A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree with a jump rope around her neck. She is dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is an airline...
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Auteur: Bjørk, SamuelSommaire: -
Auteur: Tweedale, Martin M.Sommaire:
In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic...
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Auteur: Tim CouzensSommaire:Just before Christmas in 1920, six people sat down to a meal at Morija, headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland (Lesotho). All six were taken violently ill, and one...
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Auteur: Ariosto, LodovicoSommaire:
"With this new verse translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), David R. Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto's now-neglected masterpiece - a poem whose impact on Western...
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Auteur: Petersen, ChristianSommaire:Peter Ellis is a rookie probation officer in interior British Columbia when he gets saddled with a file that goes sideways. He’s not in the best headspace to start with, since his marriage broke...
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Auteur: Aslan, RezaSommaire:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
Two thousand years ago,...
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Auteur: De Blois, HélèneSommaire:
It's a rainy day so the boy and his elephant, Émile, decide the perfect way to pass their time is with a trip to the museum. Their problems start before they even walk through the doors. First,...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Auteur: Davidson, Leslie A.Sommaire:
Fish and herons, turtles and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads - a multitude of wonders enchant both the child narrator and any other nature lovers along for the ride in this tender,...
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Auteur: Harper, KyleSommaire:
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of...
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Auteur: Desmond, MatthewSommaire:
#1 New York Times Bestseller. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in...
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Auteur: Goudeau, JessicaSommaire:
"Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion"—The New York Times Book Review. The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to...
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Auteur: O'Connor, FlannerySommaire:
“I would like to write a beautiful prayer,” writes the young Flannery O’Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. “There is a whole sensible world...
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Auteur: McClellan, BrianSommaire:
Tamas, Taniel, and Adamat have been betrayed and Adro now lies in the hands of a foreign invader. But it remains the duty of the powder mages to defend their homeland unto death in the explosive...
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Auteur: Brown, HannahSommaire:
"My life was a complete a mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the messes where we learn the most-as long as we slow down enough to realize what God is trying to show us....
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Auteur: Walters, Eric; Todd, Sue; Down, ChristianSommaire:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Inspired by a story told to the author while on safari in 2015, The Wild Beast describes the creation of one of Africa's most unusual...