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Finaliste du National Book Award aux États-Unis. Le roman qui a inspiré la série HBO. Dans un monde où la civilisation s'est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d'acteurs et de musiciens nomadise entre de petites communautés de survivants pour leur jouer du Shakespeare. Un répertoire qui en est venu à représenter l'espoir et l'humanité au milieu de la désolation.

In this volume we bring together men of the cloth, those people of faith who spent most of their lives in devotional duties in the service of one so they could, in their spare time, serve another.

The Jersey Alchemist

Jesuit priest John Gerard hid from English authorities for eight years before his eventual capture and torture in the Tower of London. Risking everything to preserve Catholicism in Tudor England, Gerard moved from house to house, converting many people and evading capture by mere seconds. Following a hair's-breadth escape from the Tower to the continent, he survived to tell his tale and pass on his experience to future missionaries and martyrs in The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, a fascinating tale of espionage, disguise, priest hunters, and brilliantly designed hideouts.

Dive into the thrilling, covert world of Father John Gerard, an English Jesuit priest who risked his life to uphold his faith during the Elizabethan era, a time when the Catholic Church faced intense persecution. Successfully evading capture by English authorities for eight years, enduring brutal torture, and making a daring escape from the Tower of London, Gerards resilience is nothing short of extraordinary. After he fled to the Continent, his Jesuit superiors urged him to pen an account of his life, resulting in this book. This gripping account is a later translation, widely known as ...

Ce roman a pour cœur la crise de 2008. Entre Canada et États-Unis, les destins s'entremêlent et l'effet papillon cause des ravages... "Et si vous avaliez du verre brisé ? " Comment cet étrange graffiti est-il apparu sur l'immense paroi transparente de la réception de l'hôtel Caiette, havre de grand luxe perdu au nord de l'île de Vancouver ? Et pourquoi précisément le soir où on attend le propriétaire du lieu, le milliardaire américain Jonathan Alkaitis ? Ce message menaçant semble lui être destiné.