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Depuis l'ère de l’uniformité. Depuis l’ère de la solitude et de la doublepensée. Depuis l’ère de Big Brother… Moi, Winston Smith. Je vous salue… Nous sommes en 1984 et la vie a radicalement changé. Big Brother vous observe en permanence et personne ne peut lui échapper. Sauf, peut-être, Winston Smith. Il travaille au ministère de la Vérité, où il réécrit l’histoire, mais en secret, il rêve de liberté. Et dans un monde où l’amour et le sexe sont interdits, où il est difficile de savoir qui est un ami ou un ennemi, il rencontre Julia et O’Brien et jure de se rebeller.

De l’incontournable Bicyclette bleue de Régine Deforges aux SAS de Gérard de Villiers en passant par les romans de Judy Blume, Anaïs Nin ou Annie Ernaux, nombreux sont les livres à l’origine des premiers émois adolescents. Aujourd’hui, femmes et hommes de tout âge sont revenus sur les pas de leurs 15 ans pour se remémorer cet éveil à la sexualité grâce à la littérature.

In this electric and provocative debut novel, Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture, brilliantly brought to life through a...

Als sie auf mysteriöse Weise eine Einladung zu dem exklusivsten Club der Stadt erhält, stürzt sie sich gemeinsam mit ihrer Freundin Anna in das Abenteuer - nichtsahnend, dass der Mann, der sie seit Wochen heimlich beobachtet, dort bereits auf sie wartet. Denn Craven hat längst beschlossen, dass Olivia ihm gehört. Und er wird kein Nein akzeptieren.

»Lauf, mein kleiner Engel, lauf! Je schneller du vor mir fliehst, desto mehr will ich dich einfangen. Dir deine Flügel stutzen und dir deine reine Seele nehmen.« Evelyn wollte eigentlich nie auf diese Halloweenparty. Doch ihrem Freund zuliebe geht sie mit – nur um ihn dort inflagranti mit einer Anderen zu erwischen. Geschockt flieht sie in den angrenzenden Wald, verliert jede Orientierung und findet sich schließlich in ihrem schwarzen Engelskostüm vor einem abgelegenen Kloster wieder. Ohne andere Optionen bittet sie verzweifelt um Einlass.

»Flieg nur davon, mein Täubchen. Flieg so schnell du kannst. Aber du wirst mir nicht entkommen. Denn einen Vogel erlegt man nicht im Käfig. Die Kunst ist, ihn im Flug zu fangen. Und du hast die Jagd soeben eröffnet.« Olivia will nur eines: Fliehen. Weg von Craven, weg von dem Club und vor allem weg von der Dunkelheit, die er in ihr entfacht hat. Doch egal, wie weit sie rennt – er ist ihr immer einen Schritt voraus. Als sie die Weihnachtstage mit ihrer besten Freundin in einem abgelegenen Ski-Chalet verbringt, scheint es, als hätte sie endlich einen Zufluchtsort gefunden.

By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies invites listeners to look at how white Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both experienced psychotherapists skilled at facilitating dialogue about racial issues, are cognizant of the challenges that even the thought of such conversations often presents. Their book is based on the premise that for positive and lasting change to occur, hearts as well as minds must be opened.

In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants, voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers, ghosts and vampires, and the most famous murderer of all time.

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and...

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in...

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty...

This is four years of blood, sweat, and toil. An illustrator from Germany and I did 100 percent of all the writing. It is just the beginning for me. Thank you for your support.

This book is for adults and children to discuss and think about controlling strong emotions. What do you think you can do to be calm? If you are angry, upset, afraid, embarrassed, or feeling any other strong emotion, you don’t want your emotions to control you. This short children's book discusses many different ways for you to be in charge of your emotions.

Martin Luther King Junior is an important person in black history. In this interactive audiobook, follow his life from birth to adulthood. He stood against racism and dedicated his life to attaining equality and fairness to Americans of all colors.

Red and Bain could not wait for their vacation to begin at the beach on Cape San Blas. A dog and his boy looked forward to flying kites and playing frisbee. Vacation began in a perfect way. Then, the fireworks frightened Red. He did not like loud noises, they hurt his ears. Red ran to lose the noise. The distance that he traveled lost more than the noise. Red lost his family. Now, what was he to do?

In How to Build Wealth Like Warren Buffett: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor, acclaimed author and Buffett expert Robert Miles brings to light Warren Buffett the man, along with his simple yet highly effective business and investing principles. You will be inspired and motivated as Robert recounts the story of how Warren Buffett single-handedly became a self-made billionaire solely by investing in stocks and businesses that he believed in.

Good Morning America viewers have come to know and love Lucimarian Roberts, the 88-year-old mother of coanchor Robin Roberts. On the day after Hurricane Katrina blew through the Gulf Coast, they watched Robin, standing amid the remnants of her hometown, recount the desperate search for her mother - and her return to safety. Robin was not surprised to learn that even as the winds howled and floodwaters rose, Lucimarian sang hymns....

Say goodnight to America's manchild-in-chief with this bestselling and wickedly funny parody. In the very classy room There was a golden mirror And a silver spoon And a broadcast of -- A half-baked story from a fake newsroom . . . Goodnight Trump opens in the very classy golden bedroom of the...

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Inadequate Equilibria is a sharp and lively guidebook for anyone questioning when and how they can know better, and do better, than the status quo. Freely mixing debates on the foundations of rational decision-making with tips for everyday life, Yudkowsky explores the central question of when we can (and can’t) expect to spot systemic inefficiencies, and exploit them.

Provocative and controversial, socially conscious and politically charged, wildly imaginative yet deeply grounded, the thirty-two never-before-published stories, essays, and poems in The Last Dangerous Visions stand as a testament to Ellison’s lifelong pursuit of art, uniting a diverse range of science fiction writers both famous and newly minted, including Max Brooks, Edward Bryant, Cecil Castellucci, James S. A. Corey, Howard Fast, Patricia Hodgell, Dan Simmons, Robert Sheckley, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Cory Doctorow, among others.