What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson’s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world’s wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.<

<p>When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book. </p><p>But the bleak Fenn House is a lonely and sometimes uncomfortable place to spend the winter. And the strangest thing is that Theo’s new novel seems to be writing itself - and heading in an unplanned direction. Theo finds himself describing a young boy called Matthew who lives in constant fear of a visit from the cold-eyed men. Struggling to understand the dangerous secrets that surround him and his family, Matthew inhabits a terrifying world where people die in macabre circumstances, where they can be imprisoned without trial or reason, their identities wiped from the world forever.</p><p>And then Theo discovers that Matthew and his family really existed, part of a dark and violent segment of recent history that threatens to reach across the years to tear his life apart.</p><p>And somehow it all connects to the death of his cousin Charmery.</p><

Bénin en apparence, l'inspecteur Katz possède du félidé homonyme une détente sournoise et implacable. À pattes veloutées, il tourne autour de grands truands qui, après avoir volé un tas de bijoux, se le disputent sans pitié. Katz attend son heure pour lancer ses griffes. Mais dans la police, Katz est parrainé — et surveillé — par son frère aîné, le commissaire principal Lantier, un vieux matou pelé mais sagace…<

<p>When the village of Priors Bramley was shut off in the 1950s so that the area could be used for chemical weapons-testing during the Cold War, a long history of dark secrets was also closed off to the outside world. Now, sixty years later, the village has been declared safe again, but there are those living in nearby Bramley who would much rather that the past remain hidden.</p><p>When the village is reopened, Ella Haywood, who used to play there as a child, is haunted by the discovery of two bodies. Shortly before the isolation of the village, she and her two oldest friends had a violent and terrifying encounter with a stranger - with terrible consequences. They made a pact of silence at the time, but the past has a habit of forcing the truth to the surface.</p><p>With the mystery surrounding the now derelict Cadence Manor drawing increasing local interest, Ella finds that she will have to resort to ever more drastic measures if she is to make sure that no one discovers what really happened all those years ago.</p><p>About the Author</p><p>The author of seven terrifying novels of psychological suspense, Sarah Rayne lives in Staffordshire. Visit </p><

<p>Un sénateur s’est suicidé dans un hôtel quatre étoiles. Ses responsabilités au sein de plusieurs enquêtes parlementaires lui avaient permis de réunir des informations sensibles.</p><p>Juste avant sa mort, il a vidé la mémoire de son ordinateur. Juste après, tout le monde est à la recherche d’une disquette.</p><p>L’officier de police judiciaire, chef du groupe nuit, est le premier soupçonné d’avoir fait les poches du mort. Mais l’officier en question, à qui on a recommandé de ne pas faire de vagues, n’a plus rien à foutre de rien depuis longtemps.</p><p>Prix Mystère de la Critique en 1998.</p><

Kara Gillian

<p> Demon summoner Kara Gillian bears the scars of Rhyzkahl's treachery, but she refuses to let them slow her down. She and the demonic lord Mzatal have not rested in their efforts to recover Idris—Mzatal's summoner protégé who was kidnapped by enemy lords—but now their search has brought them back to Earth.</p><p>With the help of FBI agents Ryan Kristoff and Zack Garner, they begin to track down summoners who are working with Rhyzkahl. However, Kara knows Ryan's true identity, and questions of loyalty threaten to tear apart this group of allies. When Kara intervenes to help a brilliant young computer expert and his bodyguard after an accidental shooting, she quickly learns that Rhyzkahl's machinations run deeper than she could have ever imagined. The search for Idris takes on a desperate edge as their enemies increase in number, and Kara realizes that an old homicide case may hold the key to their success—or their doom.</p><p>With the very fabric of the universe at stake, Kara must rely on her skills, wit, and luck to save her friends and her world, yet ancient vows will have to be broken if she is to have any hope.</p><p>But the price of breaking those vows may be her own blood.</p><

<p>Simon, un flic qui a eu des malheurs, se charge moyennant finances de retrouver Verlaine, comptable hors pair qui a disparu avec des tas de secrets redoutables dans la tête. Simon se met en piste et, de témoin en témoin, de cadavre en cadavre, remonte dans son passé à la recherche du temps perdu. De façon stupéfiante, il finira par le rattraper.</p><p>Remarquable roman, d'un noir d'encre, bourré de personnages déchus et fatalistes. Tout ce qu'on aime.</p><

