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Lauréat du prix Renaudot 2008. Biographie romancée d’Aimé Victor Olivier, vicomte de Sanderval, qui fonda, au début des années 1880, le projet de conquérir à titre privé le Fouta Djalon, actuelle Guinée, et d’y faire passer une ligne de chemin de fer.

Leila is the daughter of an early pioneer family in Western Australia where the onset of the war cruelly interrupts her passionate romance. After 40 years the romance is rekindled.

For the Steeds, the years between 1836 and 1838 are a time of separation and reunion, committment and apostasy, heartache and hope. Nathan Steed joins Parley P. Pratt on a challenging mission to Upper Canada. Jessica, Joshua's ex-wife, feels compelled to seek a safe haven with the Church in Far West, Missouri; meanwhile, Joshua, restless, ambitious, and haunted by his past -- journeys to Savannah, Georgia. Tensions between Melissa and her nonmember husband, Carl, forces her to make a difficult decision.

Thy Gold to Refine covers one of the stormiest and trying, yet inspiring periods of Church history. The Steeds are reunited in Far West, Missouri, all the while animosity towards the Mormons is growing unchecked. Violence erupts and Governor Boggs issues an extermination order for the Mormons leading to the spilling of innocent blood at the Haun's Mill massacre. Far West falls, Joseph Smith is jailed, and the Mormon Saints are forced from Missouri. Even Joshua Steed takes up arms, but will he fight for or against the Mormons?

Pillar of Light — the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory — begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland. There they meet a young man named Joseph Smith and are thrown into the maelstrom of conflict and controversy that swirls around him. Did he really see the Father and the Son in a pillar of light? Has he truly been visited by angelic messengers? What is all this talk about gold plates and new scripture? In short, is he a prophet and seer or a monumental fraud?

Despite ongoing trials, they feel that God has granted them this season of relief, hope and joy.

In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except for one. Unfortunately, for the people of Stoker-on-Avon, their monster isn't quite as impressive. In fact, he's a little down in the dumps. Can the morose Rayburn get a monstrous makeover and become a proper horror? It's up to the eccentric Dr.

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie.

British couple Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, vacationing on a Nigerian beach in a last-ditch effort to save their faltering marriage, come across Little Bee and her sister, Nigerian refugees fleeing from machete-wielding soldiers intent on clearing the beach. The horrific confrontation that follows changes the lives of everyone involved in unimaginable ways. Two years later, Little Bee appears in London on the day of Andrew's funeral and reconnects with Sarah.

A riveting exploration of the dark, brooding presence of the First World War in the lives of the inhabitants of a "soldier's settlement" on Vancouver Island.