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Lullaby of the Dawn Tome 4

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Shonen/garçon

Beyond the clouds Tome 4

Nora, le jeune voyant avec qui Mia et Théo avaient sympathisé, a été enlevé par des bandits ! Ses amis comptent bien le secourir : avec l'aide de la petite lumibelette Tama, ils retrouvent le repaire des kidnappeurs. Malheureusement, l'opération tourne à la catastrophe quand, prise de panique, Mia fait à nouveau surgir un félin gigantesque... et parfaitement hors de contrôle ! Ce n'est qu'après qu'elle a perdu connaissance que l'animal finit par disparaître. Le pire a été évité, mais la fillette se sent de plus en plus coupable vis-à-vis de Théo... A mi-chemin entre les films de Ghibli et les mondes de Final Fantasy, l'univers poétique de Beyond the Clouds vous entrainera sur les pas de deux adolescents hors du commun : Théo, le jeune bricoleur de génie, et Mia, la jeune fille ailée !

07/2021

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Sonyun (shonen)

The Abandoned Empress Tome 4

Depuis sa naissance, Aristia a été élevée dans un seul but : devenir la compagne de l'empereur, l'aimer et l'assister. Mais tout s'effondre lorsqu'une jeune fille venue d'un autre monde apparaît et lui vole sa place. Aristia devient le souffre-douleur de l'empereur... jusqu'à être condamnée à mort. Elle se retrouve alors sept ans dans le passé ! Et si le destin lui avait donné une seconde chance ?

05/2023

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Manga

The Quintessential Quintuplets Tome 4

Fûtarô Uesugi, menacé de renvoi suite aux mauvais résultats des quintuplées aux examens de mi-semestre, se voit sauver la mise par Nino qui réussit à embobiner son père avec une interprétation très "spéciale" des notes qu'elles ont obtenues. Touché, le jeune professeur est plus que jamais déterminé à aider les jumelles à s'améliorer. Mais ce sera après la classe nature de trois jours qui vient de commencer et promet d'être animée !

08/2020

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Manga

Aria The Masterpiece Tome 4

Le grand retour d'un chef-d'oeuvre de la fantasy onirique ! En prévision de la fête du Redentore, Akari, Aika et Alice ont reçu une mission toute particulière : elles vont devoir organiser une soirée pour leurs amis à bord d'une embarcation louée pour l'occasion ! Les trois jeunes filles s'attellent à la tâche avec ardeur et enthousiasme, à tel point qu'elles ne voient pas le temps filer. Malgré leurs appréhensions, l'événement est un franc succès ! Les invités sont ravis de passer un moment inoubliable ensemble, en plus de pouvoir admirer les feux d'artifice qui marquent la fin de l'été. Mais voilà que l'automne pointe déjà le bout de son nez et, avec lui, un client singulier venu faire appel aux ondines d'ARIA...

07/2020

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Manga

The Civilization blaster Tome 4

Le temps presse pour Hakaze. Isolée sur une île déserte et prisonnière du temps, elle doit tout faire pour rejoindre Yoshino et Mahiro si elle veut empêcher la résurrection de l'arbre de la destruction et hâter le réveil de l'arbre des origines. Mais où trouver l'offrande nécessaire à un voyage dans le temps ? Dissimulée avec soin par Samon, celle-ci se laissera-t-elle découvrir à temps pour éviter la destruction du monde ?

06/2012

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Shonen/garçon

The Cave King Tome 4

Exilé sur une île hostile, le prince banni devra apprendre à survivre à la force de sa pioche ! Heal, ancien prince de son royaume, continue à défricher sa petite île et à extraire toutes sortes de pierres et de minerais étranges. Alors que l'île se développe tranquillement et paisiblement, la menace du Léviathan, la gigantesque créature légendaire, se rapproche...

03/2023

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Seinen/Homme

Bocchi the Rock ! Tome 4

Mignon, marrant, mais également plein de passion ! Les Attaches ont avancé jusqu'à l'évaluation des concerts du festival de rock " Mikakunin Riot " qui fait concourir des groupes aux membres âgés de moins de 20 ans. Hitori parviendra-t-elle à se donner à fond face à tant d'adversaires aussi intimidants, dont le groupe SIDEROS... ? ! Le manga qui a rehaussé les critères du style " tranche de vie " !

