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About the Book "Compelling . . . a rare work of the imagination" from THE SWANS AT TUALOA And so he had come to the land Tualoa, its tapering mountains a brilliant green. Spoonbill and osprey, sandpiper, heron, the yellow-bellied sunbirds fringing the shore. What except this, this faraway land with the charm of a tale? They spent afternoons at Little Marquis away from the eyes of the elder Su'uni. The nectarine lands dropped into the sea, her blue-run...
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La presente novela de la literatura histórica, es obra de un excelente amigo de hace más de 40 años, el licenciado hermosillense Carlos Peralta Dávila, quien ha decidido escribir: Los Californios. Todo empieza con un personaje nacido en 1759 en Tubac, Arizona, que fue parte de la Sonora colonial: Luis María Peralta Valenzuela, un condecorado militar, con las cualidades guerreras de lealtad, disciplina, integridad y valentía, de los famosos "dragones...
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Appelé du contingent, Alexandre dit Tiko, 21 ans, débarque en 56 sur les collines brûlées d'Algérie, déjà secouées par la guerre d'Indépendance.
Sur le chemin qui le mène d'Alger à l'école d'infanterie de Cherchell, il découvre avec fascination cette terre inconnue et son éblouissante lumière. Mais bien que son œil et son âme soient à même de savourer la beauté des montagnes algériennes, Alexandre peut difficilement fermer les...
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Ermo rejoint, à l'été 1936, la troupe du magicien Sidi Oadin qui parcourt l'Espagne en roulotte, le jeune garçon ne se doute pas que ce voyage s'avèrera plus mouvementé et dangereux que prévu car le pays bascule peu à peu dans la guerre civile.
À peine arrivés dans une première ville en Andalousie, Ermo et ses compagnons se retrouvent confrontés à la montée en puissance du fascisme qui cherche à renverser le pouvoir en place. Il faudra...
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Fraîchement diplmé de médecine, Pablo Uriel effectue son premier remplacement dans un petit village du nord de l'Espagne. Alors qu'il découvre les joies de son métier et d'une vie paisible à la campagne, un soulèvement nationaliste éclate. En juillet 1936, la bourgade de La Rioja, dans laquelle exerce Pablo, est assaillie par une unité franquiste. Le jeune homme est immédiatement fait prisonnier. Contraint de soigner les phalangistes durant...
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Comme toute sa famille, Henri mène une vie de château… Et pas dans n'importe lequel ! Au château de Versailles o son père travaille. Mais grandir dans un palais ne rend pas la vie forcément plus belle, surtout lorsque votre père a décidé de dédier la sienne à cet édifice.
En 1887, Pierre de Nolhac est nommé attaché au Château de Versailles afin de veiller sur ses collections, derniers trésors d'une royauté désormais abolie. Le...
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Prenant pour cadre l'empire colonial français et les relations entre la Métropole et sa colonie d'Indochine, la série Chinh Tri explore les destins de deux amis, Tuan et Haï, qui risquent leurs vies au nom de leur idéal de liberté.
Le troisième et dernier tome d'une superbe fiction basée sur une réalité historique coloniale méconnue.
Le 30 avril 1975, Saigon tombe aux mains des troupes nord-vietnamiennes, au terme de plusieurs semaines...
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Nous sommes en 1936 et un vent d'espoir souffle sur le monde ouvrier avec la victoire du Front Populaire aux élections.
Apprenti dans les ateliers de construction navale de Bordeaux, Jacques ne profite pas moins de son adolescence, croquant avec insouciance la vie - à pleines dents et en dessins sur son carnet - en ces temps de premiers congés payés…
Mais bientt, c'est la mobilisation générale puis la guerre. Réformé, Jacques n'y prend...
