The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the...
Voyages and travels
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Auteur:Tate, NikkiSommaire:It's 1861 and orphan Jo has made it from Carson City, Nevada, to San Francisco without anyone figuring out that she's a girl in boy's clothing. When she hears talk of gold strikes in the Cariboo, Jo and her friend Bart sign on for what...
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Auteur:Bedford, S.Sommaire:A laugh-out-loud travel memoir that reveals backpacking’s awkward side. Sue, a disenchanted waitress, embarks upon a year-long quest around the world with her friend, Sara—who’s exasperatingly perfect. Expecting a whimsical jaunt of...
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Auteur:Shea, LisaSommaire:I blink into awareness in a clinically clean hallway, surrounded by tangerine-garbed murderers and psychopaths. I have no idea who I am or why I'm a part of this Hell-bound group. A guard in riot gear hands me a Ruger double-action...
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Auteur:Tacon, Claire, Kyswaty, Laura, Lam, Richard, Mallozzi, Melanie, Mieli, MilesSommaire:When Henry Robinson's first daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, we find Henry working at Frankie's Funhouse, where he repairs the...
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Auteur:Turenne, MartineSommaire:Dernier-né de la chaîne CostaStellar, l’hôtel six étoiles King Azul de South Beach à Miami fait parler de lui pour de bien mauvaises raisons… Avoir su, peut-être que Geneviève Cabana n’aurait pas accepté l’offre de son patron de quitter...
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Auteur:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSommaire:Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only...
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Auteur:Doyle, BrianSommaire:A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.
- Auteur:McCartney, PaulSommaire:
Celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to in this action-packed undersea adventure-a companion book to Paul McCartney's #1 New York Times bestseller Hey Grandude . Grandude's inventions are the stuff of...
- Auteur:Woodgate, HarrySommaire:
Discover a wonderful grandfather-granddaughter relationship, as a little girl hatches the perfect plan to get her Grandad adventuring again. Gramps and Grandad were adventurers. They would surf, climb mountains, and tour the country in...
- Auteur:deVos, KellySommaire:
Follows teenager Alex and her horror buff friends as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one.
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Auteur:Peart, NeilSommaire:A bold narrative written by a man trying to stay alive by staying on the move. Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart suffered family losses so devastating that they left him a ghost — physically a man but with nothing inside: no hope,...
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Auteur:Lee, Ingrid, Denis, StephaneSommaire:George stood up in the saddle and waved his hand in the air. He went up and down, up and down. The lights of the night sky glittered in his eyes. He would get himself a hat. He would get himself a pair of silver spurs to match his...
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Auteur:Murphy, DervlaSommaire:Originally published in 1965, it is the diary of her bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, through Iran and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. Murphy's immediate rapport with the people she alights among is...
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Auteur:Patton, AnneSommaire:Dorothy Bolton and her family are making ends meet in Britain in 1903, but the growing number of stories about vast expanses of fertile, free land have definitely caught the eye of her father and her brother.
It's her father's...
- Auteur:Shelton, PaigeSommaire:
In Fateful Words, the eighth Scottish Bookshop Mystery from beloved author Paige Shelton, bookseller Delaney Nichols stakes her reputation - and her life - when a literary tour turns deadly... When Edwin, Delaney's boss at the...
- Auteur:IRVINE, LucySommaire:
Author takes her children to live on a remote island in the Solomons.
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Auteur:Patterson, R. M.Sommaire:The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and...
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Auteur:Solomon, AndrewSommaire:From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award-and one of the most original thinkers of our time-"Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays" (...
- Auteur:Cooper Jones, ChloéSommaire:
"Soul-stretching, breathtaking...A game-changing gift to readers." --Booklist (starred review) From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a...
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