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Extrait : "Sur la rive occidentale du Mississippi, à douze milles de son confluent avec le Missouri, se trouve la ville de Saint-Louis, poétiquement surnommée la Cité-des-Monts. Elle fut fondée par les français. C'est là que l'émigrant se repose, c'est là que le chasseur s'équipe avant...

Matty's quest is to find his father, who is a British soldier serving in Africa during the Second World War. The boy forms a friendship with Boxer, a homeless boy he discovers living rough in a disused brick kiln with a mouse called Smokey. Together with a stray dog they call Tonka the friends make preparations...

Deborah Moore has learned her lessons well--feel nothing, reveal less, and trust no one. Now widowed with a child of her own, she leads a lonely, cloistered existence, counting her farthings and thinking she is safe. When five-year-old Julian is lost one bitter December day, she discovers how tenuous...

The Lands of Remgeldon For three years, Zandrax had been cooped up at Dakes. He had to see and hear what was going on. In that time, he heard Halvards army was about to fall upon Dakes. He would be discovered. When returning to Dakes, he set about preparing to take the ship out, planning to leave...

Pirates! Buccanneers! Corsairs! Meet the women who throughout history ignored laws and defied convention.  Dashing dames, pirates all, from ancient Amazons to spacefaring scalawags.  Span the ages in this thrilling, action-packed anthology.

Excerpt de no attempt to swim, but rather fluttered along the surface, using his wings, and perhaps the leg that was still free, to propel himself forward. Terror, no doubt, had doubled both his strength and his energies, else he could never have towed such a weight, big and strong as he was....

Hephzibah e Rebecca são irmãs gêmeas, mas muito diferentes. Enquanto Hephzi é linda e voluntariosa, Reb sofre da Síndrome de Treacher Collins — que deformou enormemente seu rosto — e é mais cuidadosa. Apesar de suas diferenças, as garotas são como quaisquer irmãs: implicam uma com a outra,...

À la fin du siècle dernier, un riche créole, Don Pablo Ramero, doit fuir le joug des espagnols qui lui ont confisqué tous ses biens et l'ont condamné à mort. Accompagné de sa femme, de ses deux enfants et de leur fidèle serviteur indien, il traverse la Cordillère des Andes. Les fugitifs vont...

*50-PAGE FREE PREVIEW* Sheikh Rafiq Al-Qadim, the deputy president of the Rahman International Bank, slams a newspaper against his desk in his London office on the top floor of the bank. On the front page is a gossip article that states his friend-with-benefits is to marry another man. Women are treacherous...

For centuries the world has been plagued by immortals, a supernatural race of men and women who forfeited their souls for power and conquest. There is only one person in the world able to stop them. The only problem is, she had no idea.----Ali OConohagn is a headstrong young woman, blissfully oblivious...

Un groupe d'aventuriers drows des plus expérimentés et cernés par le chaos de la guerre entament un dangereux périple dans la redoutable Outreterre. Leur quête les conduira au coeur même des ténèbres et l'Outreterre s'en trouvera ébranlée. Si d'aventure les puissants elfes noirs faiblissent,...

Excerpt nera who lack this power. The group of Sajouins must therefore be subdivided into several lesser groups. First of all we have the true Sajouins; and of these the Saimiri or Titi is the most distinguished species. This pretty little creature is about equal in size to a squirrel,...

After Lilly Homayoony is born as an only child to English parents in London, she grows up in an idyllic family where she is loved, nurtured, and encouraged to explore the world around her. As she matures into a beautiful young woman and graduates from college, Lillys English-Persian heritage earns...

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek' In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few leaders before him. We Are the Change We Seek...