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Passez la porte de Lapis-Lazuli House et laissez-vous guider par la plume aiguisée et sarcastique d'Emma M. Lion. Un charme à la Jane Austen, un humour résolument moderne. Emma est de retour à Londres depuis deux mois et profite du printemps avec une malicieuse abnégation.

In 1914 Venice, Carla Herzog, a nobleman’s thirteen-year-old daughter, has a chilling premonition of murder. When it comes true, her zealous father believes Carla to be a witch. How better to expel his possessed child’s wickedness than to remand her to the headmistress of a brutal children’s reformatory?

History remembers kings and conquerors. But the real story was happening in the shadows. A spy hiding a red cord in a doomed city. A left-handed assassin walking into a tyrant’s palace. A foreign girl gathering scraps to survive. A woman racing through the night to stop a future king from destroying his own legacy. These are not the stories you were taught. In The God of the Outcasts, Lorcan Pike brings the lesser-known figures of the Old Testament into sharp, gritty focus —stripping away the polish to reveal stories of survival, tension, and quiet defiance. Each story stands alone.

Selma Wijnberg is a criminal, a prisoner. Because she is Jewish. For this crime, in the depths of Hitler's occupation of Holland, Selma is deported to the Sobibor death camp, sentenced to sort the clothes of the dead while a smoke made of thousands blackens the sky. And in the light of this enormous funeral pyre, at the end of a Nazi pistol, Selma is ordered to dance. The hand that offers to dance with her is strong. Steady. It belongs to Chaim Engel.

Sitting hidden in the branches of an oak tree, Cecily de Malet watches a woman die slowly in the window of a great manor house. The woman's face is her own. She would rather vanish from time itself than become her. Cecily has fourteen days to escape a forced marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather—a powerful lord who collects young wives the way other men collect land. Her only option is her grandfather Anton’s forbidden machine, a device she was warned never to touch. She touches it anyway.

In the future, major corporations become more powerful than nations and lead the expansion into space. Many have their own military to protect their assets across the galaxy. When a young man facing a bleak future leaps into action during an assault on his home planet, he is recruited by the company to join their elite Mech division. But Ace Evans is more than just a soldier... and he'll face a rising threat with plans to dominate the entire galaxy.

When a secret group known as the Eradicators sets out to manipulate humanity toward its own destruction, one soul is chosen to stop them. Harmony has been selected for an extraordinary purpose—to help humanity remember who we truly are and why we are here. But before she can accept this divine assignment, she must uncover the mystery behind her past: her last ten lives on Earth ended before their time.

In 1750, Thomas Gunn, along with three friends, join the Hudson's Bay Company and sail from Stromness on the Orkney Islands of northern Scotland to York Factory fort on Hudson's Bay. They believe they are starting a new and exciting life in what is called Rupert's Land, but tragedy follows them, striking for the first time on the stormy Atlantic crossing. At the fort, Thomas finds his older brother, Edward, who had joined four years earlier, and married into a new native family. Thomas' first year at the fort is a story of work and discovery, of loss and new hope.

Paris, 1942. Servane a dix-sept ans. La faim, le rationnement et la peur des arrestations règlent ses journées. Pour elle, endurer, c'est rester du bon côté. Paul, ancien militaire désabusé, trafique avec tous. Pour lui, profiter, c'est se maintenir. Mais en 1943, le marché noir, combattu par Vichy, change de statut. Les livraisons deviennent plus laborieuses pour certains, plus nobles pour d'autres.

One of the last families to live at the edge of the swamplands, Elnora Comstock and her widowed mother struggle to make ends meet, without giving up their land and the memories it holds. As she starts high school in town, Elnora realizes that her poverty, unusual upbringing, and love of nature...

Gripping and poignant, It Begins with the End is a profound novel-in-verse about memory, resistance, and hope during WWII—from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed. It begins with an execution. April 1944. Khursheed Khan, a young spy for the British Armed Forces, has been captured by...

Les Romains sont en train d'envahir la Gaulle. Teutagonos, un guerrier celte chevauchant un griffon est placé au service de Vercingétorix.

Jeder Traum hat ein Ende. Effy hat es geschafft: Endlich darf sie als erste Frau in Llyr Literatur studieren! Doch die Ereignisse der letzten Zeit lasten schwer auf ihr. Zumal ihre männlichen Kommilitonen sie alles andere als herzlich willkommen heißen. Einzig Preston gibt ihr Halt – der jedoch selbst zu kämpfen hat.

My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are...

When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her life. We follow Annie as she navigates a blossoming love story with a handsome soldier and her growing affection for an evacuee child. With tender and amusing moments, this story—set in a small English village during World War II—explores love, resilience, and loss with a fresh new voice.

Girl Under Glass is the story of a rootless, rebellious young girl sinking deeper into juvenile delinquency. Given one more chance to avoid juvenile hall, a judge assigns her to community service with a cranky botanist studying plant communication. When he is beaten and left for dead, Kelsey must convince the lead detective that an entire greenhouse full of plants is witness to the crime, and she knows how to prove it.

There's harrowing tension in being Asayi. But join Asayi's circle to oppose a punitive regime. Court intrigues swirl, underbelly characters from different levels of society emerge, deceptions reign, yet truth emerges at the end. Layers of nuance unfold: the vulnerability of an autistic young woman in a merciless time period; political unrest, physical survival, secret identities, and finding ones tribe and love while facing injustices and revolts that are just as real as todays inequities and discontents.

When the world around you is falling apart, you must find strength within yourself. Three years after her father’s death, Emeline has settled into life in Indianapolis. Then an urgent visit to her childhood farm in Missouri changes everything. Her manager dies, the economy is in recession, and the caretakers are moving back to Wisconsin. Emeline is suddenly responsible for the farm… and she’s out of her depth.

Kano Murasaki, called Risuko, is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she?

Two armies have descended on the Full Moon, and the war that has torn Japan apart for over a century threatens to destroy Lady Chiyome's school for young shrine maidens (and assassins). In this thrilling sequel to Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale, Risuko must face warlords, samurai, angry cooks, a monster in the hills, the truth about her father, a spy among the kunoichi...