03/2024

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Mouvements artistiques

Hockney's Eye. The Art and Technology of Depiction

David Hockney is the best known and most widely admired painter in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, as well as the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of the old masters, and explored radical departures from their cherished assumptions The exhibition and accompanying book are the first to focus on this central theme in his art. "Western art" from the Renaissance until at least the late 19th century has been dominated by the depiction of nature. Was this to be accomplished by direct looking (called "eyeballing" by Hockney) or with the assistance of optical theory and devices, such as cameras ? Hockney has experimented with the full range of existing strategies, overtly using perspective in some of his classic pictures and rigorously investigating optical aids for the imitation of nature, including the camera obscura and camera lucida. Yet he has come to reject the photograph as the definitive image of what we see. Along the way, he has identified a "camera culture'' in European painting from 1400, arguing very controversially that the supreme naturalism of painters like Jan van Eyck are the product of optical devices. His book, Secret Knowledge (2001), with its majestic panorama of paintings over the course of five centuries, claims that art historians have missed the central aspect of painters' practice. The "Hockney thesis" has been received more favourably outside the professional world of art history than in it. His own artistic practice has been in vigorous dialogue with his radical thesis, and he has progressively demonstrated new and dynamic ways of characterising the visual world without perspective and other conventional techniques. This quest results a series of joyous challenges to our ways of seeing in the major exhibition in Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum and in the Heong Gallery (Downing College). It will look at the whole span of Hockney's varied career and at the nature of the optical devices he has tested. His vision will be explored in the setting of traditional masterpieces of naturalistic observation, and in the context of modern sciences and technologies of seeing. The first section of the book looks at his thrilling experiments in seeing and representing in broad historical and contemporary contexts. This is followed by discussions of pre-photographic devices for capturing the appearances of things by optical means. The third section includes essays on Hockney's experiments from the perspectives of neuroscience and computer vision. In short, it reveals in a new way the working of Hockney's unique eye.

04/2022

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Allemagne

Secret Potsdam

A piece of the summit of Kilimanjaro at the New Palace, a swastika in Sanssouci Park, a remnant of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the starry ceiling of a villa alluding to the Masonic setting of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, a spectacular Expressionist tomb, a stone that sings in the heart of the city, a copy of the music pavilion of one of King Louis XV's mistresses, a luminous art installation under a bridge, a carved monkey from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, chimneys replicating those at Hampton Court in London, the esoteric passions of Emperor Frederick William II, a column to commemorate the death of a parrot, a tower to calculate the displacement of the Earth's rotational axis, the last witness to the extraordinary epic of silk production in the Babelsberg district, a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight Napoleon, the spectacular hidden remains of Katharinenholz firing range, the forgotten mock-ups in Zeppelin Park ...

11/2023

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Agriculture

Biodiversity and strategy.. Subtle equilibriums

Biodiversity conservation calls for a revolutionary approach to our relationship with nature and the living world. But it also requires completely rethinking the way we develop international policies and strategies. While these instruments must deal with a highly complex reality, they are too often viewed as simple action plans. Measures and initiatives that are focused on mainly technical solutions eventually result in unfortunate setbacks when the often unpredictable and ever-changing dynamics of life come into play. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) was held in 2022, and despite the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, it failed to produce a truly innovative approach to international 'strategy'. It is therefore more necessary than ever to reconsider the official diagnosis that underpins international action. Although certainly difficult, this can be done by mobilising a wide range of expertise from different scientific communities. Drawing on numerous examples and a wealth of research from the humanities, social sciences and conservation sciences, this book offers a profoundly renewed strategic diagnosis as well as levers for activating regenerative processes to benefit the living world.

12/2023

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Histoire de France

Christian Democrat Internationalism. Its Action in Europe and Worldwide from post World War II until the 1990s- Volume III: The European People’s Party- Continental and Social Cooperation

From September 2011 to December 2013 the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome along with the Centre of European Studies planned a series of international scientific meetings to study one highly important political subject : the commitment of Christian Democrats on an international level. This project has been organised thanks to the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the International Labour Organisation. Internationalism is a Key Element for the Christian Democrat Identity. In fact, CD is a political movement of thought and action whose roots lie in a specific ideology : to use the German word Weltanschauung, it is based on a particular framework of ideas and beliefs that leads the party to interpret the relationship between men and nations from an international point of view, ensuring the human being a central place in every social policy. The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, wrote in a Message to these Meetings : "We can consider ourselves very lucky that 50 years ago forward-thinking personalities founded the World Union of Christian Democrats. From then on, the world, through globalisation, has been deeply changed. Events that take place in other continents immediately impact on our lives. We will be able to protect ourselves from terrorism, achieve economic and social security, and defend our environment only through common global action. This is the task of our generation : to overcome these global challenges. [...] Our parties and our political organisations share a common Christian ideal of man. This ideal, grounded on the inalienability of human dignity, is at the core of one important value : to this man has linked a social and economic model that combines economic success and social responsibility." Her message clearly shows the need to use historical knowledge, to return to and explore a rich and challenging past as well as to develop a reflection on and a course of action for the present and the future.

