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Un récit de croisière à la voile rare et moderne.
Été 1925, de jeunes filles naviguent à la voile vers la Grèce de Marseille à Athènes. Elles ont une vingtaine d'années, libres et intrépides, visitent les îles et les sites archéologiques qui ne sont pas encore envahis par les touristes, rencontrent la flotte anglaise, font la fête, mais connaissent aussi des galères. Cette croisière à bord de Bonita, un vieux yawl sans moteur, réunit...
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Deux disparitions, un seul corps...
Charleston, fin des années trente. Le cadavre d'une jeune femme est découvert à marée basse, à l'intérieur d'un récif. À peine a-t-on prévenu les autorités que la mer remonte, et la dépouille est de nouveau sous l'océan. Qui est cette femme? Comment a-t-elle pu mourir dans un récif qui se trouve sous la mer pratiquement toute l'année? L'enquête s'oriente vers la piste de deux jeunes filles: Miranda...
44303) The Fossil Door
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Enjoy this kind and gentle historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War.Rathna has a gift for doorways.When a portal in the Scottish Highlands stops working, she is one of the only Portal Keepers able to travel to investigate. On the other hand, the location presents some challenges. As a London-born Bengali woman, she's nothing like the villagers.And of course, there's the worrying question: why did...
44304) Our Story Starts in Africa
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A sensitively told and vibrantly illustrated story of Black history from its very ancient origins to its dynamic future
When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures and tales that span thousands of years...a story that Paloma shares in, because her story, too, starts in Africa.
Join Tante and her inquisitive...
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Extrait: "Le moulin du père Merlier, par cette belle soirée d'été, était en grande fête. Dans la cour, on avait mis trois table, placées bout à bout, et qui attendaient les convives. Tout le pays savait qu'on devait fiancer, ce jour-là, la fille Merlier, Françoise, avec Dominique, un garçon qu'on accusait de fainéantise, mais que les femmes, à trois lieues à la ronde, regardaient avec des yeux luisants, tant il avait bon air..."
44306) Pursuit
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To escape justice, a Secret Service colonel masquerades as a Jewish refugee The thousand-year Reich is crumbling, and the Red Army races toward Berlin. As the senior leadership of the Nazi party burns its files and flees the country, Colonel Helmut von Schraeder takes a different approach. After years in charge of the concentration camp at Lublin, he knows the Russians will not spare him. And so he throws away his uniform and asks a plastic surgeon...
44307) Sun and Sand: A Western Trio
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In "The Flaming Rider," large groups of Blackfeet, Cheyennes, and Crows, ordinarily hostile to each other, are camped around the newly built Fort Meany, having come to trade with factor Henry Meany. The members of these tribes love most of all to gamble, and what better way than betting on a horse race? Then, one race incites open hostility toward the factor and threatens the very existence of the fort.
Barney Dwyer in "Outlaw Buster" is a gentle...
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Today's citizens of St. Charles will recognize the names of many early settlers and residents, such as Louis Blanchette, who founded the settlement that would later become St. Charles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, who helped found the first school of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America; and Lewis and Clark, who began their expedition here to explore the Louisiana Purchase territory. Later came photographer Rudolph Goebel, who chronicled St....
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Claudia and Grace, owners of The House of Nymphos have been through a lot together. Their love has stood the test of time. They've weathered successes, failures, joy, love, heartache, and even tragedy. And to this day they are closer than ever. They are a shining example of the type of love that everyone dreams about finding one day. Nothing could ever tear them apart... Right?
When Claudia proposes marriage to Grace during an anniversary dinner...
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A movie executive summons private investigator Al Travers to investigate the death of a star on the set.
The suspect? A movie director Al idolizes.
As he searches for the truth, the answers to what happened may take a heart-breaking turn.
A page-turning mystery set in 1940s Hollywood
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L'incompréhension cède la place à la paranoïa dans ce polar haletant signé Olivier Kourilsky...
Juillet 1974. Joël Lecouedec, chef de clinique en réanimation à l'hpital Saint-Antoine à Paris, trouve dans son blouson un porte-cartes contenant des papiers au nom d'une certaine Françoise Morvan. Qui a glissé ces documents dans sa poche et pourquoi ? Plus intriguant encore, la propriétaire habite tout près de chez ses parents, en Bretagne...
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On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage.
Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad's stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse.
King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engaged in a high-speed chase with the LAPD, who finally...
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The office of lieutenant governor has been a constant in British Columbia from the province's colonial beginnings to the modern era. Originally tasked with selecting the province's premier, giving royal assent to provincial legislation, and invested with the power to dismiss governments, the role of the Crown's representative has continually evolved to meet the needs of society. Today the office's constitutional powers largely focus on community functions,...
44314) 20th Century Superstar
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Marie Curie is known as one of the most revolutionary scientists of all time. She transformed the way people look at the world of energy, but her work with radium lead to her death. Read all about this fascinating 20th century superstar! Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this biography includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars, fascinating images, and...
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L'amitié ne connaît pas de frontières...
Georges a 12 ans en 1940 quand il décide d'arrêter l'école et d'apprendre la cuisine dans le restaurant de monsieur JOE. En pleine période d'Occupation et malgré les privations, le jeune garçon progresse en cuisine grâce à la complicité d'un homme, Johann. Très tt, tous les matins, celui-ci vient le rejoindre en cuisine et les deux amis mitonnent des plats savoureux. Cette relation ira bien au-delà...
44316) The Secret in Mossy Swamp
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Living in a tiny houseboat, Nikki is stuck with sharing a room with her little brother, Jesse, who does what little brothers do best... torture their sisters. Fed up, she decides to build a place of her own... a tree house where no boys are, allowed. Meanwhile, something strange is happening on Bayou Platte. Things and people are coming up missing... and little stick dolls covered in moss, known locally as "signs" from the legendary Rougarou, are...
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Carrying her rescuer's baby! Annabel Fairfax fled West in disguise to find her sisters. But on her way a threat catches up with her-and she's forced to turn to a ruggedly handsome stranger on horseback! Clay Collier, her reluctant protector, tries to keep his distance from the beautiful runaway-but neither can resist one stolen night! Honor demands he marry her, but discovering Annabel's affluent background convinces Clay she doesn't belong in his...
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Des histoires autour des vieux trams et des dépts de Bruxelles du début des années septante.
Ces vieux trams qui faisaient rire ou pleurer leurs conducteurs et qui font encore aujourd'hui parler d'eux avec nostalgie. Des petites histoires de gens liés entre eux par ces trams d'antan.
Une série d'anecdotes romancées ayant pour point commun les trams bruxellois...
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Les bourrasques de début mars balayaient les rues de Bruxelles: l'aube...
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Anthony Blake, Viscount Percival, is renowned throughout the ton for his handsome face and foppish ways. Only a select few know that beneath his foolish exterior is a keen intelligence able to ferret out diplomatic secrets for the Crown. Nobody suspects his secret, until he meets a quiet young woman who sees far more than she should...Heat level: SweetFor fans of The Scarlet Pimpernel, an entertaining novella from USA Today bestseller Anthea Lawson....
44320) Pères et fils
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Après des années passées à Saint-Pétersbourg, le jeune étudiant Alexeï rentre au domaine familial o il va retrouver son père et son oncle. Un de ses amis l'accompagne : Bazarov, le « nihiliste ».
Avec Pères et fils, paru en 1862 au lendemain de l'abolition du servage, Tourgueniev décrit l'apparition en Russie d'une nouvelle génération don’t l'esprit allait mener à la Révolution de 1917.
Traduction de Marc Semenoff et introduction...
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