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Mackenzie Casper is a brilliant student. But she is best known for her mother, a best-selling author whose dark, twisted thrillers have a dedicated worldwide fanbase. When her mother dies in an accident, fans across the world are left grieving, and the investigators are asking: Was that really an accident?

"Alice au pays des Merveilles" raconte l'histoire du rêve d'Alice, qui s'est assoupie sur l'herbe, et qui va poursuivre un lapin dans son terrier. Elle découvre le pays des Merveilles, avec sa pléiade de personnages les plus fous et les plus merveilleux. Elle change de taille toutes les cinq minutes, et nous entraîne dans son rêve au gré de ses transformations.

Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner...

De retour, après vingt-sept années, dans leur petite ville de Derry, les membres du " Club des ratés " (ainsi se nommaient-ils eux-mêmes sur les bancs de l’école) doivent affronter leurs plus terrifiants souvenirs, brutalement ressurgis. Ça : nul ne sait nommer autrement la chose inconnue qui semble devoir se réveiller cycliquement dans les entrailles de la ville, pour semer la mort et l’épouvante. Roman de l’enfance, tableau saisissant de la vie américaine, cette œuvre ambitieuse est une parabole du Mal enfoui, refoulé, et de la violence de ses réapparitions.

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For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him. For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor; this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination. Deadly obsession is only the beginning. For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the city’s greatest love story – between King George IVth and Maria Fitzherbert - is incalculable.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! “In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times)...

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next. But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn’t keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the struggle between a heartless tyrant and the brave rebels who defy him.

An abandoned wolf with a rare disorder. The new pack doctor hell-bent on claiming the wolf meant to be his. A renegade wolf haunting the footsteps of the wolf whose bondmark he wears, and hates. The fates say these three belong together, like broken pieces of carnival glass just itching for a bit of glue, and the fates are never wrong, are they? Graham doesn’t think so, but convincing Zane and Cormac of that might take words that were never covered in his anatomy books. A season. That’s the longest Zane stays anywhere.

Step into the sharp, idea-driven imagination of Isaac Asimov with this carefully selected collection of classic short fiction.

Nobody Saw the Ship by Murray Leinster is a tense and quietly unsettling science fiction novelette that explores first contact from a chillingly indifferent perspective. When a small alien scout ship lands on Earth completely unnoticed, its lone occupant—an advanced being known as the Qul-En—begins a covert biological mission essential to its species’ survival. What follows is a methodical and increasingly disturbing search for a rare hormone, extracted through brutal experimentation on Earth’s wildlife.

Meet Maple, an enthusiastic puppy with a heart full of love—and a basket full of valentines. Determined to share the joy, Maple gives valentines to everyone she meets… including the mail carrier, the mailbox, a startled squirrel, and even the vacuum cleaner! As Maple’s heartfelt mission spirals into hilarious chaos, children will giggle at every page while discovering a gentle, meaningful message about kindness, generosity, and remembering yourself too.

Robin and Mary call on their eighth-grade classmates for help in finding homes for more than a hundred dogs rescued from a puppy mill. Just as their mission is gaining momentum, the school principal confiscates the money they’ve collected for dog food, and all the dogs are going to be put down the next day. With Loki and the other dogs facing death, Robin questions his usefulness in canine rescue work. But then who will be the voice for those who cannot speak?

Major Tom has plans for his leave time: this cat is finally going to get some much needed R&R with his mates. But recent additions to the household (including his Admiral father-in-law and an uppity mouse chef), as well as an unexpected visit from yet another enemy puts his whiskers in a twist. Ready for a comical adventure with some unlikely characters? Listen to “Cat and Mouse.” "Cat and Mouse" is a speculative fiction short story, and is the third of his "Major Tom, Champion of the Empire" tales.

Andy, Cole, and Jack are close friends. While Andy and Cole are responsible, Jack’s mishaps force his friends to clean up his messes. This time, on a whim, Jack visits a mysterious psychic named Madam Zoosa. The routine reading is harmless fun until she unexpectedly foretells her own demise. She further shocks Jack when she names him as her killer. His luck worsens when the ominous prediction plays out in a series of horrific and hilarious ways that are beyond his control. Alone and desperate, he fears others will wrongly blame him for the victim’s accidental death.

Ethan Kane’s quest for the Solakari legacy leads him onto the perilous Natchez Trace in 1825. He hunts the outlaw Blackjack Stark, who unknowingly holds an ancient Bible containing a coded Solakari vellum. After a deadly confrontation where new ally Sally McGill avenges her family on Stark, Ethan recovers the Bible. Aided by the forgotten scholar Alaric Thorne, he deciphers the vellum, revealing a path to a lost Spanish presidio in Tejas.

Navy Captain Pete Adler has arrived at the pinnacle of a US Navy career. He is the commanding officer of an aircraft carrier. The first time he takes the ship to sea, a huge fire breaks out and threatens the survival of the ship and its crew of thousands. Many in Pete’s crew perform heroic and noble deeds, and the carrier is saved. But there is no rest for Pete and the crew. They must repair the ship and make their scheduled deployment date. Again the crew responds heroically. In the midst of the repair effort, Pete’s father dies.

The Other Now by Murray Leinster is a haunting and emotionally resonant science fiction novella that explores love, grief, and the fragile boundaries of reality itself. When Jimmy Patterson is left shattered by the death of his wife, Jane, his quiet mourning is disrupted by unsettling anomalies—familiar moments replayed out of sequence, a doorway that seems charged with meaning, and diary entries written in Jane’s unmistakable hand after her passing.

Des événements étranges ont lieu à l'Opéra : le grand lustre s'effondre pendant une représentation, un machiniste est retrouvé pendu. La direction doit se rendre à l'évidence : un fantôme ou un homme machiavélique hante le théâtre. Certains affirment avoir vu le visage déformé de cet être qui ne semblerait pas être humain. Peu après, les directeurs de l'Opéra se voient réclamer 20 000 francs par mois et une loge de la part d'un certain "Fantôme de l'Opéra".

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.