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In 19th-century France, 16,000 hectares of vineyard spread across Lower Corrèze. Count Firmin de Janelles rules over Chantegrêle. The Madelbos and Pierrebrune families detest one another, and the advent of Napoleon III awakens the hostilities between the village Bonapartists and Republicans. Meanwhile the count is in financial ruin because of a devastating insect ravaging the vineyards.

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed 20th-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

During the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they return as partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday crimes in a world gone mad with war. In February 1943, Alsace is unrecognizable - an occupied country where speaking French is all it takes to lose one’s freedom.

He thought it was a game.... He thought no one would get hurt.... He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit.... He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning.... He thought it was just another victim, just another mark.... He thought he could do his job without turning the entire city against him.... He was wrong. A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms world - The Rogues.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, downtown Manhattan was a hotbed of creative life where artists and writers were free to explore ideas and push boundaries. As a young man, celebrated author and playwright Joseph Caldwell arrived from Milwaukee to become one of the original pioneers of New York's gay bohemian community. In this charming, brutally candid memoir, Caldwell describes his tenure working at the venerated classical music station WQXR, marching in civil protests and being arrested, his evolution as a writer, and his many accomplished acquaintances.

Des attaques terroristes visent les symboles religieux de l’Occident - à Montréal, l’oratoire Saint-Joseph est touché -, des écoterroristes s’en prennent à des scientifiques du domaine agroalimentaire... Qui a intérêt à attiser les conflits religieux? Qui peut profiter d’un terrorisme qui menace la survie même du genre humain? Guru Gizmo Gaïa, la nouvelle coqueluche d’Internet, annonce que la Terre va sévir contre cette humanité qui la ravage.

1996. Pour avoir démantelé Body Store, une organisation internationale de trafic d’organes, John Paul Hurtubise a subi de terribles représailles: ses enfants ont été «vidés» de tous leurs organes et ses proches, menacés de mort.

Normalement, les cadavres ne sourient pas. Et ils n'ont pas l'air aussi heureux. Pas après avoir reçu deux balles dans la tête. D'où la perplexité de l'inspecteur-chef Dufaux... Sans parler des écoterroristes de Vert Demain, en guerre contre les producteurs d'or, qu'ils veulent éliminer de la surface de la planète. Et comme si les choses n'étaient pas suffisamment compliquées, il y a les étranges persécutions qui viennent pourrir la vie de Dufaux. Il y a ce mystérieux Roy Fisher, qui a l'air de sortir de nulle part.

Pendant qu'au Québec l'Église de la Réconciliation Universelle recrute secrètement des personnalités influentes, à Ottawa, un nouveau parti politique, l'Alliance progressiste-libérale et démocratique, veut prendre le pouvoir afin de maintenir l'unité du pays et de garantir la sécurité du territoire. Or, la campagne électorale québécoise est marquée par une violence ethnique et linguistique sans précédent, ce qui fait craindre le pire à la population et fournit de l'eau au moulin de l'APLD.

Weaving together three unique voices, My October is a masterful tale of a modern family torn apart by the power of language and the weight of history. Spare and insightful, Claire Holden Rothman's new novel explores the fascinating and sometimes shocking consequences of words left unsaid.

Un bain. Du sang. Un cadavre qui baigne dans le sang… Beaucoup de sang. Beaucoup trop pour une seule personne. D’où vient tout ce sang? Où sont les autres corps? Pourquoi le bain est-il exposé dans une vitrine? Au cours de son enquête, l’inspecteur Henri Dufaux croisera notamment des trafiquants d’êtres humains, un mafieux pianiste et philosophe, un ministre adepte de galipettes thaïlandaises, une psychanalyste gentiment sarcastique et un producteur porno qui veut sauver l’Occident....

À la controversée époque de l'Union nationale de Maurice Duplessis, le petit Armand, cinq ans, est placé avec sa sœur chez des étrangers sur une ferme à Saint-Augustin de Mirabel. Bien qu'il fut, et restera toujours, un petit garçon de la ville, il a la chance de vivre avec des gens aimants, qui n'avaient pour but que de faire un beau geste et de se créer une famille bien à eux.

La canicule fait rage à Montréal. Une série de meurtres menace la sécurité des habitants de la métropole. Deux détectives sont aux prises avec un passé qui ne veut pas se laisser oublier. Comme si ce n'était pas assez, le mécontentement étudiant s'est transformé en bruyante dissidence populaire. L'été est chaud... au sens propre et figuré. Avant la fin du mois de juillet, plusieurs atteindront leur point de rupture et verront leur vie changée à jamais.

After escaping Kings Hollow, Julien, in an effort to keep his family whole, denies the emotional and physical scars that came back with them. His wife, Rachael, is tormented by their little girl, Jessica, who now shows signs of possessing the same dangerous gifts as Sarah. Rachael is terrified to be alone with the child she once desperately wished for and decides to end it all.

When Louis, a magnetic 40-something musician searching for true love, meets Francine, a young divorcée who immediately falls for him, everything seems simple. However, even though Louis is a widower, he needs the approval of his meddling twin sister, Alix, and his troubled adolescent son, Frédéric. What's more, Francine happens to be Frédéric's French teacher and the mother of a boy he hates

David and Gaspard are cousins bonded not only by blood but by an allegiance to their shared winemaking heritage. Breaking with tradition and moving their vineyards near Bordeaux threatens to upset the family - and that's only the beginning of their troubles. Short on funding, the two are forced to team up with a wealthy but morally bankrupt engineer - an alliance that may come at too high a price.

Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes, restaurants, and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of the equation. But the city's allure derives equally from hidden sources: querulous inhabitants, a bizarre culture of heroic negativity, and a rich historical past supplying enigmas, pleasures, and challenges.

At the age of nine Julien Grenier witnessed the brutal murder of his grandfather. Now, at forty-five, he continues to be plagued by horrific nightmares of that tragic event. Julien has recreated himself, building emotional walls that even his young wife cannot penetrate. Julien is a good man with a heart of gold, enabling his wife, Rachael, to turn a blind eye to his tightly-kept secrets. But after a home invasion assault leaves Rachael emotionally unstable and destroys their care-free and content world, they relocate to a safer environment with the hope of a fresh start.

Gerbert was a farmer's son in an obscure town in France, but his gifts of mind and intellect were so remarkable that even in the feudal world of the tenth century, he could rise far above his station. Princes and prelates courted him; emperors called him friend and teacher. He brought the lost art of mathematics back into Europe; he was an astronomer, a musician, a builder of strange and wonderful devices. In the end he reached the pinnacle of the world, a seat so lofty and an authority so great that he answered only to God Himself. But Gerbert was more than a simple professor of the mathematical arts, or even a prince of the Church.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, French Jesuits erected a mission deep in the uncharted Canadian wilderness, till they were brutally murdered by a band of renegade Iroquois.Or so the legends say. Today Ste-Claire College stands near the legendary massacre site, the mission's memory now more folklore than fact. Then Ste-Claire professor Karl Desbiens, who's soon to be a Jesuit priest himself, sets off to locate the mission ruins along with a group of eager college students. But after ten days of searching, they find nothing...until an old world evil is uncovered.