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Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : Le Noël de la cigale et la fourmi; Un Noël parfait ! ; Lettres au Père Noël ; Ensemble pour Noël ; Le plus beau de tous les cadeaux ; La lune pour Noël ; Les lutins de l'armoire. Le magazine de référence qui éveille les enfants aux contes des souvenirs de lecture pour la vie ! À l'âge où l'enfant ne sait pas lire, il a besoin d'histoires mettant en mots et en images ce qu'il ne saurait dire ou appréhender autrement, et de récits pour se représenter le monde et ses émotions.

Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

Die Geschichte einer klugen Frau, die das Weltgeschehen entscheidend prägte und doch eine Unbekannte blieb - Clementine Churchill: Marie Benedict ist eine Meisterin darin, den vergessenen Frauen der Weltgeschichte endlich Leben einzuhauchen. Wie ist es nur möglich, dass wir nichts über die emanzipierte Frau an Winston Churchills Seite wissen? Vorhang auf für die bewundernswerte Clementine Churchill. Clementine und Winston Churchill fühlen sich sofort zueinander hingezogen, sind sie doch beide Kinder von unzulänglichen Müttern.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters—each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next—dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book...

This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton. "Narrator Bessie Carter...captures the personalities of the most famous women novelists of the golden age of detective fiction...What follows is a delightful...

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special...

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal Librarian. Eunice Carter...

Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahí da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está segura, cambiarán el mundo de la ciencia. Lo único que ensombrece ese universo perfecto son sus compañeros, especialmente Maurice Wilkins, James Watson y Francis Crick, quienes la menosprecian por ser mujer.

Marie Benedict widmet sich Hedy Lamarr, einer Frau, die das Weltgeschehen maßgeblich beeinflusst hat und deren Errungenschaften vergessen wurden. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Schauspielerin, Glamour-Ikone und Wissenschaftlerin: Die Schönheit von Hedy Lamarr, die mit bürgerlichem Namen Hedwig Maria Kiesler hieß und jüdischer Abstammung war, führte sie zu einer kometenhaften Schauspielkarriere in Wien und zur Heirat mit einem österreichischen Waffenhändler.

Gracias a su pasión por los libros y gusto exquisito, Belle da Costa Green se ha vuelto, con tan solo veinte años, la bibliotecaria más joven de la prestigiosa universidad de Princeton. Sin embargo, un golpe de suerte mayor está por impulsar su carrera: el famoso millonario J. P. Morgan la quiere para curar una colección de manuscritos raros, libros y obras de arte que compondrán el corazón de su biblioteca personal.

Agatha Christies elftägiges Verschwinden im Jahr 1926: Die mysteriöse Geschichte um das elftägige Verschwinden der weltberühmten Kriminalautorin bietet Benedict den Stoff für ihren besten und spannendsten Roman bisher, ein Pageturner bis zur letzten Seite. Im Dezember 1926 wird Agatha Christie vermisst. Ermittler finden ihr leeres Auto am Rande eines tiefen, düsteren Teichs, darin ihr Pelzmantel - ungewöhnlich für eine eisige Nacht.

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.

È in una sera di ottobre del 1912 che Agatha Miller conosce il tenente Archibald Christie, un giovane pilota bello e sfacciato che insiste per danzare con lei. I due diventano inseparabili, e non bastano l'ostilità delle famiglie o la penuria di mezzi a impedir loro di sposarsi e coronare il proprio amore. Ma quando, nel 1919, Archie torna a casa dalla guerra, è un uomo molto diverso dal ragazzo che Agatha aveva conosciuto, e la vita con lui si rivelerà l'opposto di come la scrittrice l'aveva immaginata.

El 26 de diciembre de 1926 Agatha Christie desapareció. Al día siguiente encontraron su auto abandonado cerca de un estanque helado y profundo. Ni su esposo, un excombatiente de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ni su hija saben nada de ella, las únicas pistas son las huellas de unos neumáticos y un abrigo de piel abandonado dentro del vehículo. Conforme pasan los días, se desata una búsqueda como ninguna otra en toda Inglaterra para encontrar a la famosa escritora.

Recruited as a codebreaker of enemy ciphers, ex-debutante Osla Kendall spends her days translating Axis military messages and her nights reading mystery novels. When Osla gets her hands on Agatha Christie's most recent work, N or M?, a mysterious signal within its pages catches her eye, and she and her eccentric book club get in touch with the famous but reclusive writer. Osla's outreach is a welcome distraction for Agatha, who feels restless and underestimated toiling away in a London pharmacy.

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.

In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies.