, gold, wood, bronze, and brass.
The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. ...
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivo...