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Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves. Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba, now a slave in England.

Quand on est six frères et qu'on s'appelle Jean-A., Jean-B., Jean-C., Jean-D., Jean-E. et Jean-F., impossible de s'ennuyer un seul instant. Au menu de cet été : un déménagement, des vacances chez papy Jean, un poisson nommé Suppositoire, une ribambelle de cousins aux oreilles décollées... sans oublier bien sûr un mystérieux camembert volant et des parents pas trop coulants. Décidément, ça déménage chez les Jean ! Après "L'omelette au sucre", retrouvez les aventures d'une famille extravagante et savourez l'humour tendre de Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod.

In the gaming hells of 18th-century London, orphan Caro Worth is leading a double life. By day, she plays a proper gentlewoman on the lookout for a wealthy husband. By night, she plays the infamous Angelica, her fictional half-sister with a talent for cards and an ability to finance the life her respectable self has built. An introduction to a rich Marquis brings marriage and security within Caro's grasp - until the arrival of the unpredictable and totally ineligible Mr. Tobias Felton.

Lambeau, subst. masc. 1. Morceau d'étoffe, de papier, de matière souple, déchiré ou arraché, détaché du tout ou y attenant en partie. 2. Par analogie : morceau de chair ou de peau arrachée volontairement ou accidentellement. Lambeau sanglant ; lambeaux de chair et de sang. "Juan, désespéré, le mordit à la joue, déchira un lambeau de chair qui découvrait sa mâchoire" (Borel, Champavert, 1833, p. 55). 3. Chirurgie : segment de parties molles conservées lors de l'amputation d'un membre pour recouvrir les parties osseuses et obtenir une cicatrice souple.

Jacques, enfant, avait subi la guerre en Normandie. Envoyé en Indochine, l'absurdité du monde ne fait plus que lui sauter aux yeux. Comment vit-on la violence lorsqu'on est un fils du peuple ? Plein d'humanité, de fougue, ce second roman de Philippe Torreton, à l'écriture enflammée, est dans la veine de son best-seller "Mémé. Jacques à la guerre" est l'histoire de son propre père.

The connection with the Fey realm was destroyed over five hundred years ago and with it went mystery and beauty. To fill that hole the mortal world developed cybernetic wonders and digital worlds. Magic is now just a fading memory. The English village of Penheram is an oasis of the past in a sea of modernity, a place where people go to escape. Ella failing in her writing career, is doing just that, and quite well too, until a shapeshifting thief with a hint of magic around him stumbles into her life. 

In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Europe. While hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, by the end of the 16th century the temperature plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbours were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky and ‘frost fairs’ were erected on a frozen Thames - with kiosks, taverns and even brothels that became a semipermanent part of the city.

Das ergreifende Schicksal dreier Tudor-Schwestern zwischen Herrschaftspflicht und Selbstbestimmung. Den Tudors mangelt es an männlichen Erben. Ohne es zu wollen, geraten so die drei Schwestern Jane, Katherine und Mary Grey in die Auseinandersetzungen um die Thronfolge. Zwar fügt sich Jane in ihr Schicksal und ergreift die Krone. Doch die Spiele der Macht beherrscht sie nicht: Mary, Halbschwester des verstorbenen Königs, sammelt eine Allianz hinter sich und begehrt auf. Auch das Leben von Katherine und der klugen, kleinwüchsigen Mary scheint von da an vorgezeichnet - den Kämpfen am Hof können sie nicht entrinnen.

Jahrelang hat Karl May der Welt vorgespielt, niemand Geringeres als er selbst sei der Held seiner Geschichten. Millionen Leser glauben den Fotos von ihm im Heldenkostüm und verschlingen seine Erlebnisse aus Amerika und dem Orient. Dabei ist er fast 60, als es ihn das erste Mal tatsächlich aus Europa hinaustreibt. Anderthalb Jahre lang reist May mit dem Reiseführer in der Hand durch den Orient. Doch alles ist ihm eine Enttäuschung. Am meisten der Mann, den auch er für Kara Ben Nemsi gehalten hat: er selbst. "Das Flimmern der Wahrheit über der Wüste" handelt von Briefen aus dem Jenseits, Sexskandalen und der Lügenpresse, von einer Goldader im Dschungel und Winnetous Haaren.

