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Daniel Smith

    19 octobre 1976

    Dan Smith est un auteur de livres. Son œuvre captive les lecteurs par son style et son contenu uniques. Ses écrits offrent des récits captivants et des réflexions profondes. Les lecteurs apprécient sa voix distinctive et sa capacité à les immerger dans ses histoires.

    The Beast of Harwood Forest
    Every Household Its Own Government
    Think You Know It All? Genius Edition
    Ancestral
    Atlas des guerres et des conflits dans le monde
    Le village
    • Le village

      • 477pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Hiver 1930, dans le petit village isolé de Vyriv en Ukraine, Luka, vétéran de la guerre de Crimée, découvre un homme inconscient traînant deux corps d'enfants mutilés. À son retour, la peur s'empare des villageois, déjà hantés par la paranoïa de l'ère stalinienne. L'arrivée de cet étranger suscite des craintes : a-t-il amené un tueur d'enfants, un véritable monstre ? Lorsqu'une fillette disparaît, Luka jure de la retrouver. Il se lance alors dans une traque à travers les étendues gelées et hostiles, confronté à un prédateur rusé. Ce récit dépeint un héros au sens de l'humanité rare, tout en offrant un réalisme quasi documentaire sur la survie dans un contexte de guerre et de brutalité. L'auteur, avec une maîtrise romanesque saisissante, explore les ténèbres de l'âme humaine et dresse un portrait à la fois juste et effrayant des débuts du stalinisme. Ce thriller, déjà acclamé par la critique, se distingue par sa force émotionnelle et sa tension constante, promettant de devenir un classique immédiat.

      Le village
      4,4
    • Ancestral

      • 118pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Rooted in the rural Midwest, this collection of poetry reflects Daniel Smith's three decades of experience on his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. It delves into themes of familial bonds to the land, the labor of farming, and the emotional turmoil that arises when that way of life becomes untenable. The poems vividly capture the transformations affecting agriculture and the rural communities, offering a poignant exploration of heritage and sustainability.

      Ancestral
      4,7
    • Take your quizzing up a notch with the new Genius Edition of this bestselling adult activity book, a compendium of questions that will delight and infuriate - and the answers are all in the back, if you need them!

      Think You Know It All? Genius Edition
      4,5
    • Every Household Its Own Government

      • 216pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Empty pipes and H2O entrepreneurs: boreholes, cart pushers, and "pure water" -- Problem has changed name": electric power and consumer citizenship -- Okadas and danfos: "public transportation" in Nigeria -- "Be what you want to be": cell phones and social inequality -- "They don't know what i have not taught them": the privatization of public schooling -- "Sleeping with one eye open": infrastructural insecurity.

      Every Household Its Own Government
      4,4
    • The Beast of Harwood Forest

      • 120pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and at night strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody knows what experiments took place at the institute during the war, so Pete and his friends make it their mission to find out. But the forest is hiding a sinister secret, and the trio could be in real danger... Are some mysteries best left undisturbed?

      The Beast of Harwood Forest
      4,1
    • My Friend the Enemy

      • 305pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      One night in 1941, the war comes to Peter when a German plane crashes into woods near where he lives. Peter rushes to the crash hoping to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is someone: a young and injured German airman in need of his help.

      My Friend the Enemy
      4,2
    • Animals behaving oddly, people falling suddenly ill - what's creeping around down at the farm? Crooked Oak's mystery-solving team return with another spine-tingling adventure.

      The Horror of Dunwick Farm
      3,0
    • A milestone of graphic reporting, this groundbreaking 'atlas with attitude' keeps pace with the speed of change with informed analysis and graphically analyses every key indicator and vital statistic of modern life. This statistically meticulous and beautiful presentation of trends is essential to understand the world today.

      The State of the World Atlas
      3,8
    • A beautiful gift volume of the private love letters of kings and through the ages - Letters of Note meets Lady in Waiting.

      Love Letters of Kings and Queens
      3,5