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À Nineveh, le quartier du péché, le pouvoir des femmes est contrôlé par les hommes. Lilith Leviathan, héritière d'une des familles les plus puissantes d'Eden, a choisi l'exil plutôt que la soumission. Elle vend au marché noir des objets qu'elle vole grâce à sa magie, jusqu'à ce qu'une mystérieuse dague ancienne l'entraîne dans un engrenage mortel. En désespoir de cause, Lilith se tourne vers Zahariev, chef de la famille Zareth et dirigeant de Nineveh.

La Première guerre mondiale ravage désormais la France. En Bretagne, les hommes ont quitté les champs pour rejoindre les tranchées ; les femmes, elles, font vivre la terre. L'année 1917 s'installe, et avec elle un hiver d'une rudesse exceptionnelle, qui éprouve les corps et les âmes. Dans sa ferme, Marie se bat.

Le facteur s'est cassé la jambe, il ne peut pas distribuer le courrier... Petite Taupe, toujours prête à rendre service, lui emprunte donc son uniforme pour faire sa tournée. Elle part alors à la rencontre de tous les habitants de la forêt...

C'est décidé, cet été, Petite Taupe part à la mer pour participer à un grand concours de châteaux de sable ! Mais une fois sur la plage, elle doit aider une famille de bigorneaux avec l'aide d'Oscar le bernard-l'hermite Va-t-elle réussir à finir son château de sable à temps ?...

Dans la forêt, Petite Taupe tombe sur un drôle de fil… Elle décide de le suivre et qu’elle n'est pas sa surprise en arrivant au bout !...

C’est l’été et au bord de la rivière, Petite Taupe s’ennuie : elle rêve de fraîcheur et d’aventure ! Alors, direction le grand Nord. À peine sur la banquise, elle découvre un environnement merveilleux, mais hostile… Elle se met alors en route à la recherche du « Grand-Blanc »...

Meet Miles Bacon, the truck-driving, box-hauling, big rig pig! From the New York Times bestselling duo behind Cupig, this charming story is “sure to delight young readers” (Booklist) who love Little Blue Truck and Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. “Clever and fun . . . lively rhymes...

Amos, 1929. Par une froide nuit de janvier, l’immeuble d’Aubert de La Durantaye, abritant trois logements et son cabinet de dentiste, est la proie des flammes. Atterrée, la foule ne peut que constater que trois personnes, dont l’assistante du docteur et son fils, n’ont pas pu fuir le brasier. Quand il apprend la terrible nouvelle, Aubert, de passage à Québec pour les funérailles de son beau-père, s’écroule, tandis que son épouse, Euphrosine, demeure de marbre. Quelle insolite voie du destin a réuni ces deux êtres aux antipodes l’un de l’autre ?

Dans le brouillard d'une soirée d'automne de 1944, un sexagénaire de noble allure contemple l'île abitibienne dont il est le propriétaire et sur laquelle est érigé un singulier château. Retiré du monde depuis quinze ans, fuyant de lourds secrets et de dangereuses passions, Gontran Lecomte se plaît dans cet exil volontaire, qui lui a permis de survivre à l'écroulement de ses univers familial et professionnel. Mais voilà que, soudain, une jeune femme se dresse sur le cap rocheux à ses côtés avant de se laisser choir dans l'eau glacée.

'WONDERFUL - A PROFOUND ACCOMPLISHMENT' Max Gladstone 'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' Adrian Tchaikovsky 'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Kate Quinn From the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries...

“An absolute masterpiece of a book. North is one of the imaginative greats.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time A future that is already broken. A paradox that must be solved. A love that can never be erased. ?An extraordinary tale of time travel, betrayal, and queer romance...

New Yorker Ginger Colby, half witch, half werewolf, all curves, has made an immediate and lasting impression on the Alpha of Blue Moon County. Unfortunately, she did it by publicly insulting him - she turned down the smug, sexy werewolf sheriff when he asked her to dance with him at the local honky-tonk. Now the furious Alpha of her pack is ordering her to make amends with Sheriff Sexy - or risk igniting a war between the Red Wolves and the Gray.

