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2) Le Point
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L'hebdomadaire français d'information de référence.Avec rigueur, conviction et ouverture, Le Point analyse et prolonge en toute indépendance l'actualité politique, économique, sociale et culturelle en France et dans le monde.
8) Trago
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"At the turn of the century, the open country of Oklahoma was changing. Cowpunchers depended on those wild places for their herds, but then land started disappearing, parceled up by land-grabbing homesteaders. The cowmen couldn't live with fences, They needed space and plenty of it. But in September of 1893, there would be a land rush the likes of which no one had ever seen. The last of the open range would be settled and fenced, unless Trago, a man...
9) The crossing
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Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
10) The island
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Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
12) The Glory Field
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Follows a family's two-hundred year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
13) Jesse
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Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
14) Shadow of doubt
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Newpointe 911 volume 2
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When police officer Stan Shepherd is rushed to the hospital complaining of gastric pains, his horrified friends and family find out that he has been poisoned with arsenic. The situation is especially traumatic for Stan's wife, Celia, whose first husband died after being given arsenic. Although she was acquitted of that crime, local police decide that there is no way two husbands being poisoned in the same way was a coincidence, and Celia is arrested....
15) The lightbulb
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Series focuses on inventions we often take for granted and how they have changed our lives.
16) Word of honor
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There were four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off. Three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose. Who would do such a thing? The answer seems to come in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of Jill Clark's hotel room. The young attorney finds it hard to question that her desperate captor - who has a rifle pointed at her head - is guilty of the bombing. Until later, when he's behind bars......
18) Firefly beach
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Under the summer sky, anything is possible....
Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three sisters come face-to-face with the past and find in each other the courage to go on.
Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered...
Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three sisters come face-to-face with the past and find in each other the courage to go on.
Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered...
20) Beach girls
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Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about—the Connecticut shore—to tell a story about a family of women whose lives...