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La carrière de Gérard Fulmard n'a pas assez retenu l'attention du public. Peut-être était-il temps qu'on en dresse les grandes lignes. Après des expériences diverses et peu couronnées de succès, Fulmard s'est retrouvé enrôlé au titre d'homme de main dans un parti politique mineur où s'aiguisent, comme partout, les complots et les passions.

The New Breadline is a call to action on the issues of food aid, food security and climate justice, told from the frontlines of hunger. Jean-Martin Bauer eloquently dissects inequity and racism in the humanitarian system, drawing on his Haitian childhood and his career as an aid worker, asking: when decisions about food are being made, who isn't at the table?

Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through a series of vignettes, Cane uses poetry, prose, and play-like dialogue to create a window into the varied lives of African Americans living in the rural South and urban North during a time when Jim Crow laws pervaded and racism reigned.

Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous ones. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday. However, the court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne at Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the actions of the queen’s son, the Prince of Wales. Forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, this is the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

1954. C'est dans un village perdu entre la France et l'Italie que Stan, paléontologue en fin de carrière, convoque Umberto et Peter, deux autres scientifiques. Car Stan a un projet. Ou plutôt un rêve. De ceux, obsédants, qu'on ne peut ignorer. Il prend la forme, improbable, d'un squelette. Apatosaure ? Brontosaure ? Il ne sait pas vraiment. Mais le monstre dort forcément quelque part là-haut, dans la glace. S'il le découvre, ce sera enfin la gloire, il en est convaincu. Alors l'ascension commence. Mais le froid, l'altitude, la solitude, se resserrent comme un étau. Et entraînent l'équipée là où nul n'aurait pensé aller.

For the past 20+ years, everyone has been waiting for the story to be told. What really happened at Apple when Jobs returned and Gassee was out? In this first-ever comprehensive memoir, Gassee doesn’t hold anything back. From his stellar career to his deepest moments of doubt to his new calling as a grandfather, Gassee dispenses his legendarily witty advice and shares some very important moments of the tech world.

When Josie O'Casey returns to London after 12 years in America, she is overjoyed to discover that her childhood sweetheart Patrick Nolan, who she believed to be dead, is alive and well. But Josie's happiness is short-lived - Patrick now belongs to another. Heartbroken, Josie vows to forget about Patrick and settle back into life in the East End. But the East End that Josie knew as a child is much changed. While Josie can remember only too clearly her poverty-stricken upbringing, her family's social standing has vastly improved since they've been away.

Le passé est imprévisible... Huit jeunes étudiants activistes se partagent une maison au 18 Barnfield Hill, à Exeter. Ils y prônent le pacifisme, le féminisme, le socialisme. Jusqu'au jour où deux d'entre eux, Alisson et Peter, disparaissent dans des conditions étranges. Travaillant pour un détective privé tokyoïte, Umiko Wada débarque en Angleterre pour enquêter sur le suicide d'un homme dans une chambre d'hôtel londonienne en 1977. Un mystérieux informateur s'est manifesté. Bien vite, son enquête s'oriente vers les ex-locataires du 18 Barnfield Hill.

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be more suited to a quiet life. Richard, Duke of York, is convinced that he would make a better king and has more right to the crown. But Margaret of Anjou, Henry’s new French wife, is a formidable woman who is just as determined to keep Henry on the throne. Most powerful of all is the Earl of Warwick, and with his support of Richard of York the War of the Roses begins.

Dans la chaleur d'une île grecque, un homme se cache pour échapper à ses poursuivants. Il évoque sa vie hors du commun et tente de démêler l'écheveau de son destin. Fils d'un modeste pelletier, il est devenu l'homme le plus riche de France. Il a permis à Charles VII de terminer la guerre de Cent Ans. Il a changé le regard sur l'Orient. Avec lui, l'Europe est passée du temps des croisades à celui de l'échange. Aussi familier des rois et du pape que des plus humbles maisons, il a voyagé à travers tout le monde connu.

