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It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe,...

Pour la seconde fois en un an, la ville de Duluth s'apprête à vivre la frénésie médiatique qui accompagne la disparition d'une adolescente. Après la jeune Kerry - littéralement volatilisée -, c'est au tour de Rachel, jeune fille décrite par tous comme une très précoce mangeuse d'hommes, de s'évanouir dans la nuit. Mais cette fois, l'inspecteur Jonathan Stride n'est pas disposé à laisser le temps effacer toutes ses traces : ténébreux,...

It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...

After performing endless tricks and futile searches, a treat-obsessed little dog finally makes a tasty discovery.

From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic.

"A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters--they were in French--but she noticed all...

Linked by the Spirit River, the two towns couldn't be more different: in Barron, a powerful research corporation enriches its residents, while in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company's carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. When Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation's president, is found dead and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk, is accused of the crime, the enmity between the towns escalates into warfare. Olivia's best hope is her estranged...

French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pissaro and Renoir his work focused on indoor subjects, particularly his acutely observed pieces on ballerinas. His masterful studies of real life resonate still today and he remains one of the most popular painters in the world. This beautiful new book showcases all of his major works (including Ballet Rehearsal,...

"When defense lawyer Andy Carpenter's veterinarian asks to speak to him privately at the checkup of his golden retriever, Tara, the last thing Andy expects is Truman. Tiny, healthy, French bulldog Truman was dropped off days ago with instructions to be euthanized by a man everyone thought was his owner. But now the owner is nowhere to be found ... [and] it's discovered that the man wasn't Truman's owner at all ... Truman's real owner has been murdered....