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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America. Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900—a time when many Americans were looking for signs...

Brillant fox-terrier capable de communiquer en messages codés, Sirius émigre aux Etats-Unis avec la famille Liliencron, qui fuit l'Allemagne nazie. Arrivé à Hollywood, il devient la coqueluche des studios Warner Bros. et s'acoquine avec les plus grands : Rita Hayworth, Billy Wilder, John Wayne et Cary Grant n'ont plus de secrets pour lui !

When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can’t remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti starts to fade away. The only hope of saving her is to go to distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal has established an academy to train women in magic. If Muna is to save her sister, she must learn to navigate high society and trick the English magicians into believing she is a magical prodigy.