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The Confidence Men

How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

par Margalit Fox ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg ... En savoir plus

$16.99 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg
... En savoir plus

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth

The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

par Margalit Fox ...

The discovery and deciphering of Europe's earliest known written language is recounted with "almost nail-biting suspense" in this prize-winning account ( Booklist, starred review).In 1900, famed archaeologist Arthur Evans uncovered the ruins of Knossos, a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age. The massive discovery included a cache ... En savoir plus

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The discovery and deciphering of Europe's earliest known written language is recounted with "almost nail-biting suspense" in this prize-winning account ( Booklist, starred review).In 1900, famed archaeologist Arthur Evans uncovered the ruins of Knossos, a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age. The massive discovery included a cache
... En savoir plus

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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

par Margalit Fox ...

**America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood**A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage ... En savoir plus

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**America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood**A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage
... En savoir plus

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Conan Doyle for the Defense

How Sherlock Holmes's Creator Turned Real-Life Detective and Freed a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder

par Margalit Fox ...

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the WoodsA sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a ... En savoir plus

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“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the WoodsA sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a
... En savoir plus
Arthur Conan Doyle, investigador privado

par Margalit Fox ...

Traduit par Francisco García Lorenzana ...

Collections series Tiempo de Memoria
Un libro extraordinario sobre un episodio fascinante de la vida de Arthur Conan Doyle: un caso real digno de Sherlock Holmes.En 1908, una anciana de posición acomodada muere brutalmente asesinada en su domicilio de Glasgow. La policía no tarda en encontrar a un sospechoso muy adecuado: Oscar Slater, un inmigrante alemán de origen judío y más que dudosa reputación. A pesar de la debilidad de las ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

Un libro extraordinario sobre un episodio fascinante de la vida de Arthur Conan Doyle: un caso real digno de Sherlock Holmes.En 1908, una anciana de posición acomodada muere brutalmente asesinada en su domicilio de Glasgow. La policía no tarda en encontrar a un sospechoso muy adecuado: Oscar Slater, un inmigrante alemán de origen judío y más que dudosa reputación. A pesar de la debilidad de las
... En savoir plus
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Die furchtlose Mrs. Mandelbaum

Vom Aufstieg und Fall einer berühmt-berüchtigten Frau im New York der Gangs und Ganoven

par Margalit Fox ...

Lu par Ursula Berlinghof ...

Version Longue

8 heure 18 min

Im Jahr 1850 erreicht die 25-jährige Fredericka Mandelbaum aus Kassel wie Zigtausende andere bettelarm und nur mit dem Traum von einem besseren Leben im Gepäck das gelobte New York. In den Straßen von Lower Manhattan schlägt sie sich anfangs als Hausiererin durch – 20 Jahre später ist Fredericka »Marm« Mandelbaum geschätztes Mitglied der New Yorker High Society. Wie hat sie es in dieser Zeit zu ... En savoir plus

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Im Jahr 1850 erreicht die 25-jährige Fredericka Mandelbaum aus Kassel wie Zigtausende andere bettelarm und nur mit dem Traum von einem besseren Leben im Gepäck das gelobte New York. In den Straßen von Lower Manhattan schlägt sie sich anfangs als Hausiererin durch – 20 Jahre später ist Fredericka »Marm« Mandelbaum geschätztes Mitglied der New Yorker High Society. Wie hat sie es in dieser Zeit zu
... En savoir plus
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The Confidence Men

How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

par Margalit Fox ...

Lu par Richard Elfyn ...

Version Longue

9 heure 54 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg ... En savoir plus

$27.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth

The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

par Margalit Fox ...

Lu par Pam Ward ...

Version Longue

7 heure 44 min

In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on ... En savoir plus

$24.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

par Margalit Fox ...

Lu par Saskia Maarleveld ...

Version Longue

6 heure 17 min

**America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood**A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage ... En savoir plus

$23.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

**America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood**A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage
... En savoir plus

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Conan Doyle for the Defense

The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

par Margalit Fox ...

Lu par Peter Forbes ...

Version Longue

7 heure 41 min

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the WoodsA sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a ... En savoir plus

$23.99 CAD

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the WoodsA sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a
... En savoir plus

Livre audio

The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

par David Damrosch ...

Lu par William Hughes ...

Version Longue

7 heure 23 min

Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British ... En savoir plus

$23.99 CAD

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Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British
... En savoir plus

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The Book of Science and Antiquities

A Novel

par Thomas Keneally ...

Lu par Paul Haley ...

Version Longue

9 heure 43 min

Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia.An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a ... En savoir plus

$35.99 CAD

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Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia.An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook

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