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Le vrai d'Artagnan incarnait déjà le courage et le panache. Arrangée par le génial Dumas, sa rencontre avec le colossal Porthos, le précieux Aramis, Athos le grand seigneur, le propulse dans la légende et la jeunesse éternelle. Tous pour un, un pour tous ! Avec eux, il défie Richelieu et son espionne, la perfide Milady de Winter, il sauve l'honneur de la reine compromise dans une intrigue amoureuse avec le duc de Buckingham, il s'éprend de Constance, fille d'aubergiste et lingère royale.Ensemble, ils se couvrent de gloire au siège de La Rochelle, se jettent sur les routes d'Angleterre, et entrent dans la légende.

Il avait toutes les cartes en main pour devenir l'un de ces riches associés sans états d'aine qui font prospérer les gros cabinets juridiques de Washington. Une prise d'otages commise par un SDF désespéré va totalement bouleverser sa vie... Le mettre face à la réalité de ces milliers d'exclus que personne n'écoute. Faire voler en éclats son existence de jeune avocat d'affaires ambitieux et talentueux. Et l'entraîner dans un bras de fer à hauts risques contre son ancien employeur afin que triomphe une certaine idée de la justice : la défense du plus faible.

Aujourd'hui est le jour le plus important de toute la vie d'Ethan. Aujourd'hui, Céline, la femme qu'il a toujours aimée, se mariera avec un autre. Aujourd'hui, Jessie, sa fille dont il ignore l'existence, prendra contact avec lui. Ethan, Céline, Jessie. Un homme, une femme, une enfant, trois personnages au bord du gouffre qui vont se croiser, se détruire et s'aimer. C'est aujourd'hui leur deuxième chance. Il leur reste 24 heures pour tout changer.

Vous voulez connaître le fin mot de la préhistoire ? Vous souhaitez savoir pourquoi le "père" a été mangé ? Partez à la rencontre de cette famille délirante d'Homo erectus. Édouard, le père, fidèle adepte du Progrès, apprend à domestiquer le feu ; Mathilde, la mère, invente le barbecue ; Vania, l'oncle rabat-joie, ne jure que par le "retour aux arbres" ; enfin Ernest, le narrateur. Tout le monde le prend pour un idiot mais il sera peut-être le digne fils que personne n'attend.

En août 1941, la jeune Hiroko quitte son japon natal pour poursuivre ses études en Californie, où elle découvre la liberté et l'indépendance. Mais quelques mois après son arrivée, l'aviation japonaise anéantit la flotte américaine à Pearl Harbor. La guerre est déclarée. Hiroko va alors partager le sort réservé à la population nippone installée sur le territoire des Etats-Unis...

It has been five years since humanity's heady expansion among the stars came to an abrupt, and violent, halt. The emergence of the Hydrogues, an immensely powerful alien race dwelling within gas-giant planets, has placed the scattered colonies of the Terran Hanseatic League in jeopardy. With space travel heavily curtailed, and supplies of fuel dwindling, young King Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas, the harsh power behind the throne, have no choice but to impose strict rationing. But the Hydrogues are not the only enemies of humanity. The scheming Mage-Imperator, leader of the ancient Ildiran Empire, attempts to forge tangled alliances among all combatants in order to protect his failing civilization. The mysterious Klikiss robots, only remnants of an extinct race, continue to work their sinister plans while pretending to be friends and advisors to the Hanseatic League. And archaeologists Margaret and Louis Colicos -- whose discovery of an ancient alien weapon accidentally triggered the Hydrogue conflict -- have vanished on the abandoned world of Rheindic Co. Rlinda Kett and Davlin Lotze, sent to investigate the disappearance, soon realise that the Colicos' discoveries may lead to an incredible new way to travel between worlds...or to the awakening of enemies even more fearsome than the Hydrogues. Something of inestimable power must have been required to destroy the Klikiss race. Will humanity be next?

In September 2009 movie star Patrick Swayze lost his long and bravely fought battle against pancreatic cancer. His was a life richly led and this memoir, completed just weeks before his death, is a testament to the strength and passion of this remarkable

Ten years after the fateful night when Nan was fired, she returns to New York with her husband, HH. Finally settling in to build a permanent home and get her consulting business off the ground, Nan's plans are derailed by HH's sudden desire to start a family - and her surpisingly strong resistance to the idea. Matters are further complicated by a late-night, drunken visit from a now fifteen-year-old Grayer, who's stumbled upon the nanny-cam tape Nan made on her last night in his mother's employment - and wants some answers. Racked by guilt and struggling to find a way to help Grayer and his seven-year-old brother, Stilton, through their parents' vicious divorce, Nan finds herself getting sucked into the Upper East Side world of wealth, power and dysfunction all over again. Set against the backdrop of a Manhattan economy cracking along the fault lines, Nanny Returns plumbs the humour and heartbreak of a community who chose money over love, only to find the money evaporate - and their children ready to tell all.

