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Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off. When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats

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, 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.

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?

Alphas? Wolf shifter Virginia Battle has had her fill of them. She's grown up with an Alpha dad and four bossy, overprotective older brothers - so there's no way in hell she's going to give arrogant, sexy Carver Lawrence the time of day. Yet he keeps showing up everywhere she goes, scaring off all the guys who want to date her - and not making a single move on her. Then, after one drunken night in a casino, she wakes up next to him in bed...with a wedding ring on her finger.

Look out, Shifters of Silver Peak, there's a new sheriff in town. Unfortunately, it's curvy, clumsy Chelsea Wintergreen, who knows how to make 20 flavors of cake pop but knows nothing about law enforcement. And, even worse, after she's suckered into letting the local pack deputize her, she finds out that her first assignment is...bringing in sexy, deadly Roman Kincaid, the leader of a rogue band of shifters.

Cats and dogs don't traditionally get along, but there's one pussycat that Alpha shifter Ty Battle wants to set a-purrin': sexy lynx shifter Karen Padfoot. Unfortunately, he's got a terrible reputation as a player, and she's scorned all of his advances after one interrupted encounter a year earlier. When she comes to the Battle compound to plead for the release of her troublemaking father, who stole from the Battles' warehouse, he's finally got his chance; she'll have to work for him as a waitress at his nightclub to pay off her father's debt.

Humans and shifters alike are vanishing from Blue Moon Junction without a trace, and Coral Colby, curvy wolf shifter and small-town reporter, is on the case. Unfortunately there are numerous distractions along the way - like the sexy, arrogant bear shifter who's been rudely refusing Coral's interview requests and the complicated love lives of, oh, everyone in town. But soon she'll have bigger things to worry about, like who's really buying up all the swampland around Blue Moon Junction and why the bear shifter suddenly can't get enough of her.

Curvy bobcat shifter Lainey Robinson is through with men - so she's fleeing to the most out-of-the-way bed-and-breakfast she can find, in tiny Blue Moon Junction, Florida. She shows up expecting privacy, peace, and quiet. What she gets is total chaos - she's landed right in the middle of the local Alpha's wedding week. Worse, some crazy love psychic is insisting that Lainey crash the wedding because her fated mate will be there....

Drei Jahre ist es her, seit Lachlan, Eishockeystar am Fairview College, in einer Nacht alles verloren hat - seine Karriere, seine Zukunft und das Einzige, was er jemals geliebt hat: Lyla. Neben dem Wunsch, sich an ihr für den Schmerz der letzten Jahre zu rächen, plagen Lachlan alte Gefühle, die neu in ihm zu erwachen scheinen. Noch immer wird Lyla von einem düsteren Schatten aus ihrer Vergangenheit verfolgt, der sich holen will, was ihm zusteht: Lylas Körper und ihre Seele.

Bloomsbury presents Hemingway's Faith by Mary Claire Kendall, read by Regina Reagan Mary Claire Kendall grapples with Hemingway’s faith and does so commendably. She doesn’t explain him or explain him away, but she does get us closer to his Catholic heart. Those wishing to know the heart of...

Sie ist mein Alles. Meine erste Liebe, meine Ehefrau, die erste und letzte Königin der Unterwelt Hades, der König der Unterwelt, will Persephone endlich offiziell zu seiner Braut machen. Doch ihre Mutter Demeter stellt sich ihnen in den Weg und straft New Greece mit zerstörerischen Schneestürmen, solange sie ihre Hochzeitspläne nicht aufgeben. Und nicht nur sie gefährdet das zukünftige Bündnis, denn auch der Halbgott Theseus verfolgt mithilfe der Triade, einer Gruppe, die unter dem Vorwand der Rebellion für Chaos sorgt, seine ganz eigene Agenda.

Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : La vieille vieille et la petite marmite ; La ruse de Mei Li ; Un nouveau nid pour les petits ; La galette aux cailloux ; Le voyage de Toutrankil ; L'anniversaire de Loup ; Le jardin de Yanko ; L'arbre qui parle ; La fille du géant ; Les graines de patience. Les Trésors de Pomme d'Api, ce sont les plus belles histoires du magazine Pomme d'Api, destinées aux enfants de 3 à 6 ans. Ces 10 histoires nous emmènent dans un monde magique peuplé de géants, de sorcières et de bonnes fées où les enfants prennent leur destin en main et se dépassent.