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"Pour Sherlock Holmes, elle est toujours la femme. Il la juge tellement supérieure à tout son sexe, qu'il ne l'appelle presque jamais par son nom ; elle est et elle restera la femme. Aurait-il donc éprouvé à l'égard d'Irène Adler un sentiment voisin de l'amour ? Absolument pas ! Son esprit lucide, froid, admirablement équilibré répugnait à toute émotion en général et à celle de l'amour en particulier. Je tiens Sherlock Holmes pour la machine à observer et à raisonner la plus parfaite qui ait existé sur la planète ; amoureux, il n'aurait plus été le même."

1. Un scandale en Bohême 2. La ligue des rouquins 3. Une affaire d'identité 4. Le mystère de Val Boscombe 5. Les cinq pépins d'orange 6. L'homme à la lèvre tordue 7. L'escarboucle bleue 8. Le ruban moucheté 9. Le pouce de l'ingénieur 10. Un aristocrate célibataire 11. Le diadème de Béryls 12. Les hêtres rouges 13. Flamme d'Argent 14. La figure jaune 15. L'employé de l'agent de change 16. Le Gloria Scott 17. Le rituel des Musgrave.

Si Scarlett a choisi de se marier à Londres, à Noël, c'est parce qu'elle adore la neige et qu'elle est tombée amoureuse de l'Angleterre autant que des yeux noirs de son prince charmant britannique. Leur histoire n'a pas commencé sous les meilleurs auspices, et la demande en mariage le genou dans la neige, à côté d'une vache suicidaire, n'était pas des plus romantique. Mais maintenant, à une semaine du mariage, il ne peut plus rien arriver, n'est-ce pas ?

Comme chaque année, Noël se prépare au Royaume des jouets avec le concours de tous : lutins, fées, yétis, marmottes... Et là, on s'active beaucoup car il ne reste plus que quelques semaines avant la nuit fatidique où il va falloir distribuer les cadeaux. Bref, on n'est pas en avance pour fabriquer et emballer les cadeaux.

Hanna Harp’s incendiary debut paranormal dark romance, perfect for fans of Sadie Kincaid’s Forged in Blood and Keri Lake’s Anathema, follows Cade, a devoted hunter fighting to shield his sister Callisto from a haunting generational curse, but when a mysterious spirit begins to break down...

Bonus material! Includes an excerpt from John Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s Obsession! Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals - the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series.

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Un matin de la Grande Guerre, le capitaine Armand siffle l'attaque contre l'ennemi allemand. Les soldats s'élancent. Dans leurs rangs, Alfa Ndiaye et Mademba Diop, deux tirailleurs sénégalais parmi tous ceux qui se battent alors sous le drapeau français. Quelques mètres après avoir jailli de la tranchée, Mademba tombe, blessé à mort, sous les yeux d'Alfa, son ami d'enfance, son plus que frère. Alfa se retrouve seul dans la folie du grand massacre, sa raison s'enfuit. Lui, le paysan d'Afrique, va distribuer la mort sur cette terre sans nom.

After her disastrous coronation, Diem finds herself at the center of the conflict between the Descended and the Guardians. With her newfound friends and the man she's falling for on one side, and the mortals she has vowed to protect on the other, Diem must walk a careful line to save the people she loves…even from each other.

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than 7 million copies in the United States and Canada, and translation into more than 23 languages, it has made publishing history, with more than 10 years on The New York Times best seller list.

Is our destiny written inside our very DNA? Richard Rudd suggests that humanity is on the verge of a major shift in consciousness rooted in a new understanding of how our genes operate. He introduces this fantastic possibility, showing how the "gene keys" are an inner language designed to transform our core beliefs about ourselves and raise us to a higher level of awareness.

Listening in English is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. With our book English Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners, you can practice listening while working on your English vocabulary and grammar skills as an ESL learner.

Peter Senge's groundbreaking ideas on building organizations have made him a household name among corporate managers. His theories help businesses to clarify their goals, to defy the odds, to more clearly understand threats, and to recognize new opportunities. He introduces managers to a new source of competitive advantage, and offers a marvelously empowering approach to work.

When Mercy McCarthy takes her beloved mother’s watch to be fixed, she’s completely charmed by the little repair store and the father-and-son duo who run it. Little does she know that the clock is ticking… when she returns, she finds the father lying unconscious amid broken glass, and her mother’s watch is missing.

I went to the Supernatural Resort for protection—and was immediately claimed by the shifter who owns the place. Because of what I am, everyone hates me. Humans and supernaturals alike. But the Resort needs magic like mine to protect it. So the owner makes me his. Which backfires, because now even more people want me dead, and we're going through an altered version of heat together.

Jessica Brown can write a love story. She just can’t seem to live one. At thirty-five, she’s juggling deadlines, writer’s block, and her too-honest best friend, Adrian. When he pushes her onto a dating app, Jessica expects creeps, bad wine, and worse conversations. What she doesn’t expect is for her fiction to start bleeding into reality. The dates she invents on the page begin to show up in real life—sometimes word for word.

For ten-year-old George and his best friend Maya, an ordinary summer in Tornado Alley is about to become an extraordinary adventure. When they discover a mysterious, crinkly map hidden in the dusty corners of an old storm cellar, they uncover a secret that's been in their family for generations: the legend of a hidden treasure. Guided by their grandma's whispered riddles and a series of clever clues, their search takes them through forgotten barns and across windswept fields. But as they get closer to the truth, the sky itself begins to churn.

The Viking's Voyage to Venus follows the adventure of a young Viking boy named Bjorn. When his village's longship, the Stardust Serpent, is magically transformed into a starship, Bjorn and his crew set sail not across the sea, but through the cosmos. Their journey takes them beyond the known world to the mysterious planet Venus. Here, they must navigate a landscape of glowing lava plains, encounter friendly Cloud Dwellers, and brave a cosmic storm. With the help of new friends like Fafnir, a fiery salamander, they solve ancient riddles and discover the true meaning of courage and friendship.

Written for Virginia Woolf's friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young 16th-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.

Brenda's husband had been dead for almost a year. Then, he came home again. Just like that! He unlocked the door with his keys, hung his coat in the closet, poured himself a cup of coffee, and began to visit her every night. Young and fearless nightclub singer Cindy lives alone. But someone keeps lighting the candle on her dining room table. And, the footsteps in the living room are not the searching steps of a burglar, but the steps of someone who has made himself at home.