Traduko de humura rakontpoemo de Puŝkino, inspirita de la Ŝekspira poemo . Komence Puŝkino volis parodii la verkon de Ŝekspiro («Kio okazus, se Lukrecia estus doninta vangofrapon al Tarkvinio?»); sed rezultus la unua realisma poemo rusa.<

This is the last book in the series.

Take my hand, my love.

On sinews of air we tread

Aught but distance our guide

With no tempo to our gait

No endpoint drawn

Neither plot nor plan

By the thorns of a compass rose

We bound toward the horizon

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In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound - a hunt in full cry. Persued by a drunken mob, the quarry is running for its life. When the frantic creature bursts into the nave to claim sanctuary, Brother Cadfael finds himself fighting off armed townsmen to save a terrified young man. Accused of robbery and murder is Liliwin, a wandering minstrel who performed at the wedding of a local goldsmith's son. The cold light of morning, however, will show his supposed victim, the miserly craftsman, still lives, although a strongbox lies empty. Brother Cadfael believes Liliwin is innocent, but finding the truth and the treasure before Liliwin's respite in sanctuary runs out may uncover a deadlier sin than thievery - a desperate love that nothing, not even the threat of hanging, can stop.<

It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred…and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction…and who alone knows the source of her very bizarre—and very deadly—abilities: an isolated strip of swampland called Elysium.

An accomplished surgeon, Niquette’s father dreamed of transforming the dense acreage surrounded by murky waters into a palatial compound befitting the name his beloved wife gave to it, Elysium: “the final resting place for the heroic and virtuous.” Then, ten years ago, construction workers dug into a long-hidden well, one that snaked down into the deep, black waters of the Louisiana swamp and stirred something that had been there for centuries—a microscopic parasite that perverts the mind and corrupts the body.

Niquette is living proof that things done can’t be undone. Nothing will put her family back together again. And nothing can save her. But as Niquette, Ben, and Anthem uncover the truth of a devastating parasite that has the potential to alter the future of humankind, Niquette grasps the most chilling truths of all: someone else has been infected too. And unlike her, this man is not content to live in the shadows. He is intent to use his newfound powers for one reason only: revenge.

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In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil's Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.<

Patrick Norris has seen the worst that Afghanistan has to offer — punishing heat, bitter cold, and buddies blown away by bombs and snipers. He returns home exhilarated by his new freedom and eager to realize his dream of a sport fishing business. But the avocado ranch his family has owned for generations in the foothills of San Diego has been destroyed by a massive wildfire and the parents he loves are facing ruin. Patrick’s dream will have to wait.

His brother, Ted, worships Patrick and yearns for his approval. Gentle by nature but tormented by strange fixations and dark undercurrents, Ted is drawn into a circle of violent, criminal misfits. His urgent quest to prove himself threatens to put those he loves in peril.

Patrick falls in love with Iris, a beautiful and unusual woman, who seems strong enough to help see Patrick through his re-entry from the war. But Ted’s plan for redemption goes terribly wrong. Desperate to find his brother and salvage what remains of his family, Patrick must make an agonizing choice.

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When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory Beckett's motives come into question and the case takes on darkly sinister complexities.

Cory lied to Nameless about her livelihood, her relationship with Vorhees, her brother's alleged drug use, and the nature of his alleged crime. Not only is she Andrew Vorhees’ mistress, Cory has a secret second lover, factory owner Frank Chaleen, with whom she conspired to frame Kenneth. This bizarre sibling betrayal is part of a diabolical plan that reveals her to be a deadly, designing woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her warped desires.

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Moi, vous ne me connaissez pas encore, mais ça ne va pas tarder. Je m’appelle Estéban Lehydeux, mais je suis plus connu sous le nom de Requiem. Je suis curé, ça vous en bouche un coin ?

Oubliez tout ce que vous savez sur les prêtres classiques, je n’ai rien à voir avec eux, d’autant que j’ai un truc en plus : je suis exorciste. Je chasse les démons.

Bon pas tous, parce que je dois d’abord gérer les miens, surtout quand ils font du 95 D, qu’ils dandinent du prose et qu’ils ont des yeux de biche.

Chasser le diable et ses comparses n’est pas de tout repos, je ne vous raconte pas. Enfin si, dans ce livre.

Ah, un dernier détail : Dieu pardonne, moi pas…

L'individu qui se cache derrière le pseudonyme de Stanislas Petrosky est français et vit en Normandie, à quelques kilomètres du Havre. Sa profession, thanatopracteur, n'est probablement pas pour rien dans son goût pour le crime et l'humour… noir. Cet auteur atypique voue un culte immodéré à Frédéric Dard. Sa plume est trempée dans la même encre. Résultat, on se passionne, on se gondole, on frémit, bref on se régale. La preuve c'est Nadine Monfils, la mère de Mémé Cornemuse et d'Evis Cadillac qui signe la préface.

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Une rumeur assassine s’en prend à l’innocence d’une famille.

La violence des trafics mobilise Stups et Crim’ au-delà des frontières, dans le secret d’enquêtes mettant à l’honneur des tempéraments policiers percutants, parfois rebelles, toujours passionnés.

