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A meditation on murder: A novel
Par Susan Juby. 2024
Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow…
content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby When Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgment. One of Cartier's fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit, where neither of them is particularly welcome. Then comes the terrible incident at the EDM nightclub that turns Cartier into a global pariah, at least according to social media. Helen hopes a period of simplicity and reflection and an internet detox will help Cartier find her true nature and maybe acquire some social graces. But Helen's job gets much harder when Cartier's friends show up at the lavish ranch where Cartier and Helen have retreated. Soon, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murdererA true account: Hannah masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself
Par Katherine Howe. 2023
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as…
one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself, Hannah must hunt down the treasure and change the tides. Meanwhile, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah's story together in 1930, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected back at her as she watches Hannah's transformation. At the center of Hannah Masury's account, however, lies a centuries-old mystery that Marian is determined to solve, just as Hannah may have been determined to take it to her grave. A True Account tells the unforgettable story of two women in different worlds, both shattering the rules of their own society and daring to risk everything to go out on their own accountLa frugalité du temps (GF #112e)
Par Sylvie Bérard. 2023
Nos banques de données généalogiques parmi les plus complètes et sophistiquées sur le marché nous permettent de vous offrir une…
expérience immersive dans votre histoire familiale. Voyez vos ancêtres s'animer devant vous. Observez comment ils vivaient. Interagissez avec eux... Passionnée de généalogie, Annick Paradis est intriguée par cette publicité aperçue sur l'un des sites de recherche qu'elle fréquente assidûment et elle décide de tenter l'expérience. Or, ces séances sont si stimulantes que, à chacun de ses retours, Annick trouve de plus en plus ennuyeux son emploi, de plus en plus distante sa compagne. Et que penser de ces pertes de mémoire qui l'accablent ?L'auberge maudite (Fais-toi peur #Un livre dont tu es le héros)
Par Kurt Martin. 2023
Tomber en panne dans la campagne profonde n'est jamais amusant. Surtout lorsqu'il n'y a qu'une vieille auberge pour nous accueillir…
et qu'elle est tenue par des personnes à l'allure étrange. Quand nos mères disparaissent mystérieusement au milieu de la nuit, nous paniquons avec ma sœur et mon cousin ! Pour les retrouver, on doit explorer chaque pièce de cet endroit lugubreHistoire populaire de l'amour au Québec, de la Nouvelle-France à la Révolution tranquille: 3, 1860 à 1960
Par Jean-Sébastien Marsan. 2019
Le Québec des années 1860 à 1960 a connu une série d'évolutions, de crises et de tensions. La province s'industrialisation,…
s'urbanise et se bureaucratise. Elle connaît une forte émigration vers les États-Unis, les premières féministes remportent leurs premières batailles malgré la criminalisation de l'avortement, une guerre mondiale éclate, suivie de l'effervescence des Années folles, de la Grande Dépression et d'une autre guerre mondiale... Apparaissent alors les fameux enterrements de vie de garçon, les showers, la commercialisation du mariage et la popularisation de l'automobile, du cinéma, de la radio et la télévision. La société québécoise évolue et bénéficie de constant progrès en matière d'hygiène, de médecine et de moyens de contraception. À l'approche de la Révolution tranquille, le Québec subit un décalage de plus criant avec le discours de l'Église : la population aspire maintenant à autre choseLa forêt des transparences: roman (Devenirs)
Par Pik-Shuen Fung. 2023
Au fil des tableaux adoptant tantôt sa perspective propre, tantôt celle de sa mère ou de sa grand-mère, la narratrice…
nous dépeint des relations familiales complexes, faites d'incompréhensions et de questions laissées en suspens. Du même souffle, elle cherche à apprivoiser la mort prochaine d'un père distant, qui a facilité l'émigration de sa famille vers le Canada depuis Hong Kong, tout en faisant le choix difficile de continuer à travailler dans son pays natal pour mieux subvenir à leurs besoins. "Famille astronaute", voilà comment la communauté nomme ce modèle de cellule familiale transnationaleThe cure for burnout: How to find balance and reclaim your life
Par Emily Ballesteros. 2024
&“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros&’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers…
