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I’d kill to be the kind of dancer my mom wants me to be, but it’s just not in the cards. I’m sick of dieting. I'll never fit into the perfect ballerina mold, and I’m tired of wishing that I could. I’m over it. I’m done trying. I’m perfectly content to dance alone in the dark while the rest of the school is sleeping.

De toute éternité, les communications à distance, les télécommunications, se sont avérées essentielles pour les humains. Selon les époques, elles ont fait appel à l'imagination ou à l'ingénierie, et toujours de manière industrieuse. Ainsi, les trompettes, les tambours, la fumée ou le langage sifflé transmettaient des messages aux populations locales bien avant l'avènement du télégraphe optique, du télex ou de la téléphonie.

A lone soldier on night watch. A single bullet through the heart. Every light in Paris flickers - the city’s thundering silent scream. When Commander Raimond Banitierre was assassinated, French Revolutionaries lost their gallant leader. After a villain’s offer of eternal life condemned him to slavery, Raimond rebelled again, driving his vampire comrades to freedom. Raimond escapes to Savannah, Georgia where his dream of becoming a doctor comes true. Vicious flames and an unholy miscalculation deliver Raimond back to the depths of hell.

A mistletoe kiss is just a simple kiss, right? Wrong. All I want to do during this Christmas break is survive. A week at the cabin with our family’s friends/rivals, the Stephensons, every yuletide activity is turned into a competition where my family must win. Every. One. Yep. I was attempting to be loyal until Jacob and I kiss. Sure, it was a forced one brought on by mistletoe tradition, but there was something in the way he held me and pressed his lips to mine that told me, he just might be feeling something more.

He was supposed to be my escape for the weekend. I wasn’t supposed to fall for him. I want to be a good daughter, but I’m tired of being looked over. So when I run into Jet Miller, the bad boy with a motorcycle, I pay him to take me away for the weekend. Two days of freedom quickly change into something more, and I find myself falling for Jet. Only, he doesn’t know that once our 48 hour escape is over, I’m gone. And I don’t know how to tell him. Some rules are meant to be broken.

1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family, Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep her family together against the odds. Evicted from their resplendent home in the fashionable part of York after her parents' deaths, Kitty must fight the legacy of bankruptcy and homelessness to secure a home for her and her siblings. Through sheer willpower and determination, she grabs opportunities with both hands, from working on a clothes and rag stall in the market to creating a tea shop for the wealthy.

Den kærlighedsaffære, Maria har med en sort senegaleser, er lige så pinefuld og berusende som den 'ode' europæers kærlighedsaffære med Afrika. Fordi Anne Marie Ejrnæs har et åbent blik både for det fysiske og åndelige Afrika, står der så meget på siderne, at den lille fortættede bog bliver til et bredt værk om en moderne kvindes søgen - blandt andet efter sig selv. Man tror på, at hun vil overleve, selv om naturen og menneskene piller lunser af hende. Og dermed tror man også på fremtiden og kærligheden og på forfatteren. -- Annelise Schønnemann, Politiken

Hannah Bell has finally come home for Christmas after having been away for seven years. Between being humiliated at prom by her best friend, Logan, and disappointing her mother yet again, Hannah left and swore she'd never come back. But right now, she'd rather face her past than her conflicting feelings about her boyfriend's proposal. Logan Blake is trying to adjust to his father's death, being a single dad, and his new status as a billionaire. Which is easier said than done. To complicate things further, his childhood friend and crush, Hannah, has come back into his life.

My plan was perfect: convince my best friend and school quarterback, Ethan, to be the final prize for my matchmaking test where the proceeds go to sending the band to Paris. Plus, if it matches me with my lifelong crush, that's a bonus, right? What could go wrong? Apparently, a lot. First, the test matches me and Ethan. Which is easy to explain. Computers make mistakes all the time, right? Second, the girl I switch myself for seems perfect for Ethan. Maybe a bit too perfect. Third, my date with my crush goes horribly wrong, and my first kiss tanks.

