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The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born.

Cheveux blonds comme les blés, écharpe au vent... le petit prince est connu de tous. Les aventures de cet enfant pur et innocent tombé du ciel sont emplies d’amour, de poésie et de vérité. Voilà un message qui nous incite à poser un regard neuf sur notre humanité et notre condition humaine. C’est une invitation à revenir à l’essentiel, à célébrer la vie dans son expression la plus noble, en toute simplicité, avec les yeux du cœur.

The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family.

Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she’s breathing, she’ll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom - and free will - of millions. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane’s husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot.

Une femme, abattue d'une balle en pleine tête, dont le meurtre demeure irrésolu. Des fidèles buvant les paroles d'un chaman au charme aussi énigmatique que ses pouvoirs. Des rituels immoraux, pratiqués au nom de l'amour infini. Des enfants affectés par d'inquiétantes difformités physiques. Un jeune homme qui n'a plus d'autres choix que de croire ce qu'il voit...

"No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun - just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.

The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them, a life that, though "hid with Christ in God", was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time.

Odette, Didi et Siegfried, trois cosplayeurs professionnels, participent au plus grand événement international à Tokyo. Sur place, des fanatiques prennent en otage des milliers de personnes déguisées. Le trio y joue le plus grand rôle de leur vie. Les masques tombent, un à un. Une histoire d’amour mêlée de malédiction, un magnifique rêve éveillé se transforme en cauchemar : ce ballet russe du 19e siècle par Tchaïkovski résonne encore aujourd’hui dans l’imaginaire.

Un garçon retrouvé aveugle dans les décombres. Deux parents disparus. Des souvenirs évaporés dans l’obscurité infinie de la cécité. Une faculté unique, terrifiante, se développe chez l’enfant. Un don qui ne tardera pas à devenir une affreuse malédiction.

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! “A vivid portrait...a sensitive tribute…a paean to youth, community, and the tenacity of local law enforcement.” –New York Times “A mesmerizing read and a great detective story, yet sadly all true…With their book The Idaho Four, James...

Amira Brindonu has won. The man she loves has been freed from his curse, and her mother’s people have chosen to ally with their cause. Even as Amira and Daindreth celebrate victory and Thadred grows in his power as a sorcerer, trouble stirs on the horizon. Not everyone is ready to recognize the rightful heir. Vesha’s reign brought the empire peace and prosperity. Many lords and barons must be convinced if they are to swear allegiance to Daindreth. Meanwhile, Vesha seeks out greater power. In a desperate effort to protect the empire, she will make yet another deal with a fallen goddess.

La vie à Hollow Cove s'était enfin calmée... du moins, c'est ce que je croyais. Je comptais profiter de ma nouvelle vie avec mon homme tout juste épousé, mais visiblement, la paix et la tranquillité ne figurent jamais au programme. C’est là qu’intervient Lilith—Déesse de la Nuit et Reine du Monde Inférieur—qui débarque sans prévenir pour exiger une faveur. Refuser ? Pas vraiment une option. Comment dire à une divinité d’aller se faire voir quand elle menace de vous tuer si vous ne coopérez pas ? Alors oui, j’ai accepté.

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement—when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin—in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for listeners of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.

A modern story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them; a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now attempting to woo her; and a couple in denial about a looming health crisis as well as their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying.

Une jeune toxicomane choisit de vivre à fond malgré l'horreur issue de son passé. Une grande soeur poussée à bout par un père monstrueux commet l'irréparable, mais le lourd secret à porter menace de consumer sa famille. Un philosophe excentrique obsédé par la mort, prêt à tout pour percer le mystère des deux soeurs et mener à terme son expérience. Et, dans l'ombre, un prince charmant perd patience. Il veut obtenir ce qu'on lui a promis il y a dix ans...

"Baltimore Woman Disappears During Family Vacation." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with $500 tucked inside. To the best of her family's knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace. But Delia didn't disappear. She ran.

Georgia feels loveless - in the romantic sense, anyway. She’s 18, never been in a relationship, or even had a crush on a single person in her whole life. She thinks she's an anomaly, people call her weird and she feels a little broken. But she still adores romance - weddings, fan fiction and happily ever afters. After a disastrous summer, Georgia is now at university, hundreds of miles from home. She is more determined than ever to find love - and her annoying roommate, Rooney, is a bit of a love expert, so perhaps she can help.

Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. She does her job with razor-sharp accuracy. Friends are a luxury she cannot allow herself, and love is something she knows she'll never attain. Kerry Stuart left Michigan for Florida in an attempt to get away from her domineering politician father and the constraints of the overly conservative life her family forced upon her. After college she worked her way into supervision at a small tech company, only to have it taken over by Dar Roberts's organization.

A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal.... A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder.... A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today’s surveillance state....

Cette version moderne de La petite sirène vous submergera dans les bas-fonds de la nature humaine et de l’horreur. Un conte d’espoir, de perdition, de déchéance, où sont exploités les plus bas instincts qui animent les hommes. Il faut parfois savoir accepter notre destin au risque de déclencher des évènements irréversibles.