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Dakota Territory, 1867. The O’Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom’s lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive winter. “Wanted” posters appear everywhere. Enter any town, and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and river become their safe place, and when spring comes, their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them, and even in paradise, human nature makes its own trouble.

The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange...

Orphan Elizabeth Somers’ malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms - most notably its massive library. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family.

Volume one of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in 2009 by RTE. Volume one contains four collections published between 1966 and 1975: Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out and North.

Maintenant au poste de traite du lac Chamouchouane, à l’ombre des épinettes noires, Ange-Élisabeth Boucher de Montizambert se languit de retrouver ses amis et son fiancé. Mais il lui faudra d’abord vivre un temps au rythme des tambours sauvages. Marquée par la découverte de la véritable nature de son pays, elle revient à Québec, le cœur déchiré entre deux mondes. La jeune femme devra pourtant faire un choix. Et l’indépendance nouvellement acquise au cours de son voyage lui donnera tous les courages, même celui d’enfin déterminer son propre destin.