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Finn lives with his mother in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, before oil, before anyone had any money at all. One day a mysterious half-sister appears, turning their lives upside down - why is she so different from every other child? When his mother takes a...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2011-05-26
ePub
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'Heartwarming, romantic and great fun' CLOSEREveryone in the newsroom knows that somebody is monitoring their emails, but Beth and Jennifer don't believe anyone would read their never-ending conversations. But Lincoln does, it's his job, and Beth and Jennifer's...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-05-12
ePub
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It is the autumn of 1940, one year into the German occupation of Poland. In a small mining village in Upper Silesia, Gracian Sofka is fifteen years old. The past year he has been risking his skin, making expeditions into the forest after curfew to gaze at the stars. By...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-04-30
ePub
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'You know that moment between sleep and waking? I read somewhere that the first thing that comes into your head is what you desire or fear the most. I don't know if that's fully right though because for years when I opened my eyes I used to think of Mark.'I'm JP Whelan...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2011-03-03
ePub
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'A magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The TimesLewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-28
ePub
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Matthew and Sophie enjoyed what seemed to be an idyllic childhood existence.Free from parental restrictions, they played together in the old barn and in the woods and fields around, as well as in the disused quarry where they hunted for fossils and where Sophie kept all...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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A scandalous exploration of elite undergraduate life from the author of The Bonfire of the VanitiesDupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... or so it...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-08-31
ePub
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New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn.Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong toNew York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-07-29
ePub
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What happens when your beloved only daughter's friend turns out to be a destructive cuckoo in the nest? When girlish charm turns to seduction and teenage friendship to manipulation. How can just one teenage girl wreak havoc on a decent, loving household? Envy is a...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2010-05-05
ePub
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The lyrical fantasy masterpiece about stories, legends and how they change the world.The Name of the Wind is an absolute must-read for any fan of fantasy fiction.'This is a magnificent book' Anne McCaffrey'I was reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and J....
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2010-04-22
Collection :
Kingkiller Chronicle
ePub
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The beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and an introduction by New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney SullivanFor generations, children around the world have come of age...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Parution :
2009-10-31
ePub
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'It was dark when I came to. What woke me was the cold and the water on my legs. I was doing spoons with Scotty, me behind him. We were on a beach. We didn't speak for the first minute, we were so disorientated. I had to genuinely think very hard about where I was. Then...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-03-17
ePub
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Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe DunthorneNOW AN ACCLAIMED FILM BY RICHARD AYOADEMeet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-02-05
ePub
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Mackinac island is on the Great Lakes in the American Midwest. Just nine miles round, it has golf courses, expensive restaurants, no cars and plenty of rich people. And for the summer of 2000, it has Bell, a student, employed to serve the wealthy. Bell and her fellow...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-02-28
ePub
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What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can.This stunning, thought-provoking and darkly comic novel for teenage readers was one of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-06-07
ePub
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A stunning novel about a small girl's experiences in an orphanage run by nuns. Funny and heart-breaking in equal measures it is a story for readers who were moved by the true life stories Kathy's Story and Suffer the LIttle Children, and the film, The Magdalene...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-05-03
ePub
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'It's the last day of school, so I took a hit of acid. It's not like I'm seeing things that aren't there. I'm seeing more than I usually see of what is there. . .'Christy's just out of school in the American South. The big, bad world beckons, but she's turning her back...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-05-27
ePub
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Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2001-01-25
ePub
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The tenderly funny story of a modern girl's growing up.
Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-12-20
epub sans DRM
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