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"Véritable visite guidée à travers la poésie française des cinq derniers siècles le présent disque propose un florilège consacré aux animaux. De du Bellay à Bataille, en passant par La Fontaine, Florian, Hugo, Verlaine et tant d'autres, nous invitons les enfants à découvrir la poésie à travers un thème original et cher à tous. La lecture des 31 poèmes choisis a été confiée à deux grandes voix féminines : Isabelle Carré et Rachida Brakni. La voix douce et quasi enfantine d'Isabelle Carré ravira jeunes et grands. Cristalline et pénétrante, celle de Rachida Brakni séduira par sa force"

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men.

Au début du dix-neuvième siècle, un ouvrier nommé Claude Gueux vit à Paris avec sa maîtresse et leur enfant. Un hiver, le feu et le pain manquent. Alors, Claude Gueux décide de voler. Il en résultera trois jours de pain et de chauffage pour la femme et pour l'enfant, et cinq ans de prison pour Claude Gueux à la prison de Clairvaux. Là, une confrontation va s'engager entre Claude Gueux et le directeur des ateliers de la prison.

With his new shadow in tow, Tom expects the night to be uneventful. But when the facility suddenly goes into quarantine mode, the overnight lock-in turns into a building-wide lockdown. Tom and his friends are left trapped in their respective rooms, with no way to communicate the outside world. As they make their way through the facility using methods that are a little more...creative...than normal, Tom and his friends start realizing that there is more to this quarantine than meets the eye. It’s up to them to not only escape, but also find out what - or who - is behind the lockdown.

Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top. With the final battle coming up, Tom and his friends need as much time as possible to refine their masterpiece. But the rest of their teachers have been giving so many pop quizzes that they can barely focus in class, never mind concentrate on the tournament.

When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class. At the academy, once class starts and the drone is parked, their brainiac friends then launch into farfetched discussions about the curriculum. And when they watch a documentary about the FBI’s most wanted hackers from the '80s, they quickly start speculating that the academy custodian is one of them.

Greymond, the Scattered Kingdom, has been without a king for hundreds of years, a place ruled by squabbling barons and dukes. Occasionally, rumors arise: a king of the old blood has returned to claim his throne. These days, such claims are met with groans and eye-rolls. Pretenders abound . . . and are generally ignored. But scheming powers are plotting, machinations that have been in the works for years. This time . . . enter Merrik Niles.

"Little Surrenders" is a dark, mesmerizing short story about a marriage that’s reached its breaking point, and just how far a woman will go to reinvent herself after one too many compromises.  

Faut-il manger pour vivre, ou vivre pour manger ? La madeleine de Proust est-elle vraiment celle que l'on croit ? La trompe d'éléphant est-elle comestible ? Vous trouverez réponse à ces épineuses questions, et à bien d'autres, dans notre sélection de 19 textes cultes commentés Une balade littéraire divertissante et instructive à travers les textes de Brillat-Savarin, La Bruyère, Théophile Gauthier, Proust, Zola, Rabelais, Flaubert, Balzac, Maupassant, Molière, Hugo, Huysmans, Pétrone, Daudet, Madame de Sévigné et des Frères Goncourt. Bon appétit ! Textes commentés par Sylvain Trias.

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Melias and crew have the devices needed to fight the Lightbringers, but they're also on the run from the military that they are ultimately serving. Can they stay ahead of the authorities and fight the Prime Ones at the same time? If they can't prove themselves to be fugitive heroes, all of humanity may be doomed.

Possibly the biggest podcast known to mankind. Join Victor Dweck and Cousin Joe as they swim the seas of life and do their best to wash themselves up ashore. Descriptions don't have to make sense.

Acompanhe o mundo das finanças e marketing digital em Lucros & Digitais, onde lucro encontra inovação e escala.

Will You Ever Be Rich? chronicles a story of an enterprising young man with above-average intellect, hard-working, driven, ambitious, and motivated, but for some reason, he feels stuck. Life is not moving in the direction he expected. He wondered what he was doing wrong and what he could do differently. He ultimately found a mentor that walked him through the lessons that led to wealth. These are lessons that you would not get anywhere in a practical manner. If you can connect with this story or if you know anyone that can connect with this story, then this book is for you.

¿Qué es la Masonería? La Masonería es una organización legal y discreta, donde se imparte una instrucción simbólica, reservada solamente a los miembros de la Orden, y donde se les enseña también todo tipo de virtudes cívicas y democráticas, como es el cumplimiento estricto de la ley y el respeto a las autoridades legítimamente elegidas. Pero es también una hermandad iniciática, donde las enseñanzas se van transmitiendo lenta y gradualmente mediante ceremonias de iniciación que le son propias, y que provienen tanto de la Tradición primordial.

When her employer suddenly disappears, young Grace Kirkstall finds herself accepting a new job at a new company in the same building - an oasis of tranquility off the streets of London. Ben and Helen Brown’s start-up company’s pitch is that, for a small consideration, they will help people out of their major and minor fixes. Their first big commission initiates Ben into the gentle art of housebreaking, and Helen into the mysteries of the Society for Progressive Rehabilitation.... But for Grace, it will plunge her into more danger than she could ever have imagined.

Quasimodo. Esmerelda. Frollo. Phoebus. Victor Hugo’s immortal tale of duty, desire and priestly revenge stands strongest on its own, and in this unabridged edition, it is more approachable than ever. Peer into the mind of the fiercely loyal Quasimodo. Discover the world through the sharp eyes of Esmerelda. Discover the privileged and calculating motivations of the ignominious Frollo - all amid the incredible backdrop of the Gothic Notre Dame cathedral. 

2034 : trois géants américains du numérique, baptisés les Titans, ont profité de la crise des années 2020 pour établir leur hégémonie sur l’économie occidentale et mettre en place un capitalisme de surveillance, basé sur l’exploitation immodérée des données personnelles. Plongés au cœur de leur organisation dans la Silicon Valley, Pierre, un jeune Français expert en intelligence artificielle, et Julia, une brillante Estonienne travaillant sur l’amélioration du cerveau humain, vont tenter de défier leur pouvoir.

When you start to write a book, you're doing more than just typing words on a keyboard. You're entering the book business - and like every other business, the book business has many different elements. The author wants you to be 100 percent successful in dealing with all those elements, so he has written this book to share with you his insider's story.

When faced with two unstoppable enemies, the only answer might be a deal with the devil. Jack and Sam have made it back to the fleet but have not received a warm welcome. Treated as traitors and scientific curiosities, they must fight to free themselves from their own kind. The New Enemy Omnibus contains the fourth, fifth, and sixth stories in the Jack Forge, Lost Marine series. If you like fast-paced military science fiction, you will love hearing Jack fight for the freedom of all.