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Un regard plein de naïveté et de poésie sur le monde.
Georges n'est pas comme vous et moi. Il porte sur le monde, notre monde, un regard d'enfant, plein de naïveté et de poésie. Empreint d'une certaine lucidité aussi. Au fil de sa plume apparaissent des personnages qui l'accompagnent dans son quotidien. Son fidèle copain Franz, qui a tendance à briser les envolées utopiques de Georges. Rose, la boulangère, dont Georges est amoureux. Véronique,...
9642) The Days of Abandonment
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The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman's experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with creativity and passion, refrain from using obscenities. After running into her husband with his much-younger new lover in public, she cannot even refrain...
9643) The Revisionist
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The Revisionist is a novel of many voices, brilliantly arranged. Its themes are mysterious, its tone compassionate, its conclusions beguiling.
In Tobias Roberts's first novel, we are presented with a series of clinical, historical, and literary documents, outlining the lives and tragedies of the psychiatrist Isaac Himmelfarb and his wife, Sarah, whose marriage is strained by the grief of a miscarriage.
At the same time, Sarah's recently deceased father,...
9644) The Stranger
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J.A. Baker is the best-selling author of multiple thrillers, including Local Girl Missing, The Last Wife and The Woman in the Woods The Stranger is a gripping psychological thriller which will appeal to fans of authors like Shalini Boland, K.L. Slater and Rachel Abbott.
A village shrouded in mystery. Secrets buried deep....
When Ray moves to a new house in the village of Whitchurch, he wants nothing more than to leave the pain of his old life behind...
9645) Another Man's Shoes
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Emil Beckman a wounded German soldier, is experiencing the extremes of battle fatigue during the last days of World War II. He's presented with the opportunity to take the identity of another man, a British officer, Lieutenant James Howard. The decision is to change his life in ways that he couldn't imagine. When the wartime diaries of a deceased Chaplain surface unexpectedly in the hands of a blackmailer revealing Beckman's real identity, Beckman...
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Extrait: "C'est en 1877, au mois de mai, que Mlle Hurtrel devint, d'un jour à l'autre, célèbre pour sa beauté dans ce que les journaux plus particulièrement Parisiens appellent le Monde. Entendez par là cette société à demi européenne, à demi française, qui peuple la plus grande partie des htels situés autour du parc Monceau et de l'Arc de Triomphe, ainsi qu'un petit nombre de vieux htels de la rive gauche."
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They say lightning never strikes the same spot twice. Detective Martin Emmett is about to prove the exception to the rule. It is the summer of 1967 and a heat wave is bringing Newark, New Jersey's simmering racial tensions to a boiling point. Banished to desk duty, his career on the line, Emmett is offered a chance at professional redemption if he can quickly and quietly solve the murder of a black teenage boy whose mutilated body has been found in...
9648) Eve's Rib
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"Timely and tantalizing, C.S. O'Cinneide masterfully blends domestic suspense with a touch of black magic in this bewitching thriller" - Erin Ruddy, author of Tell Me My Name
After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil.
The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called...
9649) The Gatekeeper: A Novel
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A friendly town is caught by surprise, when a relatively unknown woman is murdered in northwest Alabama. Nothing adds up as detective Lane Cole jumps on the case with bulldog tenacity only to find himself at repeated dead ends. The nonexistent trail to the killer is a puzzle. Good police work finds him quizzing the neighboring law enforcement agencies about their unsolved murders. He soon discovers five other killings over an eight-year period with...
9650) The Devil's Knocking
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What if the world we see is only a fraction of what is really there? How would you confront discovering you possess the ability to glimpse through the veil between our world and what lies beyond? Would you take hold and charge into battle, or shy away?From birth, Norman was a spirited child, filled with headstrong tendencies and a knack for finding danger in seemingly any situation. But his path becomes exceedingly plagued by a shadowy dark aura that...
