Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall was pulled down by Berliners fed up with the division of their city, Stan Persky returns to Eastern Europe. In essays informative and insightful, he...
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Auteur: Persky, StanSommaire:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science -
Auteur:Sommaire:Written by the most beloved Western authors of all time, these classic stories tell of love, adventure, and treachery on the wild frontier. Stories include "Cañon Walls" by Zane Grey, "Black Sheep...
Genre: Western fiction, Short stories -
Auteur: Bodard, Aliette de; Kenny, PeterSommaire:After the Great Magicians' War, Paris lies in ruins. House Silverspires is in disarray, its magic ailing, and something from the shadows stalks its people inside their own walls. And the fate of...
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Auteur: Murakami, HarukiSommaire:A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different...
Genre: Humorous fiction, Short stories -
Auteur: Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:In the late '70s, convent school teenagers Pen O'Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic...
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Auteur: Towles, AmorSommaire:
Set in New York City in 1938, tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising 25-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Monnet, ÉmilieSommaire:
In Anishnaabemowin, Okinum means dam. In deciphering a recurring dream about beavers, Émilie Monnet discovers how to break down interior barriers, to trust in the power of intuition, and to...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials -
Auteur: Jordan, RobertSommaire:Book nine of the "Wheel of Time" series. Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. The White Tower is shaken to the core when Egwene and the rebels appear suddenly...
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Auteur: Hawkins, AlisSommaire:
It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus : a great college to rival any in England. Six hundred years later, in the same city, Damia Miller has been employed to...
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Auteur: Douglas, Lloyd C. (Lloyd Cassel)Sommaire:
The story of a lady who appoints herself as a housemaid when the family, headed by Philosophy Professor Paul Ward, is in financial crisis. She makes herself indispensable, immediately. The tale...
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Auteur: Frost, RobertSommaire:
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems—all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated...
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Auteur: Stewart, CalSommaire:
"Folks at home said I'd be buncoed or have my pockets picked fore I'd bin here mor'n half an hour; wall, I fooled 'em a little bit, I wuz here three days afore they...
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Auteur: Patterson, JamesSommaire:A young man is found dead in a seedy hotel room, electrocuted in his bath with a toaster. This is the second electrocution murder Lindsay Boxer has come across and the message left in graffiti on...
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Auteur: Percy, BenjaminSommaire:A super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts like the Sanctuary, a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant...
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Auteur: Acker, CamilleSommaire:When you're black and female in America, society's rules were never meant to make you safe or free. Camille Acker's relatable yet unexpected characters break down the walls of respectability...
Genre: Short stories