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War and Peace is Tolstoy's best-known work and one of the most widely read and beloved in universal literature. These unforgettable pages tell the story of two families of the Russian aristocracy against the backdrop of patriarchal and peasant Russia devastated by wars...
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Cactus
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2024-07-31
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Guerra e pace è l'opera più nota di Tolstoj, nonché una delle più lette e amate della letteratura universale. In queste pagine indimenticabili si narrano le vicende di due famiglie dell'aristocrazia russa, i Bolconski e i Rostow, sullo sfondo della Russia patriarcale e...
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Cactus
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2024-07-26
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A powerful debut about the lives of women and girls caught in the orbit of the military.Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military moves, new cities and new selves. Military kids whose mercurial...
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Freehand Books
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2024-05-01
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“How the Steel Was Tempered” is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time and the best-selling book in the Russian language.
The story follows the life of Pavel...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-03-30
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Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-08
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A young boy at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in the reign of Claudius leads a good life, since his father is a leader in service to Caratacus. But when his father goes missing in action, everything changes...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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The son of a Roman Tribune, raised in Roman Britain, familiar with Celtic customs, and friendly to their people, chooses to follow his father as a warrior until barbarism and battle change his mind.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight—then the fight is brought to her.
Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch...
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Stonehouse Originals
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2020-11-01
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A time warp into the strange and painful life of men past, present, and future.The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral. Andrew has little interest in the father with whom he grew up, but Hugh, who looks like a country-rock star,...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2020-05-12
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First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of...
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Big Cheese Books
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2019-11-28
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Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on the author's mother’s surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930’s. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian...
Editeur :
Miroland
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2019-05-01
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Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the...
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Pandora's Box Classics
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2017-11-07
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Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the...
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Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2017-11-06
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Jasmina Odor’s rich writing invites us to step into the shoes of Croatian immigrants living in Canada, and the Croatian soldiers and families who remain behind. Each passionate story in this collection varies in perspective, and yet all share Odor’s sensual writing and...
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Thistledown Press
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2017-10-01
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Winner, 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, 2018 McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and 2018 Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for Fiction and 2018 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First BookA National Post Best Book of...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2017-04-11
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“Tra i migliori del genere thriller. Gli appassionati, che amano gustarsi la precisa creazione di un thriller internazionale ma che sono anche alla ricerca di uno spessore psicologico e di un protagonista realistico costretto ad affrontare sfide sia sul terreno...
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Lukeman Literary Management Ltd
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2016-10-24
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I never imaginedI would die this way. Young, surrounded by thousands, yet alone and far away from home.I thoughtI would be afraid, but I’m not. The pain in my chest has dulled to a mild ache. Maybe ifI close my eyes I’ll see my home, see Mom one last time. She’ll be...
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Flanker Press
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2016-03-25
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Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each of the women have been marked in...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2012-11-01
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Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each of the women have been marked in...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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