April in Paris

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Jean Racine

Cleofile. Quoi ? Vous allez combattre un roi dont la puissance semble forcer le ciel a prendre sa defense, sous qui toute l'Asie a vu tomber ses rois, et qui tient la fortune attachee a ses lois ? Mon frere, ouvrez les yeux pour connoitre Alexandre : voyez de toutes parts les trones mis en cendre, les peuples asservis, et les rois enchaines ; et prevenez les maux qui les ont entraines. Taxile. Voulez-vous que frappe d'une crainte si basse, je presente la tete au joug qui nous menace, et que j'entende dire aux peuples indiens que j'ai forge moi-meme et leurs fers et les miens ? Quitterai-je Porus ? Trahirai-je ces princes que rassemble le soin d'affranchir nos provinces, et qui, sans balancer sur un si noble choix, sauront egalement vivre ou mourir en rois ? En voyez-vous un seul qui sans rien entreprendre se laisse terrasser au seul nom d'Alexandre, et le croyant deja maitre de l'univers, aille, esclave empresse, lui demander des fers ?

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Émile Zola

Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable. Saccard, last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes. - Back cover.

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James Holland

April 1940. Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Fleeing north are three officers of the King's Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King to get leading scientist Hening Sandvold out of Oslo to safety. As Sergeant Jack Tanner and his comrades are pushed back from Lillehammer, they are stranded in the mountains, where they stumble across Sandvold and his protectors, and then a French patrol of alpine troops. Sandvold holds the key to a secret that could change the outcome of the entire war - but the odds are stacked against this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians making it to safety.

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Mick Jackson

A cockney evacuee to rural Devon is victimized by a local gang called the Five Boys. But he is not the only stranger to have an impact on the village. There are US soldiers destined for Operation Tiger, an English deserter in hiding, and Bee King.