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1) Caprice
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
2) Caprice
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Embark on a whimsical journey through the myriad facets of memory in Caprice, where each page is an invitation to relive joys and pleasures, often overlooked or cast aside in the rush of the mundane. Amidst the storms and diatribes of the present, let's ascend towards a realm where reflections blossom into a vibrant tapestry of experiences. Cast aside inhibitions, embrace fate's whimsical tune, and traverse through this kaleidoscopic memoir that urges...
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Extrait : "Il est des jours o l'on se pend à Londres, dit-on, sans savoir pourquoi. Ce soir-là, j'étais rentré terriblement agacé, les nerfs tendus comme les cordes d'un violon, la mine morose, l'allure courbée dans un accablement intense. Il me bruinait au coeur tant la sombre tristesse m'envahissait, et je logeais dans ma cervelle tous les diables noirs de la mélancolie."
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Extrait: "Avant de commencer le récit de ma triomphante expédition, je crois devoir déclarer à l'univers qu'il ne trouvera ici ni hautes considérations politiques, ni théories sur les chemins de fer, ni plaintes à propos de contrefaçons, ni tirades dithyrambiques en l'honneur des millions au service de toute entreprise dans cet heureux pays de Belgique, véritable Eldorado industriel."
9) The Caprices
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English
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses...
10) Miss Caprice
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Miss Caprice" by St. George Rathborne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
11) Wicked Caprice
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Was Isobel Herriot a marriage-breaker? Patrick Shannon's sister certainly believed her husband was having a torrid affair with Isobel. But when Patrick paid a visit to Isobel's Cotswold craft shop he couldn't be so sure. How could he reconcile the fact that someone so reserved could also be promiscuous? Or that someone who played down her generous curves could also arouse him to uncontrollable passion? Patrick wasn't interested in a relationship that...
12) Le Caprice
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Times have become desperate in 1814 France. Napoleon's reign is at an end, and France's social structure is beginning to show signs of collapse. Desperate to flee to the New World and begin anew, one woman's courage and determination will become fully tested. Entangled in a struggle with a dark force at work in her life, it sets off a series of events that create unbreakable bonds with the distant future.
Like will beget like as you can truly feel...
13) Un caprice
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Extrait : "MATHILDE seule, travaillant au filet. Encore un point, et j'ai fini. (Elle sonne ; un domestique entre.) Est-on venu de chez Janisset ? LE DOMESTIQUE : Non, madame, pas encore. MATHILDE : C'est insupportable ; qu'on y retourne ; dépêchez-vous. (Le domestique sort.) J'aurais dû prendre les premiers glands venus ; il est huit heures ; il est à sa toilette ; je suis sûr qu'il va venir ici avant que tout ne soit prêt. Ce sera encore un...
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France's preeminent fiction writer, Jean Echenoz is celebrated for his ability to craft stories with such precision that readers are caught off guard by the intense emotion and imagination just beneath the placid surface of his writing. As Gary Indiana put it in his essay "Conjuror of St. Germain", "Echenoz risks everything in his fiction, gambling on the prodigious blandishments of his voice to lure his readers into a maze of improbabilities and...
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Un roman meilleur que du chocolat... à dévorer sans culpabilité!
Trois amies inséparables, des plaisirs gourmands en quantité, une bonne dose de fous rires et des beaux hommes à profusion: du bonbon!
Melissa, Anne-Marie et Mylène sont trentenaires, proches depuis toujours. L'une est une mère de famille dévouée, l'autre est mariée à un homme fortuné et la troisième est une femme de carrière un peu trop indépendante. Désirant pimenter...
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