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The Ex Hex
170.00 DHTHE TIKTOK SENSATION! The Ex Hex is a spellbinding rom-com with a twist, think Practical Magic in Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow . . .
‘A spooky romantic comedy treat that had me sighing at one page, laughing out loud at the next’ TESSA BAILEY
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.
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Children of Dune – DUNE
140.00 DHThe epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE — now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival — continues …
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.
But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy.
Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions – but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens …
Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin.
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Troy – Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths
150.00 DH‘Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .’
When Helen, the beautiful Greek queen, is kidnapped by the Trojan prince Paris, the most legendary war of all time begins.
Watch in awe as a thousand ships are launched against the great city of Troy.
Feel the fury of the battleground as the Trojans stand resolutely against Greek might for an entire decade.
And witness the epic climax – the wooden horse, delivered to the city of Troy in a masterclass of deception by the Greeks . . .
In Stephen Fry’s exceptional retelling of our greatest story, TROY will transport you to the depths of ancient Greece and beyond.
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The Burning Girls
139.00 DHTHE CHILLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man
**The Burning Girls is currently in production for television by award-winning screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt (creator of The Bridge and Marcella), starring Samantha Morton, Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton), Rupert Graves (Sherlock, Emma) and Conrad Khan (Peaky Blinders). It will debut on Paramount in 2023.**
‘A mesmerising and atmospheric page-turner, with plenty of shocks and a surprise twist for a finale. Her best novel yet’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on’ CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month We Begin at the End
_________500 years ago: eight martyrs burned
30 years ago: two teenagers vanished
Two months ago: a vicar died mysteriouslyWelcome to Chapel Croft.
For Rev Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it’s a fresh start. New job, new home. But in a close-knit community old superstitions and a mistrust of outsiders mean treading carefully.
Yet right away Jack has more frightening concerns.
Why did no one say the last vicar killed himself? Why is Flo plagued by visions of burning girls? And who is sending them threatening messages?
Old ghosts with scores to settle can never rest. And Jack is standing in their way . . .
_________‘Tudor operates on the border between credulity and disbelief, creating an atmosphere of menace’ Sunday Times
‘A gothic, spine-tingling roller-coaster of a story . . . CJ Tudor is a master of horror’ C.J. COOKE, author of The Nesting
‘The best book yet from C. J. Tudor’ Best
Praise for C. J. Tudor:
‘C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can’t wait to see what she does next’ Harlan Coben
‘Britain’s female Stephen King’ Daily Mail
‘A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner’ J.P. Delaney
‘Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can’t be found. Compelling and haunting’ Sunday Express
‘Some writers have it, and some don’t. C. J. Tudor has it big time’ Lee Child
‘A dark star is born’ A. J. Finn
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L’Incessant
85.00 DHSecrète, à peine audible, une voix parle en chacun de nous. Une voix qui nous accompagne tout au long de notre existence. Quand on lui prête attention, on entend son interminable soliloque. Mais parfois, elle se divise, et le soliloque devient dialogue. Tout se passe comme si deux voix s’opposaient, entraient en conflit, se livraient un véritable combat. L’Incessant met en présence un homme et une femme qui s’affrontent avec âpreté. Égocentrique, l’homme ne veut écouter que ses désirs, ses avidités. La femme lui fait valoir qu’il peut dépasser cette attitude et accéder à une vie plus ouverte, plus haute, plus riche. Chacun a son point de vue, ses arguments, s’acharne à l’emporter sur l’autre. Cet homme et cette femme sont en chacun de nous. À certains moments de crise, ils se déchirent, nous harcèlent. Mais la décision qui clôt le débat n’est jamais définitive. À tout instant elle peut être remise en cause. Alors l’affrontement recommence. Maintes et maintes fois. À moins qu’un jour l’homme cède et qu’une seconde naissance l’introduise à une nouvelle vie.
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La loi David et Goliath: Pourquoi nos points faibles sont nos meilleurs atouts
113.00 DHQui n’a jamais été paralysé par ses défauts? Timides, maladroits, désavantagés par avance… Nous avons tous des points faibles qui nous font baisser les bras : quand on n’a pas les armes, on n’ose pas. Et pourtant! Malcolm Gladwell, spécialiste des mécanismes de la réussite (personnelle, sociale ou professionnelle), nous montre qu’on peut toujours sortir vainqueur d’un combat à la David contre Goliath. En s’appuyant sur de multiples exemples, comme celui d’un jeune garçon dyslexique devenu l’un des plus célèbres avocats du monde, il bouscule les idées reçues, réveille les ambitions et donne l’envie d entreprendre.
