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Les livres sont des portes... Cassie Andrew travaille dans une petite librairie new-yorkaise. Elle mène une vie plutôt tranquille jusqu'au jour où un de ses clients préférés, un charmant vieux monsieur, est pris d'un malaise et meurt sous ses yeux. La jeune femme est surprise de retrouver près de lui un petit ouvrage rempli de dessins et de notes étranges dont il allait lui faire cadeau, Le Livre des portes. Cassie et sa colocataire Izzy vont bientôt découvrir que cet ouvrage a un incroyable pouvoir : faire voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps.

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading. But this is no ordinary book… It is the Book of Doors. Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings, it promises Cassie that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them.

The world of unknowable objects—magical items that most people have no idea possess powers—has been quiet for decades, but the three members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world—and the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable Objects, hears of a new artifact coming to light in Hong Kong, he sends Magda Sparks—author by day and newest member—to investigate.

Todos conocemos el poder de los libros, su capacidad para transportarnos a otro mundo, para permitirnos huir de la realidad, pero ¿y si escondidos entre todos los libros que conocemos existieran libros secretos con poderes extraordinarios? Libros que, literalmente, pueden transportarte a cualquier parte del mundo a través de una puerta; libros que pueden crear ilusiones; libros que te pueden traer suerte o condenarte a vivir entre las sombras. Hay cazadores de libros que han dedicado su vida a buscar estos ejemplares: su valor y sus poderes son infinitos.

When celebrated radio personality and columnist Kerre Woodham found herself 40, overweight, and depressed she faced two choices - do nothing and probably not make it to 50 or do something and get her life back. Fortunately for all of us, and especially those women who like to eat and dress well, she decided to fight back. Leaving kilos of herself and two bra sizes behind 'somewhere in the Waitakeres', she embarked on a fitness and training regime, with a goal to complete the Auckland marathon.

Der Traum einer Buchhändlerin wird wahr, als Cassie Andrews das Buch der tausend Türen entdeckt, welches sie an jeden Ort der Welt bringen kann. Gemeinsam mit ihrer besten Freundin Izzy reist Cassie an die spektakulärsten Orte und erlebt faszinierende Abenteuer. Doch die Magie lockt skrupellose Büchersammler an, die Cassie verfolgen, um den wertvollen Schatz zu stehlen. Der Einzige, der ihr jetzt noch helfen kann, ist der geheimnisvolle Bibliothekar Drummond Fox.

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