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Les Editions Jalou
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Français
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Premier lifestyle magazine sur le marché français, L'Officiel Voyage offre un mix de lieux d'évasion, d'idées voyages, d'hôtels et de resorts, mais aussi de tendances mode, d'accessoires, de repères gastronomiques, de high-tech… Un bel écrin pour découvrir le monde.
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Kanra Publishing France
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Français
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Le magazine N°1 en France des amateurs d’hôtels de rêve et de destinations rares ! Adresses inédites, circuits exclusifs, spas, restaurants, shopping… Les tests et reportages réalisés par des journalistes aguerris vous donnent les clés pour voyager dans des lieux préservés où l’hospitalité est un art.
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English
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What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
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English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually...
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Voyager book volume AVB 88
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English
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Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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English
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A group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. The men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. But the island has a secret... --Back cover.
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Voyager books volume AVB 89
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1974], c1942
Language
English
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A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.
11) Pinky Pye
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English
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While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.
12) Half magic
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English
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Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
14) The time garden
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English
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While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
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English
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Big Anthony plans a surprise Christmas party for Strega Nona.
"It's Christmas time in Calabria and with Strega Nona's annual feast around the corner, she has no time for her usual magical tasks. Christmas has a magic of its own, and no one knows magic like Strega Nona does, especially Big Anthony. But with the clock ticking on her preparations, will Big Anthony finally be able to prove that he can be counted on with some magic of his own?"--
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English
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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic...
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[1991], c1990
Language
English
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Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time, he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien himself, merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body.
The alien whose tomb that spacecraft was, brought humanity both a blessing and a deadly peril. The technology now the control of Vanguard Industries has changed...