One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers....
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Auteur: Hornfischer, James D.Sommaire:
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Auteur: Jacobson, John J.Sommaire:
Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous...
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Auteur: Frankl, Viktor E.Sommaire:
Viktor Frankl offers a more straightforward alternative to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis: one's problems may be rooted in a failure to find a meaning in life beyond one's interior world. The...
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Auteur: Kinsella, W. P.Sommaire:
More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.
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Auteur: L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
Tom Kedrick was hired to clear a sizable strip of land of certain "vagrants and outlaws." But what he found were hard-working ranchers and farmers determined to resist any efforts to...
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
Miles has put his clone, Mark, in charge of a mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole. But the mission goes awry, and Miles' rescue attempt goes even more wrong...
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when...
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Auteur: Shirer, William L.Sommaire:
The prominent journalist, author, and historian of some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century describes a post-Hitler world, including the McCarthy years and its blacklists.
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Auteur: Szwed, John F.Sommaire:
John Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the...
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Auteur: Heinlein, Robert A.Sommaire:
As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
Cordelia Vorkosigan stands ready to spin her life in a new direction, and Oliver Jole finds himself caught up in her web of plans. Wills and expectations collide in this sparkling science fiction...
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Auteur: Wilson, Edward O.Sommaire:
In this memoir, Edward O. Wilson describes for the first time both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped to define.
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan. Caught on separate sides of a controversial war, a Betan captain and a Barrayaran leader defy...
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. With...
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Auteur: Bujold, Lois McMasterSommaire:
Temple sorcerer Penric and his chaos demon Desdemona are drawn into an uncanny investigation when a corpse found floating face down in the harbor is not quite as dead as it seems. Their search...