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Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 – New York Times Bestseller. "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller... Challenger is a remarkable book." – The Atlantic. "Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." – The New York Times. "Dramatic...a moving narrative." – The Wall Street Journal.

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick. A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked – yet hugely influential – figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting. Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power.

Nicknamed "the most beautiful woman in Alaska," 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairbanks businessman, had been shot dead, and she claimed they were the victims of a brutal home invasion. Blonde, glamorous, and 20 years younger than Cecil, police were immediately suspicious of Diane's account, and the investigation soon turned toward her alleged lover, black musician Johnny Warren, who had left town the night of the murder.

A triumphant, uplifting true justice story led by jury trial expert Richard A. Sprague – the indomitable, nationally renowned prosecutor who engaged in the most intense manhunt investigation in police history. Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse.

The Washington Post's Top Ten Notable Books of the Year – Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize – Shortlisted for Prix Fémina Étranger – Longlisted for Prix Médicis. An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times. "Spectacular... A book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers." – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island.

Né en 1928 à Sighet en Transylvanie, Elie Wiesel était adolescent lorsqu'en 1944 il fut déporté avec sa famille à Auschwitz puis à Birkenau. La Nuit est le récit de ses souvenirs : la séparation d'avec sa mère et sa petite sœur qu'il ne reverra plus jamais, le camp où avec son père il partage la faim, le froid, les coups, les tortures... et la honte de perdre sa dignité d'homme quand il ne répondra pas à son père mourant.

De l'âge de pierre à la résurgence des populismes actuels en passant par la Bible, la chasse aux sorcières et le nazisme, l'historien explore la manière dont les sociétés et les systèmes politiques ont utilisé l'information pour atteindre leurs objectifs et imposer l'ordre. À l'heure de l'intelligence artificielle, il invite à réfléchir à la relation complexe entre l'information et la vérité.

New York Times Bestseller – A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker – The Atlantic – NPR – Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. "Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny's trademark wry humor and idealism...

#1 New York Times bestseller — The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). "A feast of historical insight and narrative verve. This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller." — The Wall Street Journal — A Parade best book of the year. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president.

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather — often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America. On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed.