Busy stitching and bandaging lumberjacks’ injuries, young Dr. Thomas Parks has no idea that his worst enemy is lurking in the sleepy village of Port McKinney in the spring of 1892. When one of the working girls at the Clarissa Hotel is...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Here are eleven radio episodes featuring Lucille Ball in different series from the golden age of radio.
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Auteur:Wakeman-Linn, JulieSommaire:Sons of revolutionaries, a classic Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer duo must grow up and find themselves when President-for-Life Robert Mugabe tightens his grip on white landowners and plunges Zimbabwe into anarchy. Julie Wakeman-Linn's...
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Auteur:Simon, CleaSommaire:When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious. Animal brutality is the one thing that this tough animal psychic won’t stand for, and in her role as a behaviorist she’s determined to care for the...
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Auteur:Carver, RaymondSommaire:This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. The twelve stories in Cathedral...
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Auteur:Dudley Edwards, RuthSommaire:When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness “Jack” Troutbeck to step into the...
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Auteur:Flower, AmandaSommaire:A candy-striped caper ... Christmas is coming all too quickly for Harvest, Ohio's famous chocolatier, Bailey King. Thanks to her new cable TV show, her shop has more candy orders than she can handle this holiday season. Fortunately, her...
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Auteur:Watson, Sophie B.Sommaire:Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten...
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Auteur:Wortham, ReavisSommaire:Lyndon B. Johnson is President, Beatlemania is in overdrive and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone...
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In a rapidly changing Western frontier, baseball isn't always fun and games, especially when one bad play might leave two of you cut from the National Bloomer Girls team, or just plain dead.
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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant...
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Auteur:Standiford, LesSommaire:Reluctant sleuth and Miami developer John Deal is the last of his kind: a builder who appreciates his craft. His friend Arch Dolan was the last of his kind, too, a Miami bookseller who sold books because he loved them. Now someone has...
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Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiance Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange...
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Auteur:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Sommaire:An ancient secret resurfaces when a murdered corpse shows up on Aloysius Pendergast's doorstep. The death has the hallmark of a perfect murder-save for a gem lodged in the victim's stomach, which leads Pendergast to an...
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Auteur:Whittle, TinaSommaire:Tai Randolph doesn’t want to hear about homicide. She’s had enough of the dark and the dangerous, and decides some time out of Atlanta is exactly what she needs to put the recent spate of corpses behind her. It‘s a idyllic vision:...
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Auteur:Sapkowski, AndrzejSommaire:Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child with the power to change the world. As the threat of war hangs over the land, it will become Geralt's responsibility to...
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Auteur:Scapellato, JosephSommaire:An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Claire Vaye Watkins as "Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest." Reinventing a great American tradition...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Female genital mutilation is the excruciating and damaging experience that a lot of women in many cultures across Africa and in many other parts of the world suffer. Even when the women find themselves, for one reason or another,...
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Auteur:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSommaire:Celine's marriage is at a crossroads when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. As her relationship deteriorates and Celine worries that she'll be left to endure cancer treatment alone, comfort and support come in the form of her best...
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Auteur:Maleeny, TimSommaire:When a movie producer hurtles to his death from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, an apparent suicide, it shocks the film community and puts a 200 million dollar production in jeopardy. A female colleague comes forward claiming it was...
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