A scholar from a cold country lived in a hot country, but he found it difficult to adapt to the climate. In the daytime, his shadow became tiny: it really was too hot for him. So, he stayed at home and went out in the evening. As the temperature went down, the town came to life. One night, the scholar was woken by a mysterious and intriguing light. What was it? How could it be explained? That is what he would try to discover. - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist.

"Le hussard sur le toit" : avec son allure de comptine, ce titre intrigue. Pourquoi sur le toit ? Qu'a-t-il fallu pour l'amener là ? Rien moins qu'une épidémie de choléra, qui ravage la Provence vers 1830, et les menées révolutionnaires des carbonari piémontais. Le hussard est d'abord un roman d'aventures : Angelo Pardi, jeune colonel de hussards exilé en France, est chargé d'une mission mystérieuse. Il veut retrouver Giuseppe, carbonaro comme lui, qui vit à Manosque.

New York City, 1832. Clarissa Tanner is carefree and lighthearted until the sudden death of her parents. Forced to pay off family debts or lose her horse farm, she’s given one choice: auction off her beloved horses or reluctantly enter 1830s New York Society social season to face the dreaded marriage market. Nicholas is a man on a mission, searching for his missing brother. Fearing Liam may be the victim of foul play, Nicholas needs to keep a low profile while conducting his search.

Kate Ellis learnt the hard way that falling in love with the wrong man could be your undoing. It was nine years ago that she fell for the charms of Freddie Ellis, only to discover his criminal ways. With her husband in prison, Kate has fought hard to give her two children everything they could need. But now Freddie is back and threatens to destroy everything she has worked for. Captain Jonathan Quinn has resigned from the army after the needless death of too many of his men.

Miracles and healings are for today and for every Christian! Some think that operating in the miraculous is difficult, challenging, or reserved for a select elite group of Christians. That is not Biblical. Miracles and healings are the inheritance of every believer in Jesus—both to receive them and operate in them!

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome, Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious family. Her father, who is to become Pope Alexander VI, receives his first daughter warmly, and her brothers, Cesare and Giovanni, are devoted to her. As Lucrezia matures into a beautiful young woman, her brothers are ever more protective and become fierce rivals for her attention.

At just 18, Lucrezia Borgia, the alluring daughter of the Pope, has already had her life touched by dishonour and tragic loss. In the decadent society of 15th-century Rome, violence is commonplace and scandal is never far from the infamous Borgia family. In the aftermath of her brother Giovanni’s brutal murder, Lucrezia knows she must build a life for herself if she is to break away from the corrupt world her family is tied to.

Todos se mueren por entrar, pero morirán si no consiguen salir. Diez de los chicos más prometedores del país, menores de 23 años, han sido invitados a un campamento muy especial en los Pirineos. El precursor de esta idea es Fernando Godoy, uno de los hombres más ricos de España, que busca a alguien joven que le ayude a dar una nueva imagen a su imperio y que en el futuro ocupe su lugar. En aquel idílico paraje, recibirán formación y serán preparados para convertirse en la mano derecha del millonario. Pero solo uno podrá conseguirlo.

One in three women in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer - a situation that can throw even the most self-assured individual into a crisis of body, mind, and spirit. To survive - and, more than that, to thrive - we must rally all of our inner resources. In Cancer as a Turning Point, nine best-selling authors and healers, many of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses, reframe the healing process in a positive, creative, and spiritual light.

Cet été, la famille des Jean-Quelque-Chose au grand complet part à l'Hôtel des Roches Rouges. Au programme, excursions à la mer avec le canoë et les chaussures en plastique qui donnent des ampoules, visites clandestines de l'hôtel à l'heure de la sieste, représentation exceptionnelle du grand cirque Pipolo, sans oublier le passage du tour de France. Et surtout, quelques cartes postales bien senties aux cousins Fougasse !