PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan
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Literary Fiction
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Multi-Cultural
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Putnam Publishing Group; (March 1, 1989) |
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk, revealing four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories
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Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography
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Mary-Lou Weisman
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Graphic Novels
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It Books; 1St Edition edition (September 28, 2010) |
Jaffee’s inventive work has enlivened the pages of MAD since 1955. To date he has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire, and continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isn’t fair.
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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
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Adrienne Mayor
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History
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Princeton University Press; Second impression edition (September 28, 2009) |
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book--the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years--Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before.
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