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"Voir un lien entre la pollution de l'air, la biodiversité et la covid-19 relève du surréalisme, pas de la science !", affirmait Luc Ferry en mars 2020, accusant les écologistes de "récupération politique". Voilà un philosophe bien mal informé. Car, depuis les années 2000, des centaines de scientifiques tirent la sonnette d'alarme : les activités humaines, en précipitant l'effondrement de la biodiversité, ont créé les conditions d'une "épidémie de pandémies".

After a vacation in Baja, Mark and Sarah decide to experiment with a little innocent ("tie me up") sensual play, and Mark, wanting their initiation to have the perfect beginning, brings Sarah a custom-made gift wrapped in an unusual vintage box. It's not long before the two realize that they risk crossing a dangerous boundary of trust and desire as hidden, tantalizing secrets and appetites are exposed.

The day the second atomic bomb was dropped, Clabe and Leora Wilson’s postman brought a telegram to their acreage near Perry, Iowa. One son was already in the U.S. Navy before Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Four more sons worked with their father, tenant farmers near Minburn until, one by one, all five sons were serving their country in the military. Leora’s Letters is the compelling true account of a woman whose most tender hopes were disrupted by great losses. Yet she lived out four more decades with hope and resilience.

Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends, Alexei the Giant and Nikolai the dwarf, are different. That's why they are part of Peter the Great's Circus of Curiosities. But the Tzar is dead, and they must flee the Winter Palace. Guided by a special map, they set out across Russia running for their lives.

Secret of the Big Easy has plenty going that grabs the listener's attention and keeps it until the final word. The suspense surrounding the murders that Marie is seeing in her visions is really first rate. Add to that the mystery of why the murders are taking place and you have a first rate story. But that is just the tip of the iceberg with this story, because there is so much more going on.

George est radiologue, spécialité qu'il a choisie car il n'aime pas particulièrement le contact avec ses patients. Il a contribué à la création de l'iDoc, un smartphone qui permet d'ausculter en direct le patient, 24 heures sur 24, et de lui délivrer diagnostics et ordonnances. Un petit bijou, qui permettrait de réduire les coûts de santé aux USA de façon spectaculaire. Mais c'est trop beau pour être vrai. Quand, après sa petite amie, c'est son meilleur ami qui meurt sans raison, il se pose des questions.

Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, substance abuse, depression, a lack of confidence, and many other mental and physical ailments may be a result of childhood trauma you have endured. Uncovering, accepting, and healing this childhood trauma will allow you to let go of the pain, releasing yourself from the guilt, shame, and self-destruction you have been living with. This book will provide you with tools and strategies to heal your childhood trauma allowing you to live fully.

Elise Carmichael is a court sign-language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lipreading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator’s life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and that she must leave. Then she later sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed.

Deep in the gritty underbelly of New Orleans, psychologist Grayson Thibodeaux loses everything when his wife leaves him to climb her company’s corporate ladder. He buries himself in his job of creating mind-bending adventure games for businesses as team-building explorations. When his ex-wife’s company hires Grayson’s to create an elaborate game, he doesn’t see how things can get worse. Until she dies during the course of the game he created...making him the prime suspect for murder.

A transformative guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, partners, and family, based on the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy-Feely”) course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business “Carole Robin and David Bradford are masters at helping people...

Als Clay Jannon seinen Job als Webdesigner verliert, meldet er sich auf eine Stellenanzeige hin bei Mr. Penumbra, der in San Francisco eine alte, verstaubte Buchhandlung betreibt, die rund um die Uhr geöffnet ist. Clay übernimmt die Nachtschicht, und bald ist ihm klar, dass hier irgendetwas nicht stimmt: Die Kunden kaufen nichts, sondern leihen die Bücher nur aus, drei Stockwerke hohe Regale beherbergen riesige Folianten, die keine Texte beinhalten, sondern nur ellenlange Reihen aus Buchstaben.

Harper doesn’t want to return to Maryland to face the police. The mess she left behind makes her look guilty of the worst, but it’s too late to run again. Red is safe, and the authorities are waiting. At least Jack is by her side. Now that Jack knows the truth, his feelings for Harper are deeper than ever. He’s not about to leave her side, especially knowing a killer is after her. But Derrick is on their trail, and he’s come unhinged. And he may not be the biggest threat lurking.

An estimated one in four women and one in six men is abused by age 18, most often by someone they know. Most of these sexual assaults are never disclosed, much less reported to the police. No Secrets, No Lies demystifies the cultural taboos and social dynamics that keep Black families silent and enable abuse to continue for generations. Through compelling personal accounts from everyday people, Robin D. Stone, a sexual abuse survivor herself, illuminates the emotional, psychological and hidden consequences of remaining silent.

To have the job of your dreams and to be chosen among the others, it is necessary to know the secrets of the process of the interview and therefore, to have the right attitude. Too often, the failure comes from the lack of knowledge of the techniques and the lack of correct preparation. Even if you have failed sometimes, even if you think you can't do it, with this book, you can understand how to get the job of your dreams and don't miss precious opportunities.

Former Army MP Landry Parker fell into the recovery specialist role quite by accident - to help her ailing father. Now that she’s on her own, she is determined to prove herself and honor her family legacy. After being shot in the line of duty, former police officer Nickolai Baptiste became a recovery specialist, and he’s good at his job - maybe even the best. A potential client pits Landry and Nickolai against one another to find the Dutchman’s lost gold mine map that was stolen from her murdered husband, and the potential payday is too enticing to pass up.

The time for Eden's transformation and nuptials has arrived. Will he survive his sacrifice? Or will the power of immortality prove too great for him? Can him in Cara be joined in unholy matrimony? And where does this leave Rose?

If you enjoy realistic, faith-filled fiction, you want to visit Piercehaven.

Quinn never expected that her best friend’s courageous decision to be a single mother by choice would end up transforming her own life in this poignant novel from USA Today bestselling author Robin Wells. When Quinn Langston’s best friend unexpectedly passes away, Quinn embraces...

As featured on Radio 4's Book of the Week.
Meet Robin Cooper: inventor, part-time driving instructor, toffee addict, and compulsive letter writer. The year starts badly for Robin when he is fired from his office job for writing too many letters. He decides to start a diary to pass the time and to keep a record of his many inventions, including Aqua Choc, "The Chocolate Bar with the Refreshing and Delicious Water Centre". But life soon becomes much more complicated.

Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap - and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.