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Presque trente ans après la fin de la guerre et l'anéantissement de la Flotte libre, l'humanité a retrouvé un semblant d'ordre et de stabilité. La Terre et Mars ont reformé leur coalition et se relèvent progressivement, tant sur le plan économique que militaire. L'Union des transports, l'organisme ceinturien chargé de réguler les échanges commerciaux entre les différents systèmes, tient un rôle essentiel au sein de l'Univers connu. Dans ce contexte, Holden, capitaine fraîchement retraité, s'imaginait bientôt couler des jours paisibles sur Titan.

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams “Powerful and profound . . . James Doty explains how intention is manifested in the brain and offers six steps each of us can use to create the life we want.”—Arianna Huffington...

JAPON. 1600. John Blackthorne rêvait d’y accoster. Il n’imaginait pas que, pour y parvenir, il aurait à braver une tempête. Craché par l’océan, l’équipage du pilote anglais touche enfin terre. Mais les marins regrettent bien vite leur découverte, car ils sont maintenant prisonniers de samouraïs aux mœurs très différentes des leurs. Amené devant Toranaga et Ishido, deux daimyō rivaux dont l’ambition secrète est de devenir Shōgun, Blackthorne fera tout pour recouvrer sa liberté. Mais il faudra bien des sacrifices pour survivre sur cette "Terre des Larmes", où la mort est une fatalité.

Benjamine des soeurs Essex, Joséphine est la seule à être encore célibataire. Et pour cause ! Celle que les mauvaises langues critiquent en raison de ses formes est persuadée qu’aucun homme ne voudra d’elle. Elle a beau se sangler dans un corset, jamais elle n’aura une silhouette de sylphide, comme Mlle de la Broderie, la ravissante fiancée du comte de Mayne. Lors d’un bal, bouleversée par les insultes d’un goujat, Joséphine se confie au comte. Attendri, il décide de lui apprendre, en toute amitié, l’art de la séduction.

The book Lifehack calls "The Bible of business and personal productivity." "A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'"—Fast Company Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bossy. Frigid. Spinster. Sl*t. Mumsy. Milf. Bimbo. The English language has a seemingly infinite number of judgemental and hypocritical words to describe women and their life choices. We can't win, no matter what we do. Whether it’s on the sofa of ITV’s This...

Plongez dans l’univers envoûtant de la musique avec Harmonie Auditive. Animé par Thomas, ce podcast vous invite à découvrir les secrets de l’harmonie et à affiner votre oreille musicale à travers des analyses approfondies ainsi que des exercices destinés à développer votre compréhension et votre appréciation de la musique. Explorez chaque note, chaque accord, chaque gamme et chaque mode pour une expérience auditive enrichissante. 🎶 Si vous avez été captivé par la magie de la musique et le plaisir d'explorer ses mystères dans "Harmonie Auditive", ne manquez pas l'occasion...

I should've known better than to believe in fairytales… I had to leave. I can never tell my husband why. Gene Windsor threatened me. If I don't obey, he'll take away the only two people I have left. But now the stakes are even higher. Gene doesn't just want me gone—he wants me to do his dirty work. I'm surrounded by enemies. There's no way out. Bryce swore it was forever. But I know the truth: There's no such thing as happily ever after… for a girl like me.

James Allen, a renowned British philosophical writer and a pioneer of the self-help movement, invites readers on a profound journey through his life in The Divine Companion. As Lily Allen poignantly notes in the introduction, this remarkable work cannot be confined to a specific time or year, for it represents the culmination of Allens thoughts and experiences over many years. He expressed a heartfelt desire for this manuscript to be his final published work, stating, It is the story of my soul. Readers will discover the essence of his spiritual journey and message woven throughout its pages, ...

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?

From the author of the national best seller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science." (The New York Times).

Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?

One of the Harpers (a secret organization fighting for good) searches the jungle for a missing explorer and happens on a lost civilization--complete with dinosaurs--and the evil Cult of Frost, which tries to steal his magic ring.

Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told us someday they would come back, and when they did, a game would be played. A game that would determine our future. This is Endgame.

In this definitive book on revenge, psychiatry researcher James Kimmel, Jr. exposes the unseen neurobiological cause of violence—a compulsive desire for retribution—and offers a profound new understanding of human behavior and breakthrough framework for making our lives and communities safer...

La sixième enquête d'Adam Dalgliesh Un village des Fens, au sud-est de l'Angleterre. Des marécages, de la pluie, la découverte du cadavre d'une femme... Le lendemain, le Pr Lorrimer, responsable du service de biologie d'un laboratoire de médecine légale, est trouvé assassiné dans son bureau, toutes portes fermées. Au fil d'une enquête extrêmement minutieuse parmi le personnel médical, le commandant Dalgliesh va démêler l'écheveau des passions et des rancœurs et percer à jour des mystères où sexe et superstition se mêlent, bien loin de la rationalité scientifique.

Verborgen vor den Augen der Menschen, geschützt durch magische Pforten, liegt das Reich der Elfen: Albenmark. Doch ihre Welt ist bedroht, denn ein gefährlicher Feind schickt sich an, das Volk der Elfen für immer zu vernichten. Die Elfenkönigin Emerelle schickt Farodin und Nuramon - die kühnsten Krieger Albenmarks und Rivalen um die Gunst der Zauberin Noroelle - aus, um Albenmark zu retten.

From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?

La humanidad ha colonizado el Sistema Solar: Marte, la Luna, el cinturón de asteroidesy más allá, pero las estrellas aún están fuera de nuestro alcance. Jim Holden es segundo de a bordo de un transportador de hielo que realiza misiones entre los anillos de Saturno y las estaciones mineras del Cinturón. Cuando su tripulación y él se topan con la Scopuli, una nave abandonada, descubren un secreto que desearían no haber encontrado.