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The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money-grubbing young woman who quickly makes him miserable, and they emigrate to Paris. But there's another reason Jean must leave - he has committed a terrible crime.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Litle. Gabriel Brockwell wants to die, and his destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, and committed to the pursuit of pleasure, Gabriel's adventure include a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, and an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport.

Écrit par l’auteur de la biographie autorisée de Steve Jobs, voici le récit intime de l’innovateur le plus fascinant et le plus controversé de la planète. Visionnaire défiant toutes les règles, Elon Musk est l’homme qui a fait entrer le monde dans l’ère des voitures électriques, de l’exploration spatiale privée et de l’intelligence artificielle. Ah, au fait : il a aussi racheté Twitter. Durant son enfance en Afrique du Sud, Elon Musk est la cible des violences de ses camarades. Un jour, une bande le pousse du haut d’une volée de marches et le roue de coups, réduisant son visage à une masse de chair boursouflée.

For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism - it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time.

Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio.

"Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après." Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle, deux rescapés...

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him - his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname: The Novelist.

"La sorcière de la rue Mouffetard", "Le géant aux chaussettes rouges", "La sorcière du placard aux balais"... Avec une malice et un humour contagieux, Pierre Gripari et François Morel nous font partager ces 13 contes modernes, insolites et savoureux! Celui qui a su ouvrir de nouvelles portes à l'imaginaire en inversant les codes du conte classique continue de faire rire et rêver avec un univers poétique et facétieux adoré des enfants.

Occupé à enquêter sur un trafic d'objets enchantés, Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, mage du Cercle Cyan, se retrouve mêlé à une série de meurtres. Confronté à des gargouilles immortelles et à un puissant sorcier, Griffont n'a d'autre choix que de s'associer à Isabel de Saint-Gil, une fée renégate que le mage ne connaît que trop bien. Brillant hommage aux feuilletonistes du début du XXe siècle (Maurice Leblanc et son Arsène Lupin, Gaston Leroux et son Rouletabille, entre autres), "Les enchantements d'Ambremer" est le premier tome du "Paris des Merveilles", une trilogie steampunk aussi drôle qu'érudite.

Three soldiers, bound together by a single terrible event in the final days of the First World War, and a scheme to stun an entire country. Wounded and traumatised by their wartime experience, Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt return from the fighting on the Western Front and find themselves struggling in a society where reverence for the dead can never erase the revulsion for those who survived.

Winner of the CWA International Dagger. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing until the bitter, bitter end.

You may wonder why you’re still stuck in the same place, same mindset, or same circles when there is a big world of opportunities out there. So, what’s holding you back? Is it financial status? Few growth opportunities? Narrow professional network? Whatever it may be, the truth remains: Your greatness is mostly dependent on you. Even if it doesn’t feel and look that way now, your goals are within reach...but only if you equip yourself with the strategies to make it happen.

Forerunner to the renowned operas, The Figaro Plays by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais are a celebration of how intelligence and wit can bring any servant level with their aristocratic masters. Considered scandalous in their time, the plays went on to be adapted by Rossini (The Barber of Seville) and Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro) to become some of the most popular and acclaimed operas of all time. These original plays show us the stories behind these popular operas.

Do you doubt? Do you suffer? Are you anxious about the trials of life? Father de Caussade offers the one sure solution to any spiritual difficulty: Abandon yourself entirely to God by embracing the duties of your station in life. With wisdom and gentleness he teaches how to practice complete submission to the will of God in every situation, whether we are beginners or seasoned travelers on the way of perfection. True abandonment, he explains, is a trusting, peaceful, and childlike surrender to the guidance of grace.

Qui connaît vraiment Alex ? Elle est belle. Excitante. Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevée, séquestrée, livrée à l'inimaginable ?

The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, uncaring of those who face social ruin or whose hearts are broken. It depicts a decadent and corrupt aristocracy exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Regime. The relevance of this grew due to the ensuing the French Revolution.

Dès leur parution en 1782, "Les liaisons dangereuses" connaissent un engouement, une vogue qui ne se dément pas. Bonheur des mots, passion d'une intrigue conduite comme un drame classique, "Les liaisons" conduisent dans les méandres du cœur humain, pétri d'amour et de vanité, mais aussi au sein d'une société marquée du double sceau de la frivolité et de la destruction.

La domination masculine est tellement ancrée dans nos inconscients que nous ne l'apercevons plus, tellement accordée à nos attentes que nous avons du mal à la remettre en question. La découverte des permanences oblige à renverser la manière habituelle de poser le problème : quels sont les mécanismes et les institutions qui accomplissent le travail de reproduction.

La vie de Camille, adolescente surdouée, bascule le jour où elle pénètre accidentellement dans un univers parallèle, nommé Gwendalavir. Elle ignore tout de ce monde où, pourtant, on semble la reconnaître sous le nom d'Ewilan. Accompagnée dans sa quête par son ami Salim, elle réalise qu'elle possède un don prodigieux et que tout un peuple l'attendait pour reconquérir sa liberté et sa dignité. Camille doit vite apprendre à maîtriser son pouvoir, l'art du Dessin.

Ellana est face à son destin, et doit livrer une ultime bataille pour tenter de retrouver ce qu'elle a de plus précieux au monde : son fils, enlevé par les mercenaires du Chaos. Mais où se trouve la cité des mercenaires ? Est-il encore temps de sauver Destan et l'Empire, promis tous deux à un terrible avenir ? L'ultime tome de la trilogie culte de Pierre Bottero, dans lequel la légendaire Ellana accomplit enfin sa destinée de Marchombre.