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Il narratore ripercorre la lunga vicenda del fratello, Cosimo di Rondò, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo a Ombrosa, in Liguria. Cosimo, per sfuggire a una punizione inflittagli dai suoi educatori, decide di salire su un albero per non ridiscendere mai più. Cosimo si costruisce un mondo aereo dove diversi personaggi della cultura e della politica (Napoleone compreso) lo vanno a trovare, testimoniandogli la loro ammirazione. Vive anche una tormentata storia d'amore con la volubile Viola.

Après avoir été capturée par Leonid Petrov, « le prince des enfers », Anna voit sa vie basculer. Au milieu du chaos, de la mort et de la violence, ils ont appris à s’aimer. Mais pour la garder, il va devoir affronter ceux qui veulent les séparer. Car les ennemis rôdent et l’alliance...

Depuis l'enfance, Anna Miller subit la tyrannie de son père. Cet homme sans foi ni loi rêve d'intégrer le cercle très fermé des grands mafieux américains et n'hésite pas à utiliser sa fille pour parvenir à ses fins. Seule sa passion pour la danse permet à Anna de survivre. Lorsque son père l'envoie à Moscou voler des documents secrets, Anna sait que cette mission sera plus périlleuse que jamais. Mais est-elle prête à affronter Leonid Petrov, qui règne sur la mafia russe ? Froid et impulsif, avide de pouvoir et de sang, sa vie n’est guidée que par la violence.

Orphan Gillie Muir makes ends meet by holding genteel card parties for friends and visitors to the newly fashionable spa town of Blackhaven. But when Lord Wickenden, known as the wicked baron, makes her a shocking proposal, her world is turned upside down.   

I came to the House of Night broken, barely breathing, barely me. Now I’m waiting in the crypts for the events that will change everything. First, The Baron Hunt. And, second, my arranged marriage to the King. I spent my youth being groomed under the watchful eye of my uncle, preparing for the day I united our families. My uncle wants to be tied to Royalty. The Baron King? He wants more than a bride. He wants secrets.

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that has consolidated wealth in the hands of select tycoons, and along the way, hollowed out the nation's rural towns and local businesses.

Les récits extraordinaires du baron constituent la reprise d'un imaginaire collectif amplifié par le merveilleux et la truculence d'un militaire nostalgique d'exploits, à la manière de Tartarin de Tarascon. Fanfaronnades, hâbleries, bravades, forfanteries et vantardises, voici pêle-mêle quelques noms qui viennent à l'esprit pour décrire de prime abord les fabuleuses "Aventures et mésaventures du baron de Münchhausen."

Dans le Bayou Tèche, les marais forment un enchevêtrement où il est facile de disparaître. Elise, une Française, s'y est réfugiée pour fuir quelque chose de sombre, d'indicible, qu'elle a laissé en France. Ce roman croise les histoires respectives du laissé-pour-compte en Dordogne, et de la fugitive en Louisiane.

La série relate les exploits d'un gentilhomme anglais, Sir Percy Blakeney, qui sauve de la guillotine un grand nombre d'aristocrates durant la Révolution française. D'un caractère apparemment nonchalant, distrait, Sir Percy n'est guère pris au sérieux par son entourage, et encore moins par ses ennemis potentiels. Ainsi cache-t-il d'autant mieux son jeu, puisque nul ne peut deviner que sous ce masque inoffensif se dissimule un héritier spirituel de Robin des Bois.

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Lord Morgan Easton is, first and foremost, an agent of the Crown. To achieve his purposes, he has become Society's golden boy, and a renowned rake. When it's discovered that notorious French spy, Genet, is attending a house party in a small seaside village, he is tasked to infiltrate the...

Dans « En vrai : le podcast des engagé.e.s », Jeanne Baron reçoit des personnalités qui ont décidé d’agir. Artistes, responsables politiques, figures médiatiques ou témoins aux parcours hors normes : ces personnalités ont toutes eu un déclic. Une colère. Une injustice. Une blessure. Un événement qui a changé leur vie et leur trajectoire. Dans ces conversations intimes et sans filtre, elles racontent ce qu’elles disent rarement ailleurs : leur moteur, les doutes, les contradictions, les conséquences personnelles… Mais aussi le prix à payer pour défendre leurs ...

Si tu veux lire une romance contemporaine drôle au goût d’interdit, avec des personnages atypiques et attachants, c’est par ici ! He falls first, best friend's brother, friends to lovers. Hayden est dans l’impasse. Il est amoureux de Jade depuis qu’il a posé les yeux sur elle. Il avait à peine six ans ? Et alors ? L’amour ne se commande pas ! Et non, il n’est pas du tout obsessionnel, il sait juste ce qu’il veut et il a un plan...et une montre connectée. Bientôt, il en est sûr, Jade arrêtera de le voir comme le petit frère de son meilleur ami.

The manhunt has officially begun. Now the target of a game-wide Holy War, Ned is forced to flee the Onyx Sands. The odds are stacked against him; Tyrann has tens of thousands of followers, a religion that’s spreading like wildfire, and a powerful god that will be stepping into the world of EBO in a matter of days. Meanwhile, Ned’s allies are a squirrel-exploding bard, a repurposed home security system who takes her instructions far too literally, and a wildly unreliable talking axe named Frank. But even as the inevitable conflict draws closer, change is coming to EBO.

It seemed the unthinkable had happened. Someone had actually targeted the Ghalian, an order of assassins known and feared across the systems. It was madness. Only a fool would go after the likes of them. But, it seemed, the galaxy had no shortage of fools. Retaliation most bloody was in order, and one man stood ready to spring into action. Hozark was his name, and he was no ordinary man. He was a Master Ghalian, an assassin skilled in the ways of death. Practical, mechanical, magical, to him it made no difference.

Catherine Coulter introduces the dashing Carrington brothers with the story of Rohan, a man with a rakish reputation but a heart of pure gold.

Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight. Huntington invites his most critical reporter into his home for the interview of the century. As his story of the Central Pacific Railroad Company unfolds, truths emerge. Central Pacific is in a race for money and land against the Union Pacific back east. The inhumane conditions laborers on both sides of the line must endure.

The hurricane devastated more than just Baron’s world. It hurt so many other people too, including Baron’s brother, who died trying to rescue dogs caught up in the storm. One of the missing dogs is a War Dog, Kingston. Now Baron is put on the spot to see if he could find the War Dog again … Brittany’s grandmother’s house was destroyed in the hurricane, so Brittany has been searching for her grandmother’s little dog, Pocket. When Baron comes to her aid, Brittany remembers her grandmother’s warnings about those who take advantage during disasters …

After a devastating loss, Hannah Wagner never imagined she’d leave her comfortable home for the harsh, unfamiliar wilderness near Lake Michigan. But when Henry Abernathy, a friend of her husband John, offers them a fresh start in a booming lumber town—where John’s skills as a doctor are sorely needed—Hannah reluctantly agrees. There, she meets Kate Abernathy, Henry’s spirited, much younger wife. Kate’s sharp tongue and outsider status have made her unwelcome among the town’s elite.

New York City's Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune . . . Born into one of New York's most respected families, William Sloane is a railroad baron who has all the right friends in all the right places. But no matter how much success he achieves, he always wants more. Having secured his place atop the city's highest echelons of society, he's now setting his sights on a political run.