Murder at Cirey Eight days in spring, 1735 A race against crime. When a handsome young man is shot dead on an estate in the picturesque Champagne region of France, Victor Constant, military policeman, determines to find out why. But no...
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Auteur:Evaristo, BernardineSommaire:Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. A husband, father, grandfather--he is also secretly gay. When his marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants a divorce, but after a lifetime of fear and deception,...
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Auteur:Rivard, KenSommaire:Motherwild is an unvarnished journey of the struggle to survive on a violent and dangerous yet loving and alive Montreal working-class street. Set over the course of a year beginning in December 1959, Joey Cantell faces the personal...
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Most of Hawthorne's early writings were magazine stories subsequently collected in books. His second story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, includes many of his best-known short stories. Among the 22 stories in this edition...
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Auteur:Seto, LorettaSommaire:In this picture book, a young girl shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
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Auteur:Brownstein, Bill, Habor, DanielSommaire:24 Montreal locations, each visited at a different hour of the day. 24 hours in the life of a city that never sleeps. Author Bill Brownstein writes about the owners, workers, and patrons; Daniel Haber took the pictures. These are...
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Auteur:Harrell, RobSommaire:In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except...
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Auteur:Beckett, SamuelSommaire:Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing...
- Auteur:James, EloisaSommaire:
From four beloved writers-Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley-come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of...
- Auteur:Narsimhan, MahtabSommaire:
When aspiring photographer Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend Rohit Lal on a family trip to India, he jumps at the chance to embark on an exciting journey just like their Lord of the Rings heroes, Frodo and Sam. But each boy...
- Auteur:Walker, MeganSommaire:
England, 1820 Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts,...
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Auteur:Stewart, Amy.Sommaire:The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters. Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women...
- Auteur:Arsenault, KerriSommaire:
" This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the...
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Auteur:Filey, MikeSommaire:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
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Auteur:Filey, MikeSommaire:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
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Auteur:Filey, MikeSommaire:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
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Auteur:Filey, MikeSommaire:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
- Auteur:Berendt, JohnSommaire:
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of...
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Auteur:King, CharlesSommaire:At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul, people were looking toward...
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Auteur:Eliot, GeorgeSommaire:Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble service, falls for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon, much to her light-hearted sister’s dismay. Eight hundred pages of...
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