Wolf shifter Dashiel Battle has always known that Isadora Mosswood is a rebel, a rule breaker, a perpetual thorn in his paw...but is she also the greatest traitor that the shifter nation has ever known? Shocking new evidence seems to indicate that she's been secretly collaborating with a group of humans who were conducting experiments on shifters. When she's confronted, Isadora doesn't explain or defend herself - she goes on the run.

One minute, wolf shifter Katrina Hagan is shoe shopping with her packmate Joy, the next minute, she's being carried off by the Alpha of the Killingworth pack. Now she's a hostage, a pawn in the negotiations between two rival packs - so why can't she act like it? Her kidnapper, Maddox "Mad Dog" Killingworth, has a reputation as a ruthless killer - she should be petrified. Instead, within days of being taken prisoner, the sassy she-wolf has Maddox's pack eating out of her hand and she's making Maddox's inner wolf howl with need every time she saunters by.

Fire dragon Orion Garrison is rich, eligible, and hot in more ways than one, but that hasn't been enough to find him a true life mate. And even his billions won't keep shifter matchmakers The Mating Game from showing him the door when the he arrogantly demands they find him a woman to bear his dragonlings. Cadence Bergmann has always known the chilling truth - if her ice dragon half starts to show, she'll be married off to someone from her long-estranged clan, even if she can't shift, can't fly, and her icy breath is only good for chilling margaritas.

Going on a very public date with Ryker Harrison, the sexy, surly ex-boxer whose Alpha attitude and string of one-night stands have earned him the nickname "the Big Bad Wolf"? Daisy would run as fast as her paws could carry her...if it wasn't a publicity stunt for her favorite aunt's new dating service. But it turns out the handsome shifter and his family have other ideas. Apparently after her first date, his nosy, interfering pack think she's agreed to be his life-mate. And the curvy she-wolf has Ryker convinced it's time to give up his playboy ways and claim Daisy for his own.

One minute, city girl Eileen Pennyroyal is running in terror from a bear - so scared she even forgets that she can turn into a wolf. The next minute, she's being rescued by the handsomest, rudest shifter she's ever seen. Does Marcus even know how to speak, or does he just grunt when someone tries to make conversation? Eileen knows when she's not wanted, and she thinks she's never going to see him again - until the local Alpha tells her that Marcus needs a mate immediately. And it's her.

The Timber Valley pack has a terrible reputation. Word is their males are dominant, kinky, and possessive - and Josephine's best friend from college is being forced to marry one? No way! Curvy wolf shifter Josephine Southpaw's got the perfect solution. Using a magic charm, she'll disguise herself as the slender, beautiful Camille on her wedding day - while Camille hightails it out of town with the wolf she really loves. Of course, the Alpha will ditch Josephine the second he gets her back to the wedding suite and sees what his chubby bride really looks like...right?

Wynona Bennett, owner of The Mating Game, thinks everyone should find true love, so it goes against her instincts to arrange a mating of convenience. It's even worse when it's for a spoiled socialite with a shopping list where her soul should be. But when powerful people resort to blackmail, she either has to make semi-feral Zane Shepherd into an eligible match, or find herself behind bars. It's going to take a miracle. He's bad-mannered, bad-tempered...and bad for Wynona's bruised, once-bitten-twice-shy-heart. But Zane isn't all he seems.

Billionaire shifter Morgan Rosemont's family just showed up in Silver Peak for a surprise visit, and he's in big trouble. Morgan had lied and told them he was engaged, which means he needs a mate, fast. The last person he should turn to is smart-mouthed curvy secretary Valerie, because she's the only one who threatens his hard-won self-control. So why does he find himself calling her in to his office and making a deal with the devil?