Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became...
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Auteur: Whitman, WaltSommaire:Genre: Discursive works , Poetry -
Auteur: Donohue, KeithSommaire:When Kay fears someone is following her home, she takes shelter inside a toy shop and is suddenly transformed into a puppet. So begins a dual odyssey of a husband determined to find his wife and...
Genre: Horror fiction , Paranormal fiction -
Auteur: Powers, TimSommaire:When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But...
Genre: Historical fiction , Science fiction -
Auteur: Skyhorse, BrandoSommaire:When he was three, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of "...
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Auteur: Marlantes, KarlSommaire:A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way. Then, as he experiences the cost of combat, he begins to see the terrible results of his...
Genre: Historical fiction , War fiction -
Auteur: Niven, LarrySommaire:How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova, and they only have a few hours until the earth...
Genre: Science fiction , Short stories -
Auteur: Niven, LarrySommaire:Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble faces an increasing number of bizarre suicides in a world struggling to come to terms with its place in a multiverse of different timelines, where every decision...
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Auteur: Doctorow, CorySommaire:Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant...
Genre: Fantasy fiction , Science fiction , Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Repino, RobertSommaire:In the aftermath of the War With No Name, Shelba the dog and Mort(e) are once again thrown into the chaos as a slew of nefarious and dangerous characters threaten the fragile peace of the land....
Genre: Fantasy fiction , Science fiction -
Auteur: Helprin, MarkSommaire:Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to...
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Auteur: Dando-Collins, StephenSommaire:The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history and one shrouded in mystery. Stephen Dando-Collins sorts out the puzzles as he recaptures the drama of Caesar's...
Genre: History , Political science -
Auteur: Smith, Nicholas SansburySommaire:Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, are called in when a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark. Soon they are facing their deadliest enemy yet--a...
Genre: Apocalyptic fiction , Science fiction -
Auteur: Norman, Howard A.Sommaire:Elizabeth Church has been murdered, but her husband, Sam Lattimore, still sees her. In fact, he holds conversations with her almost every evening and watches her line up books on a beach. What at...
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Auteur: Smith, Nicholas SansburySommaire:Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and Dr. Kate Lovato race to save humanity.
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Auteur: Lightman, Alan P.Sommaire:From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the...