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Cogheart series5/13/2023 ![]() But there's something sinister about the hybrid children who appear as part of the act. Then a travelling skycircus arrives in Brackenbridge Lily and Robert can't wait to step aboard. Suddenly dark secrets from Robert's past plunge him into danger. ![]() For Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket - but that's not the only thing he wants. Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert's summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. It's hard to escape the secrets from the past. Murder mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure. ![]() Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart. What could they want from her? With her friends - Robert the clockmaker's son and Malkin her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. ![]() Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. Cogheart Adventures Series (Vol 1-4) 4 Books Collection Set by Peter Bunzl ![]()
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Sapphire blue by kerstin gier5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And there seem to be deeper mysteries beneath those secrets. But there are other secrets and mysteries that seem to be kept from her. Once the blood of all twelve time travellers has been entered, the prophecies say, the Circle will be closed and the Secret that will save the world will be revealed.Or so Gwyn is told. It maintains a chronometer which, once a small sample of that time traveller's blood has been entered into it, prevents uncontrolled jumps back in time. There is a secret society that helps them, founded by one of their time traveling ancestors, the self-styled Count Saint-Germaine. There are destined to be twelve time travellers in all down through the centuries, and in the first book, Ruby Red, Gwyn discovered that she was the last of them - the long awaited Ruby. There are two families, now based in London, with the time-travelling gene one carries it in the male line and the other in the female line. Fantasy, YA)This is the second instalment of the time-travel trilogy, translated from German by Anthea Bell. ![]()
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Shadows on our skin jennifer johnston5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() This theme, which is also at the crux of the well-received The Gates (1973) and How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974), contributed to her being regarded as a belated Big House novelist, a category that Johnston herself has often rejected. Her early work in particular focuses on the vanished and declining world of the Irish Protestant ascendancy. Her first novel, The Captains and the Kings (1972), gained her great acclaim and won the Robert Pitman Award and the Yorkshire Post Prize. ![]() Dubbed “the quiet woman of Irish literature” (Cowan, The Guardian 11 February 2004), Johnston started writing at the age of 35, while living in London, and was first published when she was 42. ![]() Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin (1930), the daughter of dramatist Denis Johnston and actress and theatre director Shelah Richards, and in the 1970s moved to Derry, Northern Ireland, where she currently lives. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The composer later recalled, with a kind of ironic pride, that his neighborhood was a drab place, adding: “I am filled with mild wonder each time I realize that a musician was born on that street.” Yet his mother played the piano and sang, and some of his siblings also took an amateur interest in music.Ĭopland might also have become an amateur musician, but at fifteen he attended a concert by the famous pianist Ignacy Paderewski. (Originally Kaplan, Aaron’s father anglicized the family name en route to America.) Copland Senior put down roots in Brooklyn, where he owned a small department store the family lived upstairs and helped to run the business. His name was Aaron Copland.Ĭopland was the youngest of five children born into a family of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. Many of her pupils went on to have impressive careers, but none more so than a twenty-one-year-old New Yorker who had started in music late but was determined to become a composer. ![]() The critic–composer Virgil Thomson famously declared, “Every town in America has two things - a five-and-dime and a Boulanger pupil.” He was talking about the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose school at Fontainebleau Palace, just outside Paris, became a mecca for young composers from the United States.īoulanger was one of the defining forces of American music in the twentieth century. ![]()
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Caucasia book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother holds secret meetings in their basement, and her father gives his daughters lessons in Afrocentrism. As Birdie gets older, she becomes aware of her parents’ political activities. The sisters develop a language called Elemeno that only they can understand. The first chapter describes Birdie’s close relationship with her older sister Cole, who she sees as a reflection of herself. The novel begins with a short introduction that foreshadows Birdie’s racial identity crisis. They look so different that people do not usually realize they are sisters. Her sister takes after their father and has African-American features, while Birdie inherited her mother’s light skin, European features and straight hair. Most of the story’s conflicts stem from Birdie’s white appearance. Birdie narrates the novel in first-person past tense. The novel begins in 1975 and spans Birdie’s life from age eight to 14, ending in 1982. All of her work deals with the experience of being mixed-race in America.Ĭaucasia’s protagonist is Birdie Lee, an adolescent mixed-race girl from Boston who lives with her black father Deck, her white mother Sandy, and her sister Cole, who is three years older than Birdie. Danzy Senna is the author of three novels, a memoir, and a collection of short stories. Caucasia won numerous awards, including the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and The Los Angeles Times named it one of the Best Books of the Year. ![]()
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A far wilder magic genre5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While Margaret is the best sharpshooter in town, only teams of two can register, and she needs an alchemist. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Craig and Margaret Rogerson, about two people who find themselves competing for glory-and each other's hearts-in a magical fox hunt. Allison Saft crafts a deliberate, intricate romance that will have you as unmoored as the characters." -Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent DelightsĪ romantic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Erin A. "An utterly transportive read, unfolding into a world of crumbling manors and ancient forests. "Narrator Jesse Vilinsky offers mesmerizing performances of two odd young folks who are proving their worth to the world and each other" - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) ![]()
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Ashley audrain the push review5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The most thought-provoking exploration of motherhood I've come across since We Need to Talk About Kevin' - Clare Pooley Raw, visceral, and often disturbing, this is an intense psychological drama' - Kristin Hannah 'Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood. Complex, nuanced, and unflinching, I inhaled this debut in one sitting' - Karma Brown, bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife Audrain's astute portrayal of motherhood was unsettling in its insights, yet highly entertaining on the page. 'With its riveting prose and deep convictions, Ashley Audrain's The Push had me in its clutches from the first page. I found it disturbing, upsetting, and utterly compelling' - Beth Morrey, author of Saving Missy The Push is a freight train of a read - it barrels into you and propels you along, taking you places you're not sure you want to go. Dazzling and gloriously complete' - Daisy Buchanan I read it one sitting and it stayed with me for days afterwards. ' The Push was a poetic, propulsive read that set my nerves jangling in both horror and recognition. ![]()
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Another gospel by alisa childers5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And its proponents are now more influential than ever before through podcasts, conferences, and books (75). It simply moved underground for a time and rebranded as progressive Christianity. It might be tempting to think that the emergent church (circa 2000–2012) has faded into irrelevance, but the emergent church is far from gone. In fact, the pastor didn’t even identify as a Christian, but as a “hopeful agnostic.” This class would introduce Childers to progressive Christianity and plant doubts in Childers’s mind, leading her to begin her search for what true Christian faith was-and what it wasn’t. Alisa Childers, former member of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl, began attending a new church not realizing the pastor was a progressive Christian until she was invited to attend an exclusive class. ![]()
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Mafalda & Friends 1 by Quino5/11/2023 ![]() When she arrived in Nazi Germany, Mafalda was arrested. However, her husband was already imprisoned in a concentration camp, while her children were in Rome. In 1943, during World War II, Mafalda was tricked into going to the German Embassy, under the impression that her husband needed to speak to her. In 1925, Mafalda married Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse. She was very close to her mother, and went with her mother to visit Italian military hospitals during World War I. She was the second child and daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Elena of Montenegro. The future King Umberto II of Italy was her younger brother. ![]() In 1943, during World War II, she was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where she died. In 1925, at the age of 22, she married the Landgrave of Hesse, Philipp. Princess Mafalda of Savoy (19 November 1902 – 28 August 1944) was the second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Elena of Montenegro. ![]()
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John c bogle books5/11/2023 ![]() This strategy is favored by Warren Buffett, who said this about Bogle: “If a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands-down choice should be Jack Bogle. ![]() This tenth anniversary edition includes updated data and new information but maintains the same long-term perspective as in its predecessor.īogle has also added two new chapters designed to provide further guidance to investors: one on asset allocation, the other on retirement investing.Ī portfolio focused on index funds is the only investment that effectively guarantees your fair share of stock market returns. ![]() While the stock market has tumbled and then soared since the first edition of Little Book of Common Sense was published in April 2007, Bogle’s investment principles have endured and served investors well. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. The best-selling investing "bible" offers new information, new insights, and new perspectives ![]() Toutes nos collections sur le site des éditions Lavoisier.Sciences et techniques agroalimentaires. ![]() |