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As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

A shy bachelor discovers a miniature doll apparently alive inside a 19th century dollhouse. Fascinated, he whiles away the hours peering into this little world and wishing he were part of it.

A Death in Manhattan -a glistening feather lies near the body. A Native American rights activist arrives in San Diego-a gleaming feather waits on the hotel bureau. A brutal murder discovered in Las Vegas-a brilliant feather is found at the scene. Chato Del-Klinne, drifting ex-professor, cannot let the Las Vegas murder go unsolved: the victim is a good friend. The shining feather will lead Chato and his beautiful girlfriend Sunny into unimaginable horror - horror that may encompass the entire world....

The 20th century was deeply impacted by one of the greatest, most inspiring spiritual leaders of all time: Mother Teresa of Calcutta. For millions of people around the world, Mother Teresa stood as the ultimate example of belief in action. She was living proof that one person, filled with love, purpose and determination, really can make a difference - can, in fact, touch the entire world.

"Il était une fois, un couple de vieillards qui vivait paisiblement au bord d'une rivière. Un jour, alors que la vieille femme lavait son linge, elle vit une grosse pêche qui flottait sur l'eau. Songeant que son mari aimerait certainement goûter de ce fruit, peu commun en cette saison, elle la prit dans ses bras, et toute contente l'emporta à la maison..." Ce sont des textes légendaires issus de la tradition japonaise du XIe siècle, pleins de rêve, de poésie, d'imaginaire et de sagesse. Ces contes simples et enchanteurs, sont lus avec une infinie douceur par Lou Saintagne qui sert le texte à merveille. Ils raviront enfants comme adultes.

Jake Mercer’s life is spiraling out of control. As a criminal profiler and one of the senior homicide investigators in the Oakland Police Department, he’s spent the last twenty-five years getting inside the heads of killers and trying to understand the way they think. He’s the best at what he does, but constantly playing in the minds of madmen carries a heavy price, leaving Jake an out of shape, alcoholic loner suspended from active duty.

Notre société trie les enfants à la naissance en fonction de leurs organes génitaux et en déduit leur rôle : homme ou femme, dominant ou dominée. Mais la société ne s'arrête pas à cette différenciation arbitraire. Vient ensuite la mise en relation obligatoire : chaque dominée devra vivre en couple avec un dominant. Le tout, paraît-il, pour assurer la reproduction, donc la survie de l'espèce. Mais dans ce cas, pourquoi être obligé de vivre en couple, toute sa vie ? Se reproduire ne prend pas autant de temps.

À l'issue d'une manifestation à Tunis, une jeune française est arrêtée et conduite à La Manouba, la prison pour femmes. Entre ces murs, c'est un nouvel ordre du monde qu'elle découvre, des règles qui lui sont dictées dans une langue qu'elle ne comprend pas. Au sein du Pavillon D, cellule qu'elle partage avec vingt-huit codétenues, elle n'a pu garder avec elle qu'un livre, Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo.

Maya Sing in the Tunnel of Magic introduces listeners to Maya, a teenage girl who lives on a forest lodge on the South African coast. Maya is plagued by visions in dreams and when she meditates – a skill that she learned from her deceased grandmother, at whose deathbed Maya made the promise that she would make the effort to sit in meditative stillness every day.

At her father’s funeral, Wendy Moylan is confronted by Randall Whitmore, her dad’s corrupt business partner who gives her a choice—pay her father’s outstanding debts within sixty days or marry him. Penniless, Wendy embarks on a desperate quest to locate hidden gold, deep in the deserts of New Mexico Territory. She enlists Kurt Jordan as her guide, a stubborn and impatient cowboy who holds Wendy’s future in his hands. Danger threatens as they search for treasure in hostile Indian lands, racing against a deadline.

This book can encourage you to: Find your life purpose. Fall in love with life. Heal your heart. Be a better planetary citizen. Thomas has been a teacher, mentor, and guide for so many people for the past fifty years. Lou Ann has a magnificent heart and five decades of experience helping others in a wide ranging holistic way of healthcare and spiritual practices.

