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Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic, and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel’s book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala.

Un million de dollars pour un an de mariage... Jasmine Lee est aux abois. Elle peut à peine payer son loyer, encore moins les factures médicales de son père. Elle a besoin d'argent, et vite, si elle ne veut pas perdre son père. C'est alors que Shepard Marlowe entre en scène. Le magnat des technologies a besoin d'une femme et il est prêt à payer. Un million de dollars pour une année à son entière disposition. Sa liberté en échange de la vie de son père. C'est une bonne affaire.

À quinze ans, Martin Larocque savait ce qu'il voulait faire dans la vie : être papa. Fier «propriétaire» de trois garçons, et ayant acquis une importante connaissance sur la parentalité, il propose une réflexion décomplexante sur l'éducation des enfants parce que, dans ce magnifique univers de parents, si vous essayez d'être comme tout le monde et de faire «comme il faut», vous ne saurez jamais à quel point vous êtes un bon parent ! Ce livre offre un discours rafraîchissant et déculpabilisant sur la parentalité qui fera un grand bien aux lecteurs.

Qu’ont en commun l’éditorialiste en chef de La Presse, François Cardinal, l’exjoueur du Canadien Steve Bégin, le chanteur Marc Hervieux, le comédien Claude Laroche, le chirurgien Stanley Vollant, l’artiste Marc Séguin, l’humoriste Mathieu Cyr et l’entrepreneur Alexandre Taillefer? Ils ont tous eu beaucoup de difficulté à l’école, au point de décrocher pour plusieurs, que ce soit par rébellion, par ennui, pour cause d’hyperactivité, de pression ou d’anxiété.

Dr. Ball has told his story before in bits and pieces, but this is the first time it has all been articulated in one place in an intimate and comprehensive format. Provocative, challenging, and radical, Being Infinite articulates Dr. Ball’s nondual perspective that developed from his entheogenic experiences and the profound transformations they made within his sense of self and understanding of the nature of reality and being....

More than just a bodyguard, a Protector chooses a female to ward for life and swears an oath to die for her if necessary. Enter Leah Roth. The luscious little Earth female is supposed to be just a quick surveillance gig for Grav. He'll check on her and report back that she's okay - it should be easy. Only she's not okay. When Grav sees Leah's abusive husband hurting her, he swings into action.

The Collected Blandings Short Stories. Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, who likes nothing better than to potter at home in his enormous castle garden. But his rural idyll is once again set to be disturbed in these nine hilarious fables. No peace is possible when his sister Constance is let loose, and she is constantly trying to reorganise the household and its inhabitants! Without great success…

All four sacred mysteries of the Rosary. The praying of the Rosary is dedicated to the Joyful (sometimes Joyous) Mysteries; the Sorrowful Mysteries; the Glorious Mysteries, and (as suggested by Pope John Paul II) the Luminous Mysteries.

Kaum ein anderer Politiker dieses Jahrhunderts symbolisierte in solchem Maße die Friedenshoffnungen der Menschheit und den Gedanken der Aussöhnung aller Völker auf Erden wie der ehemalige südafrikanische Präsident und Friedensnobelpreisträger Nelson Mandela, dessen Rolle für seinen Kontinent mit der Gandhis für Indien verglichen wurde.

From the producers of the Number One bestselling CD The Wit of Cricket, here is a brand new collection of the funniest cricket stories at home and abroad, recorded live at Great Brickhill Cricket Club in Bedfordshire. Join in the laughter at hilarious anecdotes about the Ashes, overseas tours, sledging, Test Match Special, and much more!

Being dragged through a mirror, naked and screaming, onto an extraterrestrial ship was bad. Finding out I had been sold to a huge alien male who looks like the devil was worse. But learning he wanted to trade me to an intergalactic petting zoo was the worst of all! Now I'm whizzing through the galaxy with a robot butler, a trio of nib-nibs (they're like tiny green monkeys), and one huge, muscular, and very grumpy alien.

Le Fonceur (The Go-Getter) de Peter B. Kyne est un récit intemporel sur la persévérance, la détermination et le pouvoir d'un esprit inébranlable. Le roman suit le parcours d'un jeune homme qui, afin de prouver sa valeur, se voit confier la mission d'acquérir un vase bleu rare et précieux. Malgré de nombreux défis et obstacles, il reste résolu dans sa quête, faisant preuve de résilience et d'un engagement sans faille envers son objectif.

In Where Tyranny Begins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde investigates the strategies Trump systematically used to turn the country's two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons. Rohde also reveals how, during the Biden years, Justice Department non-partisan 1970s norms that Attorney General Merrick Garland reinforced inadvertently helped Trump, and could fail to deliver a trial and legal accountability by Election Day 2024.

To the world, Mia Thornton is invisible. People would never guess that she found the will to dig her way out of a locked shed when she was just six years old. That she never saw her mother again. Now, all Mia longs for is a normal life. But when she runs into a group of colleagues one evening, she discovers that, once again, she’s been excluded. Stung at the rejection, she pockets the keys of one of the women in a petty act of revenge. Celeste is fearless, pretty, popular - everything Mia wishes she could be. The next day, Celeste is reported missing.

From the rich imagination of science-fiction great Alan Dean Foster comes the story of Midworld, a Humanx Commonwealth planet that's equally fragile and hostile. Covered by a lush rainforest, Midworld is home to a primitive society that lives in harmony with the natural world. But the arrival of an exploitative human company, whose workers know nothing of Midworld's delicate ecosystem, sparks a conflict. Should Midworld's villagers aid the humans or stand against them?

The Grove is a perilous wound on the face of the planet, home to the most fearsome creatures in all of Rock. Death himself has trod these paths, leaving in his wake freakish mutants who still bear within themselves a piece of his morbid nature.

Une femme est assassinée chez elle. Sur son bureau, on retrouve le numéro de téléphone de Konrad, ancien policier. L'enquête révèle rapidement qu'elle l'avait contacté récemment pour lui demander de retrouver l'enfant qu'elle avait mis au monde cinquante ans plus tôt, et qu'elle avait abandonné juste après sa naissance. Désolé de lui avoir refusé son aide, Konrad s'emploie à réparer son erreur. Il découvre l'existence d'un mouvement religieux contre l'avortement et reconstruit l'histoire d'une jeune fille violée dans le bar où elle travaillait.

Alicia y Tom, dos amigos con una curiosidad insaciable, descubren un misterioso mensaje que los conduce a unos extraños códigos, poniendo a prueba su ingenio y valentía. Pero cuidado: no están solos; un malvado científico se convierte en una peligrosa amenaza.

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the 20th century from Mafia insider Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.

Listen "live" to one of the most iconic orators of all times in this packed-full collection of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches. King's rich and passionate style of delivery will transport you back to the era of the civil-rights movement, when King advocated non-violent resistance in the pursuit of equality and dignity not only for blacks but for all mankind. Seldom has any leader since inspired and captivated an audience worldwide and motivated a nation to action.