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9941) Les Femmes d'amis
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Extrait : "Quand le chroniqueur Lavernié eut expliqué que son ex-ami Laurianne le traitait couramment de canaille à cause d'un service, que lui, Lavernié, avait dernièrement rendu audit Laurianne, il y en eut qui bétonnèrent, d'autres qui hochèrent la tête, d'un air fixé et entendu de gens blasés sur les surprises de l'existence et que ses petites vilenies n'en sont plus à faire rêver."
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Une édition de référence des Misérables (I - Fantine) de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Jean Valjean venait d'atteindre, lui, sa vingt-cinquième année. Il remplaça le père, et soutint à son tour sa sœur qui l'avait élevé. Cela se fit simplement, comme un devoir, même avec quelque chose de bourru de la part de Jean Valjean. Sa jeunesse se dépensait ainsi dans un travail rude et mal...
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Tilly Bagshawe's sumptuous new novel FAME available alongside WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the classic novel it pays homage to. If you are a fan of Jilly Cooper and Penny Vincenzi then Tilly Bagshawe is a must read. This is not 'celebrity.' This is the real deal.
This is Fame. The raw, sexual beauty of Sabrina Leon demands the attention of all who come into contact with her. Plucked from obscurity at the age of seventeen she's the new darling of the film scene,...
9945) Puylaurens
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Extrait: "Du temps de la guerre que Louis XIII entreprit pour la succession de M. de Nevers au duché de Mantoue, il y avait sur le pavé de Paris un jeune homme de vingt ans, beau et bien fait, don’t le regard, la parole et le geste étaient si pleins de charme, qu'on le reconnaissait aisément pour une personne destinée à de grandes aventures."
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9946) REMINISCENCE
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"Wake up Ava! Amir is dead!"
For twelve-year-old Ava, moving to Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, had been like moving to another planet. A place where gritty streets replaced the warmth of home and dark influences smothered the light of innocence. The neighborhood quickly drew her towards dangerous people, big drama, and experiences much too wild for one so young.
And then, she met Amir. Only 14-years-old, his reputation as a "ladies' man" was well underway....
9947) Ligeia and Other Stories
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Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed. The narrator is unable to recall anything about the history of Ligeia, including her family's name, but remembers her beautiful appearance. Her beauty, however, is not conventional. He describes her as emaciated, with some strangeness. They marry, and Ligeia impresses her husband with her immense knowledge of physical and mathematical science, and her proficiency in...
9948) The Coziest Carriage
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Read along with Disney! When Scat Cat's home in the junkyard disappears one day, Duchess, O'Malley and their kittens come up with a new place for their pal to hang his hat! Follow along with this word-for-word narration to see how this family helps their friend when he needs them most.
9949) The Ruling Passion
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A fantastic series of 8 short stories about people with 'ruling passions', singular traits that define their lives, such as bravery, gentleness, a dedication to justice or a love of music. Written by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry van Dyke.
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Papelucho se ha ganado una bicicleta de oro en un sorteo. Bueno, la verdad es que no es de oro, pero es su bicicleta. Sin embargo, apenas sale con ella, comienzan los problemas: lo confunden con un ovni de Venus y lo acosa la prensa internacional. Decide, entonces, partir a la parcela de su amigo Urquieta, pero allí todo irá de mal en peor.
9951) Lady William
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The village of Watcham is not a village in the ordinary sense of the word, and yet it is a very pretty place, with a charming picturesque aspect, and of which people say, 'What a pretty village!' when they come upon its little landing-place on the riverside, or drive through its old-fashioned green, where some of the surrounding houses look as if they had come out of the seventeenth century, and some as if they had come out of the picture-books of...
9952) Pulp
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Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
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Part two of a three part novella series, featuring a clean romance centering around our dear couple, Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth by Nora Kipling.
Mr. Darcy has been accused of the most unnatural of desires, and must find a wife to allay the rumors as soon as possible.
Mr. Darcy has met the Bennet family and their daughters, and has fallen completely, decidedly, in love with Miss Elizabeth Bennet. He has only the small issue of competing for her...
9954) Seven-Day Magic
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All books are magic, but some are more magical than others.
When Susan opens a strange library book, she discovers it is about her and her friends, leading up to the moment when she opened the book. Beyond that, the pages are blank... waiting for the children to wish the book full of adventures.
Fredericka asks for wizards and beasties, and a dragon carries her off. Susan journeys to the world of Half Magic, and finds that mixing magic creates trouble-far...
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Cynthia Sanders'' life had been a fairy tale up until the day her father brought home a new stepmother and her two stepsisters. Being a modern-day Cinderella never felt more complicated, especially when there are not one, but two princes in the picture, a sentimental fairy godmother, and a queen of romance who needs rescuing herself.Being a Glass Girl (Glamour and Class Girl) has never been harder under the circumstances, but with two swoon-worthy...
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The Novels of Frances Harper (2021) collects four works of fiction by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a pioneering figure in African American literature. Minnie's Sacrifice (1869), originally serialized in the Christian Recorder, addresses such themes as miscegenation, passing, and the institutionalized rape of enslaved women using the story of Moses as inspiration. Sowing and Reaping (1876) is a novel concerned with the cause of temperance in a time...
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The Coral Island is a novel by R. M. Ballantyne that tells the story of three boys stranded on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. The boys must use their ingenuity and skills to survive, eventually building a thriving community on the island. The Coral Island is a classic adventure story that is beloved by generations of readers.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) fue un talentoso hombre del Renacimiento Bengalí, distinguiéndose como filósofo, reformador social y político, y un destacado escritor en todos los géneros literarios. Desempeñó un papel fundamental en la promoción de la libertad de prensa y ejerció una profunda influencia en Gandhi y en los fundadores de la India moderna. La grandiosa obra de Rabindranath Tagore le valió el honor de ser el primer escritor...
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951), conocido como André Gide, fue un renombrado escritor francés. Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1947 y fundador de la prestigiosa Editora Gallimard, André Gide es el autor de livros memorables como: "El Inmoralista", "Si la semilla no muore", "La puerta Estrecha" "Los Monederos Falsos", entre otros. Su obra tiene muchos aspectos autobiográficos y en ella se exponen conflictos morales, religiosos y sexuales....
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