Les nouveaux héritiers débarquent enfin sur l'?le de Ji. Là oùils espéraient des réponses, ils ne trouvent que de nouvellesquestions. Zu?a en personne, la déesse des assassins, les attend etleur révèle les plans de Sombre, le démo, qui menace de s'enprendre à la suprématie des dieux eux-mêmes. Face à un tel péril,Zu?a leur propose une alliance. Les héritiers vont-ils accepterl'aide de celle qui avait jusqu'alors juré leur perte ? Et quel ensera le prix ?
Josie Tyrell,white trash,artist's model,teen runaway and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene,finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday.A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist,Michael introduces her to a world of sophistication,and to his own artistic quest for beauty.But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner asking her to identify her lover's dead body,her bright dreams fade to black. What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?'As Josie struggels to come to some new understanding of the Michael she thought she knew,she finds herself drawn into a dark and twisted relationship with his mother,Meredith.In mutual distrust and blind need they circle one another-their very survival and memory of Michael is at stake. Passionate,wounded, fiercely alive,Josie Tyrell walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant vision of the future she and Michael once nurtured together. 作者简介: Janet F
Leadership guru Maxwell, who successfully bridged secular and Christian markets with such motivational titles as The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Developing the Leader Within You, draws on Old Testament paragons in this gifty inspirational hardback. Maxwell asks readers to envision the great "cloud of witnesses" (Heb. 12:1) said to surround us as we run the marathon of life, imagining that this cloud includes "the giants of the faith"-biblical heroes whose lives impart meaningful lessons. He includes the usual suspects: the David-tackles-Goliath tale demonstrates how people can rise above their limitations, while Noah exemplifies a willingness to take new risks (i.e., build a boat when no one had seen rain before). But there are bolder moments, too. Maxwell uses Rebekah as a model of generous giving (a welcome and underutilized virtue in business titles) and provides some gee-whiz facts to drive the point home: he estimates that to water Jacob's 10 camels, Rebekah needed about 200 gallons of water, r
Les fils de Tancrède de Hauteville ne sont plus que deux pourachever la conquête de l'Italie du Sud entreprise par GuillaumeBras de Fer. L'a?né, Robert le Guiscard, se laisse emporter par safolle ambition : vaincre Byzance et devenir empereur d'Orient. Lecadet, le grand comte Roger, se bat pour tenir la promesse qu'il afaite à Judith, son premier amour : lui offrir la Sicile etl'envo?tante Palerme, blottie au milieu des luxuriants jardins dela Conque d'or. Face à eux se dressent des géants à leur image,jaloux d'un pouvoir sans partage. Douces, terribles ou ambitieuses,les femmes feront aussi bouillonner le sang des Hauteville. Danscette suite d'une épopée hors du commun, s'unissent vaillance etintrigues, sagesse et déraison, passions et crimes pour fonder unroyaume sans égal.
Sparkling miniature opera, filled with intense drama and elegant song, lasts no more than an hour, yet unfolds a virtuoso range of expressive music, from a high-spirited sailors' dance to Dido's touching lament "When I am laid in earth." First presented in 1689, remains the oldest operatic work still popularly performed. Authoritative early edition.
Clément Vauquer est une rareté. Il est stupide au pointd'exécuter ce qu'on lui demande de faire sans se poser dequestions, et assez aveugle pour ne pas voir la tombe qu'on creusesous ses pieds. Pour un manipulateur, c'est une véritable aubaine.Lorsque son portrait s'étale à la une de tous les journaux et qu'onl'accuse d'être le tueur en série de jeunes parisiennes, il n'y aque la vieille Marthe pour croire à son innocence. Cette ancienneprostituée, qui avait pris Clément enfant sous son aile, va toutfaire pour prouver l'innocence de "son petit". Elle fait appel àLouis Kehlweiler, ancien client et ami de longue date, qui va menerl'enquête avec son équipe d'érudits, les évangélistes.
Detective Isaac Bell hero of the Cbase and Tbe Wrecker returns in the remarkable new adventure from the number one New York Times bestselling author
Une mystérieuse organisation internationale protectrice del'environnement s'empare de plusieurs régions du globe, à larecherche d'un secret millénaire, qui pourrait menacer l'ordregéopolitique de la planète. Ari Mackenzie, ancien desrenseignements généraux, alerté par une série d'inexplicablesdisparitions, décide de mener l'enquête. Existerait-il un lienentre les étranges recherches de cette organisation et les occultesdécouvertes de Nicolas Flamel, célèbre alchimiste du Moyen Age ? Lecommandant Mackenzie va devoir se mesurer aux ténèbres. Une enquêtedangereuse, la dernière peut-être...
