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Ti-Jean repart à l'aventure sur la grande route, s'arrêtant de château en château pour y trouver du travail. Chaque nouvel emploi lui réserve des épreuves qui semblent insurmontables. Mais Ti-Jean sait faire preuve de courage, de débrouil¬lardise et de ruse. Ces qualités suffiront-elles pour qu'il vienne à bout de tous les obstacles qui se dressent sur son chemin?
Dans la lignée des autres contes de Ti-Jean, chacun des cinq chapitres de...
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Cette histoire évoque l'univers merveilleux des contes du Moyen ge tout en accordant le beau rle à une fille plutt qu'à un garçon. Ainsi, ce n'est plus Ti-Jean qui, par son ingéniosité et ses exploits, sauve ou séduit une princesse, mais bien Tite-Jeanne qui va conquérir le cœur d'un prince...
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Tite-Jeanne est élevée au château du royaume de la grande plaine en compagnie du prince Igor. Mais à l'adolescence, lorsque le roi apprend que les deux jeunes gens sont devenus amoureux l'un de l'autre, il trouve moyen d'éloigner Tite-Jeanne du château sous prétexte qu'elle n'est pas de sang royal. Ainsi doit-elle s'en aller vivre ailleurs o sa bonne étoile, son éducation et son sens du devoir lui permettront d'accumuler une immense fortune....
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Le père de Tite-Jeanne considère que sa fille n'a pas les mêmes capacités et droits que ses deux garçons. La mère proteste et demande qu'on soumette ses trois enfants à la même épreuve. Partis séparément à la recherche de la pomme d'or, ceux-ci se butent à toutes sortes d'obstacles. Tite-Jeanne saura-t-elle les surmonter?
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When sprightly little Sarah loses her tooth, the magical tooth fairy visits her in her dreams. A puff of fairy dust and a thousand glowing stars leave Sarah amazed! The tooth fairy and her magic wand leave a surprise beneath her pillow - But what happened to her tooth?
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Imaginez que je supprime votre nom, puis votre prénom, de manière à vous soulager un peu de ce qui compose votre identité. Imaginez encore, si vous poursuivez cette lecture, que pour affiner cette déshumanisation je vous désigne par un numéro, disons le 338, et que je vous inocule par injection sous-cutanée une maladie amusante—une peste, le typhus, le tsutsugamushi—ou bien un poison quelconque comme la toxine de fugu.
Faisons tout cela,...
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Album raconté en trois langues: français mi'kmaq et anglais.
Parce qu'ils ne savaient pas se défendre contre le Roi de glace, les habitants d'un village mi'kmaq risquaient la mort chaque hiver. Jusqu'au jour o un brave Mi'kmaq osa lui faire face. Parviendra-t-il à maîtriser cet ennemi redoutable? Sa sagesse et sa prévoyance réussiront-elles à venir à bout de difficultés qui semblent insurmontables?
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Gallant Lake stories volume 1
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She doesn't need a man, but she could use a friend. A charming romance of learning to stand on your own-and falling in love.
When the new director of security, Nick West, arrives at Gallant Lake Resort, Cassie Smith's carefully protected life is turned upside down. The handsome ex-cop insists on teaching her self-defense, and as Cassie learns she can indeed make it on her own, she starts wondering if she wants to! But when Cassie's safety is threatened,...
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Gallant Lake stories volume 5
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A new neighbor was not part of her plan
Is there room for one more in her carefully guarded world?
Jillian Coleman has carefully constructed a haven for herself, complete with therapy dog Sophie to ease her anxiety and panic attacks. But when intriguing developer Matt Danzer shows up asking for access to a road that runs through her land, Jillie finds her stand-alone resolve starting to crumble. Up till now, a predictable life was all she could...
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Gallant Lake stories volume 7
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Pregnant after a one-night stand…
That's a recipe for chaos this Christmas!
Just thinking about that night makes Jade Malone blush! For now, Jade is focused on her new bakery and soon, raising her new baby. When Jade's one-night stand, Trent Michaels, unexpectedly shows up, it's as obvious as baking baklava with honey that their chemistry is real. Until Jade's fierce independence clashes with Trent's doubts about fatherhood. Is their magic...
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She rescues animals in need
Maybe she could save him, too
Feeling more beast than beauty, web designer Olivia Carson hides her physical and emotional scars behind an isolated country life. Only her beloved rescue animals breach her guard. Until a farmhouse remodel brings city-boy contractor Tony Vello crashing into her quiet world. They share similar past pain-and undeniable attraction. But as Olivia's beloved rescue kittens and horses…and her...
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Two conmen, Corley and Lenehan, discuss the maid Corley has tricked into stealing from her employer for him. While Corley meets the maid at a designated time, Lenehan watches from a distance and reflects on Corley's good fortune in settling for a simple girl.
Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. First published in 1914, the stories...
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Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that's just the beginning. André Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area and its fishers. With A High Low Tide he places Georgia, as well as the South, in the national conversation about aquaculture,...
98) Dead Man Talking
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Detective Olivia Brown is back in book 3. Quirky, chaotic and filled with supernatural threats, A.J. Gallant's DEAD MAN TALKING has everything from demons building a portal to Hell, a pregnant detective whose baby will save the world, if she survives and a quirky aunt who can see beyond the veil!Evil lurks in the shadows. Meanwhile, Aunt Stella has a boyfriend and their relationship is a cross between laughable and agitating, but the lady has religious...
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Re-Membering is a memoir about being congenitally physically disabled and experiencing traumatic brain injury. Millett-Gallant recounts her accident, recovery, and consequential discoveries by engaging multiple genres of writing. Chapters are composed of personal narrative, research on brain injury and art therapy, disability studies and other critical theory, information from medical records, voices from other memoirs, and examples of her artwork....
100) On Valor's Side
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From the initial rigors of Parris Island to actual combat conditions at Guadalcanal-here is an enlisted man's true, firsthand account of what it was like to be a Marine during World War II. Here are the fears, the moments of triumph and joy, the gamut of emotions in those facing danger and death on the battlefield. Here is the true story of a long, cruel, holding operation…fought with too little equipment and too few men. Avoiding overdose horror...
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