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Après avoir défié toute l'armée rebelle pour couvrir la retraite du haut roi, j'ai fini par me rendre. Qu'est-ce qu'un captif, sinon un demi-mort ? Dans les deux camps, on le méprise pour sa faiblesse. Même si on ne le massacre pas de suite, on lui ôte l'essentiel de sa vie. Moi, on me retire mon mauvais cheval, on me soustrait mes dernières armes, on m'arrache mes bijoux, on m'entraîne vers la rivière avec rudesse. Je patauge bientôt sur la rive boueuse.

SEA STORIES tells the entire tale. You will find excerpts of some of the most famous nautical stories of all time. Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!

When Jean Stoffer’s husband announced he was quitting his extremely stressful job to look for another career, she suddenly needed to bring in a lot more of the family income. The problem was, while she had a degree in business, her part-time job paid very little and she had few obvious options for earning more anytime soon. In Establishing Home, Jean tells how necessity sparked her journey from part-time receptionist to founder of an award-winning home design company and star of the Magnolia Network’s show, The Established Home.

When we look at the incredible feats of engineering that our ancestors were able to achieve, it leaves us in awe. Not just because these structures are beautiful and shrouded in mystery, but because they were constructed on a scale we can't comprehend, thousands of years ago.

Jean Hanson has raised three teenagers and she has seen it all. However, through specific tactics explained in this book, she successfully managed to nurture her relationships with her teens into ones filled with love, respect, and effective communication.

Rousseau érige dans cet ouvrage un système entier d'éducation, loin des conventions sociales et des dogmes religieux : l'Église jusqu'alors détentrice du monopole en matière d'éducation, condamne l'auteur à la prise de corps ; l'ouvrage est brûlé en place public, fustigé par ses ennemis philosophes... Un ouvrage, toujours d'actualité, loin des caricatures dont on le pare sans même parfois, l'avoir lu...

Il n'y a qu'un seul roman - et nous en sommes à la fois les auteurs et les personnages : l'Histoire. Tout le reste est imitation, copie, fragments épars, balbutiements. C'est l'Histoire que revisite ce roman-monde où, tantôt homme, tantôt femme, le narrateur vole d'époque en époque et ressuscite sous nos yeux l'aventure des hommes et leurs grandes découvertes. Vivant de cueillette et de chasse dans une nature encore vierge, il parvient, après des millénaires de marche, sur les bords du Nil où se développent l'agriculture et l'écriture.

Mai 1193. En l'absence de Richard Cœur de Lion, emprisonné, et avec la complicité du prince Jean, éternel félon, Philippe Auguste, roi de France, tente de s'approprier la Normandie. Au même moment, deux de ses plus proches chevaliers sont assassinés avec des carreaux d'arbalète gravés d'une licorne. Sur ces entrefaites, Guilhem d'Ussel arrive dans Paris qui foisonne de jolies dames.

A crazy vampire has stolen my librarian. And if that’s not bad enough, it is my fault. Because I, too, am an ancient, deadly vampire, and it was my job to protect her. I failed. Now, just as I have reason to hope I will get her back, the situation turns into the biggest mystery of my existence. Apparently, this evil vampire has brainwashed her into thinking she belongs with him. I do not know how. I do not know why. But I will get to the bottom of this and win her back.

Explore the fascinating, mysterious, and sometimes dangerous world of Pentecostal & Charismatic Christianity, with host and creator Tara Jean Stevens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jean Pierre de Caussade's accounts in this work present the case that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it, and its needs, is a holy state. In the theological climate of France at the time, this belief was considered close to Quietist heresy. In fact, because of this fear, the work was kept unpublished until 1861.

1780 : La France, venue prêter main forte aux insurgés américains en guerre contre l'Angleterre, peine à financer ses opérations maritimes. Et à Paris, la colère gronde. C'est alors que Nicolas Le Floch est appelé pour enquêter sur la mort suspecte d'un ancien contrôleur général de la marine. Que dissimule cet apparent accident domestique ? Que redoutent le roi, Sartine et Necker pour s'intéresser autant à l'affaire ?

Handsome, charming Conor O’Shea has had enough of driving and guiding tours of Ireland. So when an opportunity to renovate and run the magnificent but rundown Castle Dysert as a five-star resort presents itself, he grabs it with both hands. But problems arise almost immediately when his business partner appears to have more on her agenda than just business.

When Anastasia’s beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with ‘the Aunt’ – too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with two servants and an unruly pack of dogs. The many mysteries of Skimpole are irresistibly intriguing: how did Anastasia’s father really die? Who wrote the extremely raunchy love letters she has found in the Aunt’s bedroom, signed ‘Big Willy’? And why does everyone in the village hate the Aunt so much?

Au coeur du véritable Bureau des Légendes. Voici, pour la première fois, une enquête complète sur la Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), théâtre de la fameuse série "Le Bureau des légendes". La DGSE n'a qu'un but : défendre les intérêts de la France. Pour cela, la loi l'autorise à "entraver" clandestinement, à l'étranger, les ennemis de notre pays.

Dr. Richard Buckley returns home to his wife and beloved hometown of Dunderrig, weary and heart-sick over the horror and pointlessness of The Great War. Soon, trouble is coming from all sides—Richard’s unhappy wife leaves Dunderrig, and a Nazi occupied Europe marches steadily closer to home. In the blink of an eye, the peace he’d craved and enjoyed since his days on the battlefield are gone. Meantime, James and Juliet come of age in a world on the brink of chaos, where the remnants of rebellion at home have snowballed into the horrors of yet another world war.

For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland has made numerous bids for her freedom but now, at last, liberation from British rule is tantalisingly close, if the men and women of the revolution can just hold on.

An uplifting study of the scientific evidence for the afterlife from an experienced anesthesiologist/intensive-care physician.

Being popular in the college music scene doesn’t solve all your problems; at least that’s what the hot musicians of indie band Luminescent Juliet discover. In this compelling novel, trouble begins when 18-year-old Riley, trying to regain her rhythm after throwing away her percussion scholarship to a top school, wins an audition to become the band’s new drummer. This sets her on a collision course with Romeo, the band’s sexy dark-haired guitarist, whose ambitions do not include performing with a girl.

Kate Ellis learnt the hard way that falling in love with the wrong man could be your undoing. It was nine years ago that she fell for the charms of Freddie Ellis, only to discover his criminal ways. With her husband in prison, Kate has fought hard to give her two children everything they could need. But now Freddie is back and threatens to destroy everything she has worked for. Captain Jonathan Quinn has resigned from the army after the needless death of too many of his men.