12/1986

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Photographie

Balkan Express

Livre de photographie / 85 photos N&B / texte FR-EN Le but de ce projet photographique est d'enquêter à travers les différentes couches sociales, afin de proposer un aperçu de la vie en Bosnie-Herzégovine, cent ans après l'attentat de Sarajevo (assassinat de l'archiduc d'Autriche Franz Ferdinand et de sa femme Sophie, le 28 juin 1914), qui fut le prétexte au lancement de la Première Guerre Mondiale et en quelque sorte, le point de départ du vingtième siècle. The aim of this photo project is to investigate through the different social layers to offer an overview of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a hundred years after the assassination of Sarajevo (Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, were shot down on 28, June 1914), which was a pretext for the launch of the First World War and in a way, was the starting point of the 20th century.

03/2023

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Non classé

The Regulation of Rental Contracts in the Housing Market

In many countries (part of) the rental housing market is subject to regulations concerning determination of rent and security of tenure. The author provides fresh theoretical analysis of these measures by taking into account special features of the housing market, like indivisibility, mobility cost and incomplete contracts. The impact a rent ceiling has on contracting, the allocation of the housing stock, rationing cost and on rents in the free housing sector is examined. In some cases tenure laws provide for tenure security and rules for the updating of rent while leaving the initial rent for new leases freely negotiable. The analysis shows that the efficiency of the market could be improved through this type of regulation.

10/1991

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Non classé

A Study of English Nautical Loanwords in the Russian Language of the Eighteenth Century

This study is intended to give as full a survey as possible of 18th century Russian nautical and shipbuilding terms which were borrowed from English. The origins of the words are discussed and the date of each word's first attestation in Russian is given. Phonetic features and peculiarities of the loanwords are described, with special reference to possible English dialectal influence. A statistical analysis is given of the semantic aspect of the borrowings, which throws some light on the nature and extent of British influence on the nascent Russian shipbuilding industry.

12/1985

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Histoire internationale

'Eine untergeordnete Meisterschaft?'

This study represents an attempt to assess the critical impact of Dickens' work in Germany from the appearance of The Pickwick Papers till his death in 1870. Its main aim is to place the ongoing engagement of German critics with the English novelist in the context of the social and literary-critical tensions of the time and to bring about a new, more differentiated and penetrating understanding of his influence in these decades. The author argues that all the significant attempts to define the function and possibilities of the contemporary novel in German in this period were linked in one way or another with critical attitudes to the hugely popular, but always intractably controversial work of the English novelist.

03/1991

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Histoire internationale

The power of hope. The First Lady of Burundi. My story

She was born in Mwumba, in the north of Burundi. Shy and hardworking, Denise Bucumi met a man, Pierre Nkurunziza. But in 1993, war broke out in this central African country formely known as "the Switzerland of Africa", taking with it the dream of a peaceful household. When the family's father left for the bush, Denise found herself face to face with her worst enemy : loneliness. What a lot of fighting and many tears to reunite her again with her family for a more beautiful destiny : the Presidential Palace.

07/2013

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Aventure

RAJ Vol. 1 - The Missing Nabobs of the City of Gold

Au 19eme siècle, au Raj - l'empire colonial britannique aux Indes - un jeune agent de la couronne idéaliste se heurte aux sordides réalités du colonialisme et de ses conséquences. Tome un sur deux. Bombay, 1831. Fraichement débarqué de Londres, Alexander Martin prend son poste à l'Indian Political Service - un organisme gouvernemental dont la fonction n'est guère plus que d'aider l'East India Company à étendre son monopole sur les Indes. Le jeune homme, enthousiaste et un peu idéaliste, déplait vite à l'establishment britannique, et est tenu à l'écart de la bonne société ... jusqu'au jour où certains membres influents de celle-ci commencent à disparaitre, forçant Alexander à enquêter ...

