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"Nearly 10 years after 16-year-old Joan Wilson was set on fire by three other schoolgirls, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from interviews with witnesses and family members, historical research and correspondence with the killers themselves, but wonders how much of the story is true"--
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Essai ludique au ton personnel, Fabrications raconte les huit années d'une passionnante enquête intellectuelle pendant lesquelles Louis Hamelin a écrit La constellation du Lynx. Ce roman a parfois été perçu comme un document politique ou un ouvrage historique ; à l'inverse, le présent essai sera peut-être pris pour une œuvre de fiction. Pourtant, à part Samuel Nihilo, l'alter ego fictif de l'auteur, les personnages qu'on y rencontre existent...
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Bringing to life turn-of-the-century New York and the scintillating career of one of its most famous architects, as well as the vices that cost him his life, this true-crime graphic novel tells the story of one of the most scandalous murders of the times. Stanford White was one of New York’s most famous architects, having designed many mansions and the first Madison Square Garden; his influence on New York’s look at the turn of the century was...
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La experiencia del autor, antes y después de la pandemia del covid 19, es narrada mediante un vocabulario sencillo, porque sencilla fue la gente con la que él interactuó, empezando por el compadre (de la vida real), así como las personas cubanas de su amistad (con dos décadas cultivada). La covid sigue aún presente (2022), en su tercera variante, pero ya no con la fuerza que tuvo al principio. Subsiste ansiedad, porque las afectaciones han pegado...
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If you had another chance at life, which one would you choose? In the English seaside town of Thornsea, Ruth Barrett runs a chain of sports bars with her husband Mike. After 24 years of marriage she's happy, thinking this is the only life she'll ever know. Then she's convinced she's about to die. Compassion-on-Sea is about friendship, community, relationships, mental health, new beginnings and what happens when we find compassion.
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Once upon a time, She is called Mona, his longtime friend, the beloved of his soul. Personally, he called her the flower of the desert, the anticipated queen of the Toda kingdom before they parted on Davy's journey to seek the value of his death, when he who was an obedient famous poet slave within ancient Thebes. They didn't communicate even when they wrote letters, none of which reached their intended recipient. Their thoughts spoke together as...
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During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O'Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an 'apocrypha' of additional aspects to his intellectual & emotional life, combining myriad intertwingings of previous works to form a synthesis, a kind of Rainbows End of the Mind, as its characters & events ride a rollercoaster of the psyche, a tipi haere helter-skelter on what might...
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'This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.' – Daisy Dunn, The Times
'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.' – Mark Amory, The Spectator
'At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.' – A.N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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Tristan, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate, is at the heart of 'Blood Drops as Tears'. His life takes a dark turn as he develops symptoms of schizophrenia. This gripping novel immerses the reader in Tristan's world of delusions and heroic missions, as he struggles with the boundaries between reality and illusion.His journey leads him to a psychiatric facility, where he battles to overcome his delusions and grasp reality. This story offers...
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Comment habitons-nous, dans la Nord-Amérique? Quelle est notre manière collective d'être sur cette terre et comment en tirons-nous notre subsistance? L'ouvrage propose une enquête géophilosophique sur l'habitation postcoloniale, qui fait apparaître le vécu spatial contemporain comme un mouvement général de déracinement. Ce mouvement correspond au processus de colonisation et à la révolution industrielle, dont l'habitat actuel est le résidu....
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The greatest mystery in the heart of humanity is yet to be unveiled....It began as a mystical friendship between a solitary boy and a strange youth in search of the stone of Dionysus, an extraordinary gem with tremendous but capricious powers. And by the end, you will know the secret locked away by the engineers of faith and morality.When you were in the dark, you scurried about like a measly creature of the dark. When the light of dawn shines on...
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Did you know that . . .
John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game?
Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row?
The shortest war in history, between England and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only thirty-eight minutes?
Want to learn which U.S. president was a descendant of King Edward III? Or which famous people lived to read their own obituaries? Then That Book is the book for you! From...
14) Forgery
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The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore's Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a...
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Reiar, mystérieux Viking, arrive dans le village ctier d'Yr pour reconquérir son amour perdu : Ruun. Mais dans ce fief scandinave dirigé par un couple perfide et menacé par des chrétiens belliqueux, le jeune héros pourrait bien se découvrir un destin légendaire.
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Thomas Stalens, professeur de Latin, a déjà publié un recueil poétique : "Vesper". Loin de ce premier recueil, c'est ici une véritable histoire en...
16) Blood Rose Angel
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A medieval Black Plague novel.1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil's servant, saint.Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people's respect, and she has won the heart of the handsome Raoul Stonemason. The future looks hopeful. Until the Black Death sweeps into France.Fearful...
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When I Started Smoking Weed for Real is volume 5 of the series On Being, a self-referential, metaphysical case history where the author J. Guzmán, as the protagonist Ana, psychoanalyzes her own consciousness throughout Time, uses tools like astrology to facilitate the investigation, and documents the entire process. On Being is a life-long, narrative, archival data set of her life in the form of diaries, whose purpose is to assist astrologers and...
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"The Classic Collection of O. Douglas: Illustrated" showcases a selection of works by the renowned Scottish author O. Douglas, known for her captivating storytelling and rich character development. This anthology includes illustrated editions of several of her most beloved novels, including "The Proper Place," "Jane's Parlour," "Pink Sugar," "Eliza for Common," "Penny Plain," and others.
In "The Proper Place," readers are introduced to the charming...
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Is the beautiful Thai woman Jim meets on a freezing sidewalk a heartless home-wrecker or She Who Is Outside The Universe And Goes Upwards? Or both? The harsh realities of the London sex trade are light years distant from the esoteric doctrine of Shakti and the sexual path to Transcendence, but this is the gulf Jim and Nam Huan must cross if they are to know what love has in store for them. On the way they encounter human goodness in the shape of Cyril...
20) Chroniques Z
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Si ce texte est tombé entre tes mains, c'est que je t'accorde une confiance très particulière ! Ou tu es un fouineur… Dans ce cas, dépose ce livre immédiatement !
Tu continues à lire ? Soit… mais sache que tu découvriras ici MA vérité, celle de mes tripes. Dans mes notes, comme ma grand-mère avant moi, j'ai délivré mes souvenirs, ceux toujours un peu plus lointains de mon enfance, ceux brulants de mon adolescence ; j'ai avoué mes...
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