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Vera “Nick” Nicholson is an overtaxed and underpaid attorney wasting away on the bottom rung of the gilded ladder at Turner, Witherspoon, Anders, and Tyler, PA in Winston-Salem, NC. When a high-priced luxury car belonging to one of the firm’s top clients goes missing, Nick gets saddled with the unenviable job of recovering the vehicle - and its mysterious contents - without involving the cops. Enter Fast Eddie and his quirky band of misfits at the National Recovery Bureau, a repo agency located in a sleepy town called K-Vegas.

Dominique Lenoire, venant de Saint-Étienne et Sofiane Issaoui, briviste, sont étudiants à Paris. Avec leur professeur Samuel Kilkeni, d'origine Lyonnaise, ils sont rapidement confrontés à des tragédies troublantes. Le monde bascule, la terre tremble, la politique s'affole, des hommes s'organisent, d'autres subissent. Le Colonel Simon Chandeleur, franco-américain, enquête sur ce bouleversement de l'humanité.

When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster” - a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. She’s also a foulmouthed and cranky ex-Catholic - attempting to raise a 14-year-old daughter on her own. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean and charismatic junior senator who might just be the next president, the last thing she expects to uncover is a murder.

A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide, too, when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too involved, but Camilla's never been one to miss out on an interesting story. And this time, Camilla may have gone too far.

Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving the demand.

In just one week, supernatural warrior Myla Lewis must discover enough evidence to send the evil House of Acca to prison or she will end up in jail herself, along with her fiance, Prince Lincoln. No pressure.

While her husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home where she can take care of her toddler and attend the quilting bee that her elderly neighbor is holding in the old schoolhouse. In fact, once at the schoolhouse, Lori is delighted to find herself seated next to her widowed neighbor and uses the opportunity to learn more about her life in the village of Old Cowerton.

Pendant près de vingt ans, Ariane Laroux a rencontré l'ethnologue et résistante Germaine Tillion au cours de trente déjeuners suivis de longues conversations durant lesquelles elle peint son portrait. L'occasion pour Germaine Tillion d'évoquer sa vie, celle d'une femme qui a traversé avec courage et générosité le XXe siècle. Dès la fin des années 30, elle arpente seule le Sud algérien où elle partage la vie d'une tribu semi-nomade pour sa thèse en ethnologie.

TUUUUHUUUUT! Zum Geburtstag der ältesten U-Bahn der Welt wird eine historische Dampflok aus dem Transport-Museum geholt. Doch die wertvolle U-Bahn wird plötzlich vor den Augen der wartenden Fahrgäste entführt! Die Olchi-Detektive versprechen, alles zu tun, um die Lok zurückzuholen. Aber sie zu finden ist nicht einfach, denn das alte U-Bahn-Netz ist weit verzweigt, und es gibt sogar stillgelegte Geisterbahnhöfe... Ganz schön gruselig!

"Pfui, was ist denn das Ekliges?", fragt sich das kleine afrikanische Stinktier erschrocken und läuft quer durch den Wald zum Bauernhof, um Freddy, den Esel um Rat zu fragen. Das Stinktier befürchtet eine Umweltkatastrophe, während sich die Bauernhoftiere in Ruhe auf das Weihnachtsfest vorbereiten. Freddy der Esel freut sich ganz besonders: Sein Neffe Florian kommt wieder zu Besuch, und Freddys Familie wird das Weihnachtsfest auf dem Bauernhof verbringen. Und das kleine Stinktier platzt vor Neugier.

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its rich natural resources to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. Forrester leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have.

While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a gold and silver bracelet inlaid with gleaming garnets, which she quickly learns belonged to Aunt Dimity. When Lori brings news of the garnet bracelet to Aunt Dimity, it awakens poignant memories of a doomed romance in Aunt Dimity's past. Regretfully, Aunt Dimity asks Lori to do what she could not bring herself to do - return the bracelet to her unsuccessful suitor or to his rightful heir.

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: Circumstantial evidence suggests that 18-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own.

When sculptor and author Barb Davis is given an NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two-week writing retreat with 12 of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. But in between regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women enter a tournament bass fishing competition, receive life coaching from a wise-cracking fish named Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets.

The adventures of Julie's wolves continue as a new wolf leader takes over the pack. The black alpha Kapu, whom Julie once nursed back to health, is a natural leader. Kapu is strong and wise, but if his pack is to survive, he must lead it through many dangers: near starvation, rabies, rival wolves, and worst of all, humans. The wolves share a strong sense of community, including a deep love of pups, and an understanding of the ancient ways necessary to their survival.

Linnea is going to France! The little girl will travel with her neighbor, old Mr. Bloom, to visit the house and garden where the great artist Monet lived. She can’t wait to see the waterlily pond - the scene of her favorite painting. Join Linnea and Mr. Bloom on a journey full of wonderful sights and adventures. They begin their days in France at a Paris museum, where they see Monet’s paintings. Taking the train to Giverny, where the artist lived, they spend hours in the colorful garden. And Linnea finally walks across the Japanese bridge at the pond that shimmers in so many of Monet’s works.

A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners.

Le temps d’un livre-disque, écoutez les conteurs et conteuses vous raconter trois histoires inoubliables puisées dans le patrimoine du monde entier. La thématique choisie ici est chère aux petits : les animaux, leurs ruses. Les enfants pourront goûter à des histoires savoureuses et voyager dans des univers graphiques variés et inventifs. Sur le CD, on retrouve à deux reprises la voix goguenarde du joyeux conteur Jean-Louis Le Craver qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’humoriste Bourvil et celle de Christine Kiffer, tout en douceur et en fraîcheur.

Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled fans with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.

In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again.