Barry McGee likes being the Hit-Away Kid, the star of the Peach Street Mudders neighborhood baseball team. In fact, he likes it so much that he's willing to cheat-just once in a while-to help his...
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Auteur: Christopher, MattSommaire:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Proenneke, RichardSommaire:To live in a pristine land unchanged by man; to roam the wilderness through which few other humans have passed; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient...
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Auteur: Califano, Joseph A.Sommaire:President Lyndon Johnson was bigger than life-and no one who worked for him or was subjected to the "Johnson treatment" ever forgot it. As Johnson's "Deputy President of Domestic Affairs," Joseph...
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Auteur: Carver, RaymondSommaire:This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of...
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Auteur: Sherman, JorySommaire:
OLD FRIENDS Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was...
Genre: Western fiction -
Auteur: Theroux, PaulSommaire:
Quintessential travel articles and thoughtful essays by the observant, witty and skeptical travel writer and novelist. Part One: 1964-1978 includes: Winter in Africa; Leper Colony; V.S. Naipaul;...
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Auteur: Nichols, PeterSommaire:
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever...
Genre: Travel writing, True adventure stories -
Auteur: Twain, MarkSommaire:A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.
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Auteur: Pronzini, BillSommaire:
When Molly Malone, kind roadhouse proprietor and McQuestion's lover, is brutally slain and her cupboards robbed, McQuestion suspects the unusually long winter and greed may have driven the guilty...
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Auteur: Matthiessen, PeterSommaire:
Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida...
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Auteur: Malone, MichaelSommaire:
Noni Tilden and John "Kaye" King meet as young children on Christmas Eve of 1963. Noni is a white, privileged girl, while Kaye comes from a poor, black family. But when Kaye introduces himself by...
Genre: Romance fiction