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Living in an abandoned apartment building in South-Central L.A., Socrates is one step away from the streets. He bags groceries at the supermarket, collects bottles and cans to recycle for pennies, and feels himself slipping toward invisibility - that is, until he meets 11-year-old Darryl, whose already committed murder and is perilously close to slipping into a life filled with only violence and bloodshed. Socrates' determination to fight for and save Darryl lights his own pathway to self-forgiveness.

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy’s tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.

Allegra is an unusual name. It means ’happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know?And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so cold.

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed.

Le monde est menacé par de mystérieux envahisseurs venus d'une autre planète : les Gzbrhh. Afin de conquérir la terre, ils se sont alliés aux ignobles Babus ! Leur arme secrète est le Gruyère qui tue ! Ceux qui en consomment deviennent des soumis, dévoués à leur cause... Furax, Black, White, Asti Spumante, le commissaire Socrate et d'autres s'unissent pour tenter d'éviter le pire.

"Signé Furax" est "le" classique du feuilleton radiophonique. La plupart des grands monuments français ont été volés et remplacés par des imitations ! Le commissaire Fouvreaux, de la DDT, mène l'enquête... Chacun des méfaits comporte le plus odieux des paraphes : Signé Furax ! ... Une aventure époustouflante à suivre fidèlement et réciproquement !

Une étrange lumiére bleue... Elle éteint les volontés et fait de celui qui la posséde le maître du monde. La découverte du professeur Grégory Moshmosh et tombée entre les mains de Furax et des Babus qui se sont alliés pour conquérir la planéte. Pour parvenir à leurs fins, ils enlévent les plus grands savants, parmi lesquels Auguste Costecald et tuent sans pitié le moindre témoin génant.

Jules César est une des figures les plus célèbres de l'histoire du monde. Grand maitre en politique et grand militaire, tous les dictateurs de l'ère chrétienne l'ont pris pour exemple. Et pourtant, que sait-on de lui ?

Bougainville profite d'une mission royale aux Malouines pour réaliser son projet de tour du monde dont le but est surtout de découvrir de nouvelles terres dans le Pacifique.

As dawn breaks, the usual calm of a tiny quiet Mediterranean island is shattered by the news. A teenage girl has gone missing. Inspector Villanueva, temporarily transferred to the island, and sub-inspector Esteller must fight against the elements, the lack of resources, and their own demons to solve the mystery of what happened in a place where nothing ever does.

Two bodies found in a lagoon. A promising FBI special agent. A crime that occurred almost 20 years ago. A convoluted mystery novel that grabs you. If you enjoyed novels like The Silence of the Lambs or TV series such as Twin Peaks and True Detective, this is the story that you have been waiting for.

The Shining, de Stanley Kubrick, cette histoire étrange située dans un hôtel où s’installent hors-saison un écrivain, sa femme et leur garçon aux pouvoirs extrasensoriels, a impressionné une foule de spectateurs depuis sa sortie en 1980. C’est à l’âge de dix ans que Simon Roy a découvert ce film, médusé par une réplique: «Tu aimes les glaces, canard?» Depuis, il l’a revu au moins quarante-deux fois, sans doute parce qu’il «contient les symptômes tragiques d’une fêlure» qui l’habite depuis des générations.

A unique and original fictional account of a well-known Bible story. Jesus Feeds a Big Crowd is narrated from the point of view of the boy who provided Jesus with the loaves and fishes that were used to feed the 5,000. It is always a pleasure to present children with a different take on a bible story they may have heard many times before. Recommended for use in Sunday schools, schools, and for personal use. The book will be mainly enjoyed by children aged four-to-eight years. Kids may need to hide it from their parents though, as many adults enjoy this one too.

The Black Pearl is a biblical-themed short story of a boy and his friends fight for freedom, from the hands of unruly pirates.

Volt is the leader of the Anarchists, an official gang on the De.mocra.cy server. In a near-future Internet filled with highly regulated, highly restrictive MMOs, the De.mocra.cy server is entirely self-regulated, affording unprecedented freedom of speech and freedom of violence to its users-until now. A new law has outlawed violence between consenting parties, and Volt must mobilize a fractious group of gang leaders to campaign against it-and, unbeknownst to them, to challenge the Unwritten Amendment.

Whether it is in the workplace or your love life, words are important in the quest for success and fulfilment. An argument, a pitch, or a proposal has a greater impact with the power of clarity and meaning. The right words open doors. The effective use of speech is hypnotic and enthralling. The correct choice of words can give you freedom, love, liberation. Words can light a fire in someone's heart or they can terrify a nation. Play the audiobook; say the words; learn the meanings. The more effective your speech, the more options will flow your way.

Aveline leads a desolate and isolated life in a small village with her father and brother. Behind closed doors she feels imprisoned by the abusive life she is forced to lead and clings on to the wisps of happier memories as though they could fly away. Living in a world where everything slips easily through her fingers, what will it take for Aveline to spread her own wings and fly?

Vievee Francis's poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors - faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The listener who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed by the enduring power of her work.

In direct response to the lasting negative effects of the Bush administration, Beat Me Sweetly, Heavy Jesus portrays a United States misrun by a series of Bush clones, each more degraded than the last, anchoring a destructive and self-fellating government which more closely resembles a monarchy. Cast into dismal times are Joe and Sam, men who struggle to survive within the new economy of the reign of President Bush VIII.

Duncan Rose hustles his way through life, taking advantage of the foolish and overindulged. His weapon of choice - a deck of cards. Despite the dangers, he uses his skills with sleight-of-hand tricks to cheat at poker and tilt life in his favor. But when Duncan steps through a strange door and emerges in the Depression-ravaged world of 1934, he discovers a dark underworld of magicians and card cheats who use their skills simply to survive another day.