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1892. Lady Emily Hargreave's well-intentioned husband, Colin, persuades her to recuperate at his family's estate in Normandy. While out riding, Emily happens on the butchered corpse of a woman, later identified as an escaped inmate from an insane asylum outside Rouen. The nature of the victim's wounds suggests that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel to France.
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"A riveting new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. Charles Vincent seems to have it all--a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to...
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After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
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A crime writer telling the story of forty-something Louis, who decides to do his cash-strapped friends a favour by hastening their parents demise, finds reality and fiction overlapping during his stay on the Normandy coast. Pascal Garnier s latest novel combines the style of Simenon, the philosophical insight of Camus and a wit and originality that is all Garnier s own.
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A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal...
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"As the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow's plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand-year-old legend, the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears, Adamsberg races to Ordebec, where he becomes entranced by the gorgeous Lina--and embroiled...
9) The kites
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A small farm in Normandy, as Hitler rises to power in Germany. Ludo lives with his uncle, kite maker Ambrose Fleury, in the small town of Clery in the French countryside. Everyone in the Fleury family has an impressive "historical memory" that earns Ludo the ire of his teachers and arguments with Lila, the naive daughter of Polish aristocrats living next door. After Germany invades Poland, Lila and her family disappear. Ludo's journey to save her...
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Un misterioso fabricante de juguetes que vive recluido en una gigantesca mansión poblada de seres mecánicos y sombras del pasado... Un enigma en torno a extrañas luces que brillan entre la niebla que rodea el islote del faro... Una criatura de pesadilla que se oculta en lo más profundo del bosque... Estos y otros elementos tejen la trama del misterio que unirá a Irene e Ismael para siempre durante un mágico verano en Bahía Azul.--Desde la...
12) Światła września
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When Irene's widowed mother gets a job on the coast of Normandy in 1937 as housekeeper for a wealthy former toymaker and his disabled wife, Irene joins forces with Ismael, a local boy, to explore the mysterious house and its secrets.
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At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. He embarks on a mission to resolve lingering questions about this past, hoping to heal himself along the way. The search leads to a disturbed man who may hold more answers than anyone expects-if only...
15) Bez śladu
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Charles wiedzie z pozoru idealne życie, ale nie czuje się szczęśliwy. Nie znosi swojej pracy i jest uwięziony w małżeństwie bez miłości. Pewnej nocy zasypia za kierownicą i traci panowanie nad samochodem. Auto skręca z drogi i spada z klifu do morza. Charles cudem uchodzi z życiem. Posiniaczony i zakrwawiony znajduje w sobie siłę, żeby poszukać pomocy. W ciemności dostrzega światło w domku w lesie. Drzwi otwiera mu piękna artystka...
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Written in three parts, The Things We've Seen is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations which offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of humanity, history, violence, art and science. The first part follows a writer who travels to the small, uninhabited island of San Simon, where he witnesses events which impel him on a journey across several continents, chasing the phantoms of nameless people devastated by violence. The...
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"Yuna Irena razom iz mamoyu ta bratom vymushena pokynuty ridnyy Paryzh i perebratysya do provintsiynoho mistechka na uzberezhzhi Normandiyi. Yiyi maty pratsyuvatyme ekonomkoyu v mayetku vydatnoho mekhanika ta inzhenera Lazarusa. Tsey budynok poven nadzvychaynykh zahadkovykh mekhanizmiv: robotiv, shcho vidchynyayutʹ dveri, hodynnykiv iz tayemnychymy posmishkamy, lyalʹok-tantsivnytsʹ, yaki u svoyiy plastychnosti ne hirshi za zhyvykh lyudey. Ta odniyeyi...
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