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"What does 'allegiance' mean?" the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart.
In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell's extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read...
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Ce titre m'a été rappelé par mon séjour de deux ans et demi à Toronto au début des années 1960. Certains collègues anglophones faisaient de l'ironie en m'appelant « French-Canuck ». C'est ainsi que j'ai francisé ce terme pour en faire le titre de mon premier roman, publié à la fin de 1994, alors que se dessinait le deuxième référendum. Au départ, le titre devait être « La musique du souvenir », parce que la musique y joue un rle...
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Get the Summary of Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Seven-year-old Elsa feels like an outsider but shares a special bond with her eccentric 77-year-old Granny, who creates a fantasy world called the Land-of-Almost-Awake to help Elsa cope with life's challenges. Granny's apartment building is filled with unique tenants, each with their own quirks...
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Barry has not kept up with his routine bodily maintenance. Though he's had regular blood replacements and lymph balancing, his eye fluid is long overdue for changing, and now his eye floaters are a thick cloud that's becoming more and more self-aware by the day.
When Barry is downsized from his job as Pen and Paperclip Auditor, his eye floaters' political rallies turn out to be what save him from starvation and homelessness.
But they're...
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The only thing worse thanwaking up with the hangover from hellis waking up with a hangover in hellWhen literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he' s been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives.But he soon realises there' s something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway.Is Foster...
6) Haze
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Anyone painful memory with traces kept back in particular placesIt will be unique, but they have vanished in a haze of antiques!
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I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but I was willing to offer the benefit of the doubt, hoping that once sworn in he'd magically start acting with a dignity befitting the office. That anticipation, more like delusion, had totally dissipated by 2019 when I started writing Trump-related satires as a form of personal therapy, following an age-old tradition that pompous people in power invite ridicule. Here was a man all about himself -- a fragile,...
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Get the Summary of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Korede, a meticulous nurse, is entangled in her sister Ayoola's lethal habits. Ayoola, the younger and more carefree sister, has a history of her boyfriends dying under suspicious circumstances, which she claims are accidents or self-defense. Korede, bound by loyalty and fear, aids Ayoola in covering up these...
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Novels
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Gilded Age
The Prince and the Pauper
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The American Claimant
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tom Sawyer, Detective
A Horse's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
Novelettes
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Those Extraordinary Twins
The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Stolen White Elephant
The...
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These satirical columns, written from 2003 to 2009, allow startlingly candid Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush to explain their need to control the destinies of countries, regions, and, ultimately, the world. Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Karl Rove, and other notables, not all famous, also demand part of the stage.
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Die ganze Welt ist ein Irrenhaus? Nun ja, wenn das so ist, dann könnte man ja die ganzen Klapsmühlen zusperren. Wobei, dort befinden sich ja meistens ganz besondere Leute, von daher sollte man sich das Ganze vielleicht vorher doch noch besser etwas genauer überlegen.
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In Zeiten wie diesen, in denen die Ressentiments wie Pilze aus dem Boden schießen, in denen die Parteien dem Volk das Dasein vermiesen, kann man sich nur dazu entschließen, die eigene Phantasie zu genießen, laßt Blütenträume sprießen! Das Ende der politischen Landschaft, wie wir sie kennen.
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Ein alter Sack schaut auf sein Leben zurück. Ein anderer Kerl derselben Sorte will sich an einem Schriftsteller rächen und trifft dabei auf sein Opfer. Dazu auch noch jede Menge Interessantes und Humorvolles über Politik, Fußball, Medien und Religion sowie ganz viele absurde Geschichten, die nicht nur lustig sind, sondern manchmal sogar auch noch zum Nachdenken anregen. Sehr abwechslungsreich.
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Die beiden Kurzgeschichten beinhalten eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Macht und Liebe, immer mit einem Augenzwinkern und dennoch teilweise durchaus ernst gemeint. Es wird aufgezeigt, was passieren könnte. Manchmal entwickelt sich eine unaufhaltsame Eigendynamik, die alles mit sich reißt, so daß kein Stein mehr auf dem anderen bleibt.
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Excerpt: "The object of this essay is to examine vulgarism and slang in the works of Jerome K. Jerome (b. 1859). Jerome gives us very good specimens of the ordinary language of the Victorian era. His style is not surprisingly original, but he shows a remarkable talent in rendering with perfect accuracy the characteristic talk of different classes of society. The persons he introduces to us need only utter a few words, before we are able to form a...
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Dieselben Leute, die immer mit dem Stinkefinger auf die Anderen zeigen, erweisen sich als überfordert, wenn es darum geht, die Wirklichkeit von der Realität zu unterscheiden. Was geht in den Köpfen von Arbeitslosen vor? Kamen sie schon arbeitslos zur Welt oder machten sie eine Ausbildung zum Arbeitslosen auf der Arbeitslosenakademie? Hochinteressante Fragen, die leider auch in diesem Werk nicht beantwortet werden.
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This book brings you moviemaking like you've never seen before: The stars! Rance Jericho, the man who was King; The hits! Uplifting movies such as A Carnival for Timmy, Hear the Word, and Three Strikes and You're Saved; The intrigue! Who are these upstarts calling themselves "Blood of the Lamb Films"?; The writers! Meet the hotshot kid who created this year's blockbuster, The Fetal Detective; The passion! Why has Evie Speck taken such a...
18) Mai way
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Der junge Mann und das Meer. Todkrank am Strand, soll es das schon gewesen sein? Ein Blick zurück, ein Stück Glück im Unglück. Plötzlich taucht eine Seelengefährtin auf und verhilft zu neuen Erkenntnissen. Dazwischen jede Menge Skurrilitäten. Wer mal was ganz Anderes lesen will, ist hier genau richtig.
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Get the Summary of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1995, Lillian, a 28-year-old living in her mother's attic and working two cashier jobs, receives a letter from her wealthy friend Madison Roberts, offering her a job. Lillian accepts and travels to Madison's estate in Tennessee. Madison, now married to a senator, needs Lillian to care for her stepchildren, Bessie and Roland,...
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A defiant woman and her colorful neighbors reclaim their homes in Chernobyl.
There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowo-also known as Chernobyl-but Baba Dunja has returned. And she's brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start anew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading...
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