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As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas—by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. Please come and help me. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. 

Classic fables take on new meaning as five of today’s most original bestselling authors serve up some deliciously modern twists. New reflections on evil queens, charmless princes, and star-crossed lovers branch out in provocative and enchanting directions. Follow the path and see where it...

Philip K. Dick was an award-winning giant of American science fiction, right up there with Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. He became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series. Although he died fairly young at 53, he created many incredible sci-fi stories - 44 published novels and over 120 short stories! These 14 selections represent some of his most imaginative work. Included in this collection are: "Adjustment Team", "The Golden Man", "A World of Talent", "The Last of the Masters", "The Crystal Crypt", and more.

This volume contains a variety of imaginative stories from both famous and not-so-famous science fiction writers.

The Panhandle was a lonely purple range land, unfenced, and wind swept. Bill Smith, cattleman, threw up a cabin and looked at the future with hopeful eyes. One day while plowing almost out of sight of his little home - which that morning he had left apprehensively owing to an impending event - he espied his wife Margaret coming along the edge of the plowed field. She had brought his lunch this day, despite his order to the contrary.

A complicated, angry son, Calumet Marston, returns to his boyhood homestead to find his hated father dead and a stranger, a woman named Betty, in charge. Her family had aided his father, and now she is "the boss". His father's will stipulates certain conditions before Calumet can take over, including repairs to the ranch and to the relationship he had with his dad. Several letters Betty has lead Calumet to a new understanding of his father and their stormy history. Murder, gun fights, ambush, ancient treasure - it's all here.

As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult when it literally went down in flames. Years later, she’s the NYPD’s best hostage negotiator and a mother. She thought the worst part of her life was behind her. Until now. Armed conspiracy theorists called the Watchers have attacked the local high school - and taken her daughter hostage. With the delusional Watchers holding her child at gunpoint, the unflappable Abby might be at her breaking point. But the clock is ticking on her daughter’s life.

The dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues is delightfully evident in the "Symposium." The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy. With wit and insight, they each present their ideas about love - from Erixymachus’s scientific naturalism to Aristophanes' comic fantasy. The unexpected arrival of Alcibiades breaks the spell cast by Diotima’s ethereal climb up the staircase of love to beauty itself.

Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art. This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best life, providing a penetrating examination of ethics. Is it better to suffer evil or to do evil? Is it better to do something wrong and avoid being caught or to be caught and punished? Is pleasure the same as goodness?

Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited to play at the gloomy, cobwebbed house of unhappy Miss Havisham, where he is humiliated by her beautiful ward, Estella. Pip falls in love with the...

Poète itinérant du macadam, Mo Abbas observe et croque en détails et en jeux de mots les incongruités urbaines, consigne les panneaux de signalisation, les noms des rues insolites, des devantures de snacks, les cris des goélands, les cris des mamans, les bruits, les voix, les sons, les têtes, les bêtes… Julien Martinière a mis en scène un bestiaire et un ours dans les rues de la ville. Un ours avec un chapeau, des lunettes, une moto, des oiseaux, des lézards et des hommes, tout cela est-il bien urbain ?

mais quel bazar toutes ces idées ! à peine la nuit tombée elles entrent une à une se bousculent, dansent, se suivent s'installent sur l'accoudoir du canapé couinent, meuglent et hop, c'est parti ! bienvenue au grand cirque des idées ! À partir de créatures imaginaires dessinées par l'illustrateur égyptien Walid Taher, Ramona Badescu a inventé un grand cirque des idées, la rouge, la simple, celle perdue sur la dernière marche de l'escalier, l'idée neuve et même… oh la merveilleuse idée !

Ces Poèmes pour affronter le beau temps & profiter du mauvais sont des considérations humoristiques sur le temps qui passe et la scansion des saisons. La forme répond au fond du texte : ainsi le mot tunnel devient-il graphique grâce à deux -nn- agrandis. Le mauvais temps, quant à lui, s'écrit en gouttes de pluie.

Les tireurs sportifs est un long poème écrit par Golan Haji dans les premières années de la révolte syrienne, après 2011. Les vers s'égrènent, chapelet d'observations minutieuses du quotidien, de scènes, d'images, d'instants vécus qui nous plongent dans un monde en lutte, un monde en guerre. L'écriture n'est jamais sinistre, jamais obscène, elle donne seulement à voir et à entendre par le truchement d'une magnifique langue poétique.

Les Poèmes en peluches sont une plongée dans le monde et les bruits de l'enfant, ses peurs un peu terribles parfois, ses jeux, ses instants de folie, ses gros mots… Les gros mots de celui qui apprend à parler. Car c'est bien cela, le parti pris d'Edith Azam : le parti pris de l'enfance, replonger en enfance, retrouver les sensations crues et les émotions nues, sans censure du gros mot ni de la peur enfouie.

Arbre dont j'ignore le nom est une méditation du poète sur l'exil et l'oubli. L'exil et l'incapacité à dire dans une autre langue : quand « les mots sont pauvres, ils montent et descendent comme le hoquet d'un nourrisson dans le brouillard d'une autre langue ». L'exil et le souvenir d'histoires familiales qui permettent d'évoquer ce que l'on fut, là d'où l'on vient.

Der christliche Glaube - völlig unsinnig oder doch mehr als ein Märchen? Mit wissenschaftlich begründeten Antworten auf genau diese brennende Frage richtet sich Christian Al-Masoud in seinem neuen Buch an alle, die auf der Suche nach Wahrheit, Tiefe und Sinn sind. Er lädt dabei zu einer...

When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning. Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.

Widely heralded on publication as a “must-read” (Military Review) and “important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda” (Washington Post), Ali Soufan’s revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war — and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.

En égyptien, cet album a pour titre Le poussin n'est pas un chien. Le poussin de cette histoire est petit, doux et rond, il vit dans un monde intérieur fait de caresses et de siestes. Le chien en revanche est grand, droit et nocturne, il vit dehors et défie les chiens, les enfants, les méchants. Le héros et narrateur est un jeune garçon, entre poussin et chien, qui quitte l'univers tendre du giron maternel pour le monde extérieur et agressif.