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Et après…
99.00 DHDépêchez-vous de vivre, dépêchez-vous d’aimer. A huit ans, Nathan s’est noyé en plongeant dans un lac pour sauver une fillette. Arrêt cardiaque, tunnel de lumière, mort clinique. Et puis, contre toute attente, de nouveau la vie. Vingt ans plus tard, Nathan est devenu un brillant avocat new-yorkais. Meurtri par son divorce, il s’est barricadé dans son travail. C’est alors qu’un mystérieux médecin fait irruption dans son existence.
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A quoi rêvent les loups
101.00 DHAlger, fin des années 1980. Parce que les islamistes qui recrutaient dans l’énorme réservoir de jeunes gens vulnérables ont su l’accueillir et lui donner le sentiment que sa vie pouvait avoir un sens ; parce que la confusion mentale dans laquelle il était plongé l’a conduit à s’opposer à ses parents, à sa famille, à ses amis et à perdre tous ses repères ; parce que la guerre civile qui a opposé les militaires algériens et les bandes armées islamistes fut d’une violence et d’une sauvagerie incroyables, l’abominable est devenu concevable et il l’a commis.
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La prière de l’absent
69.00 DHBody et Sindibad, deux vagabonds réfugiés dans le cimetière de Fès, découvrent un enfant au milieu des tombes. Convaincus que cette rencontre est le signe du destin, ils s’aventurent avec Yamna la mendiante sur les traces d’un héros de la résistance marocaine. Cette quête initiatique, pleine de poésie, les entraîne au coeur d’un Maroc tourmenté et envoûtant.
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
39.00 DHThe Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a ghastly crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to the hall safe from danger.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
39.00 DHHuck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of ‘civilising’, and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn’t you know, Huck’s no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won’t stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river – will they survive and win their freedom?
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Dickens at Christmas
39.00 DHIt is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you’ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.
This Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens’ Christmas Books (‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Battle of Life’,’The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘The Haunted Man’) but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.
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A Christmas Carol
39.00 DHEbenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices.A Christmas Carol is Dickens’ most influential book and a funny, clever and hugely enjoyable story.
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Pollyanna
39.00 DHWhen her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all. The truth is that her dear father, before he died, taught her a trick for life – the ‘Glad Game’ – the aim of which is to find the good in every bad situation. Before long, Pollyanna’s sunny outlook has brightened up the whole town. But when a horrible accident occurs can the Game save Pollyanna?
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Homage to Catalonia
39.00 DHBoth a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth, passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell’s writing this is a vivid account of the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and their ideologies.
Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short work has become one of his best known.
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Gulliver’s Travels
39.00 DHIn the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swift’s tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today and is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
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