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Some Creatures Have All the Luck!

Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim, who happens to love cheese and music. With great courage, he braves a cold Venetian winter night to visit an orphanage. Luckily, it’s ...

Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard

By (author) Martyn Bond
Categories: European history

The remarkable story of Austro-Japanese Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union following the First World War, which offered a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, ...

Le Goût délicieux d'une mozzarella!

Voyagez dans le temps pour faire la rencontre de Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky en suivant Minime, une charmante petite souris qui raffole du fromage et de la musique ! Sasha et Bobik attendent impatiemment ...

Sadie x

Sadie a quitté Montréal, jadis, elle fait partie de ces gens qui peuvent tout laisser derrière pour trouver du nouveau. Chercheure dans un laboratoire de Marseille, elle passe la majorité de son temps ...

L'empire invisible

By (author) Mathieu Bélisle
Categories: Politics and government
Series: Phares

L’empire américain, malgré les crises successives qui le secouent, depuis les attentats terroristes aux procédures de destitution en passant par les émeutes raciales, est loin d’être sur son ...

La mauvaise mère

Marguerite Andersen a huit ans quand Hitler prend le pouvoir, quinze quand la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, vingt au lendemain de l’armistice. Yeux baissés devant l’horreur, toute à sa soif de ...

Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors

By (author) Andrew Donskov
Categories: Anthologies: general

As an idealist, Leo Tolstoy was constantly searching for practical applications to his philosophical ideas. He found a prime example in the religious group of the Doukhobors, whom he personally helped ...

The Clean Body

By (author) Peter Ward
Categories: European history

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body. How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes? What did they ...

A Forgotten Hero

In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating ...

Tiny Lights for Travellers

By (author) Naomi K. Lewis
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Wayfarer

When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. ...