News reaches the couple [Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti] that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish, an inconsolable Moti send Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the...
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Auteur:Klune, T. J.Sommaire:Il y a trois ans, la mère de Bear McKenna a mis les voiles avec son dernier petit ami en date, laissant à Bear la tâche d’élever son petit frère de six ans Tyson, surnommé le Moustique. Depuis, les deux frères ont appris à se...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:A Love Means... Story Len Parker is laid off during the recession in the early eighties and decides to go back to college at home in rural Michigan, where he reconnects with his best friend from high school, Ruby. He's overjoyed when...
- Auteur:WILDER, Laura IngallsSommaire:
CLASSIC FICTION. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving as they soon find that they must share the land with wild...
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Auteur:Ashling, Mickie B.Sommaire:Un libro della serie Orizzonti Quello che sarebbe dovuto essere un breve interludio diventa qualcosa di più profondo quando Lil Lampert incontra Grier Dilorio alla Degustazione di Chicago. Lil è in città a far visita ai suoi buoni amici...
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Auteur:Scott, JoannaSommaire:New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and...
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Auteur:Long, MelindaSommaire:Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
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Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and steal some of the trees.
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Auteur:Abbott, EdwinSommaire:A square inhabiting a two-dimensional realm comes into contact with a mysterious sphere that opens his mind to the existence of higher dimensions and threatens to upend the rigid social order of his homeland. At once an earnest inquiry...
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Auteur:Barr, Marleen S.Sommaire:The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Auteur:Miller, Linda LaelSommaire:
Disenchanted with city life after Jaxon Locke, the one man who interests her, moves West to take over a family veterinarian practice, Charlotte Morgan returns to her Wyoming hometown, where Jax resolves to do whatever it takes win her...
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Auteur:Michener, James A.Sommaire:Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is...
- Auteur:Lincoln, Joseph CrosbySommaire:
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a...
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Auteur:Marchwell, D. W.Sommaire:Jerry McKenzie è un artista solitario e antisociale, abbastanza soddisfatto di cavalcare i suoi cavalli e lavorare nel suo studio, standosene da solo. Non è il tipo di vita adatto a un bambino e, quando Jerry scopre che è stato nominato...
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Auteur:Klune, TJSommaire:Three years ago, Bear McKenna’s mother took off for parts unknown with her new boyfriend, leaving Bear to raise his six-year-old brother Tyson, aka the Kid. Somehow they’ve muddled through, but since he’s totally devoted to the Kid,...
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Auteur:Hobb, RobinSommaire:A bastard prince relegated to cleaning stables is chosen by a king to become an assassin. The novel follows the training and missions of this man who has inherited magical skills, among them mind-control and the ability to communicate...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:Au début des années 80, Len Parker perd son emploi pendant la récession et décide de reprendre ses études dans sa ville natale du Michigan, où il renoue des liens avec Ruby, sa meilleure amie durant ses années de lycée. Len est fou de...
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Alvin Theatre, George Abbott, in association with Robert Fryer presents Shirley Booth, Johnny Johnston, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," a new musical (based on Betty Smith's novel), book by Betty Smith & George Abbott, music by...
- Auteur:Clark, Mary HigginsSommaire:
Journalist Sharon Martin and her fiance, attorney Steve Peterson, stand on opposite sides of the capital punishmen debate. Sharon opposes the death sense, while Steve believes that murderers should be executed. But one night, when Steve...
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Auteur:LaValle, Victor D.Sommaire:A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
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