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Prague, 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter, Miriam, safe is to send her away - even if it means never seeing her again. But when Eva is taken to a concentration camp, her secret is at risk of being exposed. In London, Pamela volunteers to help find places for the Jewish children arrived from Europe. Befriending one unclaimed little girl, Pamela brings her home. It is only when her young son enlists in the RAF that Pamela realises how easily her own world could come crashing down.

Ils ne se connaissent pas, mais un même rêve leur a donné rendez-vous dans une mystérieuse chapelle des Highlands en Écosse. Valeria, Peter et Stefan ignorent qu'ils sont la preuve vivante d'une découverte révolutionnaire sur les arcanes de la mémoire faite vingt ans plus tôt par deux scientifiques disparus. Une découverte que beaucoup voudraient s'approprier - à n'importe quel prix. Pour échapper à ceux qui les traquent, ils n'ont pas d'autre choix que de remonter à l'origine du secret dont ils sont les ultimes gardiens. Leurs souvenirs sont des sanctuaires.

Emma Appleby's arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with her - except for pub landlord Mick Castle. When Emma opens an academy and sets herself up in competition with the local school, she provokes a savage response from the community.

Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned. Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly rambunctious rather than merely chatty, and the roses have jaggy thorns.

La philosophie Marx - discipline et méthode. Lorsque la libellule est confrontée à un obstacle, son premier mouvement consiste à changer d'axe. Sans jamais reculer, elle teste un passage par le haut, puis par le bas, de droite à gauche et de gauche à droite, jusqu'à trouver la solution. Autrement dit, la libellule se montre capable de prendre de la distance. Dans "La stratégie de la libellule", Thierry Marx développe tous les mots-clefs qui lui ont permis de construire et d'affiner sa philosophie.

Dans un grand hôpital d'Édimbourg, le docteur Scott Kinross et la généticienne Jenni Cooper travaillent sur la maladie d'Alzheimer. Alors que le mal progresse à un rythme inquiétant, frappant des sujets toujours plus nombreux, toujours plus jeunes, leurs conclusions sont effrayantes : si ce fléau l'emporte, tout ce qui fait de nous des êtres humains disparaîtra. Dans un monde où les intérêts financiers règnent en despotes, c'est le début d'une guerre silencieuse dont Kinross et Cooper ne sont pas les seuls à entrevoir les enjeux.

In Unstoppable Me, written by New York Times bestselling author and champion surfer Bethany Hamilton with husband, Adam Dirks, tells the story of Makana the lion, who loves to surf but loses her nerve when she wipes out. When her friend encourages her to go back out again, Makana summons up the...

El thriller más trepidante, lleno de aventuras y, sobre todo, más divertido de 2017. Historia, suspense, ciencia y aventura en una intriga contra reloj que nos invita a viajar a lo largo de 2500 años, desde la antigua Mesopotamia al Tercer Reich, desde el Museo Británico al Japón milenario...

Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York’s elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power...

Verbotene Liebe - so heiß und gefährlich... Melissa hat Jared mit ihrem Charisma und den heißen Kurven den Kopf verdreht. Doch Melissa ist für Jared tabu, denn sie ist die Tochter seines Chefs. Auf einer Party können die beiden trotzdem nicht die Finger voneinander lassen. Hals über Kopf stürzen sich beide in ein erotisches Abenteuer und müssen schon bald um ihr Leben fürchten.

William Legrand has found a new type of bug, a golden bug, unusually heavy. His servant, Jupiter, is worried. Why is Legrand behaving so oddly? Has the bug's bite made him mad? When Legrand shows his friend a drawing of the gold-bug, it looks more like a skull. What can this mean? The arrival of the gold-bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull and a hunt for buried treasure.

The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath. Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself would be welcome. What troubles him most is the eternal question: how will he die? Toledo Prison is notorious for the torture of the condemned. What minds have dreamed up the terror of the pit in the centre of the cell?

Little Nell Trent's childhood is over. Her grandfather's mind is failing, his dark secret makes him sad and distracted and he has nobody to care for him but Nell. The grotesque Daniel Quilp is out to cause trouble. What plans does he hatch with the dreadful Sampson and Sally Brass? What use can he hope to make of the foolish Dick Swiveller? Is Nell’s one true friend, Kit, a match for Quilp's villainous mind? Nell and her grandfather must disappear or be separated forever and so they begin their lives as beggars.

Here is a test, a puzzle for you. It is a faithful account of two most gruesome murders. Can you work out what actually happened in the early hours of one fateful morning in the Rue Morgue? Before you start, here are a few tips. To be a good detective you need the same skills as a good card-player. You must consider and examine every detail, not just the obvious ones. You have to observe every change in a person's face, everything they say, everything they do and you must always expect the unexpected. And finally, you must remember it all.

The foundations of Jewish law are under threat from the followers of a man called Jesus. These people have reached Damascus. They must be stopped. Saul, uncompromising and brutal, is the man for the job. But by the time Saul reaches Damascus, he is blind and in shock. What could have happened to him on that journey? How does a man react when his beliefs are turned upside down? Now calling himself Paul, can he convince his former enemies to trust him? Can he convince the world that Jesus's teachings are for everyone?

Poor Judas - he just can't decide what to do with his life. Everybody expects him to follow in his father's footsteps, but he has too many doubts. Then one day he meets a man who changes everything. With new hope and a new sense of purpose, Judas leaves his home and his family to follow Jesus. But for how long can Judas accept the simplicity of Jesus's work? How soon will his mind return to its former complex ways? Tortured by increasing doubts, troubled by rivalry within the group and sensing that time is running short, Judas feels compelled to take action.

Mary's childhood in Magdala leaves her with emotional scars she fears will never heal - until she meets Jesus. Recognising the importance of Jesus' work, she decides to do all that she can to support him, but what good can a woman do in a man's world? Will Mary ever be accepted by Jesus' other disciples? What will she learn from the miracles she witnesses and from her many conversations with the Son of God? To Mary the message seems simple, so why can't others believe?

Mary is a young woman living a simple life in Nazareth, when an angel's visit changes her life forever. She has been chosen by God to bear him a son. She alone amongst women has been chosen to bear the agony and the joy. From the moment of his birth, she knows that Jesus' life will be like no other. She has been warned of the pain that lies ahead. When Jesus begins his work, how will she react to her increasing awareness of the dangers facing her son?

Inspired by extraordinary true events, this remarkable debut novel reveals the enduring power of love and the strength of the human spirit in one woman's quest to find her son, and a little boy's dream to be found.