9651) Die Smiling
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Claire Morgan novels volume 3
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Die Young
Hilde Swensen is a beauty pageant queen with a face to die for and a body to kill for. But by the time Detective Claire Morgan finds her in a shower stall--posed like a grotesquely grinning doll--Hilde is anything but pretty. She's the victim of a sick, deranged killer. And she won't be the last. . .
Die Beautiful
Brianna Swenson is the beauty queen's sister--and the girlfriend of Claire's partner Bud. She tells Claire that Hilde had...
9652) Liberty or Death
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 6
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Thea Kozak's sometimes rocky relationship with Maine state police detective Andre Lemieux has flourished. Now, on the day of their wedding, Thea receives awful news: Andre has been taken hostage by a militant militia group. Their terms: release one of their members from jail. The State of Maine isn't interested in co-operating. Neither is the prisoner. Taking the situation in-hand, Thea goes undercover in the town where she suspects Andre is hidden,...
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Cette fiche de lecture sur Quatre-vingt-treize de Victor Hugo propose une analyse complète de l'oeuvre:
• un résumé de Quatre-vingt-treize
• biographie de Victor Hugo
• une présentation des axes d'analyse de Quatre-vingt-treize de Victor Hugo
• historien, philosophe ou romancier ? Poète.
• divertissement sur une trinité numérique
Notre fiche de lecture sur Quatre-vingt-treize de Victor Hugo a été rédigée par un professeur de français....
9654) Fake: A Novel
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From the author of The Boys' Club, a gripping novel set in the high-stakes world of art forgery that moves across the globe, from the trendy art galleries of Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to the high-flying international art fairs of Hong Kong.
Can you spot the difference?
Emma Caan is a fake.
She's a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But, she isn't a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy...
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Une existence déracinée, entre la petite et la grande Histoire...
1936. Abuelo et ses trois petits-fils vivent pauvrement à Escurial, mais ils sont heureux... Jusqu'à cue que la guerre civile frappe cue petit village et déchire corps et cœurs. À treize ans, Andrès est le témoin de drames irréparables. Sa vie est en danger. Alors avec son grand frère Pablito, ils franchissent clandestinement les Pyrénées et gagnent la France. Ils seront...
9656) The Girl on the Platform
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'The train doesn't slow. We aren't stopping. We are going to burn past, leaving her behind in a swirl of leaves and dust. I blink. And then men are there, two of them. They lift the squirming girl to her feet, haul her towards the van...and then we are past.' I am the girl on the platform.
When new mother Bridget catches her train home from London, she witnesses something terrible: a young girl is taken from the platform, right before her eyes. No...
9657) Forget-Me-Not Child
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A story of struggle and hardship and one girl's battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man's Child.
Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homeland. But the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the family.
When Angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are...
9658) Spéciales
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Des êtres Humains évolués.
Une romAnce à plusieurs cœurs.
Un Zoom sur la mythologie enchantée.
La force d'une famillE atypique et soudée.
La quête spiritueLle d'une âme en peine.
Des Emotions de toutes natures.
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Paul est veuf. Il ne s'est jamais remarié et élève seul sa fille Marine.
Marine n'a plus 5 ans. Exister fortement est une nécessité absolue pour elle. Elle veut affirmer ses choix, sa volonté et sa différence...
Paul ne l'a pas vu grandir. Il est dépassé par le tempérament exigeant de la jeune femme. Les garçons qu'elle fréquente ne lui inspirent rien de bon et son imagination débordante lui font craindre le pire.
Paul est parfois...
9660) Blood Will Tell
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Paige Decker has a fantastic career unraveling the mysteries of her patients' DNA-until a man named Carl Parker, who claims he has been falsely convicted of murder, asks her coworker Leo Cunningham to help investigate.
Delving into the savage killings and burials of three women in a nearby state park, Leo requests new DNA analysis. When the results come back, they reveal startling discoveries that ultimately lead to his murder. Against the advice...
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