When Jana leaves Earth to get married, she discovers that her fianc has kept a secret. On his planet, the groom isn't the only one having sex with the bride. It's the best man's privilege too. And the best man is someone she knows. And fears. The best man takes what he wants-and he wants Jana. In his bed, she embraces both males and her darkest desires. And she experiences how pleasurable the use of a riding crop can be when wielded by a dominant alien.<

<p>A partir d'un argument conventionnel, la relation d'une enquête policière sur le meurtre d'un ponte, Hugues Pagan renoue, sur un mode typiquement français et selon une vision bien personnelle, avec certains des grands archétypes du roman noir américain. Par-delà la description exemplaire de la machinerie policière, il raconte l'histoire d'une vengeance et dresse le portrait d'un homme perdu, l'inspecteur principal Schneider, dont la vie est devenue un long suicide.</p><p>Plus proche de David Goodis que d'Ed McBain, Hugues Pagan lance le lancinant lamento des vies naufragées dont le blues se répercute à l'infini sur les cercles maléfiques faits de smogs et de volutes de brouillard à contretemps de la ville…</p><

<p>Space pilot Kyra fears that sleeping with her partner is a bad idea. She’s right. </p><p>When a wedding takes her to planet Dezra, she’s soon pursued by a sexy alien male. Someone should have told her not to drink the local aphrodisiac. It creates an internal inferno that has her panting for sex. Luckily, there’s that sexy alien to ease her sensual ache. Unluckily, there’s also her former partner, who broke her heart. But he wants her back, at all costs. Even if he has to share her with another male first. </p><

<p>Assis sur son pliant, une vieille écharpe autour du cou, l’aveugle grattait sa guitare et fredonnait lentement, comme par à-coups : « Oh baby, tu s’ras ma dernière affaire… » Un vieux joueur de blues rugueux, à la voix râpeuse et abîmée. Un homme glissa un billet de dix dans sa poche de poitrine. Plus tard, les doigts habiles n’eurent pas de mal à détecter le micro-point collé sur le papier neuf.</p><p>Le laboratoire de traitement, dans un autre pays, n’eut aucune difficulté à agrandir le document. Nom de code « ATLANTA ».</p><p>Maintenant qu’il était parvenu à faire bouger Berg, seul dans sa voiture, Château pensa à un autre homme pour qui ce serait aussi la dernière affaire. Tout en roulant vers La Défense, il se demanda : « Combien de fois un homme peut-il trahir avant de se renier lui-même ? »</p><p>Terrorisme international, guerre des polices, manipulation géante… Les mœurs de tous ces messieurs ne sont pas belles. Pagan a écrit avec un roman hors série, implacablement moderne, très noir et très beau. Pagan, flic authentique, est un véritable écrivain.</p><

Songs of Submission

<p>My name is Monica. I’m a singer born and raised in Los Angeles. </p><p>I’ve stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I’ll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself to him, and it’s gotten in the way of my career. I won’t do it again.</p><p>But there’s Jonathan. He owns the high-rise hotel where I work, and he is gorgeous and charming. I refuse to fall in love with him, even though when he asks me to submit to him, I want nothing more.</p><

<p>Bouleversements politiques, changement de majorité, donc modification dans l'organigramme des flics. Les bons grimpent, les méchants vont au purgatoire. L'inspecteur divisionnaire Rameau connaît la musique : le voilà affecté au service trombones de la sécurité intérieure, tandis que son petit-fils, petit facteur, fabrique des bombes miniaturisées qui tiennent juste dans un stylo à bille de marque « police nationale 1975 ». Le problème, c'est qu'il les oublie un peu partout et qu'elles explosent. De là à voir une vague d'attentats terroristes ou même à soupçonner un complot contre le nouveau chef de l'État, il n'y a qu'un pas…</p><p>Avec paru pour la première fois en 1983 au Fleuve noir, Hugues Pagan s'est livré à une satire explosive des coulisses du pouvoir et de leurs services secrets. Une satire en forme de farce sanglante.</p><

<p>Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true—one day six hundred acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess's stepfather has kept important secrets, and Tess's dream of breeding a line of organic dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame.</p><p>R. Clayton Sutter is an expert at managing just about anything—money, businesses, and people. Getting NorthAm Fuel's newest shale refinery operational in the rolling hills of Upstate New York shouldn’t be much of a challenge, but then, she hadn't counted on dealing with vandalism, petitions, and a woman she’d never expected to see again—one who still haunts her dreams.</p><p>When Tess and Clay square off on opposite sides of the heated debate, past and present collide in a battle of wills and unbidden desire.</p><

