The winter man

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Nick Bruel

Cet adorable personnage et ses aventures loufoques sont une parfaite introduction aux romans à chapitres. Les enfants adorent Méchant Minou et ses pitreries les font rire aux éclats. Il est temps d'élire le nouveau président du Club des Chats du Quartier. Qui gagnera les élections? Le candidat choisi par les chats du côté droit de la rue? Ou celui des chats du côté gauche? Quand le grand jour arrive, un candidat (devinez qui?) se rend compte qu'il ne s'est même pas inscrit sur les listes électorales. Le résultat des élections pourrait bien surprendre Méchant Minou. Tout se jouera sur le dernier bulletin, envoyé à la dernière minute par un vieux minou.

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Michael Walzer

A provocative discussion of recent wars and the issues that surround them, written by a preeminent political theorist. Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics.

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Chris Lynch

High school senior Gordon Foley runs for mayor at the behest of his grandfather, an old-style politician scheming to regain power while he's in prison for fraud.

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Gillian Bradshaw

A fictional story set in late antiquity in the Mediterranean, mainly in the cities of Ephesus (western Turkey) and Alexandria (Egypt), about a young aristocratic girl with a gift for medicine and science who flees her home in Ephesus, disguises herself as a eunuch, and studies medicine at the school in Alexandria, eventually becoming a well respected surgeon and physician and even serving a stint in the Roman army. Her teachers and mentors include a Jewish physician practicing in Alexandria and the Archbishop Athanasius (a historical figure). Her life path takes her into the way of many adventures that reveal the social and political atmosphere of the fourth century CE (AD), including religious quarrels and scientific debates.