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More than a decade since Michael Jackson’s death, his legacy remains complicated and unresolved.

Pour lui, seule sa passion compte... Depuis qu'il s'est mis en tête de devenir le plus grand joueur de sa génération, Ambrose n'a jamais rien laissé se dresser en travers de son rêve. Alors, quand son médecin lui annonce qu'il doit envisager de mettre un terme à sa carrière de hockeyeur à seulement vingt-huit ans, il décide de poursuivre son objectif, quitte à mettre sa vie en danger. Elle n'a pas le temps pour une histoire d'amour et déteste les sportifs. Fille d'un ancien joueur de la NFL, Ivy a en aversion tout ce qui touche au monde du sport.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

TL Swan, auteure best-seller aux classements du Wall Street Journal et USA Today, revient avec cette romance consacrée à Christopher Miles ! Christopher Miles a tout pour lui : argent, pouvoir et femmes à ses pieds. Pourtant, un vide le ronge. Piqué au vif par les moqueries de ses frères sur son incapacité à s’engager, il décide de tout plaquer pour une année sabbatique incognito en Europe. Adieu vie de luxe, bonjour auberges de jeunesse ! C’est là qu’il croise le chemin de Hayden Whitmore. Belle, intelligente et... totalement indifférente à son charme !

Battle Mage or Magical Engineer? Like that was even a real question. Battle Mage...obviously. Magical Engineers live quiet, boring lives. I crave excitement. And as an agent for the Arcane Mage Intelligence Agency, that’s exactly what I get. It’s a pretty great life. I go on solo missions, kicking ass and taking names, I hook up with men whenever I want to blow off some steam, and I hang out with my family if I’m ever after company. Everything changes when my psycho uncle fails in his attempt to kill my father. Now, I’m in charge of the manhunt against him.

Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.

“Bold and imaginative.” —Tananarive Due “This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A truly powerful and riveting story.” —Booklist In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs...

Eva est une jeune femme indépendante, bosseuse, et au caractère bien trempé. Cela fait maintenant plus de trois ans qu'elle travaille sous les ordres de l'implacable et richissime Devon Anderson, soit l'homme le plus arrogant qu'elle ait jamais connu auparavant. C'est simple, depuis le tout premier jour, elle le déteste profondément. Ce dernier ne se prive pas de la malmener à la moindre occasion. Très souvent, il la prend pour sa boniche. Fort heureusement, notre héroïne n'est pas du genre à se laisser marcher sur les pieds.

DARK ROMANCE. Aya est enlevée et conduite dans un entrepôt désaffecté. Lorsque ses yeux y croisent ceux de Ash, son premier amour, elle se pense à l'abri, mais la réalité est autrement plus violente. Celui dont elle a été éperdument amoureuse est désormais son bourreau. En la sauvant autrefois, Ash a cédé son âme à la Familia. Aujourd'hui à la tête d'un réseau de traite de blanches, il s'assure de gravir les échelons au sein de l'Organisation. Ses plans sont clairs, son avenir tout tracé, et rien ne se mettra en travers de sa route, notamment celle qui mène à la vengeance.

Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer tells the fascinating story of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who became the beloved mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio before morphing into a symbol of cultural decline. Through dozens of intimate and revealing interviews with those who knew Springer best—from his big sister to his early political aides to the producers who shaped his show—listeners will be transported into the world of this singular figure’s rise to notoriety, and his fascinating struggle to reconcile his status as “the king of trash TV” with his lifelong dream of returning to politics.

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him.

Melanie Hoskins, an experienced firefighter-paramedic, has been recruited by a very selective and secret organisation known as The Division. Their mission is to protect the populace and secure the continuation of the United States. The Division is only activated at times of dire need. This just so happens to be one of those times. Based in New York City, Hoskins is forced to leave her civilian life and those she loves behind, and join the front line to try to control the 'dollar flu' virus that has been spreading throughout the city.

Since Yakima's been able to date, her detective father has reminded her of the type of men to steer clear of. At twenty-seven, she's done just that until one night of partying and a botched raid lead her into the house of mob boss Francisco Matisse.

ADHD may be the defining diagnosis of our time. According to the latest data, more than 10 percent of American children (that’s 7.1 million kids) have been diagnosed with ADHD. And the number of stimulant prescriptions for adults in their 30s has shot up nearly threefold since 2012. In recent years, this explosion in demand has combined with other factors to create a widespread stimulant shortage in the US. In the second installment of Backfired, cohosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes look at the unintended consequences of the ADHD industry, and trace the surprising path that brought us here.

Ana Knight is a British mafia darling. As the high society stepdaughter to the leader of a well-known syndicate, she lives a lavish life. Until it all comes crashing down. When her entire family is seemingly wiped out in one fell swoop, she only has one place to turn. The Morettis. The honorable Italian mafia is home to her best friend, Jade, and her nine brothers. The formidable family takes her in without hesitation, vowing to protect her and exact vengeance on her behalf. The only caveat? A marriage to seal the deal.

Je m’appelle Foster Oxley, mais tout le monde me surnomme Fox, j’ai 22 ans et je suis le meilleur joueur de football de mon époque. Rien que ça. Tout me réussit, j’ai gagné les plus grands trophées, je fais partie de l’une des meilleures équipes d’Angleterre et il n’est pas question de m’arrêter là. Je suis déjà un dieu, je compte devenir une légende avant mes vingt-cinq ans. Il n’y a qu’un seul petit problème qui pourrait mettre à mal mes projets.

Valessa is in danger. Her town has been captured by Aventinian raiders, the women taken, and now she's on a ship destined for nowhere good. But when a terrifying, four-armed sea-ogre pirate boards the ships and demands compensation, Valessa's luck changes.

Ce livre traite de sujets qui pourraient potentiellement heurter la sensibilité des lecteurs, comme : l’évocation de maladies, de la mort, d’addictions et de dépression.Bill Croft s'est toujours efforcé d'être le fils parfait. D'étudiant brillant à hockeyeur professionnel, il excelle dans tous les domaines. Jusqu'à ce qu'un drame vienne tout remettre en question. Dans la vie, rien n'est éternel... Alors qu'il est au sommet de sa carrière, il se raccroche à ses proches et à la seule chose qui compte réellement à ses yeux désormais : le hockey.

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New...

An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James Spanning Gaiman’s career to date...