Polar Adventures

April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But even though it's been a whole year, she can’t stop thinking about Bear. When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she’s convinced it’s her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, chef de l'organisation terroriste SPECTRE, a détourné un avion américain chargé d'armes atomiques. Si ses exigences ne sont pas satisfaites, il détruira l'une des principales villes du monde. Ne disposant que d'une semaine pour retrouver les bombes manquantes, Bond se rend aux Bahamas où il rencontre le bras droit de Blofeld, Emilio Largo, et sa maîtresse Domino. Alors que le temps presse, Bond apprend que les requins ne sont pas les seuls tueurs de la mer des Caraïbes.

Jean-Claude Mourlevat est le premier lauréat français du prix ALMA, communément considéré comme le prix Nobel de la littérature jeunesse. Une histoire qui ne manque pas de piquants. En ce radieux matin d'automne, le hérisson Jefferson décide d'aller chez son coiffeur se faire rafraîchir la houppette. Comment pourrait-il imaginer, alors qu'il arrive plein d’entrain au salon Défini-Tif, que sa vie est sur le point de basculer ?

Quand 007 se rend à Harlem, ce n'est pas seulement pour le jazz. C'est le royaume de M. Big, maître du crime, baron du vaudou et le partenaire de la sinistre compagnie de la mort SMERSH. Ceux que M. Big ne peut posséder, il les écrase—comme sa belle prisonnière, Solitaire, et ses sauveurs potentiels, James Bond et l'homme de l'Agence, Felix Leiter. Tous trois sont les victimes d'un parcours de terreur, de trahison et de torture qui emmène des bas-fonds de New York à l'île du soleil infestée de requins que M. Big appelle les siens.

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the army to serve as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the US Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was scheduled to act as chief of pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching—for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Two teens join an epic battle to save a distant world and its dragon prince. Whitney and Edward are ordinary teenagers, but their lives are about to take an extraordinary turn. As they approach their 13th and 14th birthdays, a mysterious force beckons to them, awakening a sense of wonder and curiosity within. Little do they know, they possess incredible powers that are entwined with the fate of a hidden world they never knew existed.

A wild epic journey by an American with two Inuit companions, struggling to be the first humans to reach the North Pole. After reaching the Pole, the struggle continued with a year-long, near death journey back to civilization, without supplies, competing with animals of the wild without defensive weapons, crossing a shifting sea of ice and struggling for life during the long winter night.

Jon lost his job in Vancouver and finds work at a small gold mining camp. His wife and his young son join him. When the toddler shows them what he had found near the tree line, they know there is something dark waiting for them.

An inspired tale of high adventure, Out in the Cold is Bill Murray's vivid portrait of his travel across the vast Northern Atlantic from the Arctic north of Norway to Nova Scotia. Murray begins in pursuit of a total solar eclipse in Svalbard, 800 miles from the North Pole. He tests the culinary appeal of wind-dried sheep in the tiny Faroe Islands, befriends Inuit bone carvers in Greenland, and camps with an itinerant Italian musician who dreams of building Greenland's first luxury resort.

Stella Starflake Pearl is eagerly anticipating her next expedition. Suddenly disaster strikes when Stella's father, Felix, is snatched by a fearsome witch. Stella must bring her magic ice princess tiara to Witch Mountain or she will never see Felix again! But no one ever returns from Witch Mountain.... Stella, Ethan, Shay, Beanie and reluctant Jungle Cat explorer Percival set off into the unknown. They will face terrifying bat caves, poisonous apple groves, outraged vultures, argumentative mushrooms and deranged broomsticks in their quest to rescue Felix.

Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix are in trouble: President Fogg has expelled them from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club and banned them from going on any further expeditions. Stella's not going to be put off by rules and regulations, though. She knows her friend Shay is in danger of turning into a witch wolf himself, since receiving a deadly bite on their last adventure. It's vital that Stella and her friends set out to find the spellbook that could save his life, even if it means travelling over the cursed Black Ice Bridge.

Le projet Moonraker a un commanditaire millionnaire, le héros de guerre Sir Hugo Drax—un homme qui, semble-t-il, triche aux cartes. Avec une fusée balistique en jeu, l'exposition de Sir Hugo pourrait menacer le dernier système de défense de la Grande-Bretagne. James Bond est donc chargé d'enquêter. Passant du club de jeu le plus exclusif de Londres à un silo à missiles sur la côte de la Manche, 007 et son assistante de la branche spéciale, Gala Brand, découvrent que Drax est bien plus que ce que l'on croit.

In Polar Bear’s Wrapping, young Nicole is outside building a snow fort when she meets a worried polar bear in need of help. The polar bear has a special present for his mommy, but he doesn’t have any wrapping paper. Nicole, always ready for an adventure, decides to help. Together, they come up with a clever idea: using snow to make the fluffiest, softest wrapping paper ever!

Flora's a die-hard dreamer. She's never left the farm, but she knows she was born for adventure. She's determined to become a sled pig! A harrowing voyage to Antarctica, a bacon-loving cook, and a shipwreck in deadly conditions stand between Flora and her dream. What will happen to Flora, whose companions see her as more of a meal than an adventurer?

In Lions at Lunchtime, the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the vast plains of Africa. Before Jack can find out where the lions are, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeasts cross a rushing river. Next, they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away. Jack is about to be very disappointed.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton and his team suppress a mass shooting attempt in the tiny coastal town he calls home, the realization of how deadly his life has become sends him on a journey to separate himself from that violence and save his relationship with the woman he loves. The laidback holiday promises to rekindle the relationship and heal old wounds, until a brutal attack leaves a beloved friend fighting for her life. Chase has no choice but to put his experience, training, and lethal skill set back into action to find and eliminate the threat.

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history.

Runt Higgins has a long to-do list. He needs to find out who cursed him, and why; he needs to make up with his best friend, Syke; and he needs to pass the Junior Henchman Training Program. That last one? Not likely. Professor Murphy hates Runt and is actively trying to fail him. The only way for Runt to pass the class and stay at Dr. Critchlore’s School is to locate a rare mineral that Dr. Critchlore needs to make an Undefeatable Minion. To find it, Runt must travel to icy Upper Worb and battle gyrfalcons, yetis...and the loathsome team from Dr. Pravus’s school.

Polar Knights is based on true events. In 1845, The HMS Erebus and Terror set out for a study of magnetism and the search for the Northwest Passage. Every member of the crew either vanished or was found as a mummy or a skeleton. The native people tried to explain what happened to the men and even claimed that some men survived and lived among them. No one believed them. In 2016 the world became interested in the story again after the ships were found, sunken far from where expected. (But exactly where the natives claimed they could be found.)