Alice and David are constantly worrying about their children and their needs. Are they falling behind in their school work, have they practiced their music lessons, have they gotten enough sleepover invitations or made enough friends?...
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- Auteur: O'Farrell, JohnSommaire:
- Auteur: Walls, JeannetteSommaire:
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the...
- Auteur: Jordan, RobertSommaire:
Elayne, Aviendha and Mat come ever closer to the bowl 'ter angreal' that may reverse the worlds' endless heatwave and restore natural weather. Egwene begins to gather all manner of women who can channel - Sea Folk, Windfinders, Wise...
- Auteur: PRATCHETT, TerrySommaire:
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was a long time ago, but if Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, he's going to...
- Auteur: Li, YiyunSommaire:
In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Extra', a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy and we see...
- Auteur: WALKER, LucySommaire:
The story of the lives and loves of two families who live on adjoining stations in the lonely outback of Australia.
- Auteur: Beah, IshmaelSommaire:
Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle...
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The fourth and final novel in the magnificent Cutler family saga--the prequel to Dawn. Darkest Hour takes readers back to the story of Dawn's grandmother ... to a girl named Lillian, and a thriving plantation called The Meadows....
- Auteur: GARE, NeneSommaire:
A delightful account of a large family growing up during the Depression in dire poverty. Their dream was to have a house with verandahs.
- Auteur: Hillerman, TonySommaire:
A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe...
- Auteur: Coren, StanleySommaire:
Evaluates the cultural, literary, religious, and economic ways in which the human race has shaped its relationship with dogs throughout the past 15,000 years, sharing stories of how dogs have become entangled in human political, legal,...
- Auteur: ROBERTS, NoraSommaire:
Shannon Bodine, a tough, ambitious New York designer, thought she'd had the perfect childhood. But when she discovers that she was born of her mother's fleeting love affair in Ireland, her past is suddenly shattered. Torn...
- Auteur: Sontag, SusanSommaire:
Romanzo storico lucido e intelligente, e ispirato a quel triagolo amoroso che fece chiacchierare tutta l'Europe di fine '700. Le vite di Sir William Hamilton, ambasciatore inglese a Napoli; di sua moglie l'affascinante...
- Auteur: PULLMAN, PhilipSommaire:
In the company of the gyptians, Lyra travels to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies. Bearing a rare truth-telling compass, she goes in search of Roger and...
- Auteur: Jordan, RobertSommaire:
Book nine of the "Wheel of Time" series. Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. The White Tower is shaken to the core when Egwene and the rebels appear suddenly outside the walls.
- Auteur: LAFFEY, PaulSommaire:
This short book is about the earliest years of the group that ultimately became the Association for the Blind of WA.The book covers the years from just before the First World War until the emergence of the Association in its current...
- Auteur: Grover, MarshallSommaire:
In this story Larry and Stretch are back in their home state, trying to protect a herd of long-horn cattle from rustlers.
- Auteur: Gulland, SandraSommaire:
An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.
- Auteur: FORSYTH, FrederickSommaire:
Ten highly entertaining short stories, each with a twist in the tail to surprise and delight.