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La semaine de relâche est enfin arrivée, et Zack et son ami Feliz comptent en profiter pour participer à un super tournoi de leur jeu vidéo favori. Seul petit hic: un nouveau voisin débarque dans le quartier, et la venue de cet homme un peu étrange chamboule les plans des deux gamers. Avec sa soeur Maé, Zack doit aider l'inconnu à emménager... ordre de leur mère! Pendant qu'ils donnent un coup de main au nouveau voisin, Zack, Maé et Feliz...
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C'est la fin des classes pour Zack, Maé et Feliz. Le trio est invité à partir en expédition avec Sarah, une cousine ex-monitrice de camp de jour. Au programme : du camping, des randonnées, des jeux… Cependant, une pluie torrentielle vient troubler les plans et les quatre jeunes doivent s'arrêter dans un htel sur le bord de la route pour leur première nuit… Une aventure à saveur de jeu d'évasion qui vous glacera le sang… le danger est...
17) The Etruscan
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First published in 1956, The Etruscan is a fiction novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari. Beginning around 480 B.C., the story takes us on the spiritual journey of a young man named Lars Turms as he adventures through Ancient Greece to Sicily, Rome and, finally, Tuscany, searching for the meaning of life. He gradually becomes aware of his immortality and his duties to the future. Although set in ancient civilization, the book poses many of life's existential...
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"Of all the creatures roaming Earth today, I would have never guessed that birds are the dinosaurs' closest relatives. I always assumed that lizards and iguanas carried the family torch, but on a recent visit to a farm, it finally made sense to me. Look into the eyes of a chicken and tell me you don't see the shadow of a velociraptor."
What do the dinosaurs, the Great Emu War, and Pluto have in common? In Alex and the Dinosaur Prints, they all tell...
19) The Egyptian
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First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic, readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world's history: an Egypt, when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history's greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world,...
20) The Roman
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The Roman is a superb reconstruction of a time long ago, the Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius & Nero. It's the story of Minutus, of noble birth, who serves the government and travels widely through the Empire, from his home in Antioch to the seat of world power, Rome. A historically consistent portrayal of the highest levels of society in ancient Rome. One of Waltari's great historical novels.