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Début du 20e siècle, Agua Amarga, Espagne. Une famille de pêcheurs, accablée par la pauvreté et la misère, quitte sa terre natale pour tenter sa chance en Algérie. Après une traversée à la rame, Francisco Carmona Marín s'installe avec femme et enfants à Mostaganem, province d'Oran, o il va travailler de ferme en ferme comme bracero. Ainsi commence le destin français d'une famille espagnole en terre d'Algérie. Plus qu'une traversée de...
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A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV's reign.
The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic jailor, dark and sinister dungeons- and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this story, made famous by Alexandre Dumas, is that of...
37163) Rumors of Peace: A Novel
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To ten-year-old Suse Hansen, the fighting in Europe seems far away from the blue skies and quiet streets of her Bay Area home in Mendoza, California-despite newspaper war photographs and the tense radio broadcasts. But Pearl Harbor changes everything. Caught up in the fear and uncertainty of air raid drills, draft calls, and the mysterious departure of her Japanese and Italian neighbors, Suse becomes obsessed with the war.
As Mendoza and the rest...
37164) The B.S. Crew
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The peaceful lives and the future of several generations of New Zealand families will be tragically altered by their active participation in the two World Wars. During World War II, New Zealand was helpless against the threat of a Japanese invasion. Defense Minister Bob Semple, devised a naive but ambitious program to design a secret weapon, a tank that could be easily built over the chassis of a modest tractor-excavator, of which there were thousands...
37165) The B.S. Crew
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La vida sencilla y el futuro de varias generaciones de familias en Nueva Zelanda se verán trágicamente alterados por su participación activa en las dos Guerras Mundiales.Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Nueva Zelanda se veía impotente ante la amenaza de una invasión japonesa.Su Ministro de Defensa, Bob Semple, ideó un ingenuo pero ambicioso programa para diseñar un arma secreta, un tanque que pudiera construirse sobre el chasis de un modesto...
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This boxed set contains the first ten books in the USA Today Bestselling series Brides of Beckham.
Book 1: Mail Order Mayhem
Book 2: Mail Order Mama
Book 3: Mail Order Madness
Book 4: Mail Order Mix-up
Book 5: Mail Order Mistake
Book 6: Mail Order Maternity
Book 7: Mail Order Matchmaker
Book 8: Mail Order Motherhood
Book 9: Mail Order Matron
Book 10: Mail Order Meddler
37167) The Seacoast of Bohemia
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From an Edgar award–winning crime author, a mystery featuring unorthodox detective Henri Castang as he hunts for a kidnapper in the Czech Republic.
It's every mother's nightmare-their child abducted. But for Anita Rogier, whose son has been missing for four years, a glimmer of hope shines into her dark world when she receives a call that convinces her he is alive. But with few believing her claims, she needs a detective who is able to take the...
37168) Day of the Cyclone
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It's the summer of 1912 in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Ella Barclay is bored with her life. Things look up when she receives a camera for her birthday. A camera! "To make a great picture," says her father, "you must look for the story." Looking for the story leads Ella to Billy Forsythe, the new boy at school. He's a liar, and maybe a thief. He sure makes life interesting. But can Ella trust him? Soon enough, a few lies count for nothing. When the worst...
37169) William Through Time
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In the second installment in the A Magical Bookshop Novel series join William as he returns to his friends Rose, Beth, and John in Westbridge.
Still wrestling with losing the man he loved during the Napoleonic War, William Chambers receives a letter from his friend John Easton. Spurred by its contents William leaves his apartments in London behind to travel to the Hawthorne estate. There, he meets Austin Miller, a man who just like his friend's wife...
37170) My Brother's Secret
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A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates.
Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan, Karl's nonconformist older brother, wants nothing to do with it. Then their father is killed, and what had been a game suddenly becomes deadly serious. Karl's faith...
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The Dams Raid is the RAF's most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew - two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen – only one had previously flown with him, but altogether they had amassed more than 180 operations. Drawing on rare and unpublished sources and family archives, this new study, written by the author of the acclaimed...
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Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays - by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith - that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
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Nicknamed "the most beautiful woman in Alaska," 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairbanks businessman, had been shot dead, and she claimed they were the victims of a brutal home invasion.
Blonde, glamorous and 20 years younger than Cecil, police were immediately suspicious of Diane's account, and the investigation soon turned toward her...
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After graduating college, Holly Ferguson embarks on a much needed vacation to Paradise Island, Bahamas. Holly meets Mateo, the young villa grounds keeper, who gifts her with a captivating ruby pendant he found on a dive. However, when Holly sleeps with the pendant, she descends into a disturbing sequence of dreams where she finds herself trapped in the body of Jamayla, a Spanish girl who has been captured by Blackbeard and is despised by his witch,...
37175) Dora: Roman
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Dora, une femme à l'âme souffrante et dérangée, décide de séduire son beau-frère Patrice, au détriment de leur couple et des conséquences de cet acte.
Tous les dimanches, la famille Dormesson se réunit. Patrice et Alicia, Julienne et Germain, et enfin, Christian et Dora. Dora, une femme étrange. Tantt affectueuse et fragile, tantt capricieuse et bornée. Perdue. Persuadée qu'elle est amoureuse de Patrice, elle tente de s'en rapprocher,...
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{Then when We decreed death for him [Sulayman (Solomon)], nothing informed them (Jinn) of his death except a termite, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his stick, so when he fell down, the Jinn saw clearly that if they had known the Ghayb (unseen), they would not have stayed in the humiliating torment.} (Saba': 14)
Let me tell you what happened. While we were just tiny ants that live in our houses, we used to hear many different stories about the...
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If you've ever wondered if the fairy tales and nursery rhymes you grew up on have any basis in reality, this book holds the answers you seek. Included in this collection are the real-life events that inspired the exploits of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Jack Horner, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Quite Contrary and Bluebeard, to name only a few. So, if you're looking for the grain...
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Suivez les aventures pagnolesques d'Olivier, un petit garçon qui grandit dans le sud.
Olivier, arrivé par hasard dans le midi, découvre le monde qui l'entoure. Il grandit au cté de ses parents, de ses amis dans ce sud o les gens parlent « avé l'accent ». Ce petit garçon « normal » avec une vie « normale » nous fait découvrir son monde pagnolesque et ses aventures qui mêlent l'école, les vacances, ses amis, ses émotions, ses parfums...
37179) The Dead Below
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It isn't long after Treva Gallo moves into her new Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, neighborhood that she starts to see otherworldly people around town. And the more ghosts she sees, the more they seek her out. As Treva researches her new neighborhood's murky past, she unearths more than she expected . . . and the ghostly spirits become more insistent. The spirits seem to want something from Treva. But what can a living person do for the dead?
Every state...
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Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has whittled his detective agency down to a single operative: a man named John Henry Cole. Cole is the only man left when a new assignment comes in from a former lover of Kelly's, a woman operating an escort service in the new mining camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory. Three of the young women working for her have been murdered, and someone is trying to cover up their deaths.
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