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- Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-author.;
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--- Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Libraries; Space; Future, The;
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- Poisson voleur / by Manivong, Laura,1967-;
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- © c2006., Editions Scholastic,
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- Un océan de couleurs / by Scollon, Bill.; Blanchard, Karine.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
LSC- Subjects: Novélisation.; Movie novels.; Doris (Personnage fictif de Disney); Dory (Fictitious character from Disney); Poissons; Couleurs; Fishes; Colors;
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- L'éveil des vers gluants / by Cummings, Troy.; Allard, Isabelle.;
LSC- Subjects: Récits d'horreur.; Horror fiction.; Monstres; Vers; Poissons; Écoles primaires; Monsters; Worms; Fishes; Elementary schools;
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- L'histoire de Doris / by Scollon, Bill.; Blanchard, Karine.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
LSC- Subjects: Novélisation.; Movie novels.; Doris (Personnage fictif de Disney); Dory (Fictitious character from Disney); Poissons; Amitié; Familles; Fishes; Friendship; Families;
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- Leviathan [videorecording] / by Serebryakov, Aleksey.; Madyanov, Roman.; Lyadova, Elena.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov, Elena Lyadova.Nikolay is in danger of losing his home. His pleas to the corrupt mayor of this small Russian village fall on deaf ears. The police and the church are all on the mayor's side. Even his wife ends up betraying him. Desperate, he turns to an old friend he served with in the army. But this friend brings even more trouble into Nikolay's life. Will he be able to overcome all these obstacles and save his home?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Political corruption; Fishing villages; Mayors; Foreign films; Motion pictures, Russian.; Feature films.;
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- Viandes et substituts / by Parker, Victoria.;
LSC- Subjects: Aliments d'origine animale; Food of animal origin;
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- La pêche / by Smith, Annette.; Thériault, Anne,1965-;
LSC- Subjects: Histoires de pêche.; Fishing stories.; Familles; Jours; Families; Days;
- © c2013., Beauchemin Chenelière Éducation,
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- Ne crois pas tout ce qu'on raconte, Arc-en-ciel / by Pfister, Marcus.;
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- Subjects: Picture books.; Arc-en-ciel (Personnage fictif); Rainbow Fish (Fictitious character); Mensonge; Truthfulness and falsehood; Poissons; Fishes; Honnêteté; Honesty; Amitié; Friendship; French language materials.; Livres d'images pour enfants.;
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Angling
Mode of access: Internet.- Subjects: Health & Fitness; Outdoors;
- © , China International Book Trade
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