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From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name. “You’ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the...

If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time - warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice & Fire. This volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones.

Rumpelstiltskin, démon du petit peuple, pourchasse Lucia avant même sa naissance. Son oeil malveillant se délecte de sa lumière depuis la nuit des temps. Maman, maman, quel est son nom? Comment s'appelle l'affreux lutin qui se cache sous mon lit? Exerçant des chantages émotifs savamment orchestrés, Rumpelstiltskin ensemence l'angoisse, engendre la folie et récolte la mort. Comment une mère peut-elle espérer sauver ses enfants de l'emprise d'un traqueur intemporel, fugace et démoniaque?

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler...

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the...

Philippe Durand est invité au luxueux Manoir des Cimes, fidèle reconstruction d’un bâtiment bicentenaire, de même que sept autres convives. Leur séjour ne tarde toutefois pas à devenir un effroyable cauchemar où rampe le mal et s’amuse l’horreur. Des cadavres retrouvés disparaissent, des marques inexplicables couvrent planchers et murs, des cris résonnent au-delà des portes closes…

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

From amnesiac vampire slayers to fallen angels, space vampires to cursed tattoo artists, sleep paralysis demons to ancient wish-granting entities—six stories prove that even monsters deserve a happily ever after. Treat yourself to a collection that's equal parts spooky and steamy.

La course des tuques: L’hiver est revenu. Les Tuques se préparent pour le concours annuel d’ingéniosité. François les Lunettes a bien hâte de montrer une fois de plus tout son génie à ses amis. Mais Zac, le nouveau du village, arrive avec une luge spectaculaire ! Pendant la course, c’est la catastrophe : la luge de François se désagrège. Comment est-ce possible ?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Editors’ Choice The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy and “master storyteller” (New York Times) returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium Los Angeles Times Book Prize...

John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.

Everyone agreed that Whiskers was a very quiet cat. He lived in a little yellow house at the end of Maple Street. The paint was peeling, the steps were creaky, and the windows always appeared warm, even in the winter. People who walked by sometimes spotted him sitting in the front window with his gray fur perfectly clean and his white paws tucked under him like he was made of porcelain. He didn’t move much. He didn’t make a lot of noise. Mrs. Turner from next door used to say, “That cat never meows.”

People often talk about motivation as the main reason for success, productivity, and self-improvement. A lot of self-help books, social media, and motivational speakers say that feeling inspired is the most important thing you can do to attain your goals. Motivation can be strong, but it isn't always reliable. Discipline, on the other hand, is steady, reliable, and more successful in the long run.

Having a cat around will make you feel a lot of different things, including peaceful companionship, abrupt bad behavior, and the need to create and enforce rules all the time. People frequently assume that cats are cruel, hard to teach, and can't accomplish anything on their own. Weirdly, this picture is basically real, even if it is. A lot of people feel unhappy when they think their cats will respond to training the same way dogs do. This is because cats and dogs are not the same.

Dans cette réécriture du merveilleux conte Casse-Noisette et le Roi des souris, dont l’oeuvre originale a été imaginée par Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman, vous ferez connaissance avec les membres d’une famille jadis ravagée par une épouvantable tragédie. Des années plus tard, des doutes naîtrons sur ce qui s’est vraiment passé sur le lac gelé où le petit Fritz s’est volatilisé...

Sometimes work can be murder. Detective Sergeant Kiara Lui has just broken up a loud brawl between two blokes in front of the Warrigal Public Library. But just as she's about to leave the scene, a man plummets from the sky and slams into the bike rack right in front of her, dead. Head of Library Services, Neville Adams, was hated by staff, borrowers, and in fact anybody who had ever met him. What might have tipped that hatred into outright murder? The building is quickly sealed, trapping all the suspects inside.

Une femme déboussolée, que la cruauté de la vie fait trébucher hors de sa route. Des militants fanatiques, cachés derrière des masques grimaçants et dont les slogans s’inscrivent en rouge sang. Un imposteur au charme magnétique, aux si nombreux visages que lui-même ne sait plus distinguer le vrai des faux.

He's a duke. He's a mathematical genius. He can't talk and he's locked in a lunatic asylum. Only a modest Quaker girl can reach him, but when she helps him to escape, she's swept into his glittering aristocratic world, her life torn apart by his desperate attempt to save himself.

In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, tennis star Rafael Nadal reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success. What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers...