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A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
2) The Railway
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"In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon ... Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside and on top with infidels shouting and waving their hands. 'The End of the World!' thought both Mahmud-Hodja the Sunni and Djebral the Shiite."
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980,
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'I really enjoyed it, such a brilliant first novel' Christie Barlow, author of the Love Heart Lane series 'Oh this book was just beautiful. A book filled with love, sparks and Christmas magic' NetGalley reviewer ––– She's here for the perfect Christmas escape... When Sharmila discovers her late friend, Thomas, has gifted her the holiday of her dreams, she can't pack her bags fast enough. Arriving in Pineford, it's everything she'd ever hoped...
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"Garthowen" is a 1900 novel by Welsh author Allen Raine. Set in the eponymous Welsh village, this charming Victorian romance focuses on provincial Welsh life, exploring the lives of the villagers and their relationships with nature, their families, and religion. Full of beautiful descriptive prose, "Garthowen" is a fantastically uplifting tale that is not to be missed by discerning readers with an interest in Welsh history and culture. Anne Adalisa...
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Découvrez les épisodes dramatiques, pittoresques, ou franchement comiques, qui émaillent la rude existence des îliens.
Sur l'île de Nag'ildo, le grand-père de Ch'r'i lui révèle que la naissance voit les humains descendre sur Terre, puis retourner au milieu des constellations lorsqu'ils meurent. Lorsqu'il devient père à son tour, il le révèle à la petite Song'i.
Ce que Lim Chul-woo restitue ici avec une immense tendresse, c'est l'authenticité...
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A strange unchartered world awaits Monte Scott, a young and inexperienced vocational rehabilitation counselor assigned to work at a residential school for the blind. From the first moments, his life is challenged and changed by confrontation with students, teachers and events in ways previously unimaginable. Presumptions of "sightless, pitiable, invalid children" awaken to questions of misconception and prejudice.
Will he survive or be summarily...
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Back in the 1940s, when Mumbai was still Bombay, the twin urban villages of Kevni-Amboli were home to a lively Catholic community-predominantly East Indian, but also Anglo-Indian, Goan and Mangalorean. In this hugely entertaining novel set in that vanished world, Ivan Arthur spins a delightful web of joint families, priests, sodality groups, gossips, friendly drunks, vagrants, simpletons, lovers and maiden aunts.
Among the many lovable and eccentric...
8) Pyre
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2022
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By the author of One Part Woman: "A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy...
Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy...
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"Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat ... until a...
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In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position....
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Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life in the backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the decades before the chainsaw and the outboard motor became the common sounds in this beautiful region of central Canada. The main character is a grizzled and lovable 82-year-old trapper and woodsman named Len who takes the reader through the adventures in his memory to...
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Une saison qui s'annonce aussi froide que torride.
Ni jeune ni vieux, ni sage ni fou, ni ange ni démon, ni héros ni antihéros, Grouilla, le protagoniste de ce roman, est à l'image de la ville d'Amaken (« lieux » en arabe) o cette histoire se déroule tout au long d'une saison qui s'annonce aussi froide que torride.
Espace-temps d'un printemps survenu en plein hiver, tout comme les révolutions arabes, qui n'a de cesse de se chercher, développant...
13) Domestic Arts
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The last thing she wants is a boyfriend. The last thing he wants is to take advantage of a situation. Artist Evie returns to Stella Mare with nothing. Having spent years building her boyfriend's art practice, their break-up leaves her without a career, a home, or a way to make a living. Her obsession with the hooked rugs she finds in her father's attic might just be a way to avoid reality. Stephen shivers through a Stella Mare spring, collecting stories...
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"Go ahead, try it on for size. It won't hurt." That's probably what Smokey would tell you.
The year is 1977 and you are in your twenties again. You owe no one and no one owes you. You're just looking for a paycheck and a place to be.
You're traveling on that muddy, pot-holey, raggedy ass, piece of road we used to call the North Fork Highway in a battered old sedan with bald tires and seven dollars and twenty-seven cents in your pocket.
You're looking...
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Before internet chat rooms, Facebook, or OkCupid there was ― the telegraph. In this 19th-century bestseller, two young telegraph operators meet "over the wire" and begin a romance, sight unseen, using Morse code as their secret language of love. Written in a remarkably modern voice, this charming tale offers both an authentic glimpse of Victorian society and a prescient view of online friendships. Nattie, known as "N," has no idea at first whether...
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L'arrivée insolite d'un inconnu sème le trouble dans le village.
L'homme vit reclus. Tel l'oiseau nocturne, il ne quitte sa maison qu'au crépuscule. D'aucuns prétendent avoir aperçu son ombre fuyant à leur approche. D'étranges manifestations ajoutent encore au mystère, et la peur ancestrale de l'étranger resurgit lorsqu'une salamandre, animal mythique aussi appelé « triton du diable », est inexplicablement gravée sur une roche. On parle...
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Multitude de destins tunisiens.
Assis devant un café express au pois chiche, Bayram attendait Kader. Son regard se promenait, scrutait le lieu, les visages. Coincé entre le cinéma Le Paris et le restaurant La Grotte, le café-bar était le confluent de divers espaces, le lycée Carnot, le Conservatoire de la musique, la maison de la culture Ibn Rachiq qui y déversaient leurs populations. Il était devenu le lieu de rendez-vous des marginaux...
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1947. Ivo Castelli, jeune italien de la région de Bergame, débarque en Suisse plein de rêves et d'espoir, comme des milliers de ses compatriotes
Affecté à la construction d'un barrage, il y découvre les réalités d'une existence rude. Dans cette vie intense, o les faibles n'ont pas leur place et dans laquelle amitiés et trahisons prennent des proportions hors normes, Ivo va se révéler à lui-même. Il se découvre frondeur et idéaliste....
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Ils sont moutonniers. Ils connaissent parfaitement leur métier, ils sont adroits et intuitifs. Un jour, ils abandonnent leur montagne et leur pays pour tenter leur chance en Amérique, dans ces immenses plaines de la Californie.
Félicien et Élisée se connaissent depuis l'enfance. Devenus bergers, ils se retrouvent au moment des transhumances. Voilà trois étés, ils ont fait la connaissance de Barthé. Des liens si solides se sont noués entre...
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