<p>On en revient toujours au même, à des rues, des ports et de la pluie, des coins de porte et des néons sanglants ou blafards, des trottoirs sans fonds, des rafales de steal guitar tirées à la hanche, en balayant, des caniveaux et des pièces semées de détritus et de verre brisé, de lamentos et de shooteuses, un peu de sang et de la boue… Difficile de trouver la lumière. Contes de la mort tranquille et des morgues pleines… Un jour ou l'autre, il s'agit de choisir son camp et de ne plus bouger. J'avais choisi le mien. Un ancien flic. Une machination… Peut-être une vengeance. Et la mort au rendez-vous.</p><p>Plus proche de David Goodis que d'Ed McBain, Hugues Pagan lance le lancinant lamento des vies naufragées dont le blues se répercute à l'infini…</p><

<p>Savoir quand on a commencé à glisser, pourquoi ?… Comment on a fini par s'y mettre pour de bon ?… Allez savoir. Comme si on savait jamais au juste le fond des choses et de soi-même. Pour moi, je dirais la nuit de la femme sans tête. Pas vraiment sans tête, du reste, puisqu'elle l'avait bien perdue mais qu'on l'avait retrouvée. On retrouve presque tout lorsqu'on se donne la peine de chercher… De là à dire que c'est réellement ce qu'on cherchait ou que ça fait toujours plaisir, il y a un monde.</p><p>Par l'auteur de la lente descente aux enfers d'un flic devant une société dominée par le fric, la corruption de ses collègues, le blues lancinant de la nuit, la mort enfin, cette mort qui, comme certaines femmes et quelques hommes, ne veut pas de ceux qui l'aiment trop.</p><p>L'étage des morts vient d'être porté à l'écran sous le titre par Gilles Beat avec Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Marchal et Asia Argento.</p><

<p>En cette soirée de réveillon de l'année 1979, un inspecteur du Groupe stupéfiants interroge Bugsy, dealer connu des services, à propos d'une photo représentant une jeune femme. Le dealer ne dira rien, sinon qu'il faut « demander à Schneider ». Schneider est le chef du Groupe criminel. Flanqué de son adjoint Charles Catala, il sillonne la ville à bord de sa Lincoln Continental tel un fantôme. Deux évènements vont faire basculer sa vie : une enquête trouble sur l'attaque à main armée dont a été victime son collègue des stups, et une rencontre en forme de coup de foudre…</p><

John the Eunuch

Tarif de groupe, huitième roman de Pagan, déballe le linge sale de l'usine — la police en jargon interne. Le spectacle d'une poubelle de fast-food serait sans doute plus ragoûtant. Ce flic qui a le blues ne fait pas dans le sous-entendu. Son ex-inspecteur Chess les connaît à fond, ces types qui pratiquent les méthodes du grand banditisme, sous le masque de la vérité et de la justice. Des flics qui se goinfrent : 50 briques sur un plan de came. Le plus sinistre ripou de l'histoire a commandité le meurtre d'une prostituée. Pourquoi ? Pour rien. Parce qu'elle n'a jamais accepté de baiser avec lui. On l'a découverte morte et torturée de la pire façon. Affaire classée. Chess remue la boue. Au final, dans ce camp-là, le crime paie.<

Unbroken

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<p>La ville grésillait sous le soleil blanc, comme du lard rance dans une poêle. Les flics de la criminelle « B » glandaient. Ils attendaient les vacances.</p><p>Au téléphone, l’homme avait adopté un ton étrange, monocorde et pénible. Il avait dit d’une seule traite : « Prévenez l’inspecteur Schneider. Je vais tuer une femme. Une femme, n’importe laquelle pour commencer. Je vais utiliser une carabine US M1 en calibre 30 x 30. Je vais la tuer maintenant, dans dix minutes… J’en tuerai d’autres, certainement. Avec la même arme. Prévenez Schneider, voulez-vous ? »</p><p>Le gardien de permanence prévint Schneider. Qui cessa d’attendre les vacances.</p><

Falling Kingdoms

« Je ne sais rien de mon frère mort si ce n’est que je l’ai aimé. Il me manque comme personne mais je ne sais pas j’ai perdu. J’ai perdu le bonheur de sa compagnie, la gratuité de son affection, la sérénité de ses jugements, la complicité de son humour, la paix. J’ai perdu ce qui restait de douceur au monde. Mais ai-je perdu ? »<

John the Eunuch

<p>Nobility. Self-Sacrifice. Unconditional Love. These are the qualities of the heroic animals in this collection.</p><p>When the world ends, the humans who survive will learn an old lesson anew—that friendship with animals can make the difference between a lonely death among the debris and a life well lived, with hope for the future.</p><

