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Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lowly official at the end of the first century AD, King Jesus recounts Jesus's birth, youth, life as a charismatic 'wonder worker' and the unorthodox, bitter nature of his death and resurrection.

Lors d'un exposé en cours d'histoire sur les premiers autodafés nazis, Livio, 17 ans, retrace l'incroyable parcours de Magnus Hirschfeld, ce médecin juif-allemand qui lutta pour l'égalité hommes-femmes et les droits des homosexuels dès le début du XXe siècle. Homosexuel, c'est précisément le mot que n'arrive pas à prononcer Livio : ni devant son amie Camille, dont il voit bien qu'elle est amoureuse de lui, ni devant ses parents. Magnus Hirschfeld pourrait-il parler pour lui ?

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle steps up to protect her community with the help of a mysterious orphaned girl in this charming follow-up to "St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid," featured on LeVar Burton Reads. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is shot down...' Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline.

How wonderful, that you could cross the ocean and still find yourself looking at mothers and children walking the streets, peering into store windows, and catching buses to get home in time for dinner. Maryam, a young woman from Baku, Azerbaijan, is thrown into the chaos of immigrant life when her mother decides to emigrate to the United States. Maryam initially remains inside at her window studying passersby and reflecting on their clothes, their coffee cups, and a hundred other points of divergence between two cultures.

Set in a small Mennonite community in Pennsylvania in 1896, this novel depicts the reaction of the "plain people" to various modern encroachments. Publishers Weekly called it, "A beautifully told lesson for the contemporary reader in how any community adapts to a changing world." The story portrays tragedy and crisis in a small Pennsylvania community in 1896 from the point of view of a 15-year-old Mennonite boy experiencing his first encounter with death.

Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family - father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives - who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant joys and sorrows, knowledge and mystery. Jess's father is feisty, restless, and fun-loving.

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will.

Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman, tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War. At the center of the tale are two teenage girls—Hyun Jin and Sookie, a teenage prostitute kept by an American soldier—who form a makeshift family with Lobetto, a lost boy who scrapes together a living running errands and pimping for neighborhood girls. Both horrifying and moving, Fox Girl at once reveals another layer of war's human detritus and the fierce love between a mother and daughter.

Au printemps 1976, s'arrachant à sa retraite jamaïquaine, Cimballi a une idée : il ne s'agit plus de gagner quelques millions de dollars, mais d'accéder à la Fortune, la vraie. Une nouvelle vient d'éclater comme un coup de tonnerre dans le ciel bleu de Las Vegas. À l'autre bout des États-Unis, le New Jersey autorise les jeux à Atlantic City. Et Cimballi décide d'y fonder "son" casino : l'Éléphant-Blanc. Il entre dans le monde des maîtres du jeu, monde infiniment dangereux et secret. Quelles sont les lois à respecter ?