eager to reclaim their time and energy.&”—Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you&’re in need of a cure for burnout. In The Cure for Burnout , burnout management coach and TikTok influencer Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research, her expertise in organizational psychology, and the tried-and-true strategies she&’s successfully implemented with clients around the globe to demystify burnout for our post-pandemic world – and set you on a path toward a life of personal and professional balance. Ballesteros outlines five areas in which you can build healthy habits to combat burnout — mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries , and stress management . She offers clear, easy-to-implement tools to help you find greater balance, energy, and fulfillment, showing you how to: • break burnout habits that keep you in a pattern of chronic overwhelm • create sustainable work/life balance through predictable personal care • get more done in less time while creating forward momentum toward a meaningful life • identify and set your personal and professional limits , guilt-free • master your stress and detach from your stressors The Cure for Burnout provides a holistic method for burnout management to address the epidemic of our always-on, chronically overextended culture, empowering us to reclaim control of our own lives once and for allThe mantis: A novel
Par Kotaro Isaka. 2023
From the bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive Thriller about a family man with a deadly…
secret life Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. Only the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional assassins, and Kabuto's final assignment puts him and his family—who have no idea about his double life—in danger. The third book in a loose trilogy set in Kotaro Isaka's imagined Tokyo criminal underworld, The Mantis features all the hallmarks of his work that listeners have come to crave—assassins with quirky codenames and modi operandi, action sequences, madcap energy, and razor-sharp humor—making the novel a frenetic audio experience that hurtles listeners toward a thrilling climaxÉquateur magnétique (Poèmes)
Par Kaie Kellough. 2023
Entre l'Amérique du Sud et celle du Nord, les poèmes de ce livre dérivent. Ils cherchent une ancestralité à Georgetown,…
au Guyana, dans la forêt amazonienne et dans l'Atlantique. Ils retournent aux années 1980, en banlieue de Calgary et dans les quartiers montréalais emmurés dans la neige post-référendaire. Ils rapiècent un langage précaire à l'aide des éléments de la nature, des catalogues de semences aux origines multiples et des écrits d'auteurices caribéen·nes et canadien·nes. Comme la traversée des vaisseaux noirs jusqu'à la terre ferme, ces poèmes se fraient un chemin dans ce monde et peinent à expliquer l'état d'une personne scindée en deux hémisphères. Présents dans un ici tout en portant les battements de l'ailleurs, les poèmes d'Équateur magnétique cartographient les distances parcouruesFederer, un mythe contemporain
Par Charles Haroche. 2021
Revenant sur la vie et la carrière de Roger Federer, l'auteur explique comment et pourquoi le tennisman est devenu un…
véritable mythe, convoquant au passage des références mythologiques, cinématographiques, religieuses, philosophiques, littéraires, artistiques ou psychologiquesL'élu: roman (Fiction)
Par Catherine Perreault. 2023
L'élu, c'est Éli, fils d'Isabelle. Avec le cœur qui menace d'imploser, cette dernière nous entraine dans ses nombreux deuils, à…
la poursuite du fils qu'elle perd entre un hôpital et un centre d'hébergement où il devra désormais vivre. Il n'est pas tout à fait comme les autres et son histoire se déplie à travers les mots que sa mère lui adresse avec entêtement, en sachant qu'il ne pourra jamais les lire ni les comprendre. Éli est autiste, et sa mère, une femme qui lutte sur tous les fronts avec rage et abnégation, mais surtout, avec un amour qui transcende toutDebout dans vos absences: roman
Par Mélanie Noël. 2023
Seulement une tortue sur 1000 atteindra l'âge adulte et des centaines mourront sans jamais avoir atteint la mer. La survie…
d'une espèce tient à une multitude de tous petits miracles. Dans les bars ou les demeures, combien d'histoires d'amour ne savent nager, laissant les humains s'échouer sur les rives du présent sans avoir fait naître la plus belle part d'eux ?La dame en rose: 2. Rivalités
Par Sylvie Gobeil. 2022
1934. Florence est dévastée par la trahison dont elle se sent la victime. Elle n'est pas femme à pardonner, ce…
que son frère apprendra à ses dépens. Quoi qu'il en soit, elle a un empire à bâtir et trop à faire pour se complaire dans la déception et le chagrin. Heureusement, elle peut compter sur une équipe solide ainsi que sur ses soeurs et sa nièce pour mener à bien son ascensionLiber mundi: roman / 2, Métacortex
Par Maurice G Dantec. 2010
Années 2020, au Québec, dans un contexte de Jihad mondial, Verlande (fils d'un Waffen SS) et Voronine (petit fils d'un…
membre des commandos marines soviétiques) sont deux policiers. Ils partagent leur temps entre des enquêtes sur des tueurs de policiers militarisés, des enlèvements d'enfants pour une organisation pédophile, des attentats aux armes de guerre, etcA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call…
