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38681) D'il en il
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Quelle drle de petite fille! Elle porte une écharpe pleine de trous tricotée par des mains malhabiles, celles de sa mère et de son histoire. Cette petite fille à qui sa mère n'a jamais voulu répondre à l'interrogation : qui est mon père. Cette absence de réponse la poursuivra toute sa vie. Hantée par ce manque qu'elle reconstruit dans sa quête d'il en il, elle va sans cesse se heurter au mythe de l'homme inatteignable. Après chaque rupture,...
38682) Mules Of Love
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Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass's Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity-personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence-all of which are handled with compassion and grace. Bass's poetic gift is her ability to commiserate with others afflicted by similar...
38683) Plan-Change
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Could you handle living someone else's life?
Sixteen Year old Luna is used to short ex-at postings but resents having to start all over again in chaotic Bangkok.
Nui loves her Thai family but feels suffocated by their traditions and expectations. She's itching to escape and start exploring the world.
The two girls have only one thing in common - they envy each other's lifestyle.
With a bizarre theory in mind they start dabbling with transcendental...
38684) Girl with Wings
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Jessica Mackay has one dream - to be a pilot. Jessica lives on her family farm at Narromine, New South Wales, in the 1920s - the best place for a would-be pilot. Her father developed a passion for flying in Egypt during World War I, and Narromine lies close to the heart of Australia's budding aviation industry. Even though women were among the first people to take on the challenge of the skies, Jessica's ambitions are not supported by everyone, most...
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Quatre dates espacées de presque un siècle... et pourtant reliées par une mystérieuse affaire
— Août 1927 : classement officiel de Sables-d'Or-les-Pins comme "station climatique et établissement de jeu".
— Janvier 1944 : le maréchal Rommel déjeune avec les hommes de troupe au cap Fréhel.
— Janvier 2013 : Marie-Jo démissionne de la police. L'ex-commissaire Beaussange se consacre désormais à ses chambres d'htes.
— 2019 : les...
38686) Carl Weber's Kingpins: Miami
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New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber has brought together eight of the best Urban Street writers to participate in the most highly anticipated series of 2015, the Kingpin series. Every city has an underworld leader. In the Kingpin series, we will visit eight cities and ride along with that city's kingpin as he rules the streets. The story starts out in Miami with Nikki Turner, and will end with a compilation of all kingpins, written by New...
38687) Mystery of the Charred Bones
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Enter a world where ancient warrior ghosts appear and disappear without warning and history's mysteries transcend time. Meet Daisy, an intrepid anthropologist, facing her greatest challenge yet.In "The Mystery of the Charred Bones," ancient relics resurface, setting the stage for a puzzle spanning generations. When these remains land at Daisy's feet on her home turf of Boston, she's drawn into a sinister riddle. Were these the bones of a Viking King?...
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Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her rental car, Winnie realizes too late that she's been kidnapped. What follows is a riveting psychological game of cat and mouse set in the kidnapper's tropically...
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In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure happy and stable marriages, and liberate women. In America and the Pill, preeminent social historian Elaine Tyler May reveals the ways in which the pill did and did not fulfill these...
38690) Truth Be Told
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ARE YOU READY TO START THIS CONVERSATION?
Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question.
With the help of assault counsellor, Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be...
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Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own dynastic interests and those of her daughter took precedence over her personal and religious convictions. Dynasticism, not Catholicism, was the prime motive force behind her policy.
Mary of Guise's dynasticism,...
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In her debut book, Stacy Lloyd uses simplicity, authenticity, and humor to tackle a usually, serious subject, morals.
In Rise of the Good Woman: a 22-Day Guide to Becoming a Better You, she dissects Proverbs 31 verses 10-31 and breaks down the essence of being a virtuous woman. From cover to cover, Stacy provides insight for each scripture as well as straightforward tips and suggestions on how the characteristics can be, applied to our modern world....
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How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how they have come to terms with widowhood and have recreated their lives in new, unsuspected ways. The widows speak about how they relate to their children, their...
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Take an in-depth peek at the life of legendary Pocahontas, the famous historical figure who helped create peace between the American Indians and European settlers. With the Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend e-Book, students will examine what happened with John Smith and the daughter of Chief Powhatan, as well as Pocahontas' new life in an English village. Bring a greater understanding to historical events with this e-Book filled with primary source...
38695) A Cornish Gift
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The stories in this collection have previously been published in ebook as A Cornish Carol, The Stolen Weekend and The Beach Cabin Add a little magic to your Christmas with this fun, festive collection of warm and witty short stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Fern Britton. Christmas comes to the little village of Pendruggan and Cornwall's very own Mr. Rochester, Piran Ambrose, discovers the true meaning of the festive season when even he...
38696) Tell the Truth
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Rachel's childhood is a mess of fragmented memories, and her adult life is no less chaotic.
Her mother and daughter are her only concrete links to the past and now they are slipping through her fingers. Fuelled by the fear of losing them both, she delves into her mother's past, fast becoming entangled in her own tragic history.
With eerie friend requests filling Rachel's phone and shocking flashbacks filling her mind, she heads to County Sligo to...
38697) Gray as Ashes
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Martinsville, Georgia has always been a sleepy little town, where nothing much ever happens, except a few murders...There's a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn't too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it's her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames, the fur begins to fly.Biscuit's feline companion Marmalade comments frequently, ...Yes, I do.... (even though her humans think she's only...
38698) The Spotted Dog
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Murder is unthinkable to The People-a Paleolithic tribe crossing Alaska. For The People, among the first undocumented immigrants to enter the Americas, murder isn't merely tragic, it's forbidden. Murder poisons the entire tribe and puts it at odds with nature, the Spirits, and the mighty Earth Mother. A murderer must be removed in order to set the world back in balance.
Raven is the aging Spirit Man to a band where a member has been garroted. Worse,...
38699) Shadowseer: London
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"This novel succeeds-right from the start…. A superior fantasy…It begins, as it should, with one protagonist's struggles and moves neatly into a wider circle…."
–Midwest Book Review (re Rise of the Dragons)
"Filled with non-stop action, this novel is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat from cover to cover….Rice is setting up for an amazing series to rival series such as Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness, with her strong female protagonist...
38700) Family Shadows
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Killigrew Clay has become the biggest china clayworks in Cornwall. But its fortunes are never stable, and threats to its future come from a ruthless clay boss, Harriet Pendragon, who sets her sights not only on Killigrew Clay, but on its owner, the handsome Randall Wainwright.
But she reckons without Morwen Wainwright, who has always fought for what was hers. As the matriarch of a large brood of children, Morwen must cope with this new threat, along...
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