Alors qu’elle fait ses débuts comme demoiselle de compagnie de Norah Fedmore, Lauriane tente de reprendre une vie normale suite aux événements qui ont bouleversé son existence. Mais il y a encore de l’orage dans l’air… Un malheureux...
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Moore, LisaSommaire:In Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore's first story collection, the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current. Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.
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Auteur:Gogol, NikolaiSommaire:The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes...
- Auteur:McBride, JamesSommaire:
African Americans, Deacons, Manners and customs, Neighborhoods, Public housing
Oprah's Book Club Pick. A New York Times bestseller. One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. A Washington Post Notable Novel. One of Time... - Auteur:Peters, KatieSommaire:
The Day of the Dead is a day to remember loved ones who died. Colorful photos and accessible text bring this family tradition to life for young learners.
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Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms his life.
- Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:
À la naissance de son fils, le duc de Hastings jubilait. Hélas, l'enfant bégaie ! Affront insupportable pour le duc, qui l'a renié sans pitié. Le jeune Simon a donc grandi, solitaire et assoiffé de revanche. Après de brillantes...
- Auteur:Beverley, JoSommaire:
Young Miles Cavanagh becomes the improbable guardian to Felicity Monahan, a wealthy head-strong heiress who is only a few years younger than he. Felicity at first seems set on marrying Rupert Dunmsore, an unscrupulous cad, who clearly...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:Searching for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend in contemporary Japan, the protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread, colliding with call girls, playing chaperone to a teenage psychic, and...
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Auteur:Vanderhaeghe, GuySommaire:Among these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actor's penchant for...
- Auteur:Guy, Georges, Bernier, FranceSommaire:
Les nouvelles de Cœur atout, qui mettent en scène des petites gens de la Gaspésie et de la Côte-Nord, constituent en quelque sorte une poignée de main aux années cinquante et soixante, la plupart ayant été écrites et publiées dans des...
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Auteur:Dubinsky , KarenSommaire:Havana is Cuba';s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
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Auteur:Frolick, Larry, Carlucci, PaulSommaire:“It was a different crow, but the same crow, you understand? Because there is only one Crow. God made them all black and identical-looking because there is no reason for them to be different birds. That’s why you can never kill a crow,...
- Auteur:Scott, AmandaSommaire:
Lady Sibylla Cavers est mûre pour le mariage et pourtant, elle rejette les trois premiers prétendants présentés par son père. Quand l'un d'eux, l'élégant lord Simon Murray, porte secours à lady Sibylla et à la...
- Auteur:Trollope, AnthonySommaire:
Henry Jones, an insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin, lies neatly folded in a volume of sermons in the uncle's book-room. Only...
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Auteur:Balzac, Honoré deSommaire:Lisbeth Fischer feels she's been wronged--though much of what she perceives may only reside in her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of...
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
In London's Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as "a building of no interest whatsoever." But the residents of Corduroy Mansions--including a literary agent, a wine merchant, a thoroughly unpleasant...
- Auteur:Rowe, Dwayne W., Scission, Hal C.Sommaire:
Crude, rude, and pathetic are the adjectives that best describe these
reminiscences from the 1940s and 1950s. The authors recall a string of
trivial, and usually unpleasant, incidents from their disaster-prone
... - Auteur:Murata, SayakaSommaire:
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part,...
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