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Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an instant dislike to his nephew and gets rid of the boy by securing him a teaching position at Dotheboys Hall, where the evil Wackford Squeers presides. Horrified by the barbarity he sees there, Nicholas defies Squeers and is forced to flee.

Janvier 1917. Cinq soldats français condamnés à mort en conseil de guerre, aux bras liés dans le dos. Toute une nuit et tout un jour, ils ont tenté de survivre. Le plus jeune était un Bleuet, il n'avait pas vingt ans. A l'autre bout de la France, Mathilde, vingt ans elle aussi, plus désarmée que quiconque, aimait un Bleuet d'un amour à l'épreuve de tout. La paix venue, elle va se battre pour connaître la vérité et le retrouver, mort ou vivant, dans le labyrinthe où elle l'a perdu.

Do you constantly feel overwhelmed, even when nothing major is happening? Do you jump between moments of brilliance and total shutdown? Do you feel like you’re performing a version of yourself every day? Do you struggle with shame, guilt, or a sense of never being “enough”? Have you always sensed something was different about you—but no one ever noticed? If you answered yes, this book is for you. Inside, you'll find 10 powerful stories—each one a mirror for adult women who’ve lived with undiagnosed A.D.H.D.

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, 15-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.

Theo Fitzcharles thought he’d put the worst behind him when he became King of Thalania and named his two lovers, Meg Sanders and Galen Mikos, as his Consorts. Unfortunately, the realities of running a country have worn on all of them, individually and as a triad. Theo has every intention of making things right, but first he has to deal with an old enemy who’s closer than anyone could have dreamed.

All Inn Thyme is a complete standalone that can be listened to without having heard any of the other books, but if you prefer to listen in order, start with Falling Inn Love, as the characters and families are connected.

Packed full of magic and adventure - a collection of seven fantastic stories from the creators of the bestselling What the Ladybird Heard series. Read by lots of fantastic and famous voices, it's perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime or any time at all! Join in the adventure...

Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She’s known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay. But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: Her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she’s still grieving her father’s recent death.

Combien de fois nous sentons-nous divisés entre nos aspirations de gauche et celles de droite, entre le travail et la famille, les corvées et le repos... Comprendre que quoi que je fasse me permet au bout du compte de nourrir la même valeur est un soulagement. Et puis fini les multiples tentatives usantes pour arrêter de fumer, ou se forcer à faire du sport : c'est comme tenter de supprimer un pied à une table qui trouve son équilibre sur quatre !

Penguin presents the audio download edition of The Puffin Book of Five-minute Stories, read by Sophie Aldred and Christopher Timothy. A lively collection of nineteen short, snappy stories, some old, some new, to make you gasp, laugh, frown or giggle.

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and...

Après que mes origines non-humaines ont été découvertes par les Gardes de la Reine du Crépuscule, j’ai été vendue au Roi des Elfes pour éponger ma dette. Me voilà donc engagée pour cinq ans comme assistante personnelle du Roi, une position bien plus compliquée que prévu. En plus de risquer ma vie chaque jour, son conseil m’a confié la mission de lui trouver une épouse. Sans un mariage approprié, il ne pourra financer sa guerre contre la Reine du Crépuscule. Le Roi a tout pour plaire et nombreuses sont les candidates de haut-rang, pourtant il refuse toutes mes propositions.

Now that Hadley's billionaire father knows about her existence, her life has changed drastically. She just never imagined she might be targeted because of her family. And she definitely never imagined she would fall for the one man she should never want.... Axel was simply going to warn her that she was in danger and get out. Then he got a taste of her and fell hard. But they're from two different worlds. Not only is she innocent, she's out of his league. He should keep his distance, but he can't. Not when someone wants her dead. Now he's driven to protect her, to keep her safe.

Bestseller-Autorin Kerstin Gier verzaubert mit der vollständig überarbeiteten Zeitreise-Edition mit exklusivem Zusatzmaterial. Nachdem Gwendolyn herausgefunden hat, dass sie das Zeitreise-Gen in sich trägt, muss sie alles lernen, was zum Zeitreisen dazugehört: Menuett tanzen zum Beispiel oder die Etikette des 18. Jahrhunderts (beides nicht wirklich einfach!). Dabei ist sie viel mehr damit beschäftigt, zu verstehen, warum Gideon sich so seltsam verhält. Erst küsst er sie, dann lässt er sie links liegen.

Il est de bon ton, à notre époque, d'affirmer qu'il ne faut vivre que de ses passions...

In the latest story of the Elder Races, two mates face their deadliest challenge yet-each other… Pia and Dragos's magical young son Liam (the Peanut), is growing at an unprecedented rate, and if that isn't enough, he is also exhibiting new, and unpredictable, magical gifts. To protect him, the concerned parents decide to move to upstate New York. Both Dragos and Pia relish the idea of leaving behind the city. They finally have the space to indulge their Wyr side, and Liam can grow in safety.

Voltaire est un maître de l'ironie et du mot d'esprit. Voilà les armes principales dont ce philosophe des Lumières, dramaturge, scientifique et poète se sert sans relâche dans ses attaques au vitriol contre l'institution catholique, les adversaires de la liberté de culte et d'expression, et de la séparation de l'Église et de l'État. Sélectionnées parmi ses œuvres majeures, ces 100 citations vous familiariseront avec l'essence de sa pensée tout en nourrissant votre esprit de répartie, de "Candide" au "Dictionnaire philosophique", en passant par "Zadig", le "Traité sur la tolérance" ou l'une de ses six mille lettres connues.

En psychologie, favoriser le mieux-être individuel équivaut à faire œuvre de salut public, puisque les bienfaits d'une vie heureuse débordent la personne pour rejaillir sur la collectivité. Un éclairage psychologique simple peut contribuer à donner un sens à ce qu'on vit. Préconisant comme toujours une approche humaniste, l'auteur met en pleine lumière 50 thèmes capitaux - le bonheur, l'incertitude, la liberté, la mort, l'empathie, le choix personnel, la créativité, la sexualité, l'amour, etc.

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest. A BOOKPAGE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The house was supposed to be...