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"Gripping and breathless, Into the Sublime is equal parts terrifying, claustrophobic, psychological, and cunning." —Wendy Heard, author of She's Too Pretty to Burn and Dead End Girls. A new YA psychological thriller from Kate A. Boorman, author of What We Buried, about four teenage girls who descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a lake of local legend, said to reveal your deepest fears. When the cops arrive, only a few things are clear: - Four girls entered a dangerous cave. - Three of them came out alive. - Two of them were rushed to the hospital.

'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death...' Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away; the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end; the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams; the spy who recounts a dangerous mission from beyond the grave.

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching "that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky." He prowls the foggy city night-bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out-seeking solitary young women.

Elle aurait dû mourir. Il donnerait sa vie pour elle. Il a suffi d'une seconde, d'un regard, pour que la vie d'Alexandra bascule à jamais. Elle seule a vu le visage du Collectionneur, le tueur en série qui tient en échec l'ensemble des polices européennes, et échappé à sa folie meurtrière. Depuis, elle est sa proie, et chaque jour, la mort la talonne d'un peu plus près.

The book Hanaway is about resistance and survival. It is about character transformation and cultural confusion. It is about the state of First Nations in total institutions. The author, Edmund Metatawabin, Ten Sunrises to the English, grew up in the natural environment for the first seven years of his life. Life then was full of exploration, laughter and storytelling. It was a quiet lull before the gathering storm. At seven years of age the author was registered at St. Anne's Residential School located in Fort Albany where he was to be incarcerated for eight years.

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series. For two secret agents, there's no such thing as a quiet life in the countryside. In a peaceful Kent village, Mr. Behrens lives with his aunt at the Old Rectory, where he plays chess and keeps bees. His friend Mr. Calder lives nearby with Rasselas, a golden deerhound of unnatural intelligence.

Au printemps 1976, s'arrachant à sa retraite jamaïquaine, Cimballi a une idée : il ne s'agit plus de gagner quelques millions de dollars, mais d'accéder à la Fortune, la vraie. Une nouvelle vient d'éclater comme un coup de tonnerre dans le ciel bleu de Las Vegas. À l'autre bout des États-Unis, le New Jersey autorise les jeux à Atlantic City. Et Cimballi décide d'y fonder "son" casino : l'Éléphant-Blanc. Il entre dans le monde des maîtres du jeu, monde infiniment dangereux et secret. Quelles sont les lois à respecter ?

A renowned doctor’s quest to find the source of—and a cure for—his daughter’s sudden illness leads him into the heart of a lethal mystery in this “brilliant” (Associated Press) novel from the #1 bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times). “A passionate, riveting, chilling drama.”—Cosmopolitan Dr. Charles Martel, a brilliant cancer researcher, was forced to stand helplessly by as his first wife died slowly, agonizingly of cancer.

"L'autre reine du crime", Le Monde. Londres, 1911. La famille Barnabas, à la tête d'une prestigieuse maison d'édition, subit un premier coup du sort lorsque l'un des neveux du fondateur, Tom Barnabas, s'évapore en pleine rue, sans laisser de trace. Vingt ans plus tard, c'est un autre neveu, Paul Brande, qui disparaît dans des circonstances tout aussi mystérieuses. Son corps est retrouvé peu de temps après dans la salle des archives de la maison. Les regards se tournent alors vers les cousins des victimes, les seuls à tirer profit de la mort de Paul.

Dans une France en guerre contre elle-même, deux hommes sombres poursuivent une vengeance au long cours. La violence de leur idée fixe va renverser d'autres destins, puissants, infortunés, des dalles de la banlieue parisienne jusqu'au cœur de l'État. « Où avez-vous l'intention de faire sauter vos bombes ? - Je vous demande pardon ? - Les cinq bombes. Paris piégé. Dawa al-Islamiya », ajoute l'homme en arabe, avec un parfait accent constantinois qui lui glace le sang. « Qui êtes-vous ?