With 90 millinon cipies solk worlkwide,the Key Words with Lodybird reading scheme is the springboard to reading for life. 12 Key Words make up one quarter of all those we read and write;100 Key Words make up half of all those we read and write This essential vocabulary is carefully introduced,practised and developed throughout the scheme. The a series introduces new Key Words The b series practises Key Words The c series develops Key Words using phonics and writing skills
'Brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed, Ilustradocovers a large and tumultuous historical period with seeminglyeffortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequentlyraunchy, and effervescent with humour' Judges of the 2008 Man Asian LiteraryPrize 'Miguel Syjuco's dizzyingly energeticand inventive novel viewshis native Philippines with a merciless yet loving eye, its chordsof voices illuminating the many facets of this chaotic,,complicated country. An ambitious and admirabledebut' Janice Y. K. Lee,author of The Piano Teacher 'Vulnerable and mischievous, sophisticated and naive, Ilustradoexplores the paradoxes that come with the search for identity andthrows readers into the fragile space between self-pursuit andself-destruction . . . Elegiac, thoughtful and original' Colin McAdam, author of Fall and Some Great Thing
Un médecin, ?a n'a pas toujours été médecin. Il a bien falluqu'il le devienne. Bruno Sachs, le personnage déjà rencontré dansLa Vacation (POL, 1989) et La Maladie de Sachs (POL, 1998),n'échappe pas à la règle. S'il est devenu le médecin qu'il estdevenu, c'est gr?ce, malgré ou à cause des longues années deformation qu'il a passées à la faculté de médecine de Tourmens,dans les années soixante-dix. Raconter ces sept années de faculté, c'était montrer que devenirmédecin c'est vivre plusieurs romans à la fois : un roman de...formation médicale, bien s?r ; mais aussi un roman d'amour ; unroman qui parle de pouvoir et de politique ; un roman sur l'amitié; un roman où l'on vit, où l'on se bat et ou l'on meurt - bref, unroman d'aventures. Les Trois Médecins (qui s'intitulait originellement La Formation deSachs) raconte les sept années d'études de Bruno Sachs en reprenantla trame d'un des romans d'aventures, d'amour et de formation lesplus célèbres de l'histoire de la littérature mond
En moins de cinquante ans, les fils de Tancrède, le tueur desangliers, conquièrent l'Italie du Sud et la Sicile. En moins d'unsiècle, ils en font le royaume le plus riche et le plus puissant dusecond millénaire naissant. Un royaume exemplaire où, pour untemps, cohabitent en harmonie islam, juda?sme et chrétientéd'Orient et d'Occident. Quelles vertus d'exception coulaient doncdans le sang des Hauteville pour vaincre les cavaliers sarrasins,battre l'empire germanique, ébranler Byzance, emprisonner des papeset en introniser d'autres ? Voici les aventures picaresques, lesamours, les souffrances et les triomphes de ces jeunes guerriersFrancs, de ces descendants de Vikings, lancés vers le soleil et lamer violette à la poursuite d'un rêve qui avait le parfum de lasueur et du jasmin, du sang et de l'oranger.
《JAMES HERRERT MOON》:The nightmare begins before you sleep... He had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the 'sightings' began, visions of horror seeping into his mind like poisonous tendrils, violent acts that were hideously macabre, the thoughts becoming intense. He witnessed the grotesque acts of another thing, a thing that glorified in murder and mutilation, a monster that soon became aware of the observer within its own mind. And relished contact. A creature that would eventually come to the island to seek him out... 《JAMES HERBERT THE MAGIC COTTAGE》:'We thought we'd found our haven, a Cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Charming, maybe a little run-down, but so peaceful. That was the first part of the Magic. Midge's painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the Magic. Our love for each other - well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage ha
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play. Act and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception: scene ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the concluding scenes numbered accordingly. The Third Edition includes expanded annotations. "Contexts and Sources"includes dueling arguments on the play's completeness (one play or one half of a play?) and the naming of a central character (Falstaff or Oldcastle?). "Criticism" includes twenty-four essays—from E. M. W. Tillyard's classic argument of an ordered Shakespearean universe to Graham Holderness's rebuttal to Gus Van Sant's interview regarding 1 Henry IV as the inspiration for his cult film, My Own Private Idaho—nineteen of them new to the Third Edition. The Selected Bibliography has been thoroughly updated.
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For aHat describes how we experience the visual world. In Musicophilia ,Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye ,he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visualworld: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individualfaces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; howwe translate marks on paper into words and paragraphs, even how werepresent the world internally when our eyes are closed. Alongsideremarkable stories of people who have lost these abilities butadapted with courage, resilience and ingenuity, there is an added,personal element: one day in late 2005, Sacks became aware of adazzling, flashing light in one part of his visual field; it wasnot the familiar migraine aura he had experienced since childhood,and just two days later a malignant tumor in one eye was diagnosed.In subsequent journal entries - some of which are included in TheMind's Eye - he chronicled the experience
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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
With Spartan Gole,a daring thriller that Publishers Weekly proclaimed"solidly in the Cussler tradition,[and]sure to paease new fans and old,"Clive Cussler introduced husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo.In their electrifyinmg new adventure,the Fargos make a startling discovery that others would kill to keep hidden……