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1141) And Chaos Died
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Earthman Jai Vedh was on a star voyage when his ship blew up, leaving him stranded on an uncharted Earth-like planet. In this strange new land, he's amazed to discover a colony of humans who lost contact with their home world centuries before. They've developed telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation-and structured a sophisticated social system out of these abilities.
Under the tutelage of a female mentor named Evne, Jai Vedh begins to develop...
1142) The Angry Ones: A Novel
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The powerful and prophetic story of a talented young African American and his struggles to overcome deep-rooted racism and intolerance in post–World War II America Ambitious and well-educated, US Army officer Steve Hill leaves California for the East Coast and his slice of the American Dream when he takes a job as publicity director at a vanity press. But mid-twentieth-century New York City harbors its own particular brand of prejudice, more secretive...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Le roi se meurt est une pièce de théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), créée le 13 décembre 1962 à l'Alliance française à Paris, dans une mise en scène de Jacques Mauclair. Ionesco est alors un auteur consacré. Malgré le succès médiatique et critique du « théâtre de...
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When I Started Smoking Weed for Real is volume 5 of the series On Being, a self-referential, metaphysical case history where the author J. Guzmán, as the protagonist Ana, psychoanalyzes her own consciousness throughout Time, uses tools like astrology to facilitate the investigation, and documents the entire process. On Being is a life-long, narrative, archival data set of her life in the form of diaries, whose purpose is to assist astrologers and...
1145) Dieu n'est pas rancunier
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Alaric risque sa vie pour préserver l'honneur de sa bien-aimée. Afin d'être gracié, il rejoint une croisade, d'o il rapporte une précieuse relique. Il se lance alors dans un commerce lucratif avec un complice et devient puissant et respecté. Seulement, l'incertitude demeure quant à la pérennité de sa position.
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La culture diversifiée de Patrick Foultier le conduit sans cesse à la production d'ouvrages qui poussent...
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If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there's been no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in the flood of books coming off the presses in the hot new category of young-adult publishing. If it's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, it is especially true for teen books, as publishers take aim at a new class of readers. The books land on shelves without...
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Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered led her to the truth behind literature's greatest mystery.
For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford, a man who left school at age thirteen and apparently never traveled abroad, could have written such a...
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Christopher est un nouveau post-gradué sans argent, sans emploi, sans petit ami et sans options. Puis sa douce vieille Tante Lucie lui accorde une boulangerie des muffins dans son testament. C'est basé à Los Angeles, avec une clientèle celébrée, en particulier le acteur Michael - qui a un copain universitaire snob, mais semble aimer Christopher plus qu'il devrait. Est-ce que Christopher a hérité plus que ce qu'il a négocié?
1149) The Homes We Seek
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A beautiful love story against a backdrop of tragic loss ("By Candlelight")... A life-changing train journey ("The Train")... A young woman who abruptly runs away from home ("What Will Happen Next?")... A powerful tale of love and friendship ("Another Part of Her")... A meeting between a professor and her student ("Hot Chocolate")... A grieving young adult returning to the home of her parents after a five-year absence ("When I Left")... In The Homes...
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There's no relationship quite like the ones we have with our dogs-dogs who befriend us; dogs who annoy, perplex, and accept us. This book explores the special bond between teenagers and their dogs-how days of crowded hallways, pointless assignments, and blinding crushes are brought to balance by our dogs.
Including insightful poems by Joyce Sidman and essays in which teens speak for themselves, as well as beautiful photographs by Doug Mindell, The...
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The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning is an exploration of responsibility and culpability told in experimental and fragmented essays. When she was four years old Lara's father moved from Rochester, New York, to Anchorage, Alaska, a distance of over 4,000 miles. She spent her childhood chasing after him, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket. When he did turn his attention on her, sometimes his...
1152) Stay Up With Me: Stories
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The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party while trying to...
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A woman runs from a cult leader. A man watches a crowd carry a baby into the woods. A boy makes a childhood friend who is much older than she appears. The forty pieces in this book unite two creative endeavours at the heart of humanity: making music and telling stories. Each writer took inspiration from one of the ten tracks on the Wayward & Upward album by Spinoza Gambit. This anthology collects one short story and three poems for each track, showcasing...
1154) Un château de cartes
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Féodor Alekseïevitch Boronine, un sexagénaire descendant de Russes blancs et grand amateur d'art, fait la connaissance de la jeune Marie à un café de Saint-Germain-Des-Prés. Sa beauté, se rapprochant étrangement de celle d'une Flamande peinte par un artiste de la fin du quinzième siècle, éveille en lui le goût de la séduction. Naît alors entre eux une romance, avec l'art, la littérature et l'histoire comme trame de fond, tandis que...
1155) A Familiar Stranger
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What do you do when you've lost it all? A novel of one man's rise and fall, self-doubt, and spiral into despair and the moments that can change our fates...
Eddie Gamble was, blessed with looks and charm. Everything came easy to him. It always had. It was just how it was, until it wasn't.
He had a successful media career, married his college sweetheart, and had a couple of kids. Still, every morning he looks in the mirror and only sees a fraud....
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Now including an excerpt from Victor Lodato's novel, EDGAR AND LUCY, which Lena Dunham praises as "an unusual and intimate epic."
A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF 2009
A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2009
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2009
WINNER OF THE PEN USA AWARD FOR FICTION
A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sister's death
I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this...
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En febrero de 2021, la escritora Lucy Sante envió un mensaje a sus más allegados para comunicarles su transición de género: «Tenía pavor a verme delante de lo que ahora enfrento. Por lo que sea, ahora el dique ha reventado, se me ha caído la venda de los ojos, ha levantado la niebla». A sus 66 años, Lucy Sante llevaba toda la vida buscando la verdad artística a través de sus libros, pero fue entonces cuando se sintió impulsada a afrontar...
1158) The Peripatetic Coffin
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The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.
In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives.
Rutherford's work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of The...
1159) Blood Rose Angel
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A medieval Black Plague novel.1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil's servant, saint.Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people's respect, and she has won the heart of the handsome Raoul Stonemason. The future looks hopeful. Until the Black Death sweeps into France.Fearful...
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Cover Art © Roger Kopman. Humorous, inspirational, philosophical, romantic, nostagic memories of Paris, France. QUOTES - The Wit and Wisdom of Paris Sleuths is a collection of the author Peggy Kopman-Owens' favorite quotes from her novels: SEVEN PARIS MYSTERIES (7-book series); MRS DUCHESNEY MYSTERIES (9-book series); SIMON PENNINGTON MYSTERIES (3-book series); THE MIST OF MONTMARTRE; PARIS APARTMENT FOR RENT; LATE PASSENGER.
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