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Autobiographie de ma mère
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of…
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Le petit prince
*Le Petit Prince* est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Publié en 1943 à New York simultanément à sa traduction anglaise, c'est une œuvre poétique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants.
Traduit en quatre cent cinquante-sept langues et dialectes, *Le Petit Prince* est le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit au monde après la Bible.
Le…
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Das NEINhorn
Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt.
Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen…
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Fourth Grade Rats
A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.
Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry.
Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey…
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A quiet kind of thunder
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's…
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Joe Sherlock, Kid Detective, Case #000001
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The Law of Connection
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Decent Obsessions
Decent Obsessions
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Feeding the Hungry Heart
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Vera, the medium; "Miss Civilization"
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コーヒーが冷めないうちに
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The Girl from Montana
After a heart-wrenching series of occurrences, including the demise of all of her siblings as well as her parents, fifteen year old Elizabeth found herself totally and completely alone in the middle of nowhere. Not only did she have no one to appeal to for help nor anywhere to go, the man who murdered her brother was now also after her in a vast Montana wilderness. With only her faithful horse…
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Buddhism for Couples
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Family to Cherish
Family to Cherish
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Philosopher's Joke
Philosopher's Joke
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Friendship First
**Our friends enrich every part of our lives. Now you can make them matter the most.**
Despite modern technology and the ample ways we have to keep in touch, we risk neglecting our relationships with the people who have the most profound effect on our well-being: our friends. Weaving together personal stories, interviews with experts, and social research, Friendship First empowers you to…
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A fine dark line
It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses... For thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of…
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Kildee House
When Jerome Kildee, a solitary man, builds a home in a redwood forest in California, he takes in some skunks and raccoons, but as they begin to multiply, Kildee looks to two human neighbors for help.
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