The year is 1548, and the Chinese Empire faces an imminent Mongol invasion. All that prevents the violent end of a dynasty is the Great Wall. Yet even this famed fortification has weaknesses, and...
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Auteur: Shors, JohnSommaire:Genre: Historical fiction -
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...
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Auteur: Aymé, MarcelSommaire:
Le passe-muraille de Marcel Aymé (recueil de nouvelles de 1943), n'a pas, au contraire du Huis clos de Sartre, de prétention philosophique. Le merveilleux du passe-muraille fait office de...
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Auteur: Laforcade, Benjamin de.Sommaire:
À l'est du mur qui sépare Berlin en deux, elles se sont promis de ne jamais se quitter. Hannah et Judith ont six ans quand elles se rencontrent pour la première fois, leur amitié est de...
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Auteur: Watts, AndrewSommaire:
Pax AI Corporation is the hottest company in the sector. But when their top scientist is murdered at a tech conference, Colt McShane is assigned to investigate. He discovers just how dangerous...
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Auteur: Walls, JeannetteSommaire:
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like...
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Auteur: Harrison, Carl H.Sommaire:
Hadrian's Wall. The most heavily fortified border in the Roman Empire. A significant portion of the wall still exists and for much of its length, the wall can be followed on foot by Hadrian’s Wall...
Genre: Travel writing -
Auteur: Jerome, JohnSommaire:
Describes the back-breaking but soul-strengthening task of building a stone wall on a New England farm.
Genre: Philosophy -
Auteur: Kempe, FrederickSommaire:
Shares controversial perspectives on a defining event in the Cold War, revealing how nearly American and Soviet troops came to waging nuclear war while citing the specific challenges that were...
Genre: History and geography -
Auteur: Cloutier, AnnieSommaire:
Dans les jours qui suivent la chute du mur de Berlin en 1989, Liv, jeune Québécoise venue étudier en Allemagne, est invitée chez une amie à Winterhüde, une banlieue cossue de Hambourg. Le matin du...
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Auteur: Wiggins, BethanySommaire:
When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes their sting to turn children into ferocious killer beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the beasts out, but Fiona wakes up on the wrong side of...
Genre: Science fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: De Leon, JenniferSommaire:
"A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story." —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere. "Written with humor and grace, with intimacy...
Genre: Science fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: James PattersonSommaire:
A mysterious group called the Green Band makes a shocking, surprise attack on Wall Street. Two unforgettable heroes stand between the clever saboteurs and economic world war... Caitlin Dillon, the...
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Auteur: Lucas, WalterSommaire:
In 1874, the vast plains of Texas are home to buffalo, the Comanche, and the Kiowa tribes. When the white men come to hunt the great beasts and drive the Indians out, the tribes gather and head to...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Melville, HermanSommaire:In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener....
Genre: Classic fiction, Short stories