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By Jennifer Pelletier. 2023
La Terre s'est purgée en reprenant le territoire qui lui est dû. Si plusieurs continents sont noyés, en cendres ou…
toujours coincés dans des brasiers infernaux, les habitants de Shaeganna, eux, ont construit une véritable forteresse à l'abri des dangers de dame Nature. Un lieu paisible en surface, mais pourri de l'intérieur. Louanie vit comme une recluse à l'extérieur de ce royaume; ce n'est pas par choix, mais par obligation. Vendue par ses parents à un retraité mythomane, elle ne peut que se soumettre à lui. Qui aurait pensé que de souffrir toutes ces années aux mains de ce mari sadique lui ouvrirait les portes de cette cité tant convoitée ? Bernée par la croyance que cette nouvelle vie serait digne d'un rêve, vu l'opulence qui y règne, Lou était loin de s'imaginer que de porter l'uniforme d'une Shae lui coûterait tout, même son identité... Elle comprend alors qu'elle a quitté un monstre pour un autre, sans pitié. Là où la torture est une tradition, naître femme est une abominationBy Suzanne Allain. 2024
From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who…
takes high society by storm. Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she&’s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor&’s Directory , and is horrified to find he is far more attractive than his actions have led her to expect. However, Diana is unmoved by Max&’s explanation that he authored the list to assist younger sons like himself who cannot afford to marry unless it&’s to a woman of means. She gathers the ladies in the directory together to inform them of its existence, so they may circumvent fortune hunters&’ efforts to trick them into marriage. Though outraged, the women decide to embrace their unique position of power and reverse the usual gender roles by making the men dance to their tune. And together… the ladies rewrite the rulesBy Sylvie Bérard. 2023
Nos banques de données généalogiques parmi les plus complètes et sophistiquées sur le marché nous permettent de vous offrir une…
expérience immersive dans votre histoire familiale. Voyez vos ancêtres s'animer devant vous. Observez comment ils vivaient. Interagissez avec eux... Passionnée de généalogie, Annick Paradis est intriguée par cette publicité aperçue sur l'un des sites de recherche qu'elle fréquente assidûment et elle décide de tenter l'expérience. Or, ces séances sont si stimulantes que, à chacun de ses retours, Annick trouve de plus en plus ennuyeux son emploi, de plus en plus distante sa compagne. Et que penser de ces pertes de mémoire qui l'accablent ?By Maurice G Dantec. 2010
Années 2020, au Québec, dans un contexte de Jihad mondial, Verlande (fils d'un Waffen SS) et Voronine (petit fils d'un…
membre des commandos marines soviétiques) sont deux policiers. Ils partagent leur temps entre des enquêtes sur des tueurs de policiers militarisés, des enlèvements d'enfants pour une organisation pédophile, des attentats aux armes de guerre, etcBy Andrew F Sullivan. 2023
&“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.&” ― Publishers Weekly STARRED…
REVIEW &“A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow&’s headlines.&” ― David Demchuk, author of Red X and The Bone Mother &“A bold dystopian novel that captivates with its dread and depth. The Marigold is unhinged literary horror that goes right to the source of decay.&” ― Iain Reid, award-winning author of I&’m Thinking of Ending Things , Foe , and We Spread In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles around its residents as a mysterious sludge spreads slowly through it. Public health inspector Cathy Jin investigates this toxic mold as it infests the city&’s infrastructure, rotting it from within, while Sam &“Soda&” Dalipagic stumbles on a dangerous cache of data while cruising the streets in his Camry, waiting for his next rideshare alert. On the outskirts of downtown, 13-year-old Henrietta Brakes chases a friend deep underground after he&’s snatched into a sinkhole by a creature from below. All the while, construction of the city&’s newest luxury tower, Marigold II, has stalled. Stanley Marigold, the struggling son of the legendary developer behind this project, decides he must tap into a hidden reserve of old power to make his dream a reality―one with a human cost. Weaving together disparate storylines and tapping into the realms of body horror, urban dystopia, and ecofiction, The Marigold explores the precarity of community and the fragile designs that bind us togetherBy Amy Clipston. 2024
Kira has no interest in dating and putting down roots in Pennsylvania—that is, until she finds a kindred spirit in…
Jayden Bontrager. Kira Detweiler doesn't plan to be in Lancaster County for long. She's left her family in Indiana to help her aunt after the birth of her fourth boppli. Or at least that's what she tells people. Deep down, she's trying to escape the heartache of a broken engagement and has no plans to date again anytime soon. Jayden Bontrager watches his older brothers with admiration, and he prays that someday he'll have the kind of life they do. Even so, he's only twenty-three and not in a hurry to marry and start a family. He's content to watch from the sidelines and is happy to see his brothers enjoying a close relationship once again. When Jayden and Kira strike up a friendship, they are each drawn to the other's gentle and humble demeanor, and they feel things for one another unlike anything they've felt before. But Kira is torn between her heart and her home. She sees no point in pursuing a relationship with Jayden when she doesn't plan to put down roots in Pennsylvania. The last thing she needs is another heartbreak. Will Jayden and Kira be able to overcome the obstacles in their path to find the future they both dream of? In this fourth and final book of the Amish Legacy Series, readers will find out if the youngest Bontrager brother will get his happily ever afterBy Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman. 1989
The Great War of the Gods means nothing to the proud people on the mortal planet--until Akhran the Wandering God…
decrees the union of two mighty feuding clans. Though the families are fierce Warriors, they are few in number. Even the marriage of Khardan and Zohra is not enough to over power the strength of the invading army or prevent the imprisonment of their peoples. Now, with Khardan and Zohra mysteriously missing--seemingly cowards who hid from certain defeat--the two clans have lost all hope of ever again seeing their beloved open skies. But Prince Khardan and Princess Zohra, aided by the wizard Matthew, have been given another mission...a mission that at first seems less useful than counting the many grains of the desert sands, but soon proves to be of far more lasting importance.By Jane Rawson. 2017
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the…
South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George's fractured life is intertwined with that of a woman from another dimension, seeking refuge on Earth.By Lian Hearn. 2005
Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede are now married and more resolved than ever to strengthen their domains. Yet their hasty…
marriage has enraged the warlord Arai Daiichi, and has insulted the nobleman Lord Fujiwara, who considered Kaede betrothed to him. Takeo and Kaede attempt to consolidate their powers and fulfil the holy woman's prophecy: your lands will stretch from sea to sea, but peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose...By Lian Hearn. 2003
Takeo, heir to the great Otori clan, has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility…
and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. He must deny the spiritual vows of his peaceful upbringing, his birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede. If he does not devote himself to the brutal activities of the Tribe, they will kill him. Taeko grows from boy to man, and takes a path that leads to extremes of danger, hardship and sacrifice in the bitter mountain winter. Kaede, now the valuable pawn of ruthless warlords, must use her intelligence, beauty and cunning to assert her place in a world of all-powerful men...By Fletcher Anthony. 2004
Thousands of years ago, the People lived and worshipped their gods in the rainforests of the Indonesian archipelago. Then the…
Newcomers began to come from the north and the People are forced to move south ... and keep relocating again and again. They must trust those of their kind with whom they used to do battle; they must learn how to cross a river; they must forget their old ways and forge new ideas. Fern is their shaman, and above all her spirit must be forged anew or she and her people will die - not from hunger or starvation or war, but from the loss of their gods and the dying of their spirit ... the very heart of their world. And in contemporary Australia, another Fern must choose between the new world and the old ... and the visions of an ancient shaman may guide her path in the present.By Fletcher Anthony. 2005
Fern has found the mountain that has haunted her dreams and visions. Is this where her tribe must establish their…
home? Or must she forever wander till the end of time? The People came to this land over a vast and frightening mass of water...They have survived many attacks from others whose place they have stumbled into. They have survived many attacks on their world of spirits, on their memories of their ancestral lands in ancient Java, from whence they were driven by the Newcomers. Now they are the Newcomers. However they manage to solve the differences between themselves and how they deal with the greed and power hungry manipulations of Bright Feather and his woman, Nerida, the land will be stamped by their passing. And by the rituals and myths that they establish to enable them to live at one with the land and its ancient dreaming. In modern-day Australia, another Fern must bring together her past and future for the problems of the present to be resolved...By Fletcher Anthony. 2002
50,000 years ago: the people, who for time immemorial have lived in the Javanese rainforest, are driven from their ancestral…
hunting grounds by the invaders they call the newcomers. So begins the epic journey that will bring them to Australia. They are the first humans to settle in this southern land. In present day Australia, Fern is visited by two shamans of the past time. They persuade her to join them in a pilgrimage of discovery; a pilgrimage that will take her through a multitude of dangers and suffering, to discover her links with those who have gone before...By Dennis Glover. 2020
We're told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022-…
a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city's residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations - a factory whistle. GoFA's owner, world-famous tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He's going to defeat the internet's dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero- 1948. Those whose jobs and lives have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed- by living as if the internet and the smartphone had never been invented. The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out.By David J Lake. 1978
Sometimes the sky held only clouds, but at other times it could get quite busy. It could be full of…
sailing ships or bands of mounted warriors or even single figures strolling carefully across the empty air. From the viewpoint of those below they were either apparitions or gods, but in any case to be ignored. From the viewpoint of the sky walkers, those below were neither phantoms nor gods, yet certainly always beneath their notice. Both viewpoints were wrong. Because the time had come when one of the sky walkers was going to do the incredible—fall through. And when that happened, all hell was going to break loose. And did!By Scarlett Thomas. 2007
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Renegade academic…
Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists - especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere - a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?By Christopher Priest. 1984
Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb incident. But…
when Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of "the glamour".By Stephen King. 2003
Determined to reach the Dark Tower, gunslinger Roland and his companions emerge from the forests in the Mid-World on a…
path that leads to a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers in the borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises towards the dark source of affliction. Danger is imminent - the Wolves of the Calla are gathering, their unspeakable depredation poised to threaten the soul of the community. Roalnd and his companions must venture all as they face an unknown adversary. And the future of the Mid-World once again faces crimson chaos.By Stephen King. 2006
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss. His band of pilgrims…
united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to give birth in New York. Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane which will lead them to Susannah. Yet they come to realise that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. And finally, his every step shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation, Roland closes in on the Dark Tower...By Jack Dann. 2008
35 new stories celebrating the wild side of Australian fantasy writing. Welcome to the energy, invention and imagination of Australia's…
finest writers of speculative fiction - from acclaimed international bestsellers to the freshest new voices. Contributors include John Birmingham, Trudi Canavan, Isobelle Carmody, Paul Collins, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Sara Douglass, Garth Nix and many more, plus a previously unpublished story from the late great A. Bertram Chandler.