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Bon voyage, Mister Rodriguez
\"Every day, the children in the village wait to watch the mysterious Mr. Rodriguez go by. His odd but charming ways are eventually revealed to be part of his preparation for the afterlife in this moving intergenerational tale.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Waterhole
A haunting and engaging debut from a talented Australian author. Sixteen-year-old Sunny Maguire is dreading the school holidays. She used to love visiting her grandmother's farm but ever since her mother died in a tragic car accident, Sunny doesn't feel at home anywhere anymore and the farm is a constant reminder of what she has lost. She knows it's going to be a long summer. Worse, she has to spend it with her distant stepfather, Kevin, the only 'family' she has left. On her return to the small town of Kelly's Crossing, Sunny is distracted by a new resident - Matthew Bright - and the disappearance of local teenager Dylan Koslovski. She gets involved in the search for Dylan along the mysterious Constant Creek Gorge, a beautiful location tainted by tragic drownings. Complications arise when Kevin becomes a suspect in the case and rumours begin to circulate. Sunny doesn't trust him and she's beginning to lose faith in herself, too, especially when she starts to see her mother's ghost.
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Death note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.
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Fish in Exile
A couple loses their child in this poetic and devastating novel in which grief reaches \"enthralling and mysterious pleasures\" (Carol Maso). A couple named Catholic and Ethos struggle with the loss of their child. How? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. \"The result is a novel that forges a new vocabulary for the routine of grief, as well as the process of healing\" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Thunderhead
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
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La Guerre Sainte de Muriel
La seule femme occidentale a avoir jamais commis un attentat suicide.Cet ouvrage raconte l'histoire vraie de Muriel Degauque qui quitta Bruxelles a bord de sa Mercedes blanche pour aller se faire exploser a Bagdad. Une femme extraordinaire minee par un chagrin extraordinaire. Chris de Stoop s'est entretenu avec les divers protagonistes et leurs proches, il a etudie les dossiers et a suivi les traces de Muriel jusqu'en Irak ou il a retrouve l'epave de la voiture piegee et mis un terme a son recit.Une histoire qui leve le voile sur un phenomene inquietant, alors que des centaines de jeunes Europeens rejoignent au nom du djihad islamique la guerre en Syrie, en Irak ou en Afghanistan.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Chris De Stoop est journaliste. Il a pris un an de conge sans solde pour realiser la presente enquete. Outre de nombreux articles et reportages, il est egalement l'auteur d'une etude sur la traite des femmes redigee a l'intention de la Fondation Roi Baudouin.EXTRAIT La paix soit avec toi, sA ur dit Muriel en s'avancant de derriere la tenture avec deux tasses de sang dans les mains. Elle sourit aux huit femmes assises sur le tapis, mais son salut de paix s'adressait surtout a Rebecca qui etait venue non en patiente mais en amie. Rebecca etait la petite fiancee africaine d'un ami wallon, Pascal, un converti aux yeux bleus et aux cheveux blonds qui lui avait tourne la tete et lui promettait le paradis.C'etait une vraie succession de malheurs dans la piece : les recits des femmes commencaient systematiquement par un grand soupir pour se terminer par un inch'Allah resigne. Elles se plaignaient de toutes sortes de troubles et douleurs : maux de dos et maux de tete, stress et anxiete. D'avoir de mauvaises selles, des mains deformees ou la peau purulente. Ou de souffrir des nerfs et d'insomnie parce que leur mari ne leur parlait plus, que leurs fils trainaient dans la rue, qu'elles-memes ne quittaient plus la maison ou ne connaissaient personne ou ne parlaient pas la langue. Ou avaient le mal du pays.La plupart des patientes s'adressaient a Muriel par son prenom islamique : Maryam. Celle-ci les ecoutait avec compassion, leur posait quelques questions precises : age, alimentation, maladies anterieures, medication, douleur. Avant de commencer le traitement, elle prononcait la bismillah: Au nom d'Allah, le Tout-Misericordieux, le Tres-Misericordieux.
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And so it goes
Explores the way that some people leave the world and others come into it, and how those who come into it eventually leave it.
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The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic historical adventure novel 'The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale' has been enjoyed around the world for over 120 years. The story follows two Scottish noblemen brothers whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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