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Life of elves volume 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Alejandro de Yepes and Jes's Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when, out of nowhere, a friendly redhead appears to them in the cellar. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about this Petrus. Alejandro and Jes's are bewitched, and, in the middle of the sixth year of the longest war humankind has ever endured, they abandon their post to follow him across a bridge only he can see. Petrus...
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English
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V is for Voltaire. Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Voltaire tells of the ludicrous adventures and reversals of fortune of the naive Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. A satirical challenge to the empty optimism prevalent in Voltaire's eighteenth-century society is both...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
Description
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale...
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Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help kick the habit. At first the treatment is a success but, as the stresses of daily life begin to overwhelm him, he can't help lighting up again. To his great distress, he finds that smoking no longer offers him the ecstatic release it once did. Until, that is, he stumbles across a criminal way to recapture that intense nicotine joy...
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in this prison on the outskirts of Montreal for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a murderous Hells Angel who often reminds Paul that he could kill him at any moment. What did Paul do to end up here? And why does he jeopardize his life and release by refusing to show remorse? Before prison, there were his parents. There were his friends at the Excelsior, the luxury apartment complex where Paul worked as...
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Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence,...
7) Second best
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Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"When Commissaire Adamsberg, the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement, is called to the scene of a ghastly and highly unusual murder, he thinks it can't have anything to do with the nine pairs of shoes and severed feet discovered outside of London's Highgate Cemetery just a few days earlier. With the help of the murdered man's gifted physician, Adamsberg delves into the victim's disturbed psyche and unexpectedly finds himself on a path that...
10) The beautiful
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Beautiful volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des...
11) The damned
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Series
Beautiful volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Forces hiding in the shadows have been patiently waiting for this moment for centuries. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed-- and Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien. Still recovering from her injuries, Celine doesn't know she has inadvertently set into motion a chain of events that could unveil a...
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French executioner novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this historical adventure, the executioner who later beheaded Anne Boleyn swears an oath to her that he will bury her six-fingered hand at a crossroads in France.
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Series
Everyman's library volume 278
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Publisher
le Livre de poche
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
Français
Description
Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple. Émile a décidé de fuir l'hôpital, la compassion de sa famille et de ses amis. À son propre étonnement, il reçoit une réponse à cette annonce. Trois jours plus tard, devant le camping-car acheté secrètement,...
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