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When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have possibly dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently.

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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare’s England to Jazz Age Paris to voyaging the Pacific alongside Captain Cook, Tom has seen a lot, and he now craves an ordinary life. Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is catching up with him. The only thing Tom can’t do is fall in love.

"Entre la vie et la mort, il y a une bibliothèque, avec des rayonnages infinis et une multitude d'autres vies à essayer." À trente-cinq ans, Nora Seeds a l'impression d'avoir tout raté. Lorsqu'elle se retrouve un soir dans la mystérieuse Bibliothèque de Minuit, c'est sa dernière chance de reprendre en main son destin. Si elle avait fait d'autres choix, que se serait-il passé ?

When Matt Haig became ill with panic disorder, anxiety, and depression, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world could impact his mental health in positive and negative ways. Notes on a Nervous Planet shares his journey back to happiness and all of the lessons that Matt learned along the way.

From the number one Sunday Times best-selling author. Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl, and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take.

When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask—Father Christmas. But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has things other than impossible wishes to worry about: upset elves, reindeer dropping out of the sky, angry trolls—and the chance that Christmas might be cancelled.

Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate and their children, Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their black Labrador. Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain loyal to your human masters, serve and protect your family at any cost). Other dogs, led by the Springer Spaniels, have revolted. As things in the Hunter family begin to go badly awry - marital breakdown, rowdy teenage parties, attempted suicide - Prince's responsibilities threaten to overwhelm him, and he is forced to break the Labrador Pact.

Matt Haig a traversé vents et tempêtes, dépression et anxiété. Ce "Livre du réconfort" est son canot de sauvetage, la somme des pensées, musiques, citations, films et anecdotes qui lui ont permis de rejoindre la terre ferme. En faisant appel aux destins inspirants d'autres hommes et femmes, à la science, à l'histoire et à la philosophie, il signe bien plus qu'un ouvrage antidote : il offre une célébration de la vie et de ses imprévus, invite à se rappeler qu'on est toujours plus grand que la douleur éprouvée.

Ils n'ont qu'une addiction : le sang. Mais depuis plus de vingt ans, ils ont décidé de renoncer à leur péché mignon et de se désintoxiquer. Pas facile d'être un vampire urbain au XXIe siècle ! Dans une banlieue british tout ce qu'il y a de plus respectable, les Radley essayent désespérément de se comporter comme « des gens normaux ». Mais des vampires de souche peuvent-ils définitivement refouler leurs désirs et leurs instincts ? Pas sûr.

From number one best-selling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious and heartwarming story. Wherever she is, whatever the day, She only has one kind of thing to say. Just as cats go miaow and cows go moo, The Truth Pixie can only say things that are true. A very funny and lovable tale of how one special pixie learned to love herself. The Truth Pixie is an enchanting, rhyming story that will delight younger children.

Stell dir vor, auf dem Weg ins Jenseits gäbe es eine riesige Bibliothek, gesäumt mit all den Leben, die du hättest führen können. Buch für Buch gefüllt mit den Wegen, die deiner hätten sein können. Hier findet sich Nora Seed wieder, nachdem sie aus lauter Verzweiflung beschlossen hat, sich das Leben zu nehmen. An diesem Ort, an dem die Uhrzeiger immer auf Mitternacht stehen, eröffnet sich für Nora plötzlich die Möglichkeit herauszufinden, was passiert wäre, wenn sie sich anders entschieden hätte.

Evie is a little girl with a special talent. She can talk to animals. But when she rescues the school rabbit Gerald, and sets him free, Evie lands in big trouble. She promises her dad never to talk to animals again. For a whole year, Evie ignores them all. She doesn’t chat to the birds and dogs. She even ignores a little silver tabby cat who miaows: ‘Help me! Help me!’ But when Evie sees the same silver kitten on a missing poster, she secretly starts using her magical gift again.

Professeure de mathématiques à la retraite, Grace Winters vit une existence solitaire et monotone depuis le décès de son mari. Quand une amie, perdue de vue quarante ans auparavant, lui lègue une maison à Ibiza, elle n'hésite pas à prendre un aller simple pour les Baléares. Grace cherche alors des réponses au mystère de ce legs, qui s'avèrent dépasser toute logique.

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge.

Twelve-year-old Evie has a talent. She can hear what animals are thinking, and she can talk to them with her mind. When Evie goes on a trip to the Amazon rainforest, her powers are put to the test. She makes friends with pink river dolphins, must save an injured sloth and discovers the secret life of a jaguar. Soon she sees that the jungle is in serious and deadly danger and comes up with a rather risky plan to help save it....

Se pensi che certe cose siano impossibili, metti subito via questo libro. (Perché questo libro è pieno di cose impossibili). Stai ancora leggendo? Bene. Allora cominciamo... Adesso lo sanno tutti, chi è Babbo Natale. Ma c’è stato un tempo in cui non lo conosceva proprio nessuno. È stato quando era solo un ragazzino di nome Nikolas, che viveva nella seconda casa più piccola di tutta la Finlandia, con un padre che faceva il taglialegna, una zia che aveva un bruttissimo carattere e una bambola-rapa, che poi è misteriosamente scomparsa.

Quando Nora Seed fa il suo ingresso nella Biblioteca di mezzanotte, le viene offerta l’occasione di rimediare agli errori commessi. Come sarebbe andata la sua vita se avesse preso decisioni diverse? I libri sugli scaffali della Biblioteca di mezzanotte hanno il potere di mostrarglielo, proiettando Nora in una versione alternativa della realtà. Ma le cose non vanno sempre secondo i piani e prima che scada il tempo, Nora deve trovare una risposta alla domanda di tutte le domande: come si può vivere al meglio la propria vita?

Die Geschichte von Miika der Maus ist eine Geschichte über Freundschaft, Käse, Diebstahl und die magische Fähigkeit, einfach Maus zu sein. Miika möchte doch nur dazugehören. Aber wenn man mit magischen Wesen wie Elfen, Trollen und Pixies zusammenlebt, fühlt man sich als gewöhnliche Maus schnell wie ein Außenseiter. Als er endlich eine Artgenossin kennenlernt, glaubt Miika, dass all seine Probleme nun der Vergangenheit angehören. In Wahrheit ist dieses Zusammentreffen jedoch der Beginn eines aufregenden Abenteuers. Eine herzerwärmende Weihnachtsgeschichte, berührend schön gelesen von Rufus Beck.