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43341) Hero on a Bicycle
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Italy, 1944: Florence is occupied by Nazi forces. The Italian resistance movement has not given up hope, though - and neither have thirteen-year- old Paolo and his sister, Costanza. As their mother is pressured into harboring escaping POWs, Paolo and Costanza each find a part to play in opposing the German forces. Both are desperate to fight the occupation, but what can two siblings - with only a bicycle to help them - do against a whole army? Middle-grade...
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For twelve year-old Motti, growing up in Israel in the 1960s, the world is full of mysteries to be solved, while his town is full of spies to be caught. His parents are Holocaust survivors, struggling to build a new life for themselves but, to Israeli-born Motti, they are nothing but an embarrassment. Unlike them, he will not be a victim; he will be bold and strong and fearless. So, when Motti and his best friend Reuven identify a suspicious, elderly...
43343) Owane's Blades
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The story takes place after the Roman legions leave Britain. There are several High Kings who are nominally in charge of newly forming tribal kingdoms.
Vortigern, the High King, gives Kent to his Saxon allies. Other Saxons seize neighbouring Sussex.
Aurelius Ambrosius defeats Vortigern and, as High King, tries to drive out the Saxons, but settles for a treaty.
Owane Thantgwyn (bright teeth), nicknamed Arth (meaning The Bear), marries Ganumara and...
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Every runeblade holds a curse …Hervor's sword cannot be sheathed without taking a life. She gladly pays the price to destroy the man who murdered her family. She has tracked him across the land. She has joined his crew when he sailed to the ends of Midgard. And her chance draws near. But what if her only chance for survival is in his hands? On an island where horrors stalk the night, can she trust the murderer?
43345) The Fourth Bible
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FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY A VIOLENT REACTION TO A PRICELESS DISCOVERY KILLS SCORES.AND THE WORLD BLAMES A FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUPLE.In the 7th century, three Bibles were painstakingly created by Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey monks. Over the years, one was destroyed, one remains today in tatters, and the third, still intact, became known as the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving Latin Vulgate translation of the...
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Extrait : "Chère bonne, vous êtes bien impérieuse, bien despote, comment voulez-vous qu'une plume docile inscrive ici, sur votre ordre, un récit fidèle des vicissitudes de nos courses, puisque je dois subir le frein qui m'est si cruellement imposé ? Que désire le coursier numide ?"
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN :
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares,...
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Les jumeaux Gaïus et Marcus, soldats romains issus d'une famille glorieuse, sont promis à d'innombrables aventures et combats, jusqu'au jour o une mission particulière risque de tout changer...
58 avant J.-C., la Guerre des Gaules débute. Deux frères légionnaires, Gaius et Marcus, s'engagent dans les armées de César pour une course effrénée à la gloire.
Confrontée à des guerriers plus coriaces que prévus, aussi furtifs que mystérieux,...
43348) No os recuerdo: Biografía
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Una impactante inmersión en secretos familiares enterrados.
En 2018, durante una visita a la casa de su familia en Alemania, Laura Alzola Kirschgens encuentra un archivador con una inscripción en el lomo: Familiengeschichte. «Historia familiar». Sumergida entre documentos, cartas y fotos, la autora reconstruye la historia de sus abuelos, quienes se cartearon durante cinco años, entre 1944 y 1949, cuando ni siquiera se conocían en persona. Él...
43349) The Hippie House
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The "summer of love" is a time of idealistic freedom and experimentation for Emma, her cousin Megan, and the young people of Pike Creek. While her brother Eric's band practices in what Uncle Pat has dubbed the Hippie House, the girls suntan on their small lake and hitchhike into town to hang around the Drop-In Center. They find the growing crowd of long-haired musicians and hangers-on that begin to show up at the farm both enticing and a bit scary....
43350) Under the Persimmon Tree
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Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means "star," suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also on her own. She waits out the war in Peshawar, Pakistan, teaching refugee children under the persimmon tree...
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Une fiche de référence sur Le Ruban blanc, un chef-d'oeuvre de Michael Haneke.
Splendeur du noir et blanc, puissance de l'évocation historique, dénonciation de la violence: trois qualités du Ruban blanc, le dixième long-métrage de Michael Haneke, palme d'or du festival de Cannes 2009.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Universalis associent...
43352) The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders
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Alone in New York City, a young actress becomes entangled in an international caper Lizanne Steffasson used to dream of life on the Broadway stage-that is, until she came crashing down to Earth. Having decided to aim lower, she dreams simply of being able to pay her rent-which is why she responds to a strange ad in the newspaper: "Wanted: A beautiful girl. One not afraid to look on danger's bright face." Lizanne is neither beautiful nor fearless,...
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This biography tells of the life of a Czech airman who escapes from the Nazi invasion, fights with the French and finally arrives in Britain to fly as an air-gunner with the RAF during World War II. He returns to his homeland after World War II but escapes back to the UK again when the communists gained control. Again he joins the RAF and rose to the rank of Warrant Officer The unique part of this is that from his time in France, throughout World...
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From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story.
A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann's activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when...
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The name James FitzGibbon struck terror in the hearts of U. S. soldiers and this is the dramatic story of his life and his daring exploits. Irish-born James FitzGibbon came to Canada with the 49th Regiment to serve under his hero, Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. After the death of Brock at Queenston Heights and the capture of Fort George in the War of 1812, FitzGibbon spied on the enemy encampment, disguised as a settler selling butter. Armed with...
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David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
43357) Heart of Thorns
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They told her the fae weren't real. She pretended she couldn't see them. When she met him everything changed…Catherine's first memories were of the fae and the misfortune they brought. No one believed her and told her she was insane. When Catherine arrives the country estate of Thornwood, she determined to put her past and the fae behind. That is until she meest Ray Thorn. He challenges her prejudices and sways her heart. But can she trust him?Ray...
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Un mini-roman plein de suspense et de rebondissements !
Prévenu par la logeuse de Sherlock Holmes, le docteur Watson accourt au chevet du célèbre détective. Sherlock Holmes n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même, il délire et ne laisse pas Watson s'approcher de lui. À force de persuasion, le bon docteur parvient quand même à le raisonner et obtient de lui qu'il voie un spécialiste. Mais Holmes ne veut en voir qu'un : Culverton Smith...
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Un roman fantastique s'épanouissant dans un décor irlandais
"Rares sont les écrivains qui peuvent égaler Hodgson lorsqu'il ébauche le dessein des forces sans nom et de monstrueuses entités toutes proches, au moyen d'allusions fortuites et de détails sans importance, ou bien lorsqu'il communique le sentiment du surnaturel et de l'anormal qui pèse sur un paysage ou une demeure. C'est l'histoire d'une maison abandonnée et maudite en Irlande,...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Serbie.
Au cœur des Balkans, la Serbie fut le carrefour de plusieurs civilisations pendant de nombreux siècles. Ce pont entre Occident et Orient, entre Mitteleuropa et Méditerranée, a aussi été un endroit stratégique convoité par les plus grands empires de l'époque. L'Histoire de ce pays figure parmi les plus tragiques qui soient en Europe. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Serbie...
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