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Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated...
3) Suddenly
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives"--
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Dark Horse's multiple award winning archive editions of Creepy have arrived at one of the most compelling and legendary eras of the horror magazine's epic run. Creepy Archives Volume 8 collects issues #37 -- #41, which herald the beginning of the more psychedelic and strangely spooky stories that came into vile vogue with the onset of the 1970s. This gore -- geously designed volume highlights work from amazing artists such as Basil Gogos, Ernie Colon,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Reinhard Friedl's The Source of All Things is a heart surgeon's personal investigation of the human heart, moving from his riveting clinical experiences to a more poetic understanding of its workings. The heart is our most important organ. Yet despite that it has not changed since the appearance of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, it is also our most mysterious. In most human cultures, it is seen as the...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and awkward guest in her late father's home, Rose gradually comes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fayard
Pub. Date
octobre 2020.
Language
Français
Description
"Novel about the death of William Wallace Lincoln, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's 3rd son." --
Washington, nuit du 25 février 1862. Dans le cimetière de Oak Hill, près de la Maison-Blanche, quelque chose se prépare. Ce jour-là, on a enterré un enfant prénommé Willie, qui n'est autre que le fils du Président des États-Unis. En pleine nuit, Abraham Lincoln, dévasté de chagrin, vient se recueillir en secret sur sa sépulture. Il croit...
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