Before you pack your bag, prepare your heart

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Eric B. Hare

A missionary in Burma tells of the birth of a girl among the devil worshippers, of her gradual acquaintance with the Christian mission and school, and of her eventual readiness for baptism.

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Robert Smith Bader

An interpretative study of the image of Kansas, focusing primarily on the twentieth-century, and looking at how the national reputation of the state has wavered from being renowned for cultural aggressiveness and societal confidence to being perceived as drab and backward.

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Raleigh Rimes, assistant to Colonel P.H. Fawcett

A fictitious explorer recounts his adventures with Percy Fawcett as they traveled to South America, where they encountered dinosaurs in the rain forest.

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aus dem Türkischen von Ingrid Iren

Affected by a book he reads, Osman, a young student, yearns for the new life it promises. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffeehouses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches and forsaken cultural objects instilled with poetry, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.