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- Ghost music : a novel / by Yu, An,1992-author.;
"From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician. For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can't escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom. When a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law's province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles. When a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms, Song Yan's world begins to tilt further into the surreal. Summoned to an uncanny, seemingly ageless house hidden in a hutong that sits in the middle of the congested city, she finds Bai Yu, a once world-famous pianist who disappeared ten years ago. A gorgeous and atmospheric novel of art and expression, grief and survival, memory and self-discovery, Ghost Music animates contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a lonely yet hopeful young woman and gives vivid color and texture to the promise of new beginnings"--- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Musicians; Pianists; Women;
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- D-Day Girls The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II [electronic resource] : by Rose, Sarah.aut; cloudLibrary;
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II “Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true.”—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To “set Europe ablaze,” in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive  (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France. In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently de­classified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. There’s Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE’s unflap­pable “queen.” Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence—laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war. Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage—and the energy of politically animated women—can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high. Praise for D-Day Girls “Rigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book.”—Refinery29 “Equal parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative, D-Day Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.”—The Washington Post “Gripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)- Subjects: Electronic books.; Women; World War II; Intelligence & Espionage;
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- Les animaux de la ferme / by Charlesworth, Liza.; Cavagna, Marlène.;
LSC- Subjects: Animaux domestiques; Animaux; Exploitations agricoles; Domestic animals; Animal sounds; Farms;
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- Le fantôme de la ferme / by Gervais, Stéphanie.; Gendron, Sabrina.;
Pour les jeunes de 8 ans et plus.- Subjects: Fantômes; Ghosts; Exploitations agricoles; Farms; Animaux domestiques; Domestic animals; French language materials.;
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- Une journée à la ferme / by Sanschagrin, Joceline,1950-; Brignaud, Pierre.;
À partir de 2 ans.LSC- Subjects: Caillou (Personnage fictif); Animaux domestiques; Exploitations agricoles; Caillou (Fictitious character); Domestic animals; Farms;
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- Embrouilles à Embrun : roman / by Messier, Mireille,1971-; Keelan-Bishop, Marc.;
LSC- Subjects: Roman policier.; Mystery fiction.; Exploitations agricoles; Animaux domestiques; Vol (Droit); Farms; Domestic animals; Theft;
- © c2013., Vermillon,
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- Meuh où est Gertrude / by Dutrizac, Benoît,1961-; Bellebrute.;
LSC- Subjects: Récits humoristiques.; Humorous fiction.; Vaches; Mère et enfant; Animaux domestiques; Vie à la ferme; Cows; Mother and child; Domestic animals; Farm life;
- © c2014., Fonfon,
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- La ferme / by Lallemand, Orianne,1972-; Thuillier, Éléonore,1979-; Potard, Céline.;
Dès 2 ans.- Subjects: Picture books.; P'tit Loup (Personnage fictif : Lallemand); Fermes; Farms; Animaux de la ferme; Domestic animals; French language materials.; Livres d'images pour enfants.;
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- La merveilleuse machine à se faire des amis / by Bland, Nick,1973-;
LSC- Subjects: Poulets; Téléphones intelligents; Téléphones intelligents; Animaux domestiques; Amitié; Chickens; Smartphones; Smartphones; Domestic animals; Friendship;
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