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Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world – until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self – imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden\'s experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her – a story too horrendous for Torey\'s professional colleagues to

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Spinning directly out of X-MEN: SCHISM, the X-Men are split in two. In the oversized debut issue of the new ongoing flagship X-series, Wolverine takes one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again with a new school, a new student body and a lot of surprises up his sleeve. But when the new Hellfire Club decides they don\'t like what the ol\' Canucklehead has started, and decide to burn

Paul Morand faisait partie des proches de Chanel. Son dernier livre, écrit partir des conversations qu\'il eut avec la modiste, restitue, dans la langue étincelante de ce grand conteur, l\'insaisissable Coco Chanel. Nous suivons, racontées la premire personne, son enfance chez des tantes qui lui donneront le got de l\'épure et le sens de l\'argent, ses rencontres avec les providentiels M. B. et Boy

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Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation.In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence

The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family\'s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint and hosts enviable birthday parties. But as the couple

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James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician is clever and his tricks are exciting but are they dangerous too?

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Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri’s life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness — a man who seems to be out of her reach.

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