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Hey, are you looking for this book? Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil   (French)   Mass Market Paperback   – September 21, 2001 Au milieu des années cinquante, un professeur d'Oxford à l'imagination inépuisable créait une épopée fabuleuse qui allait devenir l'objet d'un culte jaloux pour toute une génération de lycéens anglais avant de conquérir le monde entier. aujourd'hui, les lecteurs du "Seigneur des anneaux", se comptent par millions, mais ces adeptes des "Hobbits" et de leur pays des merveilles continuent à se comporter comme une secte fantastique, J.R.R. Tolkien publia "Bilbo le Hobbit", sésame de l'œuvre, en 1937 et, plus tard, des récits comme "Les aventures de Tom Bombadil", le joyeux drille, qui prolongent l'enchantement sur le rythme des comptes enfantines. L'œuvre complète de J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) figure au catalogue de Pocket.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; [and] Sir Orfeo Mass Market Paperback   – December 12, 1979 SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R. Tolken that the language, romance, and power of these great stories comes to life for modern readers, in this masterful and compelling new translation.

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope   Kindle Edition The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of  The Lost and  The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors  celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life. Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left—their lives, and those of their unborn babies. Having concealed their condition from infamous Nazi doct

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers   Kindle Edition Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s brutal regime. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights, and sassing her parents. While her beautiful mother worried that Loung was a troublemaker—that she stomped around like a thirsty cow—her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl. When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung’s family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education, their former life of privilege. Eventually,

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition   Kindle Edition Fifty years after its original publication,  Catch-22  remains a cornerstone of American lit-erature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by  Time, Newsweek,  the Modern Library, and the London  Observer . Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be re

The Sunday Wife: A Novel   Hardcover   – September 4, 2002 Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.