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Robinswood, Co. Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown-up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly.

Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene. Although she is discussed in the gospels of Philip, Thomas, Peter, and Bartholomew in the collection of writings known as the Gnostic gospels that were rejected by the early Christian church, there is no better insight into this mysterious and influential woman than Mary's own gospel.

An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.

Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent.

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples - the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans. Their story begins in the last decade of the 18th century in the Canadian North-West. Within 20 years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within 40 years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts.

Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.

Quand Mathieu Durey, flic à la brigade criminelle de Paris apprend que Luc, son meilleur ami, flic lui aussi, a tenté de se suicider, il n'a de cesse de comprendre ce geste. Il découvre que Luc travaillait en secret sur une série de meurtres..., dont les auteurs orchestrent la décomposition des corps des victimes... Et ils ont tous, des années plus tôt, frolé la mort et vécu une "Near Death Experience". Peu à peu, une vérité stupéfiante se révèle : ces tueurs sont des "miraculés du Diable" et agissent pour lui.

The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings—Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally—feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets leave for college, Johanna, faced with being truly alone, makes the decision to have a fourth child.

Generations of dogs have been labeled training lemons for requiring actual motivation when all along they were perfectly normal. Numerous other completely and utterly normal dogs have been branded as canine misfits simply because they grew up to act like dogs. Barking, chewing, sniffing, licking, jumping up, and occasionally (just like people) having arguments are as normal and natural for dogs as wagging tails and burying bones.

Annie Richard et Jean-Philippe Rousseau, déterrent, analysent et enquêtent sur des affaires criminelles oubliées. L’objectif étant de reprendre les éléments d’enquête d’un cold case, avec un regard nouveau, en utilisant les méthodes de recherches et d'investigation du XXIe siècle. Ici, pas de sensationnalisme, uniquement du travail rigoureux au service des victimes et de la vérité.

Gabriel s'est perdu dans une pyramide. Sa cousine Sari, qui était dans la galerie devant lui, a mystérieusement disparu. Mais Gabriel a l'impression de ne pas être seul. Qui était là avec lui dans les ténèbres ? Peut-on troubler le repos millénaire de la prêtresse Khala sans courir de danger ?

Publié en langue française par Bayard Éditions.

A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of listeners with a new introduction by the author.

S'affirmer et communiquer, c'est être capable d'exprimer ses pensées, ses sentiments, ses opinions. C'est dire "oui" quand on pense "oui", et "non" quand on pense "non". C'est demander, refuser, critiquer, répondre à des critiques, faire des compliments, répondre aux compliments, et tout cela d'une façon satisfaisante pour soi et pour l'autre. S'affirmer et communiquer, c'est aussi respecter l'autre en communiquant avec lui.

Jean-Claude Mourlevat est le premier lauréat français du prix ALMA, communément considéré comme le prix Nobel de la littérature jeunesse. Une histoire qui ne manque pas de piquants. En ce radieux matin d'automne, le hérisson Jefferson décide d'aller chez son coiffeur se faire rafraîchir la houppette. Comment pourrait-il imaginer, alors qu'il arrive plein d’entrain au salon Défini-Tif, que sa vie est sur le point de basculer ?

Good people in good marriages are having affairs. The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for “friendships” that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs. Yet you can protect your relationship from emotional or sexual betrayal by recognizing the red flags that mark the stages of slipping into an improper, dangerous intimacy that can threaten your marriage.

Fiction audio binaurale multi-comédiens. L'écoute au casque est conseillée pour une expérience optimale. Alors que le corps du « magicien de Nazareth », Yechouah, a disparu de son tombeau trois jours après sa crucifixion, les plus folles hypothèses bouleversent l'autorité du préfet Pilate. Ce dernier va mener une enquête policière et politique qui le conduira à remettre en question ses convictions culturelles, politiques et spirituelles.

Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.

Dans ce quatrième volet de la saga " Les Enfants de la Terre ", Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar laissent derrière eux la chaleureuse tribu des chasseurs de mammouths pour continuer leur traversée des steppes immenses du continent européen. Le couple ne manque pas de susciter l'étonnement sur son passage. En effet, Ayla et Jondalar se déplacent à cheval, en compagnie d'un loup apprivoisé. Or, les peuples qu'ils rencontrent vivent de chasse et de cueillette, et n'ont jamais vu d'animaux domestiques.

At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She’s a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents. And, most recently, she’s been fired from her latest dead-end job. Mika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny—the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago. Penny is determined to forge a relationship with her birth mother, and in turn, Mika longs to be someone Penny is proud of. Faced with her own inadequacies, Mika embellishes a fact about her life.

Soupçonnée d'adultère, la duchesse Audéarde de Bromael a été jugée, répudiée et emprisonnée. Le champion qu'on l'a accusée d'avoir trop aimé, le chevalier Ædan de Vaumacel, lui a fait défaut au cours de son procès.