John the Eunuch

The most sought after commodity in the world is power, and when money is no object, power is up for grabs. Desiring autonomy, one small nation develops an unlikely plan to procure a nuclear-powered submarine. If all goes as intended, the Middle East will destabilize and the OPEC Alliance will crumble. Yet as money might buy power, there’s no guarantee that it buys loyalty. So when the submarine breaks the ocean surface it doesn’t travel to the Middle East, it sails for Russia, in an attempt to return the nation to its Soviet roots. Alerted to the possibility of the theft of a Russian sub, the CIA must foil the plan for acquisition without alarming the rest of the world. A step behind and suffering from department infighting, the CIA watches in disbelief as the single most powerful weapon in the world rises from the ocean floor. It doesn’t take long for them to realize that the commander of the vessel has no intention of honoring his contract. Scrambling to prevent a world-wide disaster, CIA operatives in coordination with the US Navy launch a daring and risky plan to quietly thwart a rogue submarine captain before he can obliterate Moscow and take control of the country. Those who volunteer for this mission risk their lives. Those who don’t risk the safety of the entire world.<

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Culture Shock

A stranger in a strange land. A foreigner in a foreign country. What happens when disaster strikes? Darren Cunningham lives in Tokyo Japan with his workaholic father. His younger brother arrives at the airport for a short vacation and no plans to listen to his older brother. Thousands of miles away, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts in its most significant event ever recorded. The effects of which quickly set off a string of geological events that will affect the entire world. Darren must fight against criminals, corrupt soldiers, and desperate people whom all have similar goals. Survive in a land where there is no food, no clean water and those that are supposed to protect you, don’t. On top of it, his brother and father are missing. Can he find them before all of their chances of survival turn to zero? When the situation is dire, and the circumstances are short. How far is too far to guarantee your survival? If you like disaster and post-apocalyptic stories, then you will enjoy this action-packed adventure through the ruins of Tokyo. Grab a copy of “Tokyo Tempest” today.<

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New England

New York – July 1976 – in a World in which New England remains the sparkling jewel in the crown of the British Empire. It is the day before Empire Day – 4th July – the day each year when the British Empire marks the brutal crushing of the rebellion dignified by the treachery of the fifty-six delegates to the Continental Congress who were so foolhardy as to sign the infamous Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on that day of infamy in 1776. It is nearly two hundred years since George Washington was killed and his Continental Army was destroyed in the Battle of Long Island and now New England, that most quintessentially loyal and ‘English’ imperial fiefdom – at least in the original, or ‘First Thirteen’ colonies – is about to celebrate its devotion to the Crown and the Old Country, of which it still views, in the main, as the ‘mother country’. Yet all is not roses. Since 1776 in a world of empires the British Empire has grown and prospered until now, it stands alone as the ultimate arbiter of global war and peace. The Royal Navy has enforced the global Pax Britannia for over a century since the World War of the 1860s established a lasting but increasingly tenuous ‘peace’ between the great powers. Nonetheless, while elsewhere the Empire may be creaking at the seams, struggling to come to terms with a growing desire for self-determination; thus far the Pax Britannica has survived – buttressed by the commercial and industrial powerhouse of New England stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific North West – intact for all that barely a year goes by without the outbreak of another small, colonial war somewhere… This said, the British ‘Imperial System’ remains the envy of its friends and enemies alike and nowhere has it been so successful as in North America, where peace and prosperity has ruled in the vast Canadian dominions and the twenty-nine old and recent colonies of the Commonwealth of New England for the best part of two centuries. In Whitehall every British government in living memory has complacently based its ‘American Policy’ on the one immutable, unchanging fact of New England politics; that the First Thirteen colonies will never agree with each other about anything, let alone that the sixteen ‘Johnny-come-lately’ new (that is, post-1776) colonies, protectorates, territories and possessions which comprise half the population and eight-tenths of the land area of New England, should ever have any say in their affairs! New England is a part of England and always will be because, axiomatically, it will never unite in a continental union. Notwithstanding, in the British body politic the myths and legends of that first late eighteenth-century rebellion in the New World still touches a raw nerve in the old country, much as in former epochs memories of Jacobin revolts, Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War still harry old deep-seated scars in the national psyche. Empire Day might not have originally been conceived as a celebration of the saving of the first British Empire and but as time has gone by it has come to symbolise the one, ineluctable truth about the Empire: that New England is the rock upon which all else stands, an empire within an empire that is greater than the sum of all the other parts of the great imperium ruled from London. In past times a troubling question has been whispered in the corridors of power in London: what would happen to the Empire – and the Pax Britannica – if the British hold on New England was ever to be loosened? Generations of British politicians have always known that if the question was ever to be asked again in earnest it has but one answer. If the New World ever discovers again a single voice supporting any kind of meaningful estrangement from the Old Country; it would surely be the end of the Empire… Coming soon: Book 2 – Two Hundred Lost Years; and Book 3 – Travels Through the Wind.<