Norris is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Texas. Plunked into a new high school, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs. Yet those labels soon become actual people to Norris....

The Order of the Deacons stand as protectors of the Empire, guardians against ghost possession, sentinels warding off the malevolent haunting of the geists. Sorcha Faris, the most powerful deacon of the Order, finds herself thrust into an unwanted partnership with a total novice, Merrick Chambers. That’s bad enough, but when they are dispatched to an isolated village to counter a surge of violent geist activity, they find their fate bound with Raed Rossin. Shapeshifter and Pretender to the Imperial throne, he bears a terrible curse which endangers them all.

Philipp Fürst zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld (1847-1921) war ein preußischer Diplomat und enger Vertrauter des Deutschen Kaisers Wilhelm II. In seinem Roman berichtet er über die Geschehnisse am Bayerischen Hof zur Zeit Ludwigs II und die Eskapaden des Märchenkönigs vor dessen Tod. Regie: Andreas Weber-Schäfer.

La baisse de désir chez les femmes et la frustration ressentie par leurs compagnons sont-elles une fatalité ? Pourquoi, mères ou non, jeunes ou vieilles, beaucoup d'entre elles connaissent des déficits d'envie sexuelle ? Est-ce génétique, due à une différence fondamentale entre hommes et femmes ou à d'autres phénomènes ? Philippe Arlin, psychologue et sexologue, est catégorique.

A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescant's story is a mirror to the extraordinary age in which he lives. As gardener and confidant to Sir Robert Cecil, Tradescant is well placed to observe the social and political changes that are about to sweep through the kingdom.

As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the rebels, John escapes to the royalist colony of Virginia, a land bursting with fertility that stirs his passion for botany. Only the native American peoples understand the forest, and John is drawn to their way of life just as they come into fatal conflict with the colonial settlers.

Ianthe Liakos is a mermaid from a different dimension, and between that and now working as a PI in the corrupt climate of Washington, DC, she'd thought she'd seen it all. But when following a case leads down a trail of money that connects the murders of young political interns to a new paranormal threat, she realizes she must protect the next target.

At 24, Philippa Moore is overweight, unhappily married, and still living in her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania. After a wake-up call in a department-store changing room, Phil suddenly realises that she is on the wrong path. With determination she starts to shed the kilos and makes a confronting discovery: She is in charge of her own life. Starting over again in Melbourne, she launches an award-winning health and fitness blog, Skinny Latte, and finds the courage to leave her marriage.

Busy Philipps’ autobiographical audiobook offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her Instagram followers have come to know and love, from growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, and her painful and painfully funny teen years to her life as a working actress, mother, and famous best friend. Busy is the rare entertainer whose impressive arsenal of talents as an actress is equally matched by her storytelling ability, sense of humor, and sharp observations about life, love, and motherhood. Her conversational writing reminds us what we love about her on screens of all sizes.

1553. Hannah Green, the young daughter of a Jewish bookseller, is forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, and becomes an unlikely player at the fractious Tudor Court. Her gifts of foresight mean that she is given, as a Holy Fool to the newly crowned Mary I. But as Mary’s grip on the throne loosens, threatened by the ambitions of her sister, Elizabeth, Hannah is trapped in the deadly rivalry between the daughters of Henry VIII.

Sie will ihn nicht, aber sie braucht ihn. Er will sie, aber er muss sie von sich stoßen... Die Nascar-Fahrerin Riley Luman braucht die Geschwindigkeit wie die Luft zum Atmen. Wenn sie über den Asphalt jagt, dann gibt es kein Gestern und kein Morgen, nur der Moment zählt. Bis sie Drohungen erhält und ihr Traum vom Sieg in Gefahr ist. Der neu eingestellte Bodyguard Evan Crawford soll sie schützen. Doch der Mann ist genau das Gegenteil von ihr. Während sie es schnell und spontan liebt, geht er ruhig und bedacht vor. Am liebsten würde sie ihn feuern. Aber er ist verdammt gut in seinem Job. Außerdem treibt seine Nähe ihren Puls noch aus ganz anderen Gründen in die Höhe.