First there's Denver Jones, the hotshot attorney working in L.A. and Carolyn Henderson - personal assistant to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. Then there's Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - who has carved out a career for herself in New York as the madame of choice for discerning famous men. The three twenty-something women used to go to high school together in Beverly Hills and Denver and Carolyn have always kept in touch, but Annabelle is out on her own with her cocaine addicted boyfriend Frankie. Bobby is Frankie's best friend - Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, that is, Kennedy-esque son of Lucky Santangelo and deceased Greek shipping billionaire Dimitri Stanislopolous. Now he owns Mood, the hottest club in New York, but back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle, and hung out with all three of them. Which means that Bobby knows everyone's secrets - and he has some of his own, too

'Will you marry me?' I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has just proposed. I look up at Richard with his hopeful eyes. 'Lily?' he prompts. It's been ten years, but it feels like only yesterday that you left. How can I say yes to Richard with all my heart when most of it has always belonged to you? I take a deep breath and will myself to speak...Ten years ago when Lily was just sixteen, she fell in love with someone she really shouldn't have fallen in love with. Now, living in Sydney and engaged to another man, she can't forget the one that got away. Then her past comes back to haunt her, and she has to make a decision that will break her heart - and the heart of at least one of the men who love her.

La quarantaine resplendissante, Fleur s'est fait une spécialité de séduire de riches veufs, de vivre un moment à leurs crochets avant de disparaître avec une somme rondelette. Cette fois, elle jette son dévolu sur Richard Favour, dont la femme, Emily, vient de décéder. Fleur parvient vite à ses fins et séjourne chez Richard dans le Surrey. Tout se passe bien jusqu'à l'arrivée de la fille de Fleur.

Tu croyais pouvoir te débarrasser de moi. Tu pensais qu'avec un enterrement bidon pour mes fans et pour la presse, tout serait réglé. Tu te disais : "Ce n'est qu'un pseudonyme, il n'existe même pas." Tu te disais : "Fini George Stark, maintenant consacrons-nous à la vraie littérature…" Pauvre naïf ! Ça a dû te faire un choc quand tu as vu la fausse tombe grande ouverte, hein ? Et cette série de meurtres abominables ? Exactement comme dans nos romans ! Sauf que, cette fois c'est réel, bien réel. Non, ne t'imagine pas que tu vas pouvoir te débarrasser si facilement de moi. Je suis ton double, ta part de ténèbres… Et j'aurai ta peau !

Holden Caufield, 16 ans, est renvoyé de la pension où il ne fait pas grand-chose. Aussi désœuvré que désabusé, il traîne dans les rues de New York au lieu de rentrer chez lui. Il raconte son histoire: la douleur qui a suivi la mort de son frère, ses difficultés d'adaptation et la grande tendresse qu'il voue à sa petite sœur.

He's been called the best in the world at the mental game of tennis. Brad Gilbert's strokes may not be pretty, but looks aren't everything. He has beaten the Tour's biggest names - all by playing his ugly game. Now in Winning Ugly Gilbert teaches recreational players how to win more often without necessarily even changing their strokes. The key to success, he says, is to become a better thinking player - to recognize, analyze and capitalize. That means outthinking your opponents before, during and much after a match; forcing him or her to play your game. Winning Ugly is an invaluable combat manual for the court, and its tips include some real gems. Ultimately, Winning Ugly will help you beat players who have been beating you.

Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold, self-reliant, beautiful. Girls envy her. Men desire her. She is everything she ever wanted to be and nothing, especially a man, will ever be allowed to change that. But Chrissie is also human. When love does enter her life, unexpectedly, shockingly, it threatens this carefully-crafted personality she has worked so hard to create. And nothing can ever be allowed to do that. Control must be maintained and love must be on her terms. No matter how dreadful those terms might be ...

Cinnamon dreams of escaping her unstable mother and over-powering Grandmother into the world of the theatre; Ice has no real voice or presence in life until she discovers her ability to sing; grief-stricken Rose submerges herself in the world of academia following the death of her father and Honey's strict and protected childhood is shattered in the course of her musical journey. Four teenage girls, from very different backgrounds but with remarkable talents, are about to be brought together to face their shared destiny.