In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is...
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Angela, AlbertoSommaire: - Auteur:Jordan, SophieSommaire:
The owner of London's most popular gaming hell, wealthy and powerful Silas Masters, is feared by men and desired by women-except Mercy Kittinger. When the blackguard wins her family home in a game of cards, Mercy steals into Silas's...
- Auteur:Scott, BarbaraSommaire:
A woman trapped in a plastic suit sprays poisons onto schoolyards in the deserted small hours of morning. Another aims her rage over the loss of her daughter to cancer at a small group of children on Christmas Eve. A teenage boy sees an...
- Auteur:Gray, CharlotteSommaire:
What do these people - from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper - have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on our country. Deliberately...
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Auteur:Kociejowski, MariusSommaire:Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic 'The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool' with 'The Pigeon Wars of Damascus'. A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski...
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Auteur:Sparks, EdwardSommaire:Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate...
- Auteur:Hadlow, JaniceSommaire:
"Jane fans rejoice! ... Exceptional storytelling and a true delight."--Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the WarMary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride...
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Auteur:Marklund, BertilSommaire:A short guide to a long life, The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer is a pragmatic little book that channels the simple, healthy lifestyle of Scandinavia. Swedish doctor Bertil Marklund covers broad ground in just over 100 pages,...
- Auteur:Klosterman, ChuckSommaire:
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the...
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Auteur:Binns, BrigitSommaire:“The New Wine Country Cookbook provides an evocative view of the dynamic food and wine culture of California’s fastest growing wine region. The Central Coast should be on every food and wine lover’s radar.” —Rajat Parr, wine director of...
- Auteur:Gray, ClaudiaSommaire:
A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen's...
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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:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
A collection of short stories based in the Northwest Territories, and in urban and rural British Columbia.
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Auteur:Smutylo, AllenSommaire:Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeThe Mongolia you never knew existed. Mongolia beyond Genghis Khan.In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes,...
- Auteur:McNeill, LouiseSommaire:
The Milkweed Ladies, the memoirs of poet Louise McNeill, is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern...
- Auteur:Narayan, ShobaSommaire:
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different...
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Auteur:MacNab, BruceSommaire:Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award. Shortlisted, Canadian Regional Design AwardsIn May of 1896, a young magician from New York City joined the cast of the Marco Magic Company and embarked on a summer-long tour of eastern Canada...
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Auteur:Lepore, JillSommaire:How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that...
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Auteur:Wodehouse, P. G.Sommaire:These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; and the first appearance of Jeeves.
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