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Gitarama, 1994, dans la province du Sud au Rwanda. Alice, 5 ans, vit une enfance paisible auprès de ses parents et ses petites soeurs. Sa vie va basculer lorsque le génocide des Tutsis éclate et qu'elle se retrouve ensuite contrainte de quitter son village avec les siens.
Avec sa famille de Hutus, il lui faudra fuir devant l'avancée des troupes du FPR sur les routes brûlantes de la République démocratique du Congo – le Zaïre, à l'époque.
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Young love and conviction clash with authority in sixteenth-century England in this exciting and vividly written novel. Challenging times are tenderly and evocatively portrayed in 'Robbie and Alice - Tudor Voyage': the second book of Robbie and Alice's Tudor adventures. 1521. England's Cardinal Wolsey, doggedly pursuing his ambition to be elected Pope, plots to challenge Spain's new American empire and so gain prestige from the King of France. Robbie,...
3) Alice & Jack
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[2024]
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Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?
4) Bad Alice
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It's 1985 and the Satanic panic has set in.Alice Ayre sees things, strange little girls, characters from 1980s TV shows. Sometimes the visions talk to her. Sometimes they tell her things. An outcast, everyone in her small Southern town thinks she and her mother are very strange, maybe even witches.Judge Hand, a figure both feared and revered, knows something of Alice's past. He is investigating the Satanic underground in the town. He wants to burn...
5) Alice Thinks
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She is angry sure with me.By now she knows sure I'm here. When she's looked in all the other places she always knows I'm here and this is where she looks next.But I'm here anyway. Here is out of her wayest. Here is not under her feet, making her mad at me, always under her feet is what I am when I'm not here or in some other hiding place where she usually looks first, before she remembers here and then looks here and finds me.I don't have many hiding...
6) Sister Alice
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"An epic tale of visionary futures and scientific speculation."--Library Journal
Millions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self-destruction. The world's great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain progress, and otherwise safeguard humanity's future. Genetically enhanced, they are the carriers of Earth's greatest talents, a force unlike any in the history of mankind.
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My name is Alice Travers.And I'm an addict… and a hopeless romantic. Losing Owen, the only man I've ever loved has broken me. But by some sick twist of fate, I was now locking eyes with him once more, in the form of his moody, affluent twin Arlo Cross.But their looks are where their similarities end. Arlo is cruel and devious. And if I wanted to survive him and his family, I would have to play along with his games. But I could only pretend he was...
8) Ragged Alice
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Nominated for the British Science Fiction Award 2020
In Gareth L. Powell's Ragged Alice a detective in a small Welsh town can literally see the evil in people's souls.
Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she's back in her old hometown to investigate what seems at first to be a simple...
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How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times-the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished. In 1943, Alice, her husband and their...
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Relive the timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland, with this beautifully illustrated retelling of one of Walt Disney's most loved films. When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole one sleepy afternoon, she finds herself in the strange and bizarre world of Wonderland! But when Alice loses sight of the White Rabbit, she meets all sorts of characters-and not everyone is friendly. Will Alice be able to return to her world, or will be she stuck...
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It's 1918, and Alice, Betty, and Lizzie have been best friends for as long as they can remember. But everything changes when one goes on a campaign to lure away the fiance of another. How can they remain friends when one betrays another? Harry Barnes returns from France with half his face damaged and his nights haunted by the friends he lost on the battlefield. How can anyone love the monster he has become? Alice Armstrong wanted nothing more than...
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Reserved theatre nerd, Heather Walsh, navigates high school life from the social fringes. The same place where she watched her family move about their busy lives without her. From the bottom of the totem pole, Heather understood her place in life. Maintain the impossibly high standards set by her perfect older brother. Stay quiet. Be what is expected. And never poison the well.
Three days after Heather Walsh turns fifteen, she finds herself in...
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In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the specter-like Alice, ringleader of the neighborhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA-again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman...
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She is returning to her hometown with a plan, a rich boyfriend and a great new job.Everything is perfect except for an annoying co-worker that is out to get her.Also, strange people are following her around, telling her she "used to be Alice."Now she must fight to keep the job, the boyfriend and her identity.You see, she's never been "this Alice person," not in a million years, not even once, not at all.Or has she?
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Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of hard rock designed to shock. Drawing from exclusive and unpublished interviews with a variety of names and faces from throughout Alice's career, the book follows Cooper's tale...
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There's a bit of Alice in all of us. She's just an ordinary girl, trying to get through each day, and encountering a few humorous pitfalls along the way.Alice is an erotic author with a vivid imagination, which she puts to good use for her readers.Follow Alice as she goes from hot fantasy to crashing back to earth when her flights of imagination evaporate into a disappointing reality.From everyday encounters at the gym or tattoo shop, to a rendezvous...
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Il peut même rendre ses vêtements eux aussi transparents: il suffit pour cela qu'il en lise l'étiquette.
Peut-être que, quand il sera grand, Léopold utilisera ses pouvoirs pour devenir un justicier craint des méchants. Pour le moment, il en profite surtout pour s'amuser… Parfois au détriment de sa sœur Céline, parfois en toute complicité avec elle.
Un duo de choc est né, embarqué pour de longues aventures, si les lecteurs lui prêtent...
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Book 02 in The Spinster's Society series - A Historical Romance BookMiss Alice Wilkin has had her heart broken and declares herself done with men…But she never expected to fall for a notorious rake. As the daughter of one of London's elite gentleman's club, she's been given insight into the private affairs of men and should have known that men could not be trusted. Alice vows to never love again! But when bullets begin to fly, that same rake not...
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