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Momo de Sinro Ser volume Tome 3
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Finaliste au prix Christie 2001 pour son titre précédent, Premier trophée pour Momo de Sinro, François Barcelo nous revient avec une histoire touchante où action se conjugue avec émotions. Maurice Monette de Saint-Romain-des-Champs, alias Momo de Sinro, fera la découverte d'un bien drôle de sentiment. Que faut-il dire? que faut-il faire lorsqu'on a la chance d'être aux côtés de la plus belle fille de l'école? L'été tire...
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Gulliver jeunesse volume 66
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• Dans ce roman, préfacé par Maurice Richard, François Gravel fait partager aux jeunes lecteurs sa passion du hockey en imaginant un match qui regrouperait, entre autres, les Maurice Richard (dit Le Rocket), Bernard Boum-Boum Geoffrion, Gordie Howe et Bobby Orr, ces grandes vedettes de la Ligue nationale de hockey des années 50 et 60. En quelques mots... Lors d'une rencontre avec un mystérieux personnage, Maurice Richard et quelques-uns...
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Les Editions de l'Homme
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La vie sur le beat du Canadien, c'est bien sûr le plaisir d'être sur la passerelle et de côtoyer les idoles, mais c'est aussi le stress de la chasse aux primeurs, une collaboration parfois ardue avec l'équipe, d'innombrables ennuis techniques et des problèmes éthiques difficiles à résoudre. Jonathan Bernier a rencontré 29 journalistes de divers horizons affectés à la couverture du Tricolore afin de recueillir leurs plus savoureuses...
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Collection Vive le vent! volume 18
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Vents d'ouest
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Le joueur étoile Rabelski est l'idole de Jawad qui s'intéresse beaucoup au hockey depuis qu'il est arrivé au pays. Mais il se pourrait que l'allier des Satellites ait communiqué au garçon un petit quelque chose d'autre que la passion du sport. Un petit quelque chose de bien étrange, en vérité! Jawad #x96; qui est timide de nature #x96; se met tout à coup à collectionner les exploits et les coups d'éclat. À tel point qu'il devient...
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Bouton d'or Acadie
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"Après un match de hockey qui s'est soldé par une défaite, un coéquipier remonte le moral de Malcolm en lui confiant que le joueur des Albatros que sa famille héberge attribue ses succès aux toasts au ketchup. Malcolm persuade sa mère de devenir famille d'accueil pour un élève du programme hockey-études. Malcolm grandira donc en côtoyant des joueurs comme Nicolas Raymond, Pierre-Luc Dubois et Marc-Éric Bourque. Ensemble, ils...
6) LeBron James
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title introduces readers to LeBron James, covering his early life, career, and life off the court. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
8) Bonefish
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Five years ago, I had never heard of a bonefish. The first man who ever spoke to me about this species said to me, very quietly with serious intentness: 'Have you had any experience with bonefish?' I said no, and asked him what kind that was. His reply was enigmatical. 'Well, don't go after bonefish unless you can give up all other fishing.'
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Craig Boddington's first African hunting book, From Mount Kenya to the Cape, chronicled his hunting exploits from 1977 to 1986. Since that time, he has written a book every ten years on his African experiences. Now he's back with Tracks Across Africa, which chronicles his third decade of African hunting. Pretty much, every country open to hunting in this period saw Craig Boddington walking on its soil: C.A.R., Chad, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania,...
10) Buffalo!
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Craig Boddington is a veteran hunter of Africa's game lands. He has hunted one animal more than any other, the buffalo. He also has hunted them in every place in Africa where a huntable population exists. Craig tells his readers where to hunt, how and when to hunt, and what will happen when they do hunt. He describes what it means to rush the herd, one of his favorite methods of hunting these worthy opponents. Published entirely in color, this book...
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Trout eat a large variety of food items and diets and feeding behaviors change over time. Jason Randall is the author of Moving Water and Feeding Time. He enjoys promoting his books at fly fishing shows across the country and is a frequent contributor to American Angler. He lives in Woodstock, Illinois.
After reading Feeding Time, I was astounded. Chapter after chapter, Jason takes the reader from start to finish about habitat cycles and the habits...
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"If you are a bird hunter looking to improve your marksmanship, welcome to the skeet field!" Mulak explains how the sport of skeet can help you hunt those unpredictable birds. Illustrations and photographs clearly show the right way--and the wrong way--to shoot skeet and improve your score. Mulak's information takes you from the skeet range to the hunt, with a new set of tools at your fingertips.
What makes someone a good shot? Author Steven Mulak...
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From farm ponds to the Amazon, Lefty's wit and wisdom captured in 101 stories about his most memorable fly-caught fish. The late Lefty Kreh was an outdoor writer for more than 50 years and was named "Angler of the Year" by Fly Rod and Reel magazine in 1997. He fished with newsman Tom Brokaw, Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia), and actor Michael Keaton on the Outdoor Channel's Buccaneers & Bones. He wrote for nearly every major outdoor magazine...
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Kevin Robertson has hunted with multiple clients for dangerous game, and over the years, he has had a number of funny, interesting, and sad encounters. Now for the first time ever, Doctari has, committed these stories to paper, and we guarantee these anecdotes will keep you entertained for hours. Pull up a chair and read along as Doctari, relates his stories as though they are being, told around a campfire in a safari camp.
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There may be no better example of American individualism and rugged outdoorsman than the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In this volume we find two of Roosevelt's works on hunting, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman", and "The Wilderness Hunter", combined into one volume. Roosevelt, who as President would bring some 230 million acres of land under the protection of the National Parks and Forest Services, was an avid naturalist and...
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In his book, Jones covers the wary whitetail from Canada to old Mexico and all locations in-between-he even covers the diminutive Coues deer of the Southwest. To be successful at whitetail hunting you need to be serious, and who is more serious than the professional whitetail guide, the man (or woman) who makes his/her living at it? So, read the other one-person accounts for exciting stories, but read this book for the invaluable information needed...
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Hannes Wessels is one of the most talented writers that we at Safari Press have read in a long time. This former PH in Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe writes tales of hapless figures and derring-do gone wrong that will make you laugh out loud-a rarity in the cut-and-dry genre of big-game hunting. There is the story about a PH who wanted to impress the beautiful daughter of a client and landed up in the emergency room with a rifle barrel stuck up his...
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First published in 1653, Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" is a classic and much-loved treatise on the art of fishing. Immediately popular after its publication, "The Compleat Angler" was reprinted and updated numerous times by Walton. Written as a conversation between the fictional characters of the experienced angler Piscator and his student Viator, which was changed to a hunter named Venator in later editions, the treatise is part an instructional...
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Hockey Card Stories reveals what was really going on in your favourite old hockey cards through the eyes of the players depicted on them. Some of the cards are definitely worth a few bucks, some a few cents - but every story told here is priceless. Sportsnet's Ken Reid presents the cards you loved and the airbrushed monstrosities that made you howl, the cards that have been packed away in boxes forever, and others you can't believe ever existed. Whether...
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