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Set in the Northeast of England, these are dark, dangerous and witty tales of a close-knit community. Here, neighbours have sharp tongues, suspicious minds and hidden talents. This a place, where money doesn't grow on trees, and where women and girls endure a damn sight more than anyone should have to. But, kindness can still come from unexpected quarters...
14602) This Is a Whoopsie!
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This is supposed to be a book about all the different things moose can do, like leaping and jumping and being really tall. But maybe Whoopsie isn't the right moose for the job. You might want to pick a different moose for this book. Maybe instead we can do a book about falling down a lot? Yeah! Whoopsie would be great at that. This hilarious book about a clumsy moose shows that sometimes being a little different can make one great story.
14603) There Goes The Neighborhood
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They say there are only five kinds of alien contact...
But what if there is a sixth kind?
Befriending one...
Poppy Field Lane is the place to be in the '90s. It's a quiet,
affluent New York suburb filled with a few eccentric
residents. One, in particular, Ignatius Feltrap.
Ignatius doesn't abide by the snobbish rules of her cliché cul
de sac, but when she stumbles upon the secret of a lifetime
while walking on the beach... her life...
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Un recueil de nouvelles originales et surprenantes o se mêlent humour, errance, nouveauté et sentiments.
Un haricot violet rêvant d'une citrouille. Une enfant roumaine au pays des Helvètes. Un chef d'état qui devient végétarien. L'errance d'un homme après l'attentat au Bataclan. Une étreinte dans un igloo. Une petite ville qui lit comme on respire. Et tant d'autres histoires.
Des tranches de vie qui, tel un kaléidoscope, dessinent les...
14605) Physiologie de l'omnibus
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Extrait : "Est-il rien de plus pittoresque, de plus bizarre et de plus intéressant à la fois qu'un bureau d'omnibus ? Quelles scènes bouffonnes ce mot seul, cher lecteur, ne rappelle-t-il pas à votre souvenir : omnibus ! N'avez-vous pas, dans un pli de votre cerveau, cent histoires drolatiques que vous pourriez me dire, cent silhouettes originales, gracieuses ou sévères, qu'il vous serait facile de peindre, si vous connaissiez la peinture..."...
14606) Cube Rube
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After salvager Jack Carson arrives to the capital of the long-dead Circian Empire, he finds a ghost cube that tells him he's been chosen to become the next Emperor. Even though he finds this ludicrous, Jack teams up with an orphan girl who claims to be the Princess of Circia. Troubled by divorces, bankruptcies and his constant search for smoke-induced oblivion, Jack tries to figure out what's going on while avoiding debt collection agents sent by...
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Kira Brightwell enjoys two things-outsmarting bad guys and kicking ass.Well, that and listening to Nine Inch Nails. (Bonus, if she can manage all three at once.)She never expected anyone to call her a hero... But when life throws a punch, Kira always finds a way to hit back.This fast-paced starter collection includes the first three novels from the Kira Brightwell mystery series by the author of the Mackenzie Quinn mysteries, Jacquelyn Smith. (Originally...
14608) Tau Quartet
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In Tau Fleet, Quartet, we meet some old friends from the Broken Fleet series and watch others grow into the new society the Twins have created. Sometimes they run into wonders, sometimes they run into vast and bloody brawls, and sometimes they run into pretty silly situations. If you like such variety in your speculative fiction then give these stories a chance to amuse you.
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Extrait: "J'ai rencontré bien des choses drles dans le courant de ma vie. Je sais un homme de lettres qui, sous prétexte qu'il a obtenu d'agréables succès comme faiseur d'élégies, de vaudevilles et de romans intimes, a fini par rêver qu'il est un homme politique, et passe sa vie à se demander pourquoi la France, l'ingrate France! nel'élève pas, tout d'une voix, à un ministère quelconque."
14611) Park Here
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Carl the car loves to race and run at the park with his friends. But, when he follows the sign that says Park Here, it brings him to the wrong place! Can Carl and his friends figure out what went wrong and find their way to the real park?
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Becoming Tonus 0 is a coming-of-age story of a boy growing up in the Baby Boom era. From a time of seemingly harmless fun to a poolhall life, that was anything but harmless, he navigates his way through the obstacles and challenges of growing up. This is a story of a young boy who as he grows into his teen years comes dangerously close to following the wrong paths. His adventures, although many times funny, are accompanied by some perilous and life-altering...
14613) A Goal-Oriented Sloth
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Kirby's not slow like the others. This sloth has things to do! He seizes every opportunity to be productive and make the most in life. And of course, this determined sloth makes time for fun as well!
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Three novels in the acclaimed series starring an author whose itinerary often leads him to crime scenes . . .
The Festival Murders
Bryce Peabody is ready to give a talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold-until he's found dead in his hotel room. Soon, author Francis Meadowes is drawn into a role he knows only from his own fiction-that of amateur detective . . .
"A marvellous set of unsavoury...
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In this coming-of-age historical family drama, twelve-year old Fransie learns her family is leaving rural Halifax, Virginia and moving to New York City. This starts her on an emotional roller coaster.
The only life Fransie knows is the country with its farm animals', trees, dirt roads and living in a one family house. But now she's forced to accept living in a city filled with traffic lights, cement sidewalks and attending an interracial school....
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Recueil de nouvelles poétiques et émouvantes
Les animaux sauvages est né de la formidable idée de Mike Ibrahim d'inviter des écrivains à imaginer des nouvelles inspirées des seuls titres de son album L'enfant des siècles. Les textes de Gaël Octavia, Jérme Attal, Nicole Cage, Anne Gidey, Philippe Di Folco, Naïri Nahapétian, Fanny Chesnel, Arnaud Le Guilcher et Mike Ibrahim, qui signe sous son nom Michael Seilhan-Ibrahim la nouvelle éponyme...
14617) Bad Santa
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Does Christmas always have to be a show? Or, do you prefer it home alone? Do you dress for the after-glow? Or, Is Christmas a bore and presents all a chore? Will Jesus ever come to the party? Can a homeless man ever be arty? Does the manger clip your wings? Or, is it always time to wallow in seasonal sins? - M.T. Sands teases and delights with Ten Naughty Christmas Stories to lift the festive gloom and doom.
14618) Mrs. Lane Is a Pain!
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My weirder school volume 12
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With more than 10 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! For A.J. and the gang at Ella Mentry School, weirdness and fun are all part of the routine. In this twelfth book in the outrageously funny My Weirder School series, Principal Klutz hires a talent coach, Mrs. Lane, to help the kids prepare for the Ella Mentry School talent show. But what will A.J.'s talent be? And what happens when Mrs. Lane tries to steal the...
14619) Sins & Science
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When math meets aftermath, all Hell will break loose.
A near-death experience gives Dalton McGovern an epiphany-through a combination of computer programming and neurotechnology, he will create a virtual afterlife. With support from his unflappable but flighty twin sister and his stoic and secretive ex-boyfriend, he gets the University of Liverpool to green light the project.
However, when his work catches the interest of an unconventional Pope...
14620) Magical Mayhem
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Humans never knew how magic folks party. Until now. Halloween is Christmas on steroids if you're of a magical persuasion, which isn't my claim to fame. I'm more of an apprentice of sorts. Oh, not to be magical, that's a born-with-it talent, but when I started waiting tables at a local pier bar, at sixteen, guess who discovered she won the world's weirdest and most exclusive lottery? I, Cleopatra O'Keefe, am a Keeper. Which will probably kill me sooner...
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