to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women's healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women's own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal legacy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women. While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on—as do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies—how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today's medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed. With a physician's knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own experience treating thousands of women. Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives— for us and generations to come—All in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women's medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of women's history and bodiesA court of sugar and spice: A nutcracker retelling (Wicked Darlings #1)
Par Rebecca F Kenney. 2023
With their inheritance restricted until their marriage, sisters Clara and Louisa, both in their twenties, must live with their godfather…
Drosselmeyer. One night, an accident brings to life one of the strange wooden dolls in Drosselmeyer's mansion. The Nutcracker doll is a cursed Fae prince, and he pleads for the sisters' help. During the ensuing journey into the Fae realm, Clara encounters the handsome Sugarplum Faerie, and he promises her the chance to enact all her forbidden fantasies. Meanwhile Louisa and the Nutcracker Prince battle and bicker over everything, despite the growing attraction between them. And to make matters worse, the entire Seelie kingdom is under threat of conquest by the Rat King, ruler of the Dread Court. Contains mature themes. Trigger and content warnings are available on the author's websiteTony Robbins returns with the final book in his financial freedom trilogy by unveiling the power of alternative investments. Robbins,…
and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world's most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook. For decades, trillions of dollars in "smart money" has been making outsized returns using private equity, private credit, venture capital and other alternative investments. Robbins teams up with renowned private equity investor Christopher Zook, founder of CAZ Investments, to sit down with more than a dozen of the world's greatest alternative investment managers, collectively managing over half a trillion dollars on behalf of investors. Names like... Robert F. Smith – Founder of Vista Equity Partners, Smith is the considered the most successful enterprise software investor of all time. Vinod Khosla – Founder of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla is considered a legend in Venture Capital. He is famous for turning a $4 million investment into a $7 billion windfall for his investors. Michael B. Kim – The "Godfather of Private Equity" in Asia, Kim has created the largest private equity firm in Asia. His astounding success for investors has also made him South Korea's wealthiest man. And many more! In The Holy Grail of Investing , you'll discover: -How to take advantage of the trillions flowing into private equity by becoming an owner of firms that actually manage the assets and share in the revenue they generate -How to take advantage of the two to three times higher returns of private credit as an alternative (or compliment) to bonds -How new rule changes allow individual investors to own a piece of the major professional sports teams (MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS) and benefit from this fanatically driven asset class -How to invest in the energy evolution and ride the wave of trillions in global investments -How investments in private real estate can work as an inflationary hedge and source of tax efficient income -How many of the world's greatest investors thrive in good times and badA season of harvest (Leah's Garden #4)
Par Lauraine Snelling. 2024
Can her dreams for the future—and a budding romance—survive the trouble that comes calling? Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep…
her family homestead running and to fulfill their dream of starting a seed catalog, with or without her siblings' help. With Isaac McTavish back in town, Lark finds herself at odds with her own heart and her determination to shoulder the burden of carrying her responsibilities alone. But Isaac is set on convincing her that he's here to stay and she doesn't have to carry everything by herself. As a new romance blossoms between Lilac and an old schoolmate and the other Nielsen sisters are busy caring for their families, Lark bears more and more responsibility on the farm. When a long-feared threat returns and Lark approaches the breaking point, the life she has always dreamed of is in danger of disappearing foreverAfrican american history: A very short introduction
Par Jonathan Scott Holloway. 2023
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering…
this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equalJamais plus (New romance)
Par Colleen Hoover. 2017
Lily Blossom Bloom n'a pas eu une enfance très facile, entre un père violent et une mère qu'elle trouve soumise,…
mais elle a su s'en sortir et est à l'aube de réaliser le rêve de sa vie : ouvrir, à Boston, une boutique de fleurs. Elle vient de rencontrer un neuro-chirurgien, Lyle, visiblement aussi attiré par elle qu'elle l'est par lui. Le chemin de Lily semble tracé