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Jaurès, avant d'être homme politique, fut professeur de philosophie. Plus que de véritables poèmes, ce sont des rêveries philosophiques qui nous sont ici proposées. L'édition, posthume (1921), ne nous permet pas de connaître la période de composition. Jaurès est né en 1859 dans un département, le Tarn, encore très rural. Il en garde une sensibilité réelle à la nature: nuages, oiseaux, soleil, étoiles, jeux de lumières, ciel bleu, terre, rochers, nuit. La philosophie fait intervenir Pascal, Copernic, Kant, Bossuet... et apporte les notions d'infini, d'espace, d'âme, de Dieu... Pour autant, l'homme n'est pas oublié: c'est un homme prométhéen, acteur de son progrès, qui apparaît dans «le blé». Derrière le tribun socialiste, nous voyons apparaître un homme complexe et sensible.<

Major Kit Bennings is an elite military intelligence agent working undercover in Moscow. When he is blackmailed and compromised by a brutal mafia don and former KGB general, he knows that his military career, if not his life, will soon be over. With little to lose, he goes rogue in the hope of saving his kidnapped sister and stopping a deadly scheme directed against America. Yulana Petkova is a gorgeous divorcee, devoted mother, and Russian weapons engineer. And maybe more. Spy? Mob assassin? The shotgun marriage to stranger Kit Bennings takes her on a life-or-death hopscotch from Moscow to Los Angeles, from secret US military bases to Las Vegas, where she uses her wiles at every turn to carry out her own hidden agenda. Hunted by killers from both Russia and the United States, Bennings struggles to stop the mobster’s brilliant deception—a theft designed to go unnoticed—that will make the mafia kingpin the richest man in the world, while decimating the very heart of America’s economic and intelligence institutions.<

A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week… Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World.<

Creación y destrucción en la vida de un artista. La vida es un destello.<

100 fathoms below… The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean. 1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent. Trapped in enemy territory and hunted by Soviet submarines, tensions escalate and crew members turn on each other. When the lights go out and horror fills the corridors, it will take everything the crew has to survive the menace coming from outside and inside the submarine. In the dark. Combining Tom Clancy’s eye for international intrigue with Stephen King’s sense of the macabre, 100 Fathoms Below takes readers into depths from which there is no escape. A Publishers Weekly Editors’ Choice for Fall in Science Fiction & Horror.<

A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living inside an anxious mind. Felix wakes up one day to find he has a girlfriend he doesn’t recognize. He finds a novel, with his name on the cover, that he doesn’t remember writing. He’s been losing time since university. Sometimes these gaps are minutes, sometimes months. But now he begins experiencing flashbacks and moments where he gets a glimpse of an unsettling future. He will do anything necessary to keep the people he loves safe… Hummingbird is a haunting, powerful novel, told in unadorned language that expresses with clarity the pain of living inside a disturbed mind. Like Anakana Schofield’s ground-breaking Martin John, Hummingbird is at times uncomfortable, but written with deep compassion and a sense of urgency.<

A rogue Russian nuke sails toward the harbors of Los Angeles in the hull of a ramshackle sailboat. Without destroying a single building, the bomb shatters the latticework of the American dream, toppling one piece of the economy after another. A group of Special Forces veterans and their prepper friends scramble for survival in a worldwide catastrophe so psychologically disruptive they are left questioning everything they ever believed to be true.<

Have you ever wondered how it will all end? When the time comes and a shadow falls across our busy earth, where will you be and what will you be doing? When Armageddon interrupts your weekend shopping, and hell freezes all over your dinner party, who will you be with and will you be doing what matters most? This book isn’t about the monsters that lurk in the night or that fatal dust cloud, or even what strikes from the skies above. You’ll hear about many horrors but no one knows for sure; only what’s whispered throughout the masses that some might call the unprepared. As countries across the globe start to go dark, join those who are in the midst of their routