Résultats de "May" dans Toutes les catégories

Dans notre imaginaire, le diable est souvent rouge et noir, doté d'ailes, de cornes et d'une longue queue. Dans la réalité, il s'appelle Matteo Scorsese et il est séduisant, haletant et aussi tentant que le fruit défendu. Lorsque Matteo, son amour de jeunesse, qui lui a odieusement brisé le coeur, ressurgit étrangement et sans crier gare dans sa vie, Asia Williencourt s'interroge. Elle n'a qu'une solution pour obtenir des réponses : le confronter, même si elle se serait bien passée de ces retrouvailles, elle qui a mis tant de temps à se remettre de leur histoire.

Matthias Hegel est un expert phonéticien et le meilleur profileur audio d'Allemagne. Il est capable de créer un profil psychologique et visuel des personnes en décodant uniquement les sons, les bruits, les dialectes et les couleurs de voix. C'est grâce à lui que certains des criminels parmi les plus dangereux d'Allemagne ont été condamnés. Des maîtres chanteurs, des preneurs d'otages, des assassins, pour lesquels les enquêteurs ne disposaient souvent que de courts enregistrements audio. Hegel est un personnage fascinant, charismatique, difficile à comprendre.

Pixies are supposed to be petite, beautifully lithe creatures with gossamer wings. Sporting luscious, ombre pink hair and fluttering pink wings, Phil meets two out of three of those criteria. At over six feet tall, no one would dare call Phil petite. As a home-and-hearth pixie, Phil yearns to find a home and family he can bond to. When no one's willing to hire a pixie of his stature, Phil is forced to find work elsewhere. Turns out, pixies make terrible bouncers.

Depuis six ans, l’internat est devenu le refuge de Joy, le seul foyer qu’elle connaisse depuis la mort de sa mère. Mais derrière les murs de sa chambre, se cache un dangereux secret : ses colocataires sont tombées dans les filets de Zach, un homme mystérieux à la tête d’un réseau d’escorts et autres activités suspectes. Bien malgré elle, Joy se retrouve plongée dans ce monde qu’elle réprouve et contrainte de remplacer son amie, elle fait la rencontre d’Adrian. Beau, charismatique, il dégage une aura qui la paralyse.

90 jours d'abstinence. Voilà le défi que Parker a accepté de relever sous le regard sceptique de ses proches. Pour lui qui utilise le sexe afin de fuir ses tourments, ce sera un véritable exploit. Cependant, quand la tempétueuse Angie débarque dans son univers et s'immisce tant dans sa vie professionnelle que familiale, sa détermination manque de faillir. Angie, elle, pensait passer quelques mois à travailler tranquillement dans une entreprise de voyages de luxe. Son objectif ? Mettre de l'argent de côté et quitter définitivement son passé.

Hollywood icon Laura Dern breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic. With their father away at war, Meg, the oldest and prettiest sister, and Jo, the tomboy, take care of Beth, the shy one, and Amy, the artist. When their beloved 'Marmee' must leave to nurse Father, who is badly wounded in the war, the girls sustain themselves by putting to use the lessons of loyalty and patience they had learned from their family.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is wintering. It is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves...

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

La vie est imprévisible et parfois tout déraille : le mari de Katherine May est tombé malade, son fils a cessé d'aller à l'école et ses propres problèmes médicaux l'ont amenée à quitter un travail exigeant. Hiverner explore comment elle a non seulement enduré cette période douloureuse, mais aussi saisi les opportunités singulières qu'elle lui offrait.

This is a collection meant to be cherished for a lifetime. Whether encountering these cherished tales for the first or the 50th time, listeners will find enchantment in this collection.

When Detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at Montreal's St. Hubert airfield, he does so without looking back. For Sime, the 850-mile journey ahead represents an opportunity to escape the bitter blend of loneliness and regret that has come to characterise his life in the city. Travelling as part of an eight-officer investigation team, Sime's destination lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only two kilometres wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of around 130 inhabitants - the wealthiest of which has just been discovered murdered in his home.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the free-thinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work."

*Now a major Netflix series starring Leo Woodall and Rachel Weisz* 'An astonishing debut . . . I was utterly hooked . . . by this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel ' – The Sunday Times One evening, a fifty-something literature professor invites her new and beautiful young colleague...

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him. A detective from Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock 20 miles offshore. He does not know if he has what it takes to uncover how and why.

"Warm, honest and true--A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice." --Diane Von Furstenberg The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously--carefully" OVER...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more, alongside selected poetry from Christina Rossetti; Elizabeth Browning; and Emily Dickinson. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Keeble, and many more, this is your new go-to collection to catch up on those classics you've always wanted to hear.

A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat. Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose.

In Carbolics the UK's favourite petrol head (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and more. Across 80 essays, James gives his quirky, entertaining take on cars, motorbikes, trucks—and explains why the bicycle might just be the best invention of all.

Kairo ist Ausgangspunkt dieser fesselnden Orient-Trilogie. Sie schildert eines der schlimmsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte: das Problem des Sklavenhandels. Bis in die Nubische Wüste verfolgen Kara Ben Nemsi und sein Diener Ben Nil zusammen mit dem "Reis Effendina" einen Sklavenzug.

Eighteen mutilated women in a Shanghai mass grave. But this is only the beginning of a horrific case for Investigator Li Yan and Mei Ling, head of Shanghai's serious crime squad. Ling is a formidable woman, and she appears to threaten Li Yan's relationship with pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell discovers that the victims were subjected to live autopsies, she knows she'll need all the help she can get.