Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only...
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Auteur: Jones, LloydSommaire: -
Auteur: Bunn, T. Davis, Oke, JanetteSommaire:Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is secretly commissioned to discover the truth behind the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine while also being...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Carey, PeterSommaire:
Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Auteur: Lovesey, PeterSommaire:
An innocent discussion about killing the boss leads friends Gemma and Jo into real-life murder.
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Auteur: Bunn, T. DavisSommaire:
As persecution of Christians intensifies, Julia--a merchant's daughter--finds hope in a new faith. When Jacob is hired to guard her father's caravan, Julia and the young man are drawn together--...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Auteur: Bunn, T. DavisSommaire:
Abigail is pursued by two suitors, a Hebrew merchant and a Roman soldier, but neither man wins her heart and. Now an approaching upheaval threatens her faith and courage.
Genre: Religious fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Moriarty, JaclynSommaire:Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.
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Auteur: Robinson, PeterSommaire:
Hollywood composer Chris Lowe mourns the death of his wife by returning home to his native Yorkshire, where he buys the desolate Kilnsgate House. Soon Chris discovers Kilnsgate's past--a man...
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Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins. He lives the life of a country gentleman in contemporary England, protectively raising his young...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Laing, OliviaSommaire:What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately involved? Olivia Laing explores these questions by traveling deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most...
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Auteur: Moyes, JojoSommaire:
More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Chapman, Emma J.Sommaire:
Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. So long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. But now Marta is starting to doubt her life with Hector. A blonde girl has...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Auteur: French, NicciSommaire:
The thrilling third novel starring London psychotherapistturned-detective Frieda Klein-- from internationally bestselling author Nicci French Nicci French' s Blue Monday and Tuesday...
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Auteur: French, NicciSommaire:
Frieda Klein is a brilliant psychotherapist who finds herself hunting down a kidnapper. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday goes missing, all of London is in an uproar--including Frieda, who...