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Monsieur Rodriguez, docteur en administration des affaires, entrepreneur et homme politique dominicain, nourrit une haine profonde envers les Haïtiens vivant en République dominicaine. Cette hostilité atteint son apogée lorsqu'il appelle à rétablir les pratiques de Trujillo, le dictateur qui avait exécuté des milliers de Haïtiens dans les années 40. Cependant, ce ressentiment cache un lourd secret qu'il devra bientt révéler à sa famille,...
2443) The World Treasury Of Fairy Tales & Folklore: A Family Heirloom of Stories to Inspire & Entertain
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Relive the magic of classic fairy tales. For centuries fantastical stories of witches, giants, princesses, talking animals, and magical kingdoms have been passed from generation to generation. Many of the fairy tales we are most familiar with today have their roots in this oral tradition of storytelling. The World Treasury of Fairy Tales and Folklore is a stunning collection of fairy tales organized by date of printing. From the familiar tales collected...
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Héros, saints chrétiens, paysans, princesses, fées, vache blanche, porc noir, saumon de la Connaissance, trèfle, pomme de terre, citrouille d'Halloween, harpe vivante... font l'âme de l'Irlande, cette contrée des merveilles o les antagonismes sont faits pour s'entendre. O l'Histoire et l'imaginaire, le temps des demi-dieux et celui des saints se juxtaposent. O l'extraordinaire et le banal se lancent des piques. La première partie offre des...
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The first book in The Good Life in Galicia series. The book that came from from the 2016 competition, the book from the 2017 competition is also now available. Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north eastern most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea and on a third by Portugal. This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the Ribeira...
2447) The Bicycle Eater
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Singularly obsessed with his all-consuming passion for Anna, the object of his adolescent desire, the photographer Christophe Langelier is beside himself. Ten years ago, he failed the test of eating a bicycle for her as proof of his love and devotion. Since then, he has created a photographic catalogue of his only model, complete with a glossary, an "Anna-lexique," in which the darkness and the light of her idealized being have shaded his language,...
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What happens when you look on the face of the Grim Reaper? What waits for us after this life is over? What happens when children don't feel loved, or when fathers lose the thing they love the most? From the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, to the tallest mountain peak ever imagined, these tales encompass life, death, inspiration, and heartache. Touching on centuries old legends, and myths from our own backyard, this set of largely Appalachian-based tales...
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These are stories of unexpected encounters far from home, told with a vivid sense of place. A white man with more wives than money becomes Africa's least-competent thief, two Americans contemplate love's costs and possibilities in Mexico's mountains, a seasick missionary bumps into God on the equator. George Rosen's characters seek, and sometimes find, a reality in which "everywhere, there is something remarkable."
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Et si on comparait les dessins animés dessins avec les oeuvres originales dont ils sont tirés ?
Et si Walt (de là-haut) avait décidé de passer en revue ses longs métrages inspirés de contes et de les comparer aux oeuvres originales... Serait-il obligé de conclure que les contes cruels écrits à l'origine pour préparer les enfants à un monde difficile sont devenus, sous son regard, des contes de fées pour endormir nos enfants ? Dans les...
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New friends. New beginnings. Old secrets… 'Sweet and heartwarming' – Bestselling author MARIAN KEYES 'The word "uplifting" was invented for this tender and poignant story. It's a beautifully written debut, a must-read' – Bestselling author JUDY LEIGH Though they come from the same small Irish village, lonely widow Ruby and struggling single mother Frankie couldn't be more different. Then they discover the Moonlight Gardening Club, founded to...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture d'Haïti.
Haïti, petit pays tropical d'un peu plus de huit millions d'habitants, pays à l'histoire courte, forte, tragique, s'est forgé une identité que traduisent bien les créateurs qui y vivent autant que ceux de la diaspora. Les blessures de l'histoire, le « colorisme », le Vaudou, les traditions africaines, la femme, la vie populaire et paysanne, le déracinement et l'exil, l'engagement...
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Daevabad trilogy volume 3
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Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those...
2455) The shape shifter
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed,...
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Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice's shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for...
2457) Duty to the crown
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In 1677, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet every woman's fate depends on the man she marries. Set amid the promise and challenge of the first Canadian colonies, this vividly rendered novel provides a fascinating portrait of the women who would become the founding mothers of New France.
2458) Sacred clowns
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During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.
Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded...
2459) Contes et nouvelles
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Extrait : "Je dois trop au beau sexe, il me fait trop d'honneur De lire ces récits, si tant est qu'il les lise. Pourquoi non ? c'est assez qu'il condamne en son cœur Celles qui font quelque sottise. Ne peut-il pas, sans qu'il le dise, Rire sous cape de ces tours, Quelque aventure qu'il y trouve ?"
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2460) The sinister pig
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An unidentified man is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, so Sergeant Jim Chee should have been in charge of the investigation. But the FBI took custody of the case and they called it a hunting accident. What was the man looking for in the maze of pipelines and pumping stations? Does his death have anything to do with the embezzlement of billions of dollars of...
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