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A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button.

Resigned to living out the Second World War in a German POW camp, James Hunter, an English officer, begins studying a pair of redstarts near the camp.

Traduit de l’anglais (Canada) par Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky.

Marin s'est fait voler son sandwich, celui du lundi au jambon-cheddar-laitue, son préféré! Quel malfaisant a pu commettre un acte aussi cruel?

D’une voix candide et poignante, Marie Réparatrice nous plonge dans l’univers chatoyant d’une fillette de 8 ans.

New Babylon n'existe pas. Mais s'il fallait crâeer cette ville, les duels y seraient permis et il n'y aurait pas d'autre loi que celle interdisant les hommes de loi.

While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read.

Among these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head.

"Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms.

From the 1860s to the 1880s, the outlaws known as the Winter Family roam the harsh frontier, both serving and battling the fierce advance of civilization.

This story begins in the late 1890's and documents the life of an ambitious young man who grew up eagerly looking forward to a comfortable and sheltered life in an isolated community in Russia near

Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951.

Susan Hostetler leaves her Amish life behind and starts a new life among the English, but when a pregnant woman asks Susan to help her find an Amish family to adopt her baby, she finds herself draw