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Un contrat peut-il garantir une histoire d'amour ? Ou tout simplement la condamner... Depuis la mort de son père, Allison Huston n'a de cesse de sacrifier son bonheur au profit des autres. Pour obtenir la garde de ses jeunes frères et sœur, elle a dû arrêter ses études et trouver un job. C'est ainsi qu'elle se retrouve chez Johnson Construction. Une expérience qui va la mener sur des chemins insoupçonnés... Fascinée par Derek, le fils de son patron, elle dissimule d'emblée cette attirance.

Nouvelle-Angleterre, Burlington... Pas de délinquance, élue la ville la plus paisible des États-Unis, bref, un petit havre de paix pour une sorcière condamnée à mort et bien décidée à vivre discrètement et clandestinement parmi les humains. Malheureusement, en arrivant ici, je me suis vite aperçue que la réalité était tout autre et qu'il y avait plus de démons, de vampires, de loups-garous et autres prédateurs que nulle part ailleurs dans ce foutu pays. Mais ça, évidemment, ce n'est pas le genre de renseignements fournis par l'office de tourisme. Maudit soit-il.

Pour arracher à la mort l'homme qu'elle aime, la Mère Inquisitrice a prononcé le nom des trois Carillons. Sans le vouloir, elle a ainsi invoqué des êtres de l'au-delà et libéré une puissance destructrice inimaginable. On raconte que les trois Carillons volent les âmes des vivants et absorbent la magie du monde ! Richard, Kahlan et Zedd vont se lancer dans une effrayante quête. S'ils perdaient leurs pouvoirs magiques, comment pourraient-ils s'opposer aux hordes du terrible empereur Jagang ?

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

Despite the rosy picture painted in the ads of a miracle cure for high cholesterol and its attendant heart disease, the reality of taking statins may be far less pretty. Dr. Barbara H. Roberts, director of the Women’s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island, discusses both the benefits and health risks of these popular drugs in this comprehensive guide that finally reveals the questionable science behind the research studies. This honest, patient-friendly appraisal of the most widely used medications in the world may shock you, but it may also save your life.

For 30 years, drummer, author, and songwriter Neil Peart had wanted to write a book about "the biggest journey of all in my restless existence: the life of a touring musician." Finally, the right time, and the right tour. In the summer of 2004, after three decades, 20 gold albums, and thousands of performances, the band Rush embarked on a 30th Anniversary World Tour. The "R30" tour traveled to nine countries, where the band performed 57 shows for more than half a million fans. Uniquely, Peart chose to do his between-show traveling by motorcycle, riding 21,000 miles of back roads.

What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves? Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she reluctantly raised. Now, prompted by the one father figure she respects, older daughter Frankie agrees to drive from Portland to visit her ailing mother, who abandoned the girls when they were in high school.

Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money. Because he always seems to pick the perfect targets, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie think he must be either a Sinful resident or someone with a close association to the town.

A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia.

Whether we call it the inner critic, superego, or just plain nag, most of us have a "judge within" who's constantly on our case. A comprehensive guide to understanding how the inner critic works, this book offers practical, positive suggestions for breaking free of it. Using straightforward language and examples from everyday life, Byron Brown shows: Where the inner judge came from. How it operates. Why it trips us up. Why we believe we need it. How to develop awareness of it. How to disengage from it.

Après avoir conquis la capitale de l'Illian, Rand al'Thor relève un nouveau défi : rejeter les forces ennemies venues reconquérir l'ancien empire d'Artur Aile-de-Faucon. Quant à Egwene, désormais à la tête des Aes Sedai dissidentes, elle est en passe de prendre le contrôle de la Tour Blanche. Tout semble se dérouler à merveille... mais la folie qui guette Rand menace de mettre à bas ce brillant édifice.

The work tells the story of Jane's early life, her experience at Lowood School and as a governess. Her refusal to accept Rochester's love on any but her own strictly moral terms is a passionate cry for independence.

The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text, along with several other works by Musashi.

"Maintenant que la génération des baby boomers et celles qui l'ont suivie peuvent avoir autant de relations sexuelles qu'elles le veulent, elles semblent en avoir perdu l'envie..." Convaincue, après avoir suivi des centaines de couples (hétérosexuels, homosexuels, avec ou sans enfants et de tous âges), qu'il n'y a pas de fatalité au déclin du désir amoureux, Esther Perel nous livre ici une analyse révolutionnaire de ce phénomène.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.

Prisonnier du temps qui s'enfuit d'un corps dont la seule vue le met au supplice, Wyl Thirsk voit se réaliser tous ses cauchemars... Pour se délivrer du sortilège du Dernier Souffle, Wyl doit devenir roi de Morgravia. Malheureusement, le chaos engendré par le Don de la sorcière Myrren plonge Wyl au cœur d'un tourbillon de combats sans fin auquel il n'est pas sûr de survivre.

Dans le petit village de Bâton-sur-Glace, tout le monde aime le hockey. Surtout Ti-Guy La Puck! Le jeune garçon est tellement mordu de ce sport qu’il décide d’inviter les meilleurs joueurs de la planète à rejoindre son équipe. Mais leur arrivée va prendre une tournure tout à fait inattendue. Attention! La révolte des mascottes est sur le point de commencer! 

In the fourth of the ‘Palliser’ stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn’s return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the presence of two women in his life: his old flame Lady Laura, whose estranged husband is determined to destroy Phineas’s reputation, and the wealthy and enigmatic widow, Madame Max.

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.

Ally Nightingale has secrets. Secrets she doesn't even share with the Rock Chicks. But two men know what she's up to. One has her back. The other has her heart, but he doesn't know it. As Ally rewinds the last year of her life, she knows two things. One, she’s never going to get what every Rock Chick should have - her own Hot Bunch guy. And two, she’s a Nightingale through and through. She just isn’t sure what to do about that. But as her secrets are revealed, the men in her life react.