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A Being(s) in Love Anthology. Magical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they've lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful, others fearsome and powerful. Yet for all their magic and strength, they are as vulnerable as anyone else when it comes to matters of the heart.
In 1930s Paris, magnificent Kazimir the firebird never...
4002) Gold for My Heart
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Sylvia Holbrook has lived on the family's Canadian farm with her Grandfather, as well as her Aunt and Uncle all of her life. Now that the grandfather has passed away she inherited the farm but cannot keep it. Her Aunt and Uncle want to retire to travel Sylvia does not have the money to hire help. Besides her mother and father need the money from the sale of the farm to modernize their inn at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Sylvia does not want to go live at...
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« En 1944, vous étiez des enfants ou des adolescents. Vous avez vécu l'arrivée des Américains à Liège. Vos souvenirs se rapportent à la grande Histoire. Racontez-les… »
En 2004, Ralph Demy lance cet appel aux lecteurs d'un journal de Liège. Son incitation aux témoignages rencontre un énorme écho. Les lecteurs se pressent à la rédaction pour raconter leurs souvenirs sacrés. Et Ralph les recueille avec ferveur… Extraordinaires...
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The AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It represents French ambitions for national resurgence and withdrawal from wartime dependence on American military technology.Being a light tank it was an ambitious and far sighted departure from conventional tank design and it found a ready export market as well as being a critical part in the French Army arsenal. Its basic hull design lent itself to the development...
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En vida, todo hombre es capaz de pecar. Pero los pecados de otros llevan su propia vida a la ruina? Grant Stevenson sabe lo que quiere de la vida.
Con destino a una vida de servicio a su fe y a la iglesia, Grant se muestra prometedor como
sacerdote joven y devoto.
Pero ningún hombre está realmente a salvo de la tentación.
Pronto, la pasión y la lujuria invaden la vida de Grant, enviando el futuro que había planeado
él mismo en la confusión.
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4006) A Daughter's Promise
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From award-winning author, Ann Bennett, comes a captivating story of love and loss in World War 2. A daughter's promise to her dying father, uncovers wartime secrets that cast dark shadows over three generations of one family.In 2015, 90-year old Grace Summers receives some old sketches – the work of her deceased husband, Jack. One sketch is of a beautiful Indian woman in a street in Kuala Lumpur. This brings back bitter-sweet memories of the 1940s,...
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Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York's ruling elite.
Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal.
No one is immune.
Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trouble, heiress to the Montrose fortune, who has been conspicuously absent for over a year without a word of truth or explanation. Nor Lucia, as docile a daughter as any parent could wish for, carrying secrets of her own, slowly awakening to a yearning for things beyond obeisance to the...
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James B. Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University.
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes...
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Extrait : "Je vais encourir bien des reproches. Mais qu'y puis-je ? Est-ce ma faute si j'eus douze ans quelques mois avant la déclaration de la guerre ? Sans doute, les troubles qui me vinrent de cette période extraordinaire furent d'une sorte qu'on n'éprouve jamais à cet âge ; mais comme il n'existe rien d'assez fort pour nous vieillir malgré les apparences, c'est en enfant que je devais me conduire dans une aventure o déjà un homme eût...
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El periodo conocido como la "Hegemonía conservadora" cubre las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX y está delimitado por dos hechos que marcaron la historia de Colombia: la separación de Panamá en 1904 y la matanza de las bananeras en 1929, en los cuales Estados Unidos tuvo un papel trascendental. Estos le significaron paz y bonanza al país por cuenta del crecimiento de la industria cafetera y de la indemnización que el Estado recibió por el...
4011) How to Catch Crabs
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Love and babies: two things Lucy doesn't have time for in her life. It's 1926 and this young West Australian woman is happy as an accountant. And she intends to stay that way.Along comes Giorgio, an Italian migrant fisherman sent to Australia in disgrace. The moment their eyes meet across the fish market, he knows Lucy's the girl for him. If it weren't for his reputation as a rake, he's certain he could catch more than just her eye – perhaps even...
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Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered, causing injury and further danger to life. Walter Lord, author of 'A Night to Remember', comments that Gracie's...
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LE LIVRE NOIR DES BELGES ZAIRIANISÉS 1973-2007
• Une saisie de onze tableaux au musée d'art Ancien de Bruxelles pour une valeur de 500 millions FB.
• Deux ministres des Affaires étrangères qui concluent un accord secret.
• Des avoirs de la Sabena qui sont récupérés à Kinshasa sans laisser de trace.
• Une valise pleine de billets pour récompenser un Premier ministre.
• L'entrée de la Belgique dans la zone euro perturbée.
• Un...
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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With health care spending only expected to increase, Americans...
4015) The Schoolmistress
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Heartwarming and nostalgic new Saga series from the author of Mother’s Day on Coronation Street. It’s 1940 and for the Lancashire town of Greenhill, everything is about to change… Local schoolteacher Violet Pegg is surprised to get a letter out of the blue. Her Canadian pen-friend, Daniel, will soon be joining the RAF and be stationed close by. Violet hopes their long-distant friendship is about to become something more. Vicky Buckley, the...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Arts and Scientific Achievements between the Wars is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
4017) Petite Idole
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Extrait : "Dans la petite salle à manger d'une élégante maison du boulevard Raspail, toute la famille Darbois était réunie autour de la table ronde, table familiale sur laquelle une toile cirée, blanche cerclée par toute la lignée des rois de France dans des médaillons d'or, servait de nappe pour les déjeuners."
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On 15 April 2012, 100 years will have passed since the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic hit an iceberg and foundered in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,503 lives. Had the disaster not occurred, what is now the best-known ship in the world would have lost the title of the largest liner within just two years. She was certainly not the fastest passenger ship of the time and can be considered a technological throwback, yet Titanic captures the imagination...
4019) ¡Caupolicanazo!
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La connotación pública en el ejercicio de la política se ha cultivado en Chile básicamente desde el Congreso y La Moneda. Pero, sin duda, el mejor sitio para medirla siempre ha sido el teatro Caupolicán. La historia enseña que quienes no eran capaces de llenar las tribunas de esa arena no podían aspirar a un escaño parlamentario y mucho menos al sillón presidencial. Un "caupolicanazo" era el sueño de todo movimiento o liderazgo político...
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Offers readers a captivating look into the race for the United States to become energy independent. Learn about the energy sources used throughout the United States and efforts to become less dependent on foreign countries for energy. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, resources for further study, and an index.
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