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A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age. Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media...

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.  

Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question.

Massively damaged in Aliens and Alien 3, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator, Michael Bishop, has other plans. He seeks the Xenomorph knowledge stored in the android’s mind and brings Bishop back to life—but for what reason? No longer an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Michael tells his creation that he seeks to advance medical research for the benefit of humanity. Yet where does he get the resources needed to advance his work. With whom do his new allegiances lie?

Une transexuelle Colombienne travaille au Bois de Boulogne dans le quartier dit Latinas. Ce livre fait le tableau de l'une de ses journées de travail, son charisme, son intimité avec les siens, sa bonté avec ses collègues qu'elle protège dans ce monde de violence. Portrait d'une femme lumineuse qui ce jour-là fera 17 clients aux particularités étonnantes dans ce pays où la loi n'avantage pas ces femmes perdues loin de leur pays, ces combattantes de tous les instants.

If Ariana Stanton has learned anything in life, it’s that men leave. She’s been taught this lesson well from the father she’s never met, who sends her a mysterious letter once a year, to her ex-fiancé, who left her for another woman. So, when she meets the charming and seemingly perfect Jonah, she promises him they will never be more than friends. It’s a promise she can’t keep. But before he has a chance to leave her, she sends him away.

Participez au Trophée : une compétition légendaire, quinze voleurs et un seul vainqueur ! Nancy Philippot, comédienne de doublage émérite, prête sa voix pleine de caractère à Ross Quest. Subtile et naturelle, Nancy incarne avec brio un cortège de personnages secondaires. Sa lecture dynamique vous plonge dans un monde où la concurrence fait rage.

After suffering a very public humiliation, Kenadie Marshall realizes that love shouldn't be left only to personal judgement. Instead of wallowing in her misery, Kenadie creates Binary Search, the perfect balance between a software application and human intuition to help others find true and lasting love, all while personally swearing off relationships for good.

Adulthood is complicated for anyone, though it can be especially overwhelming for someone living with Asperger's. Thankfully, Asperger's and Adulthood presents targeted strategies from learning specialist Blythe Grossberg to help young adults with Asperger's kick-start careers, cultivate healthy relationships, and create independent paths as maturing adults. Grossberg lends her expertise by providing an Asperger's road map - pointing out potential obstacles and offering valuable how-tos for thriving in the world.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass. “[A] fun feudal samurai drama. . .action-packed and well-paced.”—The Washington Post “If you...

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.

Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. He's also just been found dead - in his office at the New York Public Library. Nell hadn't spoken to him in years - ever since he fired her after an argument over a seemingly worthless highway roadside map. A map which was mass produced - and every copy of which is being found and destroyed. But why?

Tous s'entendent pour dire que le modèle de la femme parfaite en tous points (femme de maison irréprochable, femme de carrière ambitieuse, amoureuse comblée, mère au service de la famiglia) craque de partout. En devenant mères, on a lu tous les livres sur la maternité, la naissance et l'éducation des enfants, on s'est trouvées indignes, on a bien rigolé de nos erreurs en enfilant les verres de vin avec les copines... mais se pourrait-il qu'on ait encore honte de nos failles ? À coup de défis (z)imparfaits et de trucs en apparence insolites, Nancy Coulombe et Nadine Descheneaux proposent d'ignorer la norme, de réhabiliter les plai(z)irs négligés et de mettre un joyeux désordre dans nos vies. Le gros bon sens n'a pas été expulsé en même temps que le placenta du p'tit dernier ; il est temps de le retrouver !

'No regrets.' You've heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That's nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work. Everybody has regrets. They're a fundamental part of our lives. And if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose.

Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the Western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Now, she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far North. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the North, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're used to?

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Mentez, trichez, volez, et gagnez avec Nancy Philippot, qui campe une nouvelle fois des scènes d'action percutantes et une myriade de personnages charismatiques. Six mois se sont écoulés depuis la fin du Trophée. Ross a la menace de l'exécution de sa famille qui plane au-dessus de sa tête. Devroe, la seule personne en qui Ross pensait avoir confiance, peut faire disparaître les Quest à tout moment. Malgré sa trahison, Devroe tente toujours de conquérir le cœur de Ross, alors qu'ils travaillent ensemble pour l'Organisation.

Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.

In the year AD 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than 35,000 humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth. From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors.