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Black leopard, red wolf
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ISBN: 9780241315545 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books,

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Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.As the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all. A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." ?Neil Gaiman The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones , from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent?from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers?he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.


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Surface
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ISBN: 2749934982 9782749934983 Year: 2019 Publisher: Neuilly-sur-Seine: Michel Lafon,

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Ici, personne ne veut plus de cette capitaine de police. Là-bas, personne ne veut de son enquête... Après un grave accident, Noémie, une capitaine de la police judiciaire parisienne, est envoyée dans le petit village d'Avalone bien malgré elle. C'est alors que le cadavre d'un enfant disparu vingt-cinq ans auparavant est découvert. L'enquête bouleverse à la fois le quotidien des villageois et la reconstruction de la policière.


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Les voleurs d'enfant
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ISBN: 2952430225 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lille Editions de la Méduse

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Casas vacías
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ISBN: 9788417517649 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ciudad de México Sexto Piso

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Samir Aouchiche.L'enfant sacrifié à Satan.
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ISBN: 2850186880 Year: 1997 Publisher: Levallois-Peret Editions Filipacchi / Société SONODIP

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San-Antonio chez les gones
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ISBN: 9782203124325 2203124326 Year: 2018 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bruxelles Casterman

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Si Bérurier joue les maîtres d'école en plein Beaujolais, ce n'est pas par vocation pédagogique : deux élèves ont disparu et un professeur a été assassiné ! Le commissaire San-Antonio est convaincu que seul un travail d'infiltration permettra de démasquer les coupables... Rythmé, truculent et sexy, SAN-ANTONIO rassemble tous les ingrédients qui ont fait le succès de la création française des années 60, à mi-chemin entre OSS 177 et Les Tontons flingueurs !


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Étouffées
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ISBN: 9782809817966 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris Éditions de l'Archipel

The country of lost children : an Australian anxiety
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ISBN: 0521594995 0521594405 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press,

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The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. In the nineteenth century the idea of losing one's child to a strange country reflected white settlers' distrust of their new land and its Aboriginal inhabitants. The book offers original insights into the passing of an opportunity for reconciliation between European and indigenous Australians. In the twentieth century the lost child continues to torment the national consciousness, but no longer as the bewildered wanderer in the bush. Instead the emblematic lost child of modern Australia is a victim of abuse, abandonment or abduction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, this book analyses the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in our history.


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Availability of law enforcement information in the European Union : between mutual recognition and equivalent right of access
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ISBN: 904660005X 9046600122 9789046600122 Year: 2005 Volume: 24 Publisher: Antwerpen Maklu


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Au nom de ma soeur
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ISBN: 2804012220 2841464024 9782841464029 9782804012229 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bruxelles Labor

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