Polar Adventures

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 ?

Une partie de canasta se révèle truquée et une fille en or finit par y mourir. Il semble qu'Auric Goldfinger soit un mauvais perdant quand il s'agit de cartes. C'est aussi le trafiquant d'or le plus impitoyable et le plus prospère du monde. En suivant sa trace, James Bond découvre que le vrai jeu de Goldfinger est le vol de quinze milliards de dollars de lingots du gouvernement américain. La dernière main est jouée à Fort Knox, dans une démonstration spectaculaire de tromperie et d'intrigue.

M pense avoir une affaire facile pour 007. C'est exactement ce dont il a besoin après sa dernière rencontre presque fatale avec SMERSH. Cependant, en arrivant en Jamaïque pour rechercher un agent disparu et sa secrétaire, Bond apprend que le Dr Julius No, un homme reclus, pourrait être lié à leur disparition. Lorsque Bond et l'exotique Honeychile Rider sont emprisonnés sur l'île privée du Dr No, ils se rendent compte que ses plans pourraient menacer la sécurité à l'échelle internationale.

Le projet Moonraker a un commanditaire millionnaire, le héros de guerre Sir Hugo Drax—un homme qui, semble-t-il, triche aux cartes. Avec une fusée balistique en jeu, l'exposition de Sir Hugo pourrait menacer le dernier système de défense de la Grande-Bretagne. James Bond est donc chargé d'enquêter. Passant du club de jeu le plus exclusif de Londres à un silo à missiles sur la côte de la Manche, 007 et son assistante de la branche spéciale, Gala Brand, découvrent que Drax est bien plus que ce que l'on croit.

April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But even though it's been a whole year, she can’t stop thinking about Bear. When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she’s convinced it’s her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers.

Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air. But as her study progresses, and she gathers data on the health of individual bears, things start to go awry. Her helicopter pilot quits unexpectedly, equipment goes missing, and a late-night intruder breaks into her lab and steals the samples she’s collected.

Lorsque des urgences soudaines se présentent, James Bond est là pour y faire face. Qu'il s'agisse de l'assassinat d'un voyou cubain en Amérique, de la destruction d'un réseau international d'héroïne ou d'une mort mystérieuse aux Seychelles, 007 accomplit son travail dans un style qui lui est propre.

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the army to serve as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the US Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was scheduled to act as chief of pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Did you know that over 12% of the world's population suffers from mental illness like depression? That number is also on the rise as more people tackle the ever-increasing daily demands of modern life. At times, when dealing with these feelings, it can feel like you are living with a constant cloud over your head and have no one to talk to about what you're going through. But that is not the case. This book can help you gain back control over your emotions and thoughts and help lead you toward a happier and healthier everyday life.

An inspired tale of high adventure, Out in the Cold is Bill Murray's vivid portrait of his travel across the vast Northern Atlantic from the Arctic north of Norway to Nova Scotia. Murray begins in pursuit of a total solar eclipse in Svalbard, 800 miles from the North Pole. He tests the culinary appeal of wind-dried sheep in the tiny Faroe Islands, befriends Inuit bone carvers in Greenland, and camps with an itinerant Italian musician who dreams of building Greenland's first luxury resort.

Flora's a die-hard dreamer. She's never left the farm, but she knows she was born for adventure. She's determined to become a sled pig! A harrowing voyage to Antarctica, a bacon-loving cook, and a shipwreck in deadly conditions stand between Flora and her dream. What will happen to Flora, whose companions see her as more of a meal than an adventurer?

Bristle lives in the Alaskan wilderness, just outside of the town of Iceberg. Bristle gets a magical sleep stone for her eighth birthday, which has the power to borrow and give sleep. Although Bristle is warned by her parents to avoid humans, Bristle makes friends with another eight-year-old human girl named Pinga. But when a human boy steals the sleep stone and creates havoc in the town, Bristle and Pinga try to get the sleep stone back.

Stella Starflake Pearl is eagerly anticipating her next expedition. Suddenly disaster strikes when Stella's father, Felix, is snatched by a fearsome witch. Stella must bring her magic ice princess tiara to Witch Mountain or she will never see Felix again! But no one ever returns from Witch Mountain.... Stella, Ethan, Shay, Beanie and reluctant Jungle Cat explorer Percival set off into the unknown. They will face terrifying bat caves, poisonous apple groves, outraged vultures, argumentative mushrooms and deranged broomsticks in their quest to rescue Felix.

Here is the story of the infamous 1910 race to the South Pole, as told by its fearless yet desperate leader, Robert Falcon Scott. The New York Times called Scott's Last Expedition "A splendid record of heroism not soon to be forgotten."

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history.

In Lions at Lunchtime, the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the vast plains of Africa. Before Jack can find out where the lions are, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeasts cross a rushing river. Next, they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away. Jack is about to be very disappointed.

Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering 19th-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.

When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he's gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting three snakes. He claims it's over 40,000 years old — and that it may not have earthly origins. As the pair conduct their research, Annja soon realizes she has more to worry about than being caught in snow slides.

Delafeuille, éditeur parisien, débarque à Copenhague pour y rencontrer le maître du polar nordique, au moment même où la police locale est confrontée à un redoutable serial killer : l'Esquimau. Mais à peine installé à l'hôtel avec le dernier roman de l'auteur, il découvre que c'est sa propre histoire que raconte le livre... et que pour lui les choses ne vont pas tarder à mal tourner.

Polar Knights is based on true events. In 1845, The HMS Erebus and Terror set out for a study of magnetism and the search for the Northwest Passage. Every member of the crew either vanished or was found as a mummy or a skeleton. The native people tried to explain what happened to the men and even claimed that some men survived and lived among them. No one believed them. In 2016 the world became interested in the story again after the ships were found, sunken far from where expected. (But exactly where the natives claimed they could be found.)