This second part of Christopher Milne's autobiography provides an account of a young man's search for identity, of a struggling (but later thriving) bookshop, and of Milne's own family life in a small English country town.
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Auteur:Peacock, MollySommaire:Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into...
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Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:She was in the wrong place... Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a...
- Auteur:Gaiman, NeilSommaire:
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
The scion of a noble house brought low by a storm and the lady who nurses him back to health strive to unravel a web of deception that threatens her family and forces them to fight for what they hold most dear--family, each other, and...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Sherlock Holmes came to NBC radio in 1930. In the mid-1940s, actor Tom Conway took over the role of Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Watson. This collection contains twelve Holmes adventures starring Conway and Bruce.
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Auteur:Christie, AgathaSommaire:Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a...
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Auteur:Todd, CharlesSommaire:"A stunner, exquisitely plotted and characterized, with Todd's trademark meticulous backdrop of World War I-era England."?Strand Magazine The Great War is still raging when Francesca Hatton's adored grandfather dies on his estate in...
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Auteur:Collins, WilkieSommaire:Rachel Verinder is given an extraordinary diamond for her 18th birthday by her uncle, a British officer who served in India. That very night the diamond disappears. Considered the first detective novel in the English language, this...
- Auteur:Wiggs, SusanSommaire:
Lianna of Bois-Long meets a stranger in a sunny forest glade and is seduced by the heat of his tender gaze and strong embrace. Then her forest lover is revealed as the English nobleman who has come to claim her ancestral home. Can she...
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Auteur:BARNARD, RobertSommaire:Actress Caroline Fawley is enjoying life. Her wealthy lover, supermarket owner Marius Fleetwood, has set her and her children up in a grand house in Marsham. But Caroline's life is shattered when a young man unexpectedly appears...
- Auteur:C.L, PolkSommaire:
From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where womens magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her...
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Auteur:Pyle, HowardSommaire:Robin Hood follows one of our favorite heroes as he embarks on various adventures and antics, recruiting the Merry Men from what appears to be every corner of Europe and pursuing his quest to "steal from the rich and give to the poor."...
- Auteur:Fowler, ChristopherSommaire:
John May and Arthur Bryant are immersed in a case as bizarre as anything they've encountered during their storied careers. A baby has been thrown from the window of a locked room, and all the clues point to the room's only other...
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Auteur:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySommaire:The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories, including the adventures of The Silver Blaze, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Final Problem. This collection not only introduces the term "smoking gun", it also introduces...
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Auteur:Doyle, Arthur ConanSommaire:'If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept my own.' In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
A lady ready and waiting to be deemed on the shelf has her transition into spinsterhood disrupted when the nobleman she had once thought she loved returns to London and fate and circumstance conspire to force them to discover what love...
- Auteur:Thorogood, RobertSommaire:
Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she...
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Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is...
- Auteur:Macmillan, GillySommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes the terrifying story of what can happen after all your dreams come true Be careful what you wish for... Childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom are a normal,...
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