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Zoya DeLarose se réveille dans un bateau volant grinçant au beau milieu de la nuit. Elle n'a aucune idée des raisons pour lesquelles elle a été clandestinement enlevée ni de la façon dont sa vie est sur le point de changer à jamais... Dans les nuages, Zoya découvre un monde de tempêtes de météorites, de combats à l'épée, de raids de minuit, d'îles flottantes, de trésors perdus depuis longtemps et, le plus surprenant, un monde d'amitié,...
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C'est Zoya qui les remarqua la première. Des lumières brûlantes orangées dans le sombre ciel de la nuit. Au début, elle pensa que c'était peut-être des feux d'artifice ou des étoiles, peut-être des lanternes. Mais non. C'était des missiles en feu qui se dirigeaient directement sur eux. Le Libellule se faisait attaquer... La dernière chose que Zoya vit fut une tempête de feu orangé. Maintenant, elle se retrouvait couchée sur le sol dur,...
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Secondhand Summer begins in Ninilchik, a tiny Alaskan community where the Barger family fishes for salmon. The father's death forces a move from their homestead to an apartment in a poor section of Anchorage. Written in the first person and based on the author's own experiences, the tale is about Sam, a fourteen-year-old boy who loved the homestead fishing life he left behind. Like most kids his age, his physical abilities and his imagination exceed...
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The year: 1580. The scene: Queen Elizabeth's glittering Court. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, has just lost his heart to the Queen's newest maid of honor. Their forbidden love inspires him to compose 25 sonnets and a 5-hour play about his Dark Lady. Yet, this tempestuous love story is ripped from history's pages, creating literature's greatest mystery. Told in her own words, the Dark Lady's stunning story climaxes with a surprisingly satisfying solution...
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With high school behind him, Sam Barger was ready to make 1969 his year. He would finally become a setnet fisherman like he'd always dreamed. Sam soon learned that dreams and reality often differ with the fishing turned sour, the military draft was threatening, and his girlfriend was pregnant. With Tricky Dick in the White House, peace talks in Paris, and war in Vietnam all of America was in turmoil. After 1967s summer of love and 1968s summer of...
6) Back Home
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The sequel to Secondhand Summer continues Sam Barger's story with the homecoming of his older brother, now wounded from war, and the struggle for the two to understand and find each other again.
It's 1968, and like any other junior in high school, Sam Barger's just trying to get by in classes and find a part-time job at the local pizza parlor, maybe chat up the pretty girl who also works there. But when, his Marine Corps brother Joe comes back from...
7) Cold souls
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2009.
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Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Classic Play, "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications...
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[2023]
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"The Joker is waging a war on Batman, and he's going to use every ghost from the Dark Knight's past to win! As the Bat-Family reels from the recent loss of Alfred Pennyworth, no one has taken this death harder than Bruce Wayne. Alfred wasn't just a friend and partner to Gotham's favorite son; he was a father figure and a mentor to Bruce...and the loss has left the dark detective wounded. The Joker knows that now is the time to strike--and strike hard....
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