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2001) Requiescat
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Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thinkers...
2002) Roadwalkers
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Grau's remarkable story of a black mother and daughter struggling to find their own paths through the tumult of the Great Depression and the civil rights movement There are few circumstances worse than being an orphaned, homeless, African American child in the South during the Great Depression. When Mary Woods found herself in that treacherous situation, she quickly learned she needed to count on what family she could find in order to survive....
2003) Le retable: Roman
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Orphelin élevé par sa tante, François travaille dans une librairie. Tous les samedis, il se rend à la propriété familiale pour lui rendre visite. Étienne, son cousin, jaloux de cette relation depuis longtemps, envisage de le déposséder de son héritage à la mort de leur parente. Toutefois, il ignore que cette dernière détient un retable très ancien qu'elle n'expose jamais. Les dissensions familiales iront de mal en pis jusqu'au dévoilement...
2004) Duke of Egypt: A Novel
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Flame-haired Lucie raises horses on her father's farm. One summer day, she meets a dark, handsome stranger named Joseph, and it is love at first sight. But their union is as improbable as their love is deep. For Joseph is a wanderer, a full-blooded gypsy for whom all of Europe is a stomping ground. Despite their cultural differences, they marry, have three children, and lead a normal life-with one exception: each spring, Joseph takes to the road to...
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L'auteure livre un éclairage inédit sur les conservatismes encore bien ancrés dans nos sociétés occidentales.
À la recherche de l'amant français raconte comment Nilanjana, une Bengalaise originaire de Calcutta, se libère peu à peu du contrle patriarcal exercé par son père et son époux, avant de rencontrer la version française du patriarcat, diffuse et inattendue, incarnée par son amant français.
On assiste à la confrontation d'une...
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Destins de femmes du monde et du cœur.
Cinq femmes aux destins complexes qui s'affrontent à la vie en partant toutes d'un même point, l'Amour. C'est l'Amour sous toutes ses formes, passion, calculs, arrangement, règlement de compte, des pièges qui se referment... Il n'est pas très loin de la folie et de la mort. Un paradis perdu sur fond de rêves brisés pour ces femmes fortes qui forgent une nouvelle humanité en cassant les frontières pour...
2007) Welsh Folk Tales
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This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of 'chwedlau'. If someone says, 'Chwedl Cymraeg?' they are asking, 'Do you speak Welsh?' and 'Do you tell a tale in...
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Les Anciens appelaient Indes toute terre lointaine et inconnue...
Sur l'île de Chios, en mer Égée, Vasco laisse sa fille à ses amours. Elle reste, il part :
J'irai vers toutes mes Indes, je mettrai mon pas dans ceux de ma jeunesse. Je retourne, Otilia, même si la terre que je cherche m'est désormais inconnue. J'irai à Castelo Branco, vers mon enfance. La route est ce lieu de mon âme o elle obtient le repos, je la ferai en paix...
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2009) The Road to Urbino
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'Every act has a past. Events don't just materialise from nowhere.'
Ras, a Tamil exile in London, is awaiting trial for the theft of a Renaissance masterpiece. Searching for the truth behind her client's act, Ras's lawyer, Elizabeth Saunders, must piece together his story and that of enigmatic British writer Alex Benson. The trail she follows leads from Sri Lanka to the hills of Italy where, despite the serenity of the landscape, war's shadow looms...
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Un village dans le Berry en 1916. La famille Delarbres fait face, comme tant d'autres, à la guerre. Anatole, jeune homme de 16 ans, s'engage. Pour la famille, ce sera la perte d'un fils, d'un frère : il ne reviendra pas. Ce départ brutal et définitif va profondément marquer la descendance de celle qui était si proche de lui, sa sœur Blanche. Les héritières du silence raconte l'empreinte insaisissable et pourtant si profonde laissée par cette...
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Laurence Martin, écrivaine à succès, dévoile une partie de son secret dans l'une de ses premières oeuvres.
Plus de vingt ans après, Alexandre, son fils, cédera à l'influence de l'entourage de sa mère et au rêve récurrent qui l'obsède.
Après un séjour en Allemagne, celui-ci se décide à retrouver son père.
Dans sa recherche de la vérité, Alexandre succombera aux tentations que la vie et les fragilités de sa jeunesse placeront...
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Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by...
2013) Antrim Folk Tales
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County Antrim, home to the Giant's Causeway, has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from across the county. Featured here are stories of well-known figures from Irish folklore, including Conal Cearnach, with his association to Dunseverick Castle, and Deirdre of the Sorrows, whose mournful plight is linked to the rock at Ballycastle, known as Carraig Usnach. Here you will also find...
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London 1950
Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane, surrounded by close friends and family. Life just seems too good...But then disaster strikes.
Pip, her beloved son is left in a coma following a devastating car crash and a young girl collapses in the market leaving Peggy no option but to nurse her back to health. As things begin to go awry, Peggy worries she has brought trouble to her doorstep? Can...
2015) The Keepers
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Sara Elizabeth Ryan lives an idyllic life in rural Oklahoma, where she and her two cousins are shaped by unbridled nature and the handed down traditions of their Cherokee heritage. Raised on Grandma Janie's farm, Sara, Gunner, and Mitch form a seemingly unbreakable bond. But when Gunner returns from the Vietnam War, a breach of trust pushes the family to the brink of collapse. As the lure of easy money and threats from a local crime ring infiltrate...
2016) Le petit paysan
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« Aussi loin que je me souvienne, ma petite paire de chaussures rouges a marqué le début de ma vie. À l'âge de trois ans, elles m'ont été offertes à l'occasion de l'Aïd, en récompense de mes modestes responsabilités de berger au sein de la famille. J'étais heureux ! C'était le rêve ultime pour un enfant de ma communauté. Mes yeux brillaient d'excitation à la vue de ces chaussures. J'étais aux anges. Je les ai enfilées précipitamment,...
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Ce recueil de nouvelles de Mohammed Moulessehoul, entièrement consacré aux rêves impossibles de l'enfance algérienne dans les premières années de la conquête coloniale, est gorgé de poésie qui fouille et recouvre, peint et dénonce les désastres affectifs contenus dans la nouvelle qui donne son titre au recueil La Fille du pont. Garçons de ferme, khemmas, joueur de flûte, les jeunes protagonistes découvrent l'amour, l'amitié et la beauté...
2018) Season of Violence
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Violent, sensual, and seemingly un-Japanese, the stories in Season of Violence nevertheless depict Japanese teenagers of the present in compulsive but often unconscious revolt against the moral codes of "old Japan." Yet these stories tell of youth who offer no real, modern morality to replace the old-only the anti-morality of indiscriminate sex, brutality, and living for today's pleasures and sensations. These are stories of teenagers who came to...
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The Secrets of an Ancient Legend Come Alive! Adventurous, imaginative, and brave, Kawehi has enjoyed her life on the island of Kaua'i, and she especially loves the time she spends with Kahoku, her older brother. But when a shocking event unexpectedly turns her world upside down, Kawehi will find herself facing unimaginable truths about her family and the people around her, as she is catapulted headlong into a world of mystery and myth. Although Kawehi's...
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Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.
Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position...
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