06/2022

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Histoire et Philosophiesophie

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD HISTORY. An introduction

In modern industrial society, the tic between science and technology seems clear, even inevitable. But historically, as James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn remind us, the connection was far less apparent. For much of human history, technology depended more on the innovation of skilled artisans than it did on the speculation of scientists. Technology as "applied science," the authors argue, emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies. In Science and Technology in World History, McClellan and Dorn offer an introduction to this changing relationship. McClellan and Dorn review the historical record beginning with the thinking and tool making of prehistoric humans. Neolithic people, for example, developed metallurgy of a sort, using naturally occurring raw copper, and kept systematic records of the moon's phases. Neolithic craftsmen possessed practical knowledge of the behavior of clay, fire, and other elements of their environment, but though they may have had explanations for the phenomena of their crafts, they toiled without any systematic science of materials or the self-conscious application of theory to practice. Without neglecting important figures of Western science such as Newton and Einstein, the authors demonstrate the great achievements of non-Western cultures. They remind us that scientific traditions took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages, including the vast region that formed the Islamic conquest. From this comparative perspective, the authors explore the emergence of Europe as a scientific and technological power. Continuing their narrative through the Manhattan Project, NASA, and modern medical research, the authors weave the converging histories of science and technology into an integrated, perceptive, and highly readable narrative. "Professors McClellan and Dorn have written a survey that does not present the historical development of science simply as a Western phenomenon but as the result of wide-ranging human curiosity about nature and attempts to harness its powers in order to serve human needs. This is an impressive amount of material to organize in a single textbook." - Paula Findlen, Stanford University

01/1999

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Littérature française

Logistikos

Carla déteste la routine et change de vie tous les six mois. Nouvelle maison, nouveaux amis, nouveaux collègues, rien ne reste mais rien ne part vraiment. Elle n'oublie aucun lieu ni aucune âme. Partout où elle passe, elle raconte des histoires nourries de sa riche expérience. Carla est douée mais paresseuse. Alors elle a mis au point une technique infaillible. Régulièrement, elle fait des promesses à son entourage et comme elle est très fière, elle arrive toujours à les tenir. Carla hates routine and changes her life every six months. A new house, new friends, new colleagues, nothing stays the same but then nothing is really left behind either. She doesn't forget any of the places or people she has known. Wherever she goes, she tells stories based on her rich experience. Carla is gifted but somewhat lazy, so she has developed a technique that never fails. She regularly makes promises to those around her, that, because of her pride in herself, she always somehow manages to keep. Ouvrage de fiction conçu, annoté et commenté avec le concours de collaborateurs d'une entreprise de logistique. This is a work of fiction designed, annotated and commented with the contribution of supply chain professionals.

02/2021

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Religion

The Threat of Logical Mathematism

The present survey of the critique of mathematical logic in Germany at the turn of the 20th century attempts to answer several interesting questions : How did the contemporary German philosophers see the role and significance of logic ? What kind of relationships did they claim to exist between logic, mathematics, linguistics and psychology ? Pulkkinen starts by giving a historical survey of the development of German logic 1830-1920 as it appears against the background of German academic philosophy. Next he studies the interrelationships between logic and psychology, logic and linguistics, and logic and mathematics. After this the author presents the general features of the reception of mathematical logic in Germany between 1880 and 1920. This is followed by a more detailed account of the arguments of three individual critics : Fritz Mauthner, Heinrich Rickert, and Theodor Ziehen.

07/1994

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Religion

Je suis n. Disciples de Jésus en terre d'islam, ils racontent

""Je suis n"? Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Lorsque les combattants de l'Etat islamique sont arrivés au nord de l'Irak, ils ont commencé à marquer les maisons des chrétiens ou leurs églises de la lettre "noun" en arabe (ce qui correspond à "n" en français). Cette simple lettre était à elle seule une accusation aux conséquences terribles : elle déclarait que les occupants du lieu étaient des "nazaréens", des personnes qui suivaient Jésus de Nazareth."" Ils viennent d'Egypte, d'Iran, du Nigeria, d'Asie centrale, de Syrie, du Pakistan et d'autres contrées lointaines... Ils s'appellent Ali, Jamil, Amina, Hussein, Suleiman, Nadia... Tous, ils persévèrent dans la foi au milieu d'un environnement hostile à l'Evangile. Loin de notre confort et de notre tranquillité, ils sont prêts à payer le prix pour demeurer fidèles à Celui qui a changé leur vie. Des témoignages saisissants, qui nous encouragent mais aussi nous bousculent et nous interpellent."

01/2018

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Religion

A Study of Conversion Among The Angas of Plateau State of Nigeria With Emphasis on Christianity

This is so far the most-detailed information on the Angas (Ngas), the largest ethnic group on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. The book draws up a sketch of both the political and ecclesiastical history of the people. This is followed by socio-anthropological data about the people including a description of the traditional religion of the Angas (Ngas). The material serves as the necessary springboard for discussing the factors that were responsible for the conversion of the Angas (Ngas) people of Nigeria. The author concludes his thesis by giving a theoretical analysis of some of the theories of conversion per se and opting for a Hortonian theory as the most cogent. It is certainly an indispensable work dealing with conversion to and from any religion although in this case Christianity is used as a focus.

