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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate is nothing more than a well-executed mission. Coincidence...
3) Timequake
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Language
English
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There's been a timequake. And everyone - even you - must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time - minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.
5) Double blind
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English
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"A dramatic and powerful novel reflecting on nature, nurture, inquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive"--
London. Olivia's connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off the grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve her friend Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two-- but Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow...
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English
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"I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It's always there. Always. Jake once said, 'Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.' And here's what I'm thinking: I don't want to be here." In this novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour,...
Author
Publisher
[Dell Pub. Co.]
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
Français
Description
Jacques le fataliste est un roman de Denis Diderot, écrit au XVIIIe siècle. L'histoire suit les aventures de Jacques, un valet, et de son maître, un noble anonyme, alors qu'ils voyagent à travers la France. Le livre est écrit dans un style bavard et humoristique, qui fait souvent référence aux conventions littéraires de l'époque.
Jacques le fataliste est un livre fascinant qui utilise l'humour pour aborder des questions profondes et complexes....
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Series
Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Billy Pilgrim regresa a casa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial solo para ser secuestrado por extraterrestres del planeta Tralfamadore, quienes le enseñan que el tiempo es un presente eterno."--
"Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present."--
Author
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated...
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Publisher
Éditions Amalion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
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""Le tr s beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ram ne nous-m mes. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour crire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont ternels." - Ken Bugul , Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Rue F lix-Faure, De l'autre c t du regard,...
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