Through twenty years of prosperity and progress, King Everson and Queen Allegra have lovingly nurtured peace between the once mortal enemies, Indira and Mano. The war which nearly drowned both worlds in chaos is merely a memory. But peace can be fragile... Unexplained tremors beneath the ground can no longer be ignored. They grow stronger each day, impossible to miss. Some claim it's nothing. Others, that it foretells the apocalypse. This new and unforeseen threat opens old wounds and creates fresh fissures within the palace, throwing the court into a maelstrom of palace intrigue.

The world has recovered from a plague that decimated the global population thanks to the efforts of the United Global Coalition (UGC). Now acting as the government, the UGC has set up isolated metros around the world. One of the largest metros is Capital Metro. It is the center of the North American Region. Brett Hardin is a citizen of that metro. He lives his life dedicated to two ideals, supporting the UGC and protecting his family. When those ideals collide, what path will he choose?

Kidnappers, bank robbers, interstate con artists, and the occasional spy—it's all in a day's work for Special Agent Jim Taylor! Drawn from official case files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, here are sixteen intriguing investigations torn from the headlines of 1951. Film star Stacy Harris is heard as Taylor, with narration by William Woodson. Tough guys like William Conrad and Sheldon Leonard and lovely ladies like Betty Lou Gerson and Georgia Ellis round out the cast.

"Even when you know who's guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the final curtain." He knows who you are and he knows what you did! He's The Whistler—a mysterious figure of the night who knows the nameless terrors of which you dare not speak! Here's radio noir at its finest in twenty tales of crime, mystery, and fate starring Bill Forman as The Whistler. The plotters and the pawns are played by Jeff Chandler, Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Gerald Mohr, Eleanor Audley, Joseph Kearns, Frances Robinson, and more.

We are a people of stories. We use them to entertain, to teach, and to instruct. Sometimes they warn us of the dangers of wandering too far into the woods, or they can be a detailed story to explain how magnificent landscapes came to be. Story has always been the way we pass time, the way we connect to each other, and most importantly, how we promote our values. Parables, especially, have a dual purpose. Not only do they keep us entertained, but they also make a point. Consider Aesop’s fables—tales of talking animals who learn valuable life lessons.

Autumn Clarke is getting her life back to normal with the help of her extraordinary shih tzu, Chrissy, when the death of a local philanthropist reveals the man’s dark family secrets, as well as unexpected ties to Autumn. When Chrissy discovers a dog-eared diary in the dead man’s family home, Autumn discovers that things in the Clarke family are not quite as they seem.

Sans dessus dessous est un roman d'anticipation de Jules Verne, paru en 18891, dans lequel certains personnages de De la Terre à la Lune réapparaissent. Comme dans plusieurs romans publiés à la fin de sa vie (notamment Face au drapeau, Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum ou La Chasse au météore), Jules Verne, tout en conservant le ton scientifique dont il use ordinairement dans ses Voyages extraordinaires, dénonce les excès d'une vision scientiste et rationnelle du monde, en usant d'un ton fortement teinté d'ironie envers ses héros.

When the rebels took the Crown Prince…they set the dominoes in motion. Will one young Ironside be able to change fate? Eric was a space marine assigned to a special unit. Their job was to protect the prince and his job was as a body double. How did the raiders know he wasn’t the real prince? How would they get him back? Then it got complicated. Miranda’s world just imploded. They killed her family because they knew the deadly secret. Now a colonial orphan, she has no choice. She must get revenge. Will Eric’s plan and Miranda’s destiny align?

Sixteen-year-old Savannah Scarlett struggles to reclaim her life after the devastating loss of her father. Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, Savannah witnesses an impossible phenomenon that triggers the emergence of a wild and powerful gift. She must learn to accept and control her newfound ability or die trying. That is, if a deadly organization of vicious hunters doesn't kill her first. Running for her life, Savannah soon finds refuge with the Errants, a ragtag group of powerful misfits who share her power and all the danger that comes with it.