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Cilka Klein n'a que 16 ans lorsqu'elle est déportée. Très vite remarquée pour sa beauté par le commandant du camp de Birkenau et mise à l'écart des autres prisonnières. À la Libération, elle est condamnée pour faits de collaboration et envoyée dans un camp de Sibérie ; c'est alors un deuxième enfer qui commence pour elle. Au goulag, où elle doit purger une sentence de quinze ans, elle se lie d'amitié avec une médecin, et apprend à s'occuper des malades dans des conditions inimaginables.

Sous un ciel de plomb, des prisonniers défilent à l'entrée du camp d'Auschwitz. Bientôt, ils ne seront plus que des numéros tatoués sur le bras. C'est Lale, un déporté, qui est chargé de cette sinistre tâche. Il travaille le regard rivé au sol pour éviter de voir la douleur dans les yeux de ceux qu'il marque à jamais. Un jour, pourtant, il lève les yeux sur Gita et la jeune femme devient sa lumière dans ce monde d'une noirceur infinie. Ils savent d'emblée qu'ils sont faits l'un pour l'autre. Mais dans cette prison où l'on se bat pour un morceau de pain et pour sauver sa vie, il n'y a pas de place pour l'amour.

La vie de Lottie est une véritable catastrophe : le jour même où elle découvre que son petit ami la trompe, elle est virée de son job ! Pour tenter de se remettre en selle, la jeune femme se réfugie dans le ranch de sa cousine. Perdu dans les montagnes Rocheuses, c’est le lieu idéal pour soigner son cœur brisé en travaillant au milieu des étalons.

For decades, thousands of people have gathered in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway AGM, and quizzed Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on everything from the psychology of successful investors to the future of Coca-Cola and Apple. But unless you attended, for many years you only had access to what people could remember and report back from the meetings.

After getting out of rehab, Bittern settles in at Ryder Ranch. Still recovering from a difficult past back home, he’s determined to build a new life for himself in Montana. Working on the ranch is the uncomplicated life he’s always wanted. Until he sets eyes on the ranch manager’s daughter. Fresh off a breakup, Janie returns to Ryder Ranch for a long weekend. She’s not interested in dating again so soon, but when she sees the newest wrangler, stoic and unassuming Bittern Hatfield, she can’t stop thinking about him.

Eden Huntleigh and the Rebels have outplayed Cesar for now. However, the hostile dictator of Empyrean has a few cards left up his sleeve, and when Cecily, the mystifying witch that seems to know how to defeat him once and for all, disappears, Eden is left with a difficult choice - her own life, or the lives of everyone she loves. Can Eden survive the flames once she's cast into the fire?

The immense ark-ship Odyssey and its ten thousand hibernating settlers have left behind a dying Earth—journeying for fifty years to the nearest star and its lone habitable planet, Proxima-b. This new home for humanity is perpetually bombarded by deadly solar flares on its dayside, while the icy wasteland on its opposite hemisphere freezes in endless darkness. When the battered Odyssey arrives, its crew discovers the automated radiation shield has failed. Something appears to have damaged or perhaps even sabotaged their technology on a world where humans have yet to set foot.

When reclusive artist Gabriel Quinn is gunned down outside a gallery on Oxford High Street, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart investigates the world of contemporary art, where paintings can change hands for millions in the auction room. Bridget is convinced that the last words spoken by the artist - a mysterious code of eight digits and a letter - are key to unraveling the mystery of his death.

When Detective Inspector Bridget Hart returns to her old Oxford college for a reunion dinner, she's hoping for a fun weekend catching up with old friends. But the reunion takes a macabre turn when body parts are served up at the college feast, and one of her friends is found murdered. With Bridget's arch rival Inspector Baxter leading the murder inquiry, and herself a potential suspect, Bridget is forbidden from taking part in the investigation. But that doesn't stop her from carrying out her own private inquiries. Bridget soon realizes that the murderer is someone known to her.

The year 1972 saw the beginning of a five-year span in which Stevie Wonder released five groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums, garnering him more than half a dozen Grammys and more than 10 million albums sold, securing his place as one of the most important American musicians and songwriters in history. For the first time, uncover the untold story of an extraordinary artistic journey that shaped the greatest creative era in popular music history.

Zora est peintre et enseignante à l’académie des Beaux-Arts de Sarajevo. Au printemps 1992, face à la montée des tensions dans la toute jeune Bosnie-Herzégovine, elle demande à son mari, Franjo, d’emmener sa mère en Angleterre, où vit leur fille. Mais ce qui ne devait être qu’une séparation temporaire prend une tournure dramatique quand les premiers tirs de mortier serbes s’abattent sur la ville depuis les collines. En quelques jours seulement, le piège se referme sur les habitants de Sarajevo, quelles que soient leurs origines.

In the aftermath of the events of Predator 2, US Marine Scott Devlin is assigned to the clean-up operation in Los Angeles. He is soon thrust into a world of secretive government agents, highly-advanced technology, and an unstoppable juggernaut lone agent, Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.

Alex and Steph have left Haven Springs in the rear-view mirror to travel the country, chasing the horizon. Though they don’t have much money, they have their guitar and drums and each other. But when their vehicle breaks down, they are stranded, their only hope a repair shop in a struggling town in the middle of nowhere. The town is dealing with a severe drought after an extended heatwave wreaked havoc on local crops, plunging its inhabitants into poverty and water rationing. What remains of its essential resources are being diverted to indulge the local senator.

Noted manifestation expert Mandy Morris shares the eight powerful manifestation techniques she has developed based on divine guidance, scientific research, and a decade of work that are fast, effective, and proven. These simple practices have changed not only Mandy’s life but those of her...

When a beautiful, wealthy student is found dead in her room in Oxford's most prestigious college, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart is called to investigate. The murdered girl appeared to have no enemies, yet was killed in a brutal and bloody assault. Haunted and driven by her own personal tragedy, newly promoted DI Bridget Hart has a lot to prove as she leads her first murder case. Her investigation uncovers a tangled web of lies, lust and ambition, and brings her into conflict with powerful interests.

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.

Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001, marked the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.

Miles Morales has a lot going on, what with moving to a new neighborhood, dealing with the loss of his father, and the whole gaining superpowers thing. After a misunderstanding with the law, Miles questions what it means to be a hero when people are ready to believe the worst of you. Tempted by the power and freedom of his new abilities, Miles must decide what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. When Vulture starts wreaking havoc across the city with his new accomplice Starling, Miles can't just sit back and watch.

1942: Cecilia Klein ist sechzehn Jahre alt, als sie in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert wird. Fasziniert von ihrer Schönheit, trennt der Kommandant des Lagers sie von den anderen Gefangenen und missbraucht sie regelmäßig. Cilka lernt schnell, dass ihre unfreiwillige Machtposition Überleben bedeutet. Doch nach der Befreiung von Auschwitz wird Cilka von den Russen als Kollaborateurin angeklagt und in das brutale Gefangenenlager Workuta in Sibirien geschickt. Dort steht sie vor neuen und gleichzeitig schrecklich vertrauten Herausforderungen.

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. This is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.