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Product Description: Building on the work of biblical scholars—Rudolph Bultmann, Raymond Brown, Jane Schaberg, and Robert Funk, among others—filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical Jesus to reveal a man who has much in common with other great political leaders throughout history—human beings who believed that change was coming in their lifetimes...read more
By Susan Massotty (trans)
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9781583229057 | 1 edition (Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Building on the work of the great Biblical scholars of the twentieth century—Rudolf Bultman, Raymond Brown, Jane Schabert and Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminars, among others—filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical Jesus to reveal a man who is, after all, startlingly familiar to us, a man who has much in common with other great political leaders throughout history, human beings who believed that change was coming in their lifetimes.

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9781609803483 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, November 29, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Building on the work of biblical scholars—Rudolph Bultmann, Raymond Brown, Jane Schaberg, and Robert Funk, among others—filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical Jesus to reveal a man who has much in common with other great political leaders throughout history—human beings who believed that change was coming in their lifetimes.

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Returning home to North Africa from Europe to attend his sister's wedding to their uncle Mosa, Lamarat Minar is given the task of retrieving Mosa from the local whorehorse to save the family honor and unwittingly becomes caught up in his sister's plan to exact a sweet and gruesome revenge on her groom for his betrayal. A first novel.
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9781559705301 | Arcade Pub, June 12, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Returning home to North Africa from Europe to attend his sister's wedding to their uncle Mosa, Lamarat Minar is given the task of retrieving Mosa from the local whorehorse to save the family honor and unwittingly becomes caught up in his sister's plan to exact a sweet and gruesome revenge on her groom for his betrayal.

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9781611452976 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: In Everyman’s Library for the first time—one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time...read more
By Susan Massotty (trans)
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9780307594006 | Reprint edition (Everymans Library, October 19, 2010), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In Everyman’s Library for the first time—one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.

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Alma, a young Brazilian women recovering from a traumatic and brutal attack, sets out from Sao Paulo and winds up in Australia, where Dutch novelist Erik Zontag, in Perth for a literary conference, stumbles upon a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house.
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9780802118554 | Grove Pr, October 10, 2007, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Alma, a young Brazilian women recovering from a traumatic and brutal attack, sets out from Sao Paulo and winds up in Australia, where Dutch novelist Erik Zontag, in Perth for a literary conference, stumbles upon a winged woman curled up in a closet in anempty house.

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Product Description: InLost Paradise, Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys.A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young lady who leaves her parents' Sao Paolo home on a hot summer night in a fit of depression...read more
By Susan Massotty (trans)
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9781843433057 | Vintage Uk, July 5, 2007, cover price $24.70 | About this edition: Almut and Alma wind up in Australia.

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9780802143884 | Rep tra edition (Grove Pr, December 16, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: InLost Paradise, Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys.

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The story of a father and son--Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute, illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, and Ishmael, his political-dissident son--is set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Iran and offers a powerful and poignant saga of exile and home. 20,000 first printing.
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9780060598716 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The story of a father and son--Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute, illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, and Ishmael, his political-dissident son--is set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Iran and offers a powerful and poignant saga of exile and home.

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Introducing well-known blind music critic Marius van Vlooten to a pretty first violinist, a young musicologist witnesses their subsequent affair and turbulent marriage while relating the truth behind the critic's blindness. By the author of Duke of Egypt.
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9781559707442 | Arcade Pub, January 17, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Introducing well-known blind music critic Marius van Vlooten to a pretty first violinist, a young musicologist witnesses their subsequent affair and turbulent marriage while relating the truth behind the critic's blindness.

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A collection of the author's lesser-known writings includes stories, personal reminiscences, previously deleted excerpts from her diary, and an unfinished novel composed while she was hidden from the Nazis.
By Susan Massotty (editor)
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9780606310802 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $13.37 | About this edition: A collection of the author's lesser-known writings includes stories, personal reminiscences, previously deleted excerpts from her diary, and an unfinished novel composed while she was hidden from the Nazis.

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A complete collection of Anne Frank writings includes five recently discovered diary pages; her short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences; and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life.
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9780385508476 | Rev upd edition (Doubleday, March 1, 2003), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A complete collection of Anne Frank writings includes five recently discovered diary pages; her short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences; and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life.

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Riddled with grief and desperately trying to start a new life after the death of his wife and child, a Dutch documentary filmmaker arrives in Berlin, a city rife with history, at the end of the twentieth century, where he encounters an enigmatic young Dutch-Berber woman named Elik--a meeting that leads him on a journey to Madrid. 20,000 first printing.
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9780151005666 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2001, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Riddled with grief and desperatley trying to start a new life after the death of his wife and child, a Dutch documentary filmmaker arrives in Berlin where he encounters an enigmatic young Dutch-Berber woman named Elik--a meeting that leads him on a journey to Madrid.

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Product Description: Important Holocaust memoir by writer with a track record. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781852425401 | Serpents Tail, November 1, 1998, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Important Holocaust memoir by writer with a track record.

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Product Description: The Dutch writer, artist and film maker Armando has lived in Berlin since 1979. Armando grew up near Amersfoort concentration camp in The Netherlands - its peripheries were his playground - and he was deeply affected by his position as a witness of the Holocaust...read more
By Armando and Susan Massotty (trans)
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9780948462870 | Reaktion Books, August 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Dutch writer, artist and film maker Armando has lived in Berlin since 1979.

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Offers a childhood memoir of life growing up in the twilight of the Weimar Republic, in an account permeated with a looming sense of impending catastrophe
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9781852422820 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, June 1, 1994), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Offers a childhood memoir of life growing up in the twilight of the Weimar Republic, in an account permeated with a looming sense of impending catastrophe

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Product Description: Voices and Visions sweeps the reader along on Carolijn Visser's four-month journey through Vietnam and gives voice to the remarkable cast of characters - from prostitutes to princesses, from soldiers to singers, from peasants to priests - who inhabit Vietnam today...read more
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9780873647618 | Sycamore Island Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Voices and Visions sweeps the reader along on Carolijn Visser's four-month journey through Vietnam and gives voice to the remarkable cast of characters - from prostitutes to princesses, from soldiers to singers, from peasants to priests - who inhabit Vietnam today.

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