01/1992

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Non classé

Mathematical Methods in Fluid Mechanics- Mathematische Methoden der Strömungsmechanik

Representation of analytical and numerical methods for the treatment of special fluid mechanical problems. Further, some contributions to the foundations of the Navier-Stokes-equations and some important experimental results. Vorwiegend analytische und numerische Verfahren zur Behandlung von speziellen strömungsmechanischen Problemen, aber auch Beiträge zu Grundlagenfragen der Navier-Stokes-Gleichungen und einige wichtige experimentelle Resultate.

12/1982

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Beaux arts

GOYA. Edition en anglais

Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Modems. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of the Spanish people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya's moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age. Enriqueta Harris, former Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. University of London, is a world-renowned expert on Spanish art. She has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Velazquez (Phaidon, 1982).

01/1994

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Architecture

Past to Future. La Grande Carrière Wincqz

This book documents the conversion and restoration project of the Grande Carrière Wincqz in Soignies, Belgium. Built in the 19th century to excavate the world-renowned Belgian blue stone, today, the quarry is home to an ambitious project : the Pôle de la Pierre, a training centre specialising in the stone industry. The book covers the transformation of the site in three essays : - a photographic essay by Marie Noëlle Dailly exploring the interior and exterior spaces and landscapes of the transformed site - a conceptual essay inscribing the Soignies project in the more general context of the reuse of industrial heritage ; - a graphic essay that reconstructs the transformation of the site as a process of place-making as well as a collective process of meaning-making by means of documents, photographs of the construction phases, drawings, and sketches.

11/2022

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Manga

Highschool of the dead Tome 3 : Edition couleur

Après avoir tiré in extremis une fillette des griffes des morts vivants, Takashi et ses amis repartent en quête de leurs familles. Mais alors qu'ils font route vers la maison de Saya, ils se heurtent à une meute de zombies ! La situation semble désespérée, lorsque soudain... Découvrez ou redécouvrez les aventures d’un groupe de lycée bien décidés à ne pas finir sous les griffes des morts-vivants qui les assaillent de tous côtés, dans une toute nouvelle version tout en couleur pour le plaisir des yeux !

02/2012

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Manga

Highschool of the dead Tome 2 : Edition couleur

Les morts vivants sont partout ! Pour leur échapper, Takashi et ses amis ont fui leur lycée, mais ils sont loin d'être tirés d'affaire pour autant ! L'égoïsme des survivants est encore plus dangereux que les cadavres ambulants décérébrés ! Découvrez ou redécouvrez les aventures d’un groupe de lycée bien décidés à ne pas finir sous les griffes des morts-vivants qui les assaillent de tous côtés, dans une toute nouvelle version tout en couleur pour le plaisir des yeux !

02/2012

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Littérature érotique et sentim

Senses Tome 2 : The sound of your heart

"Dans le premier tome de la série Senses, The taste pf your lips, Allan et Sofia ont aiguisé vos papilles. Ecoutez maintenant l'histoire poignante de leur amie Béa. . ". Difficile de se reconstruire après une rupture douloureuse. Abandonnée par son amour de jeunesse, Béatrice ne vit plus que pour le fruit de cette relation : Ben, un adorable petit garçon. Et si Jay faisait un retour fracassant dans leur quotidien de la jeune femme ? IL suffit d'un contrat, d'un tournée pour que le musicien soit confronté à ses erreurs passées. Il ne sera pas le seul à lutter contre ses démons... Et si la vie ne tenait qu'à un battement de coeur ?

10/2019

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Manga

The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess Tome 6

Le grand retour de The Legend of Zelda en manga avec cette adaptation fantastique du jeu Twilight Princess par le duo Akira Himekawa ! Après un an et demi passé dans le paisible village de Toal, le jeune Link peut être fier de lui : sa gentillesse, son courage et sa dévotion lui ont permis d'être totalement intégré dans cette communauté. Mais Link a peur que les villageois finissent par découvrir le terrible secret de son passé, au point qu'il n'en dort plus la nuit ! Et si ses cauchemars annonçaient le retour imminent des êtres maléfiques du monde de la pénombre ? Comment faire pour les empêcher de semer à nouveau le chaos ?

07/2019

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Manga

The testament of sister new devil Tome 9

Basara, un jeune lycéen en apparence tout à fait ordinaire, se retrouve du jour au lendemain affublé de deux demi-soeurs avec qui il doit vivre au quotidien. Mio et Maria ne sont pas deux filles "normales". L'une est un démon maître, l'autre un succube. Pour les protéger de créatures maléfiques, Basara passe un pacte d'allégeance, mais les rôles sont inversés et il devient, malgré lui, le maître de Mio...

01/2018