A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
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Auteur: Sutcliff, RosemarySommaire:Genre: Historical fiction, Juvenile fiction
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Auteur: MacDonald, HughSommaire:
The Last Wild Boy is a dystopic story about Nora who lives in the walled city of Aahimsa, an idyllic community of girls and women working together to make a peaceful life free of the brutality of...
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Auteur: Butcher, KristenSommaire:
Zee and his friends are angry that their old haunt has been replaced by stores that are off-limits to them and storekeepers who treat them with distrust. To let the merchants know what he and his...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Stewart, James B.Sommaire:
Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves is a #1 best-seller across the nation. It tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal of the late '80s that nearly brought down Wall...
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Auteur: Hayes, ChristopherSommaire:
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-...
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Auteur: Cotton, Ralph W.Sommaire:
Tough-as-rawhide ranger Sam Burrack pursues a posse of violent jailbreakers. As he follows the bloody trail, Sam comes face-to-face with an unpleasant foe: the legendary Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
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Auteur: Bebris, CarrieSommaire:
While on holiday Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found at the base of Lyme's famous sea wall as well as the prospect that Fitzwilliam's naval-...
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Auteur: Becker, AaronSommaire:
Using a red marker, a young girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and through it enters another world where she experiences many adventures, including being captured by an evil emperor.
Genre: Picture books, Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Gupta, UdayanSommaire:
This remarkable book chronicles the ideas of a great teacher, George Doriot, whose decades long career at the Harvard Business School inspired a generation of venture capitalists and Wall Street...
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Auteur: Bower, TomSommaire:
The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society.
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Auteur: Paulsen, GarySommaire:
While climbing the sheer mountain face known as Devil's Wall, the Rock Jockeys stumble upon the empty wreckage of a B-17 Bomber, unearthing a gruesome secret. Includes valuable information on...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Black, HollySommaire:
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you...
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Auteur: Selznick, BrianSommaire:
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his...
Genre: Historical fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Gidwitz, AdamSommaire:
When Professor Fauna spots a unicorn horn mounted on the wall of the Schmoke Brothers' living room, the Unicorn Rescue Society heads to the Himalayan mountains of Northern Pakistan to finally...
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Auteur: Tannahill, JordanSommaire:
This collection presents three young people backed up against walls, metaphorically and literally, who risk everything for a chance to love and to be loved. And all three, to some extent, are...
Genre: Canadian drama