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12581) Beauty and the Beast
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This is a tale about beauty and power … and unexpected love. When Rose flees her monstrous husband, she finds refuge in an abandoned castle. Little does she know, another monster hides behind its walls-a hideous beast, who carries a terrible secret. As Rose tries to uncover the truth about the beast, she is drawn closer to him. There, hidden from the world, she finds something unexpected: an opening of her heart, and a strange and dangerous love...
12582) Paul Bunyan
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Paul Bunyan (1925) is a novel by James Stevens. Written from a lifetime of experience as a logger and historian of the logging industry, Paul Bunyan is a masterful take on one of the defining legends of the Pacific Northwest. Combining his own stories with those he heard at logging camps as a young boy, Stevens earned a reputation as a leading folklorist of his time whose novels and songs continue to resonate decades after his death. "He could whip...
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Extrait: "A Paris, o les hommes d'étude et de pensée ont quelques analogies en vivant dans le même milieu, vous avez dû rencontrer plusieurs figures semblables à celles de monsieur Rabourdin, que ce récit prend au moment o il est Chef de Bureau à l'un des plus importants Ministères..."
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12584) Uncle Wiggily's Silk Hat
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Excerpt: "One day Uncle Wiggily, dressed in his best, started out to look for an adventure. The rabbit met Uncle Butter, the goat gentleman, who never cared much for style. "Why do you wear a tall silk hat, Uncle Wiggily?" the goat gentleman asked. "What's the use of being so fancy?" Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink nose. "A tall silk hat may stylish be, and also useful, as you shall see," he answered."
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1853. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law...
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Extrait : "La nuit approchait. Ils avaient fini de dîner ; les coudes sur la nappe, ils bavardaient, tandis qu'auprès d'eux une lampe brûlait toute rose sans les éclairer, et le jour, entré par la fenêtre, mourait en taches bleues sur la nappe. Mariés depuis quelques jours, ils se connaissaient à peine. Jean le premier, dans un besoin d'union absolue, s'abandonnait aux confidences qui livrent l'âme tout entière."
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12587) Further Adventures in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson was hand picked by L. Frank Baum's estate to continue on the wonderful stories from the Land of Oz because of her delightful and lively writing style. Collected here together are three of her best Oz books carrying on Baum's delightful series. Journey with the Scarecrow and discover his royal past in The Royal Book of Oz. Adventure with Kabumpo the elephant and Ruggedo the Nome King in Kabumpo in Oz. And in Ozoplaning with the...
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Carter Lewis is thrilled when he gets a coded message from his computer-programming uncle offering him the coolest job in the world - helping test a new virtual reality program. Carter will even put up with Uncle Dan's other new helper, Carter's brainiac cousin Isabelle. Everything is fantastic until Uncle Dan discovers someone has tampered with the code in The Three Musketeers. The hacker has left clues to his identity, so Uncle Dan sends the kids...
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Three classics from the science fiction master in one volume.
From the incomparable H. G. Wells, this volume includes three novels of imagination, wit, and terror.
The Island of Doctor Moreau: The classic tale of a man's nightmarish experience trapped on an island where a doctor conducts gruesome experiments.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth: A science fiction tale with satirical undertones about scientists who create a race of giants,...
12591) The Sound of Her Voice
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He knows the truth and Fitzwilliam Darcy is determined to do something about it… While he may not understand it, Mr. Darcy has at last unraveled the enigma of his mystery woman. The question is, what can he do to bring them together? With the help of his unexpectedly unusual cousin and a dash of good luck, the gentleman from Pemberley is on a quest to unite with the woman of his dreams… and nothing will stand in his way. Elizabeth Bennet's world...
12592) Fruits défendus
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Extrait: "C'est une chose connue que, vers la fin du souper, quand les hommes sont ivres, ils se plaisent à causer de l'immortalité de l'âme. La discussion est souvent fort vive ; l'un verse des larmes en parlant de sa mère ; l'autre, cœur endurci, se plaît et s'exalte dans le blasphème. Les jeunes filles d'amour, étoiles des cabinets particuliers, mangeuses de pommes, d'écrevisses et d'amandes vertes, s'occupent peu de l'autre monde."
12593) Quickening
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Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems called "Pilgrim's Deviations" and forms a deviant and deviating pilgrimage through science, history, politics, and popular culture. Beasley seeks the...
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Extrait : "Elle me parut si charmante que moi, qui n'avais jamais pensé à la différence des sexes, ni regardé une fille avec un peu d'attention ; moi, dis-je, dont tout le monde admirait la sagesse et la retenue, je me trouvai enflammé tout d'un coup jusqu'au transport. J'avais le défaut d'être excessivement timide et facile à déconcerter ; mais loin d'être arrêté alors par cette faiblesse, je m'avançai vers la maîtresse de mon cœur."...
12596) Botchan
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A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication. Botchen, a timeless Japanese novel written by Japan's most beloved novelist, Soseki Natsume, is now available in a revised edition featuring a new foreword by Dennis Washburn, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages at Dartmouth College. Prof....
12597) Euthydemus
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The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic. But if the order of...
12598) The Oz Series Volume Two: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Emerald City of Oz
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Dorothy's adventures in Oz continue in books four through six of the classic children's fantasy series.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: When an earthquake swallows Dorothy and her kitten, Eureka, they're captured by the Mangaboo people. The Wizard of Oz must save them by winning a magic contest-using only his wits and nine tiny piglets.
The Road to Oz: Dorothy and Toto are on their way to Princess Ozma's birthday party when they meet the loveable Shaggy...
12599) The Government Inspector
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In "The Government Inspector," Gogol satirizes corruption and incompetence in a small Russian town. Mistaking a lowly clerk for a high-ranking government official, the townspeople go to great lengths to please him. The comedy unfolds as the imposter revel
12600) Fou ?
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Extrait : "Suis-je fou ? ou seulement jaloux ? je n'en sais rien, mais j'ai souffert horriblement. J'ai accompli un acte de folie, de folie furieuse, c'est vrai ; mais la jalousie haletante, mais l'amour exalté, trahi, condamné, mais la douleur abominable que j'endure, tout cela ne suffit-il pas pour nous faire commettre des crimes et des folies sans être vraiment criminel par le cœur ou par le cerveau ?"
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