Under the Never Sky

<p>Under the Never Sky - 2.5</p><p>Set just before the events of Into the Still Blue, the conclusion to Veronica Rossi's Under the Never Sky trilogy, this breathtaking novella is a satisfying stand-alone for new readers as well as an exciting glimpse at favorite characters from the trilogy. Pulsing with romance and danger, Brooke will leave readers desperate for the conclusion to this epic and unforgettable saga.</p><p>The only fight she can't win is the one for Perry's heart. Following the stunning climax in Through the Ever Night, the Tides have been forced to seek shelter from the Aether storms in a dismal, secluded cave. But Brooke's memories of the cave go back much further, to when she and Perry used to come here together. That was before Perry fell in love with Aria and before Vale's dealings with the Dwellers altered the course of the Tides forever.</p><p>Now, with her sister back from a haunting year in captivity and Aria lying unconscious in the sick bay, Brooke struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. Without Perry, who is she? And what is her role in this frightening new world? As these questions swirl about her, an old threat to the Tides resurfaces, and Brooke is forced to put the lives of her people before her own. But in taking this step outside of herself, Brooke may finally discover what she truly wants.</p><

“The most chilling Nazi weapon in World War II turned out to be so dark and sinister, even when captured by the Allies it remained top secret—until now.” How did Hitler’s war machine always seem to be one step ahead of England and France in the opening years of World War II? Germany occupied Norway in April 1940 just two days before the British planned to. In May, after being totally outwitted and out maneuvered in the conquest of France, rumors filtered back into British High Command that more than German precision military planning was responsible for these successes. The Wehrmacht had somehow tapped the dark forces of the occult under their command!<

Vampires in America

<p>Chicago, Illinois... the windy city. Home to football greats, dinosaurs named Sue, and, when the sun goes down... powerful vampires battling for the right to rule the city and beyond.</p><p>Born into slavery, Aden is one of the most powerful vampires in North America, waging war on others of his kind in a struggle to become the next Lord of the Midwest. But in the midst of the deadliest fight of his long life, the ghosts of his past have come back to haunt him. Slavery still exists, and Aden is hellbent on destroying it and the vampires who profit from it.</p><p>Sidonie Reid is an investigative reporter in pursuit of the biggest story of her career, until that story costs the life of a friend and Sid realizes she has to do much more than write about it. Intent on bringing down the vampires and their slave network, Sid gains entry to the highest levels of vampire society, where she finds herself confronting the raw sexuality that is Aden.</p><p>Caught up in a dark passion that neither can resist, Aden and Sidonie join forces, determined to defeat the old regime and everything it stands for. The dangers are beyond calculation, but the ultimate reward is worth the risk. If they survive...</p><

It’s Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce. In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children from the neighboring world of Kidland. Prisoners 999 and 1001 are conjoined twin brothers forced to endure the sadistic tortures of these ass-shaped monsters. To survive, they must eat kid skin and work all day constructing bicycles and sex dolls out of dead children. While the Ass Goblins become drunk on cider made from fermented children, the twins plot their escape. But it won’t be easy. They must overcome toilet toads, cockrats, ass dolls, and the surgical experiments that are slowly mutating them into goblin-child hybrids. Forget everything you know about Auschwitz… you’re about to be Shit Slaughtered. Literary Awards: Wonderland Book Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009).<

Fate

<p>Fate is a Moreno Brothers spinoff series.</p><p>He ruled out attachments years ago. Then one day he crosses paths with a beautiful but pampered daddy's little princess. History has taught him one thing about women like her—steer clear.</p><p>She was starting over. She moved back to her home town, took a new job assignment, and left her past behind. For the first time in over eighteen months, she's even intrigued by a man—a sexy but cold and indifferent drill sergeant. Despite feeling drawn to him, she has no time to figure out his inexplicable aversion to her.</p><p>Then Fate steps in one night, forcing them together. There's a connection neither can refute, and they both consider giving into the undeniable attraction.</p><p>Fate however can also be cruel. Just when they surrender to their heart's desires, past demons resurface in the most unexpected way, threatening the happiness neither realized they so desperately needed.</p><