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Belle héroïne de 16 ans, Mademoiselle de Chartres épouse le prince de Clèves qu'elle estime mais n'aime pas. Peu après, lors d'un bal, la jeune femme découvre la passion amoureuse sous les traits du duc de Nemours. Dès lors, comment vivre cet amour interdit dans le monde de la Cour des Valois, où chacun est constamment sous le regard de tous? Et comment rester fidèle à l'image qu'elle se fait d'elle-même et de l'amour? Le roman de Mme de Lafayette est un des plus tragiques de la littérature française. Modèle fondateur du «roman d'analyse», La Princesse de Clèves reste par-dessus tout une œuvre fascinante, d'une étonnante modernité.

Barack Obama's path from Hawaii to Indonesia to the White House represents one of the most unlikely and fascinating journeys in U.S. political history. With this special publication that is sure to become an instant collector's item, Time will mark Obama's rise with an illustrated 96-page book. Time Obama will contain original Time magazine reporting and analysis from the magazine's political experts. The book will showcase the unrivalled, intimate behind-the-scenes photography of campaign photographer Callie Shell, who has been visually documenting Obama's journey since he began his run for President. And it will provide readers with a colourful and concise account of how Obama rose to power — from his early days to his Chicago years to the moment when he became a political phenomenon.

Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game — his time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after is a genius of terror — and he's after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings — and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.

In this #1 «New York Times» bestseller, the time has arrived for Max and her winged «flock» to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of a sinister experiment to reengineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

This is the story about a secret. but it also contains a secret story. When adventurous detectives, Cass, an ever-vigilant survivalist, and Max-Ernest, a boy driven by logic, discover the Symphony of Smells, a box filled with smelly vials of colorful ingredients, they accidentally stumble upon a mystery surrounding a dead magician's diary and the hunt for immortality. Filled with word games, anagrams, and featuring a mysterious narrator, this is a book that won't stay secret for long.

Kids will love learning their very first words in Spanish and English with this colourful, oversized board book by beloved author and artist, Rebecca Emberley, whose bilingual book series has sold over 1 million copies to date. With sturdy board book pages, this book introduces kids to colours, numbers, animals, and more — a perfect first bilingual book!

Here's a book with something new — you read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page to one another — you'll read one side, I the other. A unique book 'in two voices' that uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Each of the twelve short stories fit on one spread and features childlike themes — family, friendship, pets and seasons.With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain.

Science columnist Jeremy Marsh and gentle town librarian Lexie Darnell continue down the romantic path first laid down in Nicholas Sparks' True Believer. The couple, now engaged and expecting, encounter complications on every front: pre-wedding tensions; Jeremy's writing block; dwindling savings. But as readers of Sparks novels know so well, love does find a way.

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how their lives have changed since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them: Make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society — a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school, parents and the world, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the power of words, they begin to discover not only the beauty of language, but, also the importance of making each moment count. Until the fragile universe he has built for them begins, gradually, to implode...

Sent to a rehabilitation school after a serious mistake, Inspector John Rebus discovers that among his fellow «resurrection men» are a group of classmates plotting a drug heist and joins forces with his protege, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke to investigate ties to an art dealer's murder, a crime that could lead to scandal and danger at the highest level of law enforcement.

From No.1 «New York Times» bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a love story that explores the deepest mysteries of all-those of the heart. A story about taking chances and following your heart, «True Believer» will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love.

Little, Brown is celebrating 100 years of Hergé with 3 titles never before published in the U.S. Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, as they embark on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events, fantasy and science-fiction adventures and thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.

Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence.

Kelly Hoppen Home is the ultimate decorating book, offering the chance to learn from the world-renowed designer's chic modern design philosophy. From the conception of an idea, through prepartion and decision making, to implementing plans and achieving a reality, Hoppen shares insider secrets and reveals how to get the most from a living space.

Outside Grauman`s Chinese Theatre, Batman has assaulted Spider-Man. A Marilyn Monroe called it in and three Elvises witnessed it. Business as usual for the cops out of Hollywood Station, but while they deal with the crackheads, prostitutes and lunatics that haunt the boulevards, the real Los Angeles simmers are never far from boiling point.

Edgar Award-winning Michael Connelly delivers a supercharged thriller. Four years ago, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch shot the notorious serial killer «The Dollmaker.» Now Harry is accused of killing the wrong man — just as a new body turns up that has all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Harry searches for a copycat killer.

An angel of death is stalking the halls of a San Francisco hospital. Recuperating patients on the verge of release are suddenly stricken and die. Nobody can identify the cause — or the culprit. In their most gripping case yet, James Patterson's Women's Murder Club convenes to track down a killer who hides among healers. A powerful hospital and courtroom thriller.

FBI agent Pendergast and his demonic brother, Diogenes, continue the savage tango begun in «Dance of Death». Diogenes returns the stolen gem collection of the New York Museum of Natural History, but this hoard of priceless jewels has been reduced to mounds of powdery dust. To neutralize the bad PR, the museum reopens the Tomb of Senef, an ancient Egyptian temple that has remained behind closed doors since the 1930s. For Diogenes, however, the new exhibit only raises the ante of his psychotic sibling feud.

With 35 tough dating dos and don'ts, Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider's «The Rules» won the allegiance of millions of women and a longtime niche on bestseller lists nationwide. Then, they followed up with the equally rigorous «Rules II». Now, for the first time, these two successful books are brought together in one bargain-priced paperback.

»The Night Gardner» is as fine an example of crime fiction as one is likely to find. But to pigeonhole this book in even that well-respected genre is to do Pelecanos an injustice. The richness of color and detail, the power and pacing of the narrative, and the story's emotional depth place Pelecanos squarely in the company of John Le Carre, Richard Price, and a handful of others whose skill transcends the confines of genre. Pelecanos has produced a crime novel that rewards readers with an experience that satisfies on a level not limited to mere entertainment.

Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for 11 years. When Bosch realizes he and his partner missed a clue that could have prevented nine additional murders, his whole being as a cop begins to crack.

This witty and irresistibly fresh novel concerns a man who unexpectedly finds himself in a club of serial killers and devises a plan to take them out one by one. The moment he steps into Grillers and meets the other 18 skillers he knows his life will never be the same. Their name — the Serial Killers Club. Their game — to share the thrill of the hunt and to make sure no two members choose the same victims. Our hero devises the perfect plan: to kill each member of the Serial Killers Club. But what will happen when the skillers notice their numbers dropping?

The definitive book to teach you how to throw spectacular parties and events.

We are always curious and fascinated as to how the «other half» lives. What kind of furniture do Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor have in their Hollywood home? Is Ralph Lauren's Montauk compound English country-style or modern rustic? How does Roberto Cavalli entertain at his medieval villa near Florence? So Chic answers these questions and unveils the beautiful and luxurious homes of these trendsetters. This gorgeously illustrated book presents a rare glimpse into the world of high-style interiors and offers up an impressive array of the ravishing homes ranging in locale from Manhattan to Marrakech to Malibu.