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Goliath Cave is a vast cave system but when reports of missing cavers reach Midas's ears, he knows he has to investigate the strange place. A strange old man named Jonas makes a heartfelt plea about yet another missing visitor to Goliath Cave. Equipped with everything he needs, including Butch who has hundreds of hours logged in for climbing. Midas take the Gulf Coast Paranormal Team to the heart of Alabama, and one of its most beautiful cave systems. But what waits in the shadows may be something much older than a few ghostly miners.

Dernier épisode de la magnifique saga Des grives aux loups. 1987, Saint-Libéral. Cette " terre ", Jacques Vialhe la porte dans son cœur, à bout de bras. Or si les bras résistent, le cœur, lui, fatigue. Des années d'efforts l'ont usé, la bureaucratie aussi. L'exploitation, grâce à Dominique, son fils agronome, a su prendre les virages qui s'imposaient. Mais Dominique est loin, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, à la tête d'un grand cheptel... Et la relève n'est pas assurée. Dans le village fantôme, la terre, éternelle, attend.

Si l’orage de la Grande Guerre est passé loin de Saint-Libéral, le sillon qu’elle a laissé n’en est pas moins profond. Le vieux monde a disparu. Les paysans n’en sont plus. Jean-Edouard Vialhe lui-même, le têtu patriarche, en convient. C’est à son fils, et à ses petits-enfants, de composer avec la modernité. Une modernité faite de nouvelles saignées, de nouveaux défits, de nouvelles misères. Car ce que prend la terre, la terre ne le rend pas toujours ....

Jacques Vialhe s'échine sur l'exploitation familiale. Dominique, son fils, ingénieur agronome en Afrique, ne parle pas de prendre la relève. La petite Jo est partie faire le tour du monde au bras d'un photographe... Seul Jean, le fils de Guy, rêve de devenir éleveur et de travailler la terre de ses ancêtres... Qu'adviendra-t-il de Saint-Libéral lorsque Pierre-Edouard et Mathilde auront fermé les yeux, et que Jacques, épuisé, aura rendu les armes ?

Leah Jones used to love her life. Now, she can barely get out of bed in the morning. She's still shaken by the sudden loss of her parents, and her older brother is the only person she has left to keep her from falling into an emotional abyss. But as he prepares to move across the country for work, soon he'll be gone too, and Leah will have no one. Axel Nguyen is her brother's best friend, and the natural person to turn to.

Des grives aux loups est le premier volet de la grande suite romanesque de Claude Michelet, qui a touché plus de cinq millions de lecteurs. Saint-Libéral, petit village de Corrèze, début du XXe siècle. Dans la neige crissent trois paires de sabots. Les enfants relèvent les collets. Sept grives ! C'est un beau butin. Qu'à l'approche des loups il faudra leur abandonner... Ce qu'il faut laisser derrière soi, déjà, pour survivre !

Bloomsbury presents A Cold Spell by Max Leonard, read by Tom Lawrence. Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet 'A...

Könnten Schauspielerei oder Musikhören helfen, Ihr Englisch zu verbessern? Machen Sie in der Ausgabe 7/23 von "Spotlight Audio" Bekanntschaft mit einer Sprachwissenschaftlerin, die vom Spracherwerb durch diese Kunstformen überzeugt ist. Außerdem in dieser Ausgabe: Besuchen Sie die englische Grafschaft Suffolk und erkunden Sie die hübschen Dörfer dort. Die Amateurdetektivin Dorothy Winslow kehrt zurück, um in einer dreiteiligen Kurzgeschichte wieder einmal ein Geheimnis zu lüften. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".

The Limerick family began experiencing paranormal activity in the 1870s right after their unique mansion was built. Clive Limerick reported witnessing objects soaring across rooms, hearing disembodied laughter, and crying. Other members of the family reported seeing red eyes staring into the house from the windows. Even the ones on the second floor. Food was thrown from plates and utensils twisted into unusable shapes. A headless skeleton stalked the property and rumor has it, it was responsible for the missing Limerick children.

Since the 1970s, Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning novels and short fiction featuring Matthew Scudder. Now, with both himself and his detective half a century older, the author found himself charged with writing a book about his protagonist. And he decided he wasn’t the right person for the job.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the Leacock Medal of Humour One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024 A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning...

ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river. And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux.

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Her deceit discovered, Faraine finds herself trapped in the Shadow Realm at the mercy of her new husband. She’s surrounded by enemies, far from any allies, and her best bet for survival is to convince Vor to send her home. But to do so means to give up on the alliance—which would spell disaster for her people.

Entdecken Sie Londons dunkle Geschichte über Verbrechen und Strafmethoden in der Ausgabe 5/2023 von "Spotlight Audio". Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe: Im Sprachteil können Sie den Wortschatz für einen Theaterabend üben und in English at Work die wichtigsten Redewendungen für eine Besucherführung durch Ihrem Arbeitsplatz lernen... Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".

One drop of blood for a chance at a multimillion-dollar windfall. Is it a philanthropic gesture from a billionaire widow? Some suspect a darker motive behind the DNA lottery—one tied to the eighteen-year-old mystery of an infant’s unidentified remains that mars the history of idyllic Rosemary Hills, Iowa. Right after the blood lottery is announced, three local women fall under suspicion of knowing something about that night, and their carefully kept secrets threaten to spill out too.

For as long as she can remember, Doric has felt alone. Abandoned by her human parents, she wandered for years before being taken in by a community of Neverwinter Woods elves. But her horns and tail proclaim a tiefling heritage, and even among the kindest of elves, her fledgling druidic abilities mark her as different from the rangers around her. And as humans begin to encroach farther and farther into the once pristine woods, Doric knows she needs to master her druidic capabilities if she is to be any help to her adopted family.

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In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out. 

The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows, watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen.