Résultats pour "the foxes" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

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Brought to you by Penguin Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn't a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme?What if it's a 17-year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind, who can...

“Warm-hearted, observant, and wonderfully capturing its unlikely hero.”—The Mail on Sunday An incredibly moving debut novel, The Fox of Kensal Green is a story of a community in crisis and the importance of coming together. A quiet neighborhood of London is about to be shattered. This is a...

That moment when your spectacular one night stand turns out to be your sexy, older new boss. FML. Brantley Phipps doesn’t want a boyfriend. In his line of work, relationships are impossible. All he wants is one night of fun before he starts his 10-week rotation as assistant hotel director on a cruise ship. He scores the jackpot with a hot older guy who hits all his yes, please buttons and who wants the same thing as him. Their chemistry is explosive, hot damn. Talk about a night to remember. That should last him a while.

Angleterre, 1816. Une union arrangée ? Charles Whitley, Comte de Clarencroft, n'y voit aucun inconvénient. Après tout, un homme de son rang se doit de fournir un héritier à son domaine et d'avoir à ses côtés une maitresse de maison à la hauteur de la tâche. Cependant, quand son oncle avance le nom de Lady Selina Heathfield, le sang de Charles ne fait qu'un tour ! Cette jeune femme est peut-être riche, mais il la déteste farouchement. Et pour cause ! Il a grandi à ses côtés et la connait mieux que quiconque.

1818, Angleterre. Abandonné la veille de son mariage par sa fiancée partie au bras de son meilleur ami, Lord Thomas, Comte de Broadshire, n'est plus aussi enthousiaste à l'idée de trouver une épouse. Sa mère et sa sœur ont beau lui répéter qu'il doit passer à autre chose, le jeune homme continue de se noyer dans sa rancœur. Quand Lady Radcliff, son ancienne fiancée, doit revenir à Londres après la mort de son mari parce que ce dernier l'a laissée désœuvrée et couverte de dettes, les choses se compliquent.

Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed crime writer Candice Fox’s gripping audio thriller, Hunting Game. Featuring an all-star cast including Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Goldwyn, you’re about to enter a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. NYPD Detective Esme 'Es' Compran (Krysten Ritter) finds herself torn between her duty and her own desperate circumstances when a child is kidnapped. The victim's father, Jack Dengate (Tony Goldwyn), is a controversial big pharma CEO whose company's price hikes on life-saving drugs have dire consequences for Es' ailing daughter.

1817, Angleterre. Lord Feaston est un homme brisé. Depuis que la femme qu'il aimait lui a préféré un autre homme, il ne parvient pas à se remettre de son chagrin. Il sait pourtant que son domaine, le magnifique Comté de Mooreshire, a besoin d'une maîtresse et qu'il lui faudra bientôt penser à engendrer des héritiers. Qu'à cela ne tienne, il se résout à faire un mariage de convenance ! Quand Miss Charity Aston accepte sa demande, il ne se doute pas que la jeune femme qui s'apprête à devenir son épouse a tout de la femme de sa vie.

After the devastating Werenight that brought the Elabonian Empire to a bloody end, Gerin the Fox has come to be known as the King of the North. Aragis the Archer has no desire to make an enemy of such a man, but his ambition gets the better of him. Now he's about to learn that any threat to Gerin, no matter how small, will be answered in kind. And soon their rivalry will escalate beyond what either could have imagined.

Un Noël pas comme les autres en pleine Régence anglaise... Novembre 1817. Rien ne va plus pour Miss Eleanor Erington ! À quelques semaines de Noël et de son dix-huitième anniversaire, son père lui annonce que contrairement à leur habitude, ils ne passeront pas Noël au superbe domaine de Moorsbury, mais bien au fin fond du Devonshire aux côtés de l'exécrable famille Hunt.

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep. Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

1819, Angleterre. Épouser le Duc de Percester ? Lucy Devinan s'y refuse. Tout juste revenue de Londres, la jeune femme n'a qu'une hâte : profiter des mois à venir en Cornouailles pour préparer la saison prochaine. Cependant, quand son père lui apprend qu'il vient d'offrir sa main, sans le vouloir, à Lord Mirabeau, Duc de Percester, son cœur manque un battement. Quel pire sort que celui de devenir l'épouse d'un rustre sans cœur ?

Hundreds of years ago, on a wild sea coast, two bold-hearted men met in combat and love...This is the story of Caius, a Christian monk struggling to reconcile his sensual nature with his newfound faith, and of Fenrir, a ferocious Viking raider abandoned by his comrades and left for dead. When Caius takes pity on the wounded man, his brethren are horrified: what kind of wolf has Cai brought into the fold?

Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: A fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now the women have to fend off not one, but two foxes.

From the author of The Last Dragon of the East comes a sweeping fantasy adventure with a dash of romance between a nine-tailed fox and the demon-hunter who captures her, banished to the underworld together and forced to form a reluctant alliance in order to escape the circles of Hell. Yue may be...

I learned the hard way not to trust anyone. First the men who’d hurt me, and then my mother when she turned her back on me. I had no one. Was it any wonder I didn’t think I had a reason to keep living? A good Samaritan had other ideas, landing me in a psychiatric hospital. Too bad the guards were every bit as evil as those men I’d trusted. I thought I’d die alone. Unwanted. Unloved. Forgotten. Until the Hades Abyss MC came to take me away. They claim my father sent them, except I’ve never met him. Don’t even know his name. I’d try to run, but what’s the point?

Le monde de Khrone est en péril, et Asia compte désormais parmi ses derniers défenseurs. L'affrontement final est proche. L'heure des révélations a sonné. Au cours d'une confrontation épique sur l'Îlot du Drake, Asia a découvert l'identité de son adversaire : le responsable de la mort de sa sœur n'est pas le Capitaine des chevaliers-dragons mais une sorcière disparue au pouvoir phénoménal. Et cette ennemie pernicieuse ne s'est pas contentée de l'utiliser comme un pion au service de ses sombres desseins.

Two high school teachers—Amber Dorris and Leticia Laye—become obsessed with a true-crime podcast about the 1999 murder of 12-year-old Sarah Gerlach. Amber’s marriage to her real estate agent husband Gary is on the rocks. As a distraction, she and Letitia become increasingly absorbed by the case against local Blake Wernerhet. Blake was convicted of murdering Sarah, who was the little sister of a friend of his. While he maintains his innocence, everything points to this man being a vicious killer of an innocent girl.