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Face à un régime totalitaire, le Rebelle se lève et est prêt à risquer sa vie pour libérer ses citoyens...
Le Rebelle Et Les Ventrus est un récit imaginaire, autour d'un conflit, entre la liberté et le totalitarisme. Son terrain est miné de toute part, par un arbitraire sans limites et une religion, toute nouvelle.
Ce totalitarisme transforme le pays en un bagne, sans clture ni barbelés et le peuple en bagnards, traînant des boulets....
47302) Siege 13: Stories
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Stories exploring a world of ordinary people caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic.
In the fall of 1944, the Red Army encircled Budapest, surrounding tens of thousands of German and Hungarian troops, and nearly a million civilians. The ensuing months witnessed one of the most brutal sieges of World War II, with block-to-block guerilla warfare followed by widespread disease, starvation,...
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Dans une luxueuse maison de retraite, une vieille femme se raconte pour tromper l'ennui...
Lorsque l'on approche le crépuscule de sa vie, celle-ci peut parfois sembler longue et monotone, mais pas aux « Bleuets » : le Capitaine chapardeur de chocolat, Chantal fumeuse de mentholées au look extravagant, Léon l'amoureux des romans, Hortense la créative, sans oublier Armand le dévoué concierge toujours accompagné de sa fidèle Doliprane font...
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How did Albert Einstein come up with his wondrous theories of light and time?
In Einstein's Compass: A YA Time Traveler Adventure, a young Albert is gifted a supernatural compass that allows him to travel through time and space. He finds wisdom in other dimensions, like the lost city of Atlantis, but evil forces seek the power of the compass, including a monstrous, shape-shifting dragon from a different age.
Can the compass protect Albert from such...
47305) Bevan
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Bevan is a very old bear. His fur is rather patchy and tatty, but he's just as lovable as ever. Follow Bevan on his adventures from family to family from decade to decade, bringing comfort and love wherever he goes--and discover the life our stuffed friends have after they leave our homes. Bevan is a very old bear. His fur is rather patchy and tatty, but he's just as lovable as ever. Follow Bevan on his adventures from family to family from decade...
47306) The Egg Thief
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IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Young Georgie wakes up to a morning of chores back in 1920s Pennsylvania when he gets the bad news-someone has stolen all the eggs in the henhouse. The culprit is Buster, a stray dog who takes Georgie on an adventure to find more eggs. Follow Buster and Georgie and their mischievous antics in this heartwarming tale of farm life in America's storied past.
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A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after.
True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood...
47308) Saving CJ: A Novella
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What great things will you do if you discover a time portal?
Will you save children from their imminent deaths, change your fate, and change history? Will it affect the present or make another past?
Journey with Dr. Daniel Wallace and Willie Lincoln as they travel through time in Saving CJ-a story with a wonderful blend of friendship, history, and time travel.
47309) Children of Apollo
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At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages.
Children of Apollo is the tale of Lucius Metellus Anguis, a young warrior who is inspired by the deeds of his glorious ancestors and burdened by the knowledge that he must raise his family name from the ashes of the past. Having achieved a measure of success in the Emperor's Legions in North Africa, Lucius is recalled to Rome...
47310) The Shadows of Svartalfheim
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What lies beyond shadow? After centuries bound in Alfheim, Odin escapes, only to find himself trapped in the fathomless darkness of Svartalfheim. His only ally: a woman who no longer trusts him. Svartalfheim is home to the strange and corrupt dark elf courts. Eager for Odin's oracular sight, they pull him into their unending power struggles. And while the king is missing, the world hurtles toward Ragnarok. If Hermod cannot find and retrieve Odin,...
47311) Fake News
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Was there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll? Are ancient aliens possessing you? What happens at Area 51? Fake News is a baker's dozen of stories looking at conspiracies that never actually happened and see how they could have.
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My brother stood up so quickly he almost knocked Mama over. Why aren't you doing something? Do you know what the British are calling us? Hitler's canary! I've heard it on the radio, on the BBC. They say he has us in a cage and we just sit and sing any tune he wants.
Bamse's family are theater people. They don't get involved in politics. "it had nothing to do with us," Bamse tells us. Yet now he must decide: should he take his father's advice and...
47313) Big Water
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Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once she's settled....
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Dans la vallée enchanteresse de l'Estelon, au cœur du Mercantour, vit Camille, l'aînée du baron Amaury de Vallemort et de la baronne Hortense de Vallemort. La jeune et belle damoiselle compte Guillaume, un soldat de la garde royale, parmi ses amis proches. Un soir d'hiver, alors que la neige tombe abondamment, un violent coup retentit à la porte principale de la demeure familiale de Camille, marquant le début de l'histoire des loups, Enouk,...
47315) Marmaduke
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Flora Annie Steel (1847 — 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. Steel's 1917 historical novel "Marmaduke" offers the reader a glimpse into colonial India that is typical of her fiction, weaving a delicate story to the backdrop of British imperialism in an exotic land. An entertaining and insightful novel, this book is highly recommended...
47316) Gold Fever Trail
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In 1897, Dawson City on the banks of the Yukon River was the scene of the greatest gold rush the world has ever known...the Klondike Gold Rush. More than 20, 000 men across rugged trails and mountains to reach this land where fortunes could be made in a day.
Two adventurous children go to the Klondike, too. Their mother is dead and their father is missing somewhere along the gold rush trail. So, Henry and Sarah Thorpe stow away aboard a ship and search...
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Petra and Kipp discover the truth about the Lincoln assassination while investigating the government's hanging of Mary Surratt in the time-travel adventure, A Conspiracy to Murder, by T.L.B. Wood
A flash of muzzle fire...a shot rings out...a president is dead...the fate of a nation is changed.
Assisted by a shadowy group of conspirators-ultimately executed by the government-John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Among the conspirators...
47318) Ruby Bridges
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Get to know the life and legacy of Ruby Bridges. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text give early readers an engaging and age-appropriate look at her brave role in ending segregation during the Civil Rights Movement. Features include sidebars, a table of contents, two infographics, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common...
47319) The Sapphire Cutlass
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Diamond thief volume 3
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Remy and the Ruby Airship's crew have traveled deep into the Indian jungle to learn the truth behind the mysterious Sapphire Cutlass. But Remy is torn between helping her friends and finding her twin brother. Will her choice put everyone in danger?
47320) Powder Mission
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The beleaguered forces of General George Washington were hard pressed by a well-equipped British army outside Philadelphia. Patriot victory depended upon the Spanish gold and powder that Colonel George Gibson's "Lambs" were commissioned to transport from New Orleans, north through enemy territory. When the crucial cargo of gold is stolen, Martin Joe Richtier, the personal envoy of General Anthony Wayne, knows that he alone must bear the responsibility...
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