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Partager les émotions des premiers écrivains-voyageurs et retrouver les racines d'un monde intemporel.
À Saigon il y a beaucoup de serpents, de fourmis et de margouillats à collectionner. Sans compter les habitants de la Cochinchine que le jeune médecin passionné de zoologie voudrait bien mettre dans sa ménagerie.
Un récit décalé en pleine conquête coloniale.
Texte intégral publié dans Le Tour du Monde en 1875.
Découvrez la Cochinchine...
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Sesha must race to find a priceless scroll before time runs out.
After a brutal fire takes their parents' lives, Sesha and Ky, children of the pharaoh's royal physician, are left charming snakes and stealing food to survive. Unsure of who to trust, the pair are found and brought back to the palace, where the pharaoh tasks Sesha with finding a rare medical document her father was transcribing. But are the royals hiding something?
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Best friends forever. The bond between teenage girls can be strong. And often is. That was certainly the situation between eighteen-year-old Susan Smalley and her great mate, Stacie Madison, who was just a year younger.
The two were classic late eighties girls. Lots of carefully styled hair, innocent smiles and a love of life. Their bubbly personalities and bright intellects lit up wherever they went. A friend was holding a party in Arlington, which...
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In 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, D.C., were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jefferson recommended Benjamin Banneker for the job. Banneker was a free black man who lived at a time when black Americans had few, if any, rights. Yet he was an accomplished farmer, mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor. What Are You Figuring Now? is the story of a man who was never afraid to try something new,...
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The slate gravestones of southern Maine bear evidence to the region's fascinating history, from shipwrecks and famous wartime sea captains to countless ordinary citizens. Master stone-cutter Bartlett Adams memorialized the tragedy and triumph of the region in nearly two thousand gravestones. Examine the artistry of the headstones that mark the resting places of three generations of the same family who all went down with the schooner Charles, and discover...
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Michael Gargiulo, a reasonably good looking man in his mid-40s, sits calmly staring forward listening intently to the back and forth debate that is taking place in front of him. His newly shaven head glistening slightly as cameras click incessantly in the courtroom, trying to capture the face of evil masquerading underneath his handsome mask. With three known murders under his belt, one attempted murder and, it would seem, even from his own very words,...
42007) Dawn and Dusk
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For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and his country has been a harsh society full of spies, secrets, and "disappearances." Still, most of the time Azad manages to live a normal life, hanging out at the bakery next door, going to school with his friend Hiwa, playing sports, and taking care of his parrot....
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Extrait : "Comme pour La Bruyère ou Madame de Sévigné, la Cour est pour Bossuet un vaste monde, compliqué, o les passions et les intérêts se heurtent, o sous les dehors les plus brillants se cachent les pires difformités et, sous le contentement du visage, l'âpreté et les inquiétudes de l'égoïsme. De grandes ambitions sont poursuivies par des moyens mesquins, sinon même inavouables, la pompe des mots décore des banalités."
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42009) Depth Charge
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When British Intelligence learns of a German U-Boat anchored off the coast of Sweden, in neutral waters, they enlist the help of an American Naval code-breaking officer to go undercover as Nazis. Their mission: sneak aboard the German sub and liberate the Enigma decoding machine.
42010) Murderers Most Vile
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A trio of the most vile serial killers in modern American history. Gary Heidnik was the inspiration behind the film "Silence of the Lambs" as he targeted mostly African American prostitutes during his reign of terror. Angel Maturino patrolled the railroads of the midwest as he sought out victims to satisfy his bloodlust. Meanwhile, Donald Leroy Evans would claim to murder almost sixty people as they found their way into rest stops where he was laying...
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On the surface, the MacNeill family seemed perfect. Martin, a successful physician, and his wife Michele, lived in a gated community in Utah's Pleasant Grove neighborhood. The couple had four biological children, and had adopted four more. They were well-liked, and were all active in the Church of Latter Day Saints. Behind closed doors, though, a storm was brewing that was about to turn deadly.
42013) Crow Mountain
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A sweeping tale of love, legacy, and wilderness set between the present day and 1867 in the dramatic landscape of modern-day and territorial Montana.
While on a trip to Montana with her mom, British teen Hope meets local boy Cal Crow, a ranch hand. Caught in a freak accident, Hope and Cal take shelter in a cabin, where Hope makes a strange discovery in an abandoned diary. More than a hundred years earlier, another British girl--Emily--met a similar...
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Andrea Claire aka Samantha Scott was a former actress, appearing in MASH, Bewitched as well as appearing in Playboy magazine. After four failed marriages, she married an older man in Robert Sand, a wealth businessman. She claimed to have suffered sexual abuse during this marriage and stabbed Sand 27 times in 1981. In 1982, she married for a sixth time, but then attempted to kill her new husband before being arrested and sentenced to 26 years to life...
42015) Mist
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Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Prize 2020The incredible story of a boy's quest to give the ultimate gift to a caged wild animal: freedom.London, 1880, 13-year-old Clay is a mud lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames for anything he might sell for money to buy food. One day Clay goes to the camp of the circus that has newly arrived in town and meets Ollie, a girl about his age, who lives with the circus. She brings him to the cage of "the last...
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In Bardstown, Kentucky, with a 2010 census of 11,700 people, are faced with a horror-story level of mysterious disappearances and murders. The town itself is quaint and seems to boast that it's a great place to visit in hopes to drive up tourism. While it is known as the "Bourbon Capital of the World", Bardstown's reputation has shifted towards something a little more sinister than small-town values and a good drink. These days, one can drive along...
42017) Surviving Utopia
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The first book in a Christian historical suspense series that watches an atheist empire crumble from within. There are two tiers of people in 1984 Russia: those in the Party and the expendable cogs of the Soviet machine. Tasha is a lowly cog. She is supposed to work and shut up, but she just can't seem to help herself. Her world is about to change when Maksim, an elite Party member, helps her uncover an explosive hidden truth. Although highly inconvenient...
42018) Twentieth-Century Caesar: Benito Mussolini: The Dramatic Story of the Rise and Fall of a Dictator
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Benito Mussolini was a man of many contradictions but with one driving ambition: to rule Italy and restore it to the power and splendor of the ancient Roman Empire, with himself as the new Caesar. He became the founder of the Fascist movement and dictator of all of Italy.
The son of a poor blacksmith who was an ardent Socialist, Mussolini grew up in an atmosphere of political agitation. He taught school for a brief time and then became a fiery journalist,...
42019) Elias Howe and His Sewing Machine U.S. Economy in the mid-1800s Grade 5 Children's Computers &
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In this book, you will read about Elias Howe and his invention of the sewing machine. Discuss how his invention helped the economic growth in the Northeast states in the mid-1800s. Read about Elias' history and why his sewing machine was the first of its kind. How was his invention received by the general public? Read to learn more about the topic.
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Le passage du Nord-Ouest a fait rêver bien des navigateurs et provoqué bien des drames...
En 1845, l'expédition de sir John Franklin disparaît en traversant ce passage, couloir mythique censé relier l'Atlantique au Pacifique à travers l'archipel arctique canadien. À partir de 1848, l'amirauté britannique lance plusieurs expéditions à la recherche des deux navires disparus. Sans succès. En 1851, Lady Franklin envoie la goélette Prince-Albert...
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