9) L'Attentat
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Un soir de janvier 1945 à Haarlem, alors que les Pays-Bas sont encore occupés, Anton Steenwijk, douze ans, voit sa vie s'effondrer. Fake Ploeg, un collaborateur nazi tristement célèbre pour sa cruauté est abattu dans la rue par des résistants hollandais. Le corps est retrouvé devant la porte de la maison familiale des Steenwijk. En représailles les Allemands brûlent la maison et assassinent les parents et le frère aîné. Des années plus...
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When eighteen-year-old Isabella Whitney meets Robert Barrington, nephew to the widowed baroness she works for, she's sure he's the enlightened husband she's meant to marry - someone who will support her interest in reading and forays into writing poetry. Against the wishes of Robert's father, they pledge their troth and consummate their union. Believing fate has brought them together, they move to Southwark and support each other's writings. When...
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Achilles - warrior, hero, son of a demi-god sea nymph whose presence, oracles claim, is the only thing that will deliver Troy into the hands of the Achaians.
And what does he do when he's dead?
Why, he tells the tale of his life to any shades who will gather to listen.
Conversations with Achilles follows the Greek legend as he retells, in seven sets and with harsh honesty the story of his life and the war with Troy. The greatness and brutality...
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Embark on a captivating journey with Kat Christensen's upcoming novel-a narrative that breathes life into the pages of American history.
Set against the expansion of a nation, from the aftermath of the War of 1812 to the era preceding the Civil War, this story ushers you into a world teeming with romance, jealousy, murder, and the unyielding spirit of survival.Meet Easter, a formidable young woman who carves her homestead from the 1830s American...
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This is an argument for Textualism and Originalism, a constitutional theory that has taken root with a majority on the high court now. It is important to understand where we have come from in order to know the republic itself, and the government we were all promised. A republic! If you can keep it. Herein is a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the entire constitution, which is the main law of the land. It discusses our guaranteed rights with the...
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Get enchanted with Greek Mythology history and its remarkable events.
Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history book today to learn the inspiring history behind Greek Mythology! This is the perfect book for history fans for all kids to enjoy.
Many have forgotten that mythology was once a religion....
15) Identity
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It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them, these wild boys.
Teenager, Larry Cummins, decides to throw his hand in with them. He'll think about consequences later.
Bail the coach. Grab the bank's cash. Scarper. Take...
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Durant un conflit européen, une jeune Polonaise de confession juive immigre en France. Aidée par le consul français en Pologne, elle change son nom afin de mieux s'intégrer. Elle est employée par un couple de Français et tombe enceinte. Malheureusement, son bébé sera déclaré mort-né à la naissance. Plus tard, elle découvre une effroyable vérité qui changera le cours de son existence.
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This dramatic and influential play by Christopher Marlowe thrusts readers into the ambitious rise of a shepherd to a powerful warlord in the 14th century.
This two-part play is renowned for its poetic grandeur and the depiction of its ruthless yet charismatic protagonist, Tamburlaine. Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, revolutionized Elizabethan drama with his use of blank verse and complex characters. Set against the vast backdrop of the...
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Jocelyn King wants justice, but no one will listen. Turning to the Pinkerton Agency for help, she has one condition- she must be part of the team that investigates the diamond hoax her father has uncovered. But there's more to her story than she reveals to Archie Gordon. Agent Owen Latimer came to be a Pinkerton Operative through some… unorthodox skills that he'd rather not everyone knew about. But having been an accomplished expert in his field,...
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Hebrew Maccabees is one of the stranger Hebrew books to have survived to the present and is either a relic the oldest surviving book about Judas the Hammer, or a remarkably heretical medieval forgery. There is no academic consensus on what it is, and few scholars have bothered to comment on it. The book deals with the life of Judas 'the Maccabee,' which is of little interest to Christians. His life is of interest to Jews, however, almost all books...
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Charles Spencer's house of Althorp in Northamptonshire is where he and his sister Princess Diana grew up, and where she is buried. In this rich history, Spencer traces the house's life from the sixteenth century through to Charles' sleepless nights there as a child and the estate's transformation into a site of global mourning. He weaves together the architecture, the story of how it amassed one of the largest private art collections in the country,...
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