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Embark on a thrilling high-sea adventure with Captain Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the legendary white whale, Moby Dick. Set sail on the whaling ship, the Pequod, as the crew grapples with the dangers of the deep and the madness of their vengeful captain. A timeless tale of obsession, courage, and the ultimate battle of man versus nature unfolds on the vast ocean expanse. Brimming with rich symbolism and unforgettable characters, "Moby-Dick"...
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat-writings...
504) Un Américain à Paris, l'Ambassade de Thomas Jefferson (1785-1789): Un témoignage historique précieux
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Une plongée inédite dans les écrits d'un futur président américain!
Rédacteur de la déclaration d'indépendance et troisième président des États-Unis d'Amérique, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) reste une figure majeure de la première démocratie moderne de l'Histoire. Défenseur acharné de la justice et écrivain de talent, il nota ses impressions lors de son séjour à Paris comme ambassadeur des USA (1785-1789) avec un regard critique...
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Extrait : "En compagnie du chat, j'ai travaillé tout le jour dans la solitude de mon palais de la Rotonde que j'avais déserté hier. A l'heure o le soleil rouge du soir s'enfonce derrière le Lac des Lotus, mes deux serviteurs, comme d'habitude, viennent me chercher. Mais, le Pont de Marbre franchi, nous passons cette fois sans nous arrête devant la brèche qui mène à mon fragile palais du Nord."
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For the first, time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter, that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayröcker turned to her art...
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There is Healing in Prayer, just stay in the face of God.
We are living in a time of much-needed prayer and love.
"Prayer Beyond the Chemo Chair," will open your heart to see:
God's Love
God's Healing Power
God's Supernaturally rain down His healing from Heaven
God will fight your battle with you
The Bible has many healing scriptures.
The prayers in this book are anointed to heal and bring strength to all types of sickness.
508) Swan Dive
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Refugees from the Bosnian War, Lazar's family flees the Siege of Sarajevo and arrives in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. Despite various mini dramas unfolding at home, as his parents and older sisters navigate a new language, the bitter cold and a strange city and country, Lazar manages to find a place for himself at school, largely by making friends with Elle, a sassy, outspoken girl who divides her time between living with her hoarder mother (who stuffs...
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The Bible Never Says It Will Be Okay.
The Bible is largely silent on the topic of grief, which surprises most people; contrary to popular belief, the Bible never says things will be okay-that the pastures greener on the other side. Further, the Bible never says God won't give us anything we can't handle. That's a proverb man made up.
When it seems hopeless, there's a reason: this might be a trial we cannot handle. It's natural to feel bleak about...
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"There can be more to life than meets the eye..."
The incredibly talented writer and artist, Diana Thomas, shares the world through her lens in Simple Beauty-a diary-style book designed to help people slow down, seek, listen, and discover a deep appreciation of everyday life. Readers become passengers alongside the author as she transports them on a journey through the seasons and immerses them into her artistic world.
Diana shares journal...
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Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point-Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the peddlers, the protestors, the public preachers, the prostitutes....
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“9000 Miles in a Knight” relates the experience of Pearl MacHenry on her family's road trip across America in 1930. Pearl, her husband Rev. Ward MacHenry, and their four youngest children, ages 14 to 20, set off from Seattle, Washington, on May 18th in their Willys-Knight touring car.
No heat, no radio, bad tires, 4000 miles of unpaved roads.
Pearl recorded the routes and distance they traveled, destinations, her reaction to new places and people,...
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Le témoignage juste et émouvant d'un grand-père fou de sa petite-fille atteinte d'une grave maladie.
« Lola, ma petite fille, est née le 20 janvier 2009, porteuse en son giron de la terrible maladie de Hirschsprung, dont le vocable imprononçable, vous en conviendrez, m'oblige, à chaque fois qu'il m'arrive de l'écrire, à réfléchir à l'emplacement des h, des s, des r, des c. Aujourd'hui 26 février, elle est âgée de un mois six jours...
514) Lakehouse Déjà Vu
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College students Rose and Jessica embark on a spring break dream vacation off the beaten path at a Florida lake house B&B. Jessica loves Rose like a sister and planned this life altering getaway basically behind Rose's back, but then finds herself floating on air in love with the destination she chose. And Rose gains something more than she had ever dreamed possible-a connection to a kindly man who helps her through opening up to strangers as well...
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From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes.
First published posthumously in seven volumes between 1842-1846, this work is comprised of epistolary correspondence and diary excerpts written by Fanny Burney and edited by her niece, Mrs. Barrett.
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Redécouvrir l'harmonie du monde à partir d'un sourire
Ce livre est né un matin d'avril. Si le sourire y est bien présent, pas toujours éclatant mais en tout cas perceptible derrière chacune de ses pages, il n'en constitue pas pour autant et à proprement parler un éloge. Trop généraliste, hétéroclite quant à son contenu, et aucunement un discours ou un ouvrage structuré à partir d'une thématique...
À la vérité, il procède surtout...
517) Guantanamo diary
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"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guant�anamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guant�anamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let...
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The diaries kept by Violet Carey during the occupation of Guernsey show precisely how the German invasion affected the lifestyle of an upper middle class woman. Whilst never indulging in self-pity, she captures the misery caused by imprisonment and the lethargy and depression that many, including herself, suffered, a feeling intensified by fear of the unknown and the sense of isolation from England and from relatives and the rest of the war. In her...
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La Fille aux yeux d'or est une nouvelle d'Honoré de Balzac parue en 1835, troisième volet de l'Histoire des Treize qui regroupe Ferragus, La Duchesse de Langeais et La Fille aux yeux d'or. L'ensemble fait partie des Scènes de la vie parisienne, Études de mœurs, de La Comédie humaine. En 1841, Balzac dédicace le roman à Eugène Delacroix.
Alors qu'il se promène aux Tuileries, Marsay rencontre son ami Paul de Manerville à qui il explique...
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