A thirteen year old girl has lived her entire life in a domed city, unaware there is a world outside the walls--a world in which there are adult humans, and where a "mother" is a living...
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Auteur: Dowding, PhilippaSommaire:Genre: Juvenile fiction, Science fiction -
Auteur: Gaiman, NeilSommaire:
What happens when you promise to find a fallen star? When Tristran Thorn vows to do just that for the girl he loves, he ventures beyond the wall that borders his country village and into the...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Caldwell, TommySommaire:
A finalist for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb...
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Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life and do so in many different ways. Building on recent trends in linguistic analysis and visual semiotics, a vibrant...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts -
Auteur: Priebe, Trisha WhiteSommaire:Stunning conclusion to the Thirteen series! Avery has just one chance to save her life-and the lives of her friends. Candlelight danced on the gold-gilded walls and illuminated the stained-glass...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Mohnhaupt, J. W.; Frisch, ShelleySommaire:The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall.
Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a...Genre: History and geography -
Auteur: Varelas, ChristopherSommaire:From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system,...
Genre: Business and economics -
Auteur: Bilodeau, MarieSommaire:
The Wall of Loss separating the lands of light and darkness is failing… Despite her attempts to stop them, dark creatures invade Princess Cassara Edoline’s small and almost...
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Auteur: Young, Phyllis BrettSommaire:The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Ames, TamSommaire:The year 2089 finds Australia split between east and west, with a wall to ensure the east stays safe. College student Aiden Taylor is traveling from Perth to Sydney to see Men at Work, who have...
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Auteur: Joyce, Sean ArthurSommaire:Welcome to the tiny villages of Eldorado and Elkville, in the shadow of the glacial Valhalla mountain range. Everyone knows everyone and the place is wall-to-wall with lovable, weird and wacky...
Genre: Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Cross, E. J.Sommaire:It's a decade since the world died. Humanity has retreated inside walled territories to protect those who are left. Every day is like the one before it: simple, mundane, dreadful. Erin...
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Auteur: Keyes, MarianSommaire:
'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my knickers . . .'...
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Auteur: Verdier, Marie-ClaudeSommaire:
What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution? In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city...
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Auteur: Hofmann, JenniferSommaire:
On the day the Berlin Wall falls, Stasi officer Bernd Zeiger's betrayal of his onetime friend has come back to haunt Zeiger. Was Lara the naïf she presented herself to be, or did she know...
Genre: Historical fiction, Humorous fiction