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After being an unwitting pawn in a nefarious plot to overthrow the Emerald City, the once proud and noble Leopard King of Oz has returned home to the Quadling Wilds to recover from his challenging ordeal. Alas, the intended respite becomes quickly engulfed by the intentions of another: one of the great demigods of the forest, a mysterious white stag who takes the animal on a spiritual journey into a past full of trauma, excitement and tragedy.

When Liam Carter moves to Shanghai for work, he expects culture shock, long hours, and loneliness. What he doesn’t expect is the apartment next door. Mei is sharp, controlled, and quietly dominant. Yue is fearless, playful, and dangerously direct. Their home is loud with laughter, late-night tea, shared secrets… and a kind of intimacy Liam has never seen before. In their world, nothing is hidden. Desire isn’t shameful. And boundaries are meant to be tested.

Une vie bascule, et commence une traversée dont on ne sort jamais indemne. Entre rives familières et horizons inconnus, un être avance, lesté de secrets, aimant encore ce qu’il lui faut quitter, apprenant à se tenir debout au cœur de la tourmente. Ici, les routes sont des cicatrices, la mémoire un courant capricieux, et chaque choix a le goût salé des départs.

How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain. Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed form a European peninsula of glacier and tundra to an...

Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they matter? What caused so many to be lost? And can we create more of them? In The Path More Travelled, acclaimed geographer and travel writer Nicholas Crane explores the hidden history of Britain's...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Propulsive…When the full history of this moment is ready to be written, Into the Wood Chipper will be a vivid source.” —The New York Times “A gripping page-turner that doubles as both a warning and an inspiration.” —Samantha Power, Pulitzer...

Marius Valstar doesn’t know which is worse: the dead body in his greenhouse or the naked fae prince on his desk. The only rakes of interest to Marius are garden tools, not fae princes. Certainly not the arrogant, selfish fae prince he has the misfortune to have a history with. But when Prince Rakken turns up naked and bleeding in Marius’s college the same day a body appears in his greenhouse, scruples must take second place to solving a murder that could unravel the delicate balance between humans and fae.

Old Michael Snowdon returns to London with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor—but goodness and charity are not to play a part here. Everyone has an agenda, and scheming spreads through the story like a disease. Gissing’s own experience of London as an outsider in a vast city that both fascinated and appalled him gave him the tools and the drive to create a visceral sense of place. Life is unremittingly grim for just about everyone, from the weak and well-intentioned Jane to the coarse, cunning Clem Peckover and her feckless rival Pennyloaf Candy.

Rumpelstiltskin, démon du petit peuple, pourchasse Lucia avant même sa naissance. Son oeil malveillant se délecte de sa lumière depuis la nuit des temps. Maman, maman, quel est son nom? Comment s'appelle l'affreux lutin qui se cache sous mon lit? Exerçant des chantages émotifs savamment orchestrés, Rumpelstiltskin ensemence l'angoisse, engendre la folie et récolte la mort. Comment une mère peut-elle espérer sauver ses enfants de l'emprise d'un traqueur intemporel, fugace et démoniaque?

Chaque année, Ludo part en vacances avec ses parents. Mais cette fois, il n’a pas tellement envie de quitter ses nouveaux amis. Pour rester en contact avec eux, il se crée donc une boîte de messagerie. Il reçoit presque aussitôt un premier message… d’un expéditeur inconnu. À l’inverse, ce dernier semble bien le connaître. Et apparemment, il connaît aussi l’avenir, puisqu’il lui annonce les événements avant qu’ils ne se produisent.

Malgré ses douze ans, Fabien a une peur bleue du dentiste. Surtout depuis que le Dr Sinistre est arrivé dans sa ville. Pourtant, ses parents insistent pour lui prendre un rendez-vous. Il faut dire que depuis l'arrivée du Dr Sinistre dans le quartier, d'étranges choses se produisent. Sans compter que tous les élèves de sa classe qui ont dû aller chez ce dentiste ne sont plus les mêmes. Fabien surmontera-t-il sa peur du dentiste ?

The Charterhouse of Parma is a twisting tale of passion and intrigue following the adventures of Fabrizio del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman who dreams of glory on the battlefields of Europe and finds himself fighting alongside Napoleon at Waterloo. After returning home, Fabrizio becomes entangled in Machiavellian scheming, an ill-advised romance, and a fatal duel that lands him in prison, where he begins a star-crossed love affair with the ethereal Clelia, the commandant’s daughter.

Hugo reçoit de graves menaces anonymes à l’école secondaire qu’il fréquente. Pourquoi tente-t-on de l’effrayer? Il ne se connaît pourtant pas d’ennemi…. Après avoir été témoin d’un violent combat lors duquel son frère aîné est laissé pour mort, Brandon est résolu à braver sa peur et sa solitude pour découvrir la vérité derrière cette terrible affaire. Nouvellement déménagée à Montréal, Myéline tente de se faire des amis à sa nouvelle école.

La semaine de relâche est enfin arrivée, et Zack et son ami Feliz comptent en profiter pour participer à un super tournoi de leur jeu vidéo favori. Seul petit hic: un nouveau voisin débarque dans le quartier, et la venue de cet homme un peu étrange chamboule les plans des deux gamers. Avec sa soeur Maé, Zack doit aider l’inconnu à emménager...ordre de leur mère ! Pendant qu’ils donnent un coup de main au nouveau voisin, Zack, Maé et Feliz font d’horribles découvertes. Ils voient des choses qu’ils auraient préféré ne JAMAIS voir…et vous non plus!

Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is only when Blyth’s friend Zack Thorpe rebels against his disciplinarian father and falls into bad company that the secret of Madonna is revealed.

De retour au travail après un choc dans sa vie personnelle, un psychologue est confronté à deux clients qui lui font revivre des éléments douloureux de sa propre histoire. Jusqu’où ira-t-il pour tenter de réparer le passé?

In Moscow an unknown author approaches a publisher (the narrator), asking him to read and publish his manuscript. The narrator agrees to read it before the author returns three months later. At the heart of the story in the manuscript is a love triangle and themes of corruption, concealed love, and fatal jealousy. When one of the central characters is discovered dead, the narrative becomes a murder-mystery as the search for the culprit begins.

For years, Columbia freshman Serena has dreamed of visiting Paris - the city where her parents had their idyllic, romantic honeymoon. And since her father unexpectedly died two years ago, Serena has cooked up a plan to travel to Paris with her mother and sister as a way to celebrate and remember her dad. Unfortunately, her mom and sister are less committed to the plan - her mom backs out to attend a conference in London, and her sister makes plans in Madrid after a misunderstanding with Serena.

In Clea, the concluding part of the Alexandria Quartet, Darley returns to Alexandria now caught by war-fever. The conflagration has its effect on his circle - on Nessim and Justine, Balthazar and Clea, Mountolive and Pombal - and a clarity of purpose emerges as the story moves toward its cadence.

Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy who goes to live with his grandparents following the death of his father. Gorky’s depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he recalls memories of his youth, contrasting themes and emotions are revealed, from barbaric joy to dark gloom, genuine cruelty and saint-like forbearance.