En France et à l'étranger, Pierre Pouchairet a vécu les procédures, les ambiances et les « milieux » qui inspirent ses romans. Dans ses livres éclate une vérité qui dépasse l'imagination, la vérité d'une vie engagée…

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Former Marine sniper and current NSA agent Jack Stone has a new face to go with his new identity. But he still has the same tortured memories—which include the woman he let get away years ago, when they were teenagers. Now his new assignment in Miami will put him so close to the woman he’s never been able to forget, he could reach out and touch her—if only she weren’t under suspicion.

When Sophie Moreno uncovers evidence linking the medical supply company she works for with arms smuggling—and worse—she doesn’t know who to turn to. After a shocking betrayal, she realizes the only person she can trust is a mysterious new person in the company—a man with hauntingly familiar eyes.

As Sophie questions her intense attraction to this man and Jack struggles not to blow his cover, the two of them must race against the clock to stop terrorists from killing scores of people—starting with them.

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Ma plus jeune sœur Verdun est née toute hurlante dans , mon neveu est né orphelin dans , mon fils Monsieur Malaussène est né de deux mères dans le roman qui porte son nom, ma nièce Maracuja est née de deux pères dans . Les voici adultes dans un monde on ne peut plus explosif, où ça mitraille à tout va, où l’on kidnappe l’affairiste Georges Lapietà, où Police et Justice marchent la main dans la main sans perdre une occasion de se faire des croche-pieds, où la Reine Zabo, éditrice avisée, règne sur un cheptel d’écrivains addicts à la vérité vraie quand tout le monde ment à tout le monde.

Tout le monde sauf moi, bien sûr. Moi, pour ne pas changer, je morfle.

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A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea’s ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation’s territory by another since World War II.

Pleshakov illustrates how the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine is a clash of incompatible world views. To the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is a country struggling for self-determination in the face of Russia’s imperial nostalgia. To Russia, Ukraine is a “sister nation,” where NATO expansionism threatens its own borders. In Crimea itself, the native Tatars are Muslims who are vehemently opposed to Russian rule. Engagingly written and bracingly nonpartisan, Pleshakov’s book explains the missteps made on all sides to provide a clear, even-handed account of a major international crisis.

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D’ à , Bernard Pivot est une figure incontournable du petit écran, et l’une des personnalités les plus populaires de France. Ses précédents ouvrages, publiés chez Albin Michel, (2004), (2008) et (2011) ont rencontré un immense succès.

Bernard Pivot est membre de l’académie Goncourt.

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Grâce aux tweets, ces messages qui ne peuvent dépasser 140 signes, Bernard Pivot a redécouvert le plaisir de faire court. Ainsi, avec humour, fantaisie et pertinence, a-t-il écrit une sorte de journal très personnel constitué d'observations, de réflexions, d’aphorismes et de citations, que découvrent chaque matin ses 100.000 abonnés du réseau Twitter.<

Sur un îlot perdu de l'Atlantique sud, deux hommes barricadés dans un phare repoussent les assauts de créatures à la peau froide. Ils sont frères par la seule force de la mitraille, tant l'extravagante culture humaniste de l'un le dispute au pragmatisme obtus de l'autre. Mais une sirène aux yeux d'opale ébranle leur solidarité belliqueuse.

Comme les grands romanciers du XIX siècle dont il est nourri — Conrad, Lovecraft ou Stevenson —, l'auteur de La Peau froide mêle aventure, suspense et fantastique. Et, dans la droite lignée de ses prédécesseurs, c'est l'étude des contradictions et des paradoxes du comportement humain qui fonde ce roman, véritable jeu de miroir aux espaces métaphoriques.

Les protagonistes pensent être au « cœur des ténèbres » quand les ténèbres sont dans leur cœur. Civilisation contre barbarie, raison contre passion, lumière contre obscurité : autant de pôles magnétiques qui s'attirent et se repoussent dans une histoire parfaitement cyclique, car l'homme toujours obéit aux mêmes craintes, aux mêmes désirs ataviques. Et depuis la nuit des temps, c'est, à la vérité, la peur de l'autre — plutôt que l'autre — qui constitue la plus dangereuse des menaces, le plus monstrueux des ennemis.

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Sera Sinclaire is a New Orleans rarity: a submissive coyote trapped in a town overrun by dominant shapeshifters. Worse, she lacks the willpower to deny the alphas-in-shining-armor who need her soothing presence, even when their protectiveness threatens to crush her hard-won self-reliance.

The only shifter she doesn’t want to push away is Julio Mendoza, a wolf so dominant he’s earned a place on the Southeast council.

Julio doesn’t have the luxury of indulging in the vacation his psychic shrink insists he needs. He can't turn his back on responsibilities he’s beginning to wish he’d never shouldered. When an obsessive ex endangers Sera, though, instinct drives him to get her out of town. Watching her come to life outside the city makes him feel like he's finally done something right, and her touch ignites desire he doesn’t want to ignore.

But soon, lighthearted flirting becomes a dangerous game of seduction, where every day spent falling into each other is another day avoiding the truth. Sera's ex isn't the only one who’d disapprove of their relationship. There are wolves who would kill to get Sera out of Julio's life—starting with his own blood kin.

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