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Eve Arden stars as the tart-tongued Constance Brooks, a dedicated English teacher at Madison High School. Before and after the bell rings, Miss Brooks turns her thoughts from language to love. Indulging in her perpetual pursuit of bashful biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler), Connie finds herself making his favorite stew, conspiring to make him sick, and pretending to be his mother! She even considers compromising her principles (and her principal)!

The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is 15 years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First Reuven's best friend is captured to serve in the Tsar's army, and then his parents and older sister are murdered. Reuven's dreams of music must be set aside. Now he has only one goal: escape. With his baby sister strapped to his back, Reuven sets off toward an unknown freedom. His journey takes him first across Russia, and then ultimately to America.

I'm too smart to do something dumb like fall in love with the pizza boy. I love pizza as much as the next girl, but I'm not bingeing on delivery for the pepperoni. It's Tariq's gorgeous smile I crave. But I don't have time for a guy, with finals coming up, then graduate school graduation & starting a new job. Still, his kisses are so hot. And it turns out, the sex is downright mind-blowing. Maybe I can find time for a fling. It doesn't have to be more than that. Just because we like the same comics and nerdy movie quotes doesn't mean I'm falling for him.

Dans l’ancienne Cité-État de Gujaareh, la paix est la seule loi. Sur les toits et parmi les ombres des rues pavées attendent les collecteurs, gardiens de cette paix. Serviteurs de la Déesse des Rêves, leur devoir est de récolter la magie de l’esprit endormi et de l’utiliser pour guérir, apaiser… ou tuer ceux qui sont jugés corrompus.

Katie has a secret wish--she wants to be a submissive. She dreams of being a man's sex slave--forced, bound, gagged, taken and used for a man's pleasure. But single, sedate, librarian Katie doesn't run in those circles and has no idea how to make that happen, until she sees an ad on Craiglist. Her friend, Lori, tells her it's too dangerous, and she's right.

Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman's adulterous passion for a young rascal; and finally, an honourable man's decision to take virtue to extremes.

Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a formidable matriarch, Luca. Clare meets and quickly marries Martin, who falls just as much in love with her fun, sparky family. But Martin makes a mistake and sets in train a series of events which brings the family to its knees.

Un jour de neige en décembre, à travers la vitre embuée d'un bus londonien, Laurie aperçoit un homme. Leurs regards se croisent... et le bus redémarre. En cet instant suspendu et magnétique, celle qui pensait que le coup de foudre n'existait que dans les films, tombe désespérément amoureuse. Pendant une année entière, elle étudie tous les visages, sonde les foules, arpente la ville pour le retrouver. En vain... Jusqu'à ce soir de Noël, où sa meilleure amie et colocataire lui présente le nouvel homme de sa vie... Jack, l'homme du bus.

Depuis la naissance de son deuxième enfant, Eddie, la vie d'Alice a complètement basculé. Face à ce garçon autiste devenu sa priorité, tout le reste passe au second plan, y compris sa fille et son mari. Mais quand Hanna, sa grand-mère adorée, lui demande de se rendre en Pologne pour retrouver des êtres chers de sa jeunesse, elle ne peut lui refuser cette dernière volonté et se sépare de son fils pour la première fois. Sur la terre de ses ancêtres dont elle ignore tout, Alice va combler les silences douloureux de sa bouleversante histoire familiale.

Voici le roman le plus célèbre et le plus émouvant de Marlen Haushofer, journal de bord d'une femme ordinaire, confrontée à une expérience-limite.

Après une catastrophe planétaire, l'héroïne se retrouve seule dans un chalet en pleine forêt autrichienne, séparée du reste du monde par un mur invisible au-delà duquel toute vie semble s'être pétrifiée durant la nuit.

A Vézelay, et sa basilique dédiée à Marie-Madeleine, la pécheresse des Evangiles, Johanna, archéologue, tente d'établir les origines controversées du culte de la sainte. Surviennent alors une série de meurtres sur le chantier d'un de ses collègues à Pompéi tandis que sa petite fille est atteinte d'une étrange maladie, qui semble liée à ces crimes. Johanna se lance dans une enquête périlleuse, dont la clé pourrait être l'un des plus grands secrets de l'humanité : la mystérieuse phrase tracée par Jésus sur le sable aux pieds de la femme adultère.

Having had her heart broken her freshman year, Ashley took an eight-year hiatus from college and men. Now older and wiser, she’s determined to tackle her dream degree. Yet, there’s only so much studying a girl can do. Has her heart healed enough for dating? So when the handsome witty engineer Ashley’s been messaging wants to meet her at a ComicCon Costume Ball for their first date, she’s apprehensive. That’s a weird first date, but it could be fun.

Pour certaines, c'est l'heure de la revanche. Pour d'autres, celle de la délivrance. Ou de l'espérance. Tout se noue, se dénoue, se renoue...

Ever since his father's famous bank robbery years ago, rodeo cowboy Jesse James Chisholm has been the bad boy of Lost Gun, Texas. A rule breaker. A heartbreaker. But he's still haunted by his history, and the only girl who could match his wildness with her own-until she ditched her own bad-girl ways in favour of respectability.

When Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis' father is arrested for a crime he did not commit and they have to start a new life in the country, they fear the happy times are gone forever. Little do they expect the exciting adventures and the new friends that await them. By the end they have learned more about life and themselves than they had ever dreamed possible. This full-cast, dramatized version of E. Nesbit's children's classic delightfully brings to life the adventures of The Railway Children.

An essential for life. Without it life is impossible. Was it always that way? In this volume of stories, water becomes the landscape and narrative, a character more deadly and perhaps more aware of its power than us mere mortals. We are beguiled by its sight, whether softly breaking waves on a sandy beach or a thunderous storm engulfing the cliff face. But also in other forms; as lakes and lagoons. Water is everywhere, and where there is water is the shadow of menace.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a group of painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who wished to reject the stern and academic strictures of current painting and return to the simpler and more uncomplicated days before the Italian High Renaissance and the days of Raphael. The movement was short lived but very influential and, as well, was taken up by a number of different arts.

When a local man is brutally murdered in his home library, Kate and Nathan are brought in to find the killer. But this was no ordinary library. Filled with books on the occult, it’s clear that they were after something. Something that was not in the library. Something that they’re willing to kill for. With the clock ticking, Kate and Nathan must find the killers or the item they were after, before they kill again.

Dans cet essai, Daniel Cohen décrypte la société d’aujourd’hui et dessine celle du futur.

Le roi des magiciens est mort. Son successeur ne devra pas seulement protéger leur secret des humains, il devra aussi affronter les Ténèbres qui viennent d’être aperçues pour la première fois sur Terre, au nord de l’Islande. Katleen Ash, 20 ans, a renié sa famille trois ans auparavant, car ses pouvoirs ne se sont jamais manifestés. Elle s’était promis de ne pas remettre les pieds dans le monde des magiciens, pourtant, quand elle apprend la mort de son père, elle décide d'affronter les fantômes de son passé.