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c2007., McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic The Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today<U+2019>s India. Paul Theroux<U+2019>s characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent<U+2019>s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succour in Mumbai<U+2019>s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. In these pages, we also meet Indian characters as singular as they are indicative of the country<U+2019>s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and more. As ever, Theroux<U+2019>s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose <U+2014> or find <U+2014> themselves there."--Publisher.
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c2008., McClelland & Stewart Call No: 915.04 T412t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.
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By Coatsworth, David Shareshian, Steven Ellis, Kirk Ashford, Michelle Hooper, Tom, 1972- Giamatti, Paul Linney, Laura Dillane, Stephen Huston, Danny, 1962- Morse, David, 1953- Polley, Sarah Wilkinson, Tom, 1948- O'Connor, Clancy Sewell, Rufus, 1967- Theroux, Justin Fujimoto, Tak Cohen, Danny Oliver, Melanie Lane, Rob Vitarelli, Joseph Zakowska, Donna, 1954- Ja2008., General, HBO Films : Home Box Office Call No: DVD Fic JohnA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
![John Adams, miniseries [DVD] (2008).](/Library/images/~imageCT84747.JPG "John Adams, miniseries [DVD] (2008).")
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1984, c1983., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 915.1 T412s Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Enlightenments from lives on the road.2011., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: 910.4 T412t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
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c1990., Random House Call No: 910.4 T4125t Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