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The Human Stain
139.00 DH‘An extraordinary book – bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand’- Sunday Telegraph
Philip Roth’s brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America – a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist
It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser.
Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman.
It is Zuckerman who comes upon Silk’s secret, and sets out to unearth his former buried life, piecing the biographical fragments back together. This is against backdrop of seismic shifts in American history, which take on real, human urgency as Zuckerman discovers more and more about Silk’s past and his futile search for renewal and regeneration.
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‘One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read’ Red
‘[A] tender, shocking and incendiary story on the failure of the American dream refracted through the prism of race’ Guardian
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Silent Sisters
150.00 DHA deadly secret. A horrifying discovery.
A daughter tells the devastating true story her mother tried to hide…
Growing up in a chaotic home on Merseyside, young Joanne raised herself and her brother and sister, while her mother lapsed into a downward spiral of drinking and casual sex.
But the consequences of her mother’s messy lifestyle turned out to be far worse than Joanne could ever have imagined.
In Silent Sisters, the daughter who was falsely accused of murdering her own baby sister tells the full story for the first time since exposing her mother’s crimes.
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Committed : A Love Story
139.00 DH‘Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up … feels irresistibly confessional … I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it down, it was pinched by my mother or sister’ – Sunday Times
‘An unblinkered consideration of what marriage really means’ – Woman & Home
‘Gilbert delves deep into the history and cultural meanings of marriage, as well as into her own relationship’ – Financial Times
‘Insightful … She speaks for many who question the bliss in conjugal bonds, or, at least, those who want to understand how the tradition still perpetuates. For better or worse’ – Vogue
________________At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe – a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, who – after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing – gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.
Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving completely into this topic, trying with all her might to discover (through historical research, interviews and much personal reflection) what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. The result is Committed – a witty and intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood.
Gilbert’s memoir – destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage – is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails
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Vous êtes 10 fois plus intelligent que vous ne l’imaginez !
99.00 DHConnectez-vous à vos autres cerveaux pour devenir qui vous êtes vraiment.
Vous venez au monde avec dix cerveaux mais on vous l’a fait oublier.
Les développer c’est devenir le champion de sa vie.» Nous avons tous en nous des talents cachés. Christophe Bourgeois-Constantini, coach mental, répertorie dix formes d’intelligence qui sommeillent en nous… À chacun de les mettre à profit ! » Le Parisien
Christophe Bourgois-Constantini est executive coach HEC et conférencier. Il accompagne de nombreux sportifs et entrepreneurs afin qu’ils trouvent les chemins pour donner le meilleur d’eux-mêmes.
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Capital et idéologie
313.00 DHToutes les sociétés humaines ont besoin de justifier leurs inégalités : il faut leur trouver des raisons, faute de quoi c’est l’ensemble de l’édifice politique et social qui menace de s’effondrer. Les idéologies du passé, si on les étudie de près, ne sont à cet égard pas toujours plus folles que celles du présent. C’est en montrant la multiplicité des trajectoires et des bifurcations possibles que l’on peut interroger les fondements de nos propres institutions et envisager les conditions de leur transformation.
À partir de données comparatives d’une ampleur et d’une profondeur inédites, ce livre retrace dans une perspective tout à la fois économique, sociale, intellectuelle et politique l’histoire et le devenir des régimes inégalitaires, depuis les sociétés trifonctionnelles et esclavagistes anciennes jusqu’aux sociétés postcoloniales et hypercapitalistes modernes, en passant par les sociétés propriétaristes, coloniales, communistes et sociales-démocrates. À l’encontre du récit hyperinégalitaire qui s’est imposé depuis les années 1980-1990, il montre que c’est le combat pour l’égalité et l’éducation, et non pas la sacralisation de la propriété, qui a permis le développement économique et le progrès humain.
En s’appuyant sur les leçons de l’histoire globale, il est possible de rompre avec le fatalisme qui nourrit les dérives identitaires actuelles et d’imaginer un socialisme participatif pour le XXIe siècle : un nouvel horizon égalitaire à visée universelle, une nouvelle idéologie de l’égalité, de la propriété sociale, de l’éducation et du partage des savoirs et des pouvoirs.Directeur d’études à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales et professeur à l’École d’économie de Paris, Thomas Piketty est l’auteur du Capital auXXIe siècle (2013), traduit en 40 langues et vendu à plus de 2,5 millions d’exemplaires, dont le présent livre est le prolongement.