Dans la vie, tout le monde se pose des questions. Il y a celles qui sont intelligentes, qui font réfléchir : c'est quoi un atome ? Comment sortir de la crise ? Et puis il y a les autres, celles qu'on se pose tout bas sans parfois même se l'avouer : Pourquoi ne voit-on jamais de bébés pigeons ? Combien y a-t-il de grains dans un paquet de riz ? Les poissons dorment-ils ? Si, pour flatter leur ego, certains ne veulent répondre qu'aux questions intelligentes, qui va répondre aux questions cons ? Moi, bien sûr ! J'en ai même fait mon métier !

I live by three rules. One: I never get lower than an A in any class. Two: I never lose a cross-country race. And three: I never talk to Cade Kelley. Well, number three came crashing down the moment Principal Connell asks me to guide Cade back onto the right path. Something about helping him turn his life around. If only Principal Connell knew our history, he’d understand just what he’s asking.

In the wake of the San Bernardino attack last December, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the country. In an interview with Fox Business shortly after the attack, Trump explicitly connected the failed assimilation of Muslim immigrants to terrorism: “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law...There is no assimilation.”

Foreign policy experts have long been taught to see the world as a chessboard, analyzing the decisions of great powers and anticipating rival states’ reactions in a continual game of strategic advantage. Nineteenth-century British statesmen openly embraced this metaphor, calling their contest with Russia in Central Asia "the Great Game." Today, the TV show Game of Thrones offers a particularly gory and irresistible version of geopolitics as a continual competition among contending kingdoms.

A dedicated profiler. Dr. Holt Patterson has thrown himself into his work since his wife's death, and his relationship with his young son, Theo, is suffering. He's caught in an impossible choice - how can he make the world a safer place for his son without sacrificing valuable family time? An unrequited love. Sara Burns, the director at Theo's prestigious academy, once loved Holt Patterson, but he was her best friend's husband.

Au début de l'histoire de l'humanité, les dieux tout comme les cultes variaient d'une communauté à l'autre. Les premiers peuples chassés par la force de leur territoire ont craint que des divinités étrangères ou ennemies ne puissent les protéger. Des chefs ont alors fondé une nouvelle religion. Certains d'entre eux se sont basés sur des textes anciens et d'autres ont affirmé avoir eu des révélations.

Set in Paris in the 1920s, this book is an erotic classic sensually written in an enthralling and titillating style that consists of short stories with many of the same characters tied together and each story with its own climax. The stories follow the fortunes of a group of idle young French aristocrats and their secret liaisons and erotic escapades. This book is read by Katinka Wolf who transports us deftly into this appealing and uninhibited world.

Rome, une ville éternelle, une société ingénieuse formée d'ethnies disparates sous la protection des dieux. Une petite bourgade aménagée sur une colline entourée de marécages qui en un millénaire a bâti un Empire de 5 millions de kilomètres carrés d'espace, sillonné de 90 000 kilomètres de routes. Rome, c'est la guerre incessante, mais aussi la joie et l'art de vivre hérités de la civilisation étrusque ; la littérature et la poésie inspirées de la culture grecque.

La civilité nouvelle apparaît au XVème siècle, au début d'une période que les historiens ont appelée "Renaissance". Elle correspond à un idéal de culture et de sagesse désigné par le terme "humanisme". A une époque où la noblesse des cours se battait souvent à coups de poing et à coups de pieds, des philosophes ont cru bon d'instruire les jeunes princes des règles de civilité à l'honneur chez les citoyens grecs et romains de l'Antiquité.

Notre ancêtre Homo sapiens était nomade. Ses descendants ont vagabondé longtemps sur la planète avant d'habiter un domicile fixe. Pourquoi l'ont-ils fait ? Pourquoi ont-ils ensuite peiné pour faire pousser du blé et finalement domestiquer des bêtes, alors que les céréales sauvages et les animaux de chasse abondaient sur leur territoire ?

Vers 1300, les marchands, autrefois méprisés, sont les maîtres des villes. Ceux que l'on surnommait "les pieds poudreux" sont désormais sédentaires et l'on envie leur richesse. Les techniques commerciales se diversifient : des changeurs fixent le cours des monnaies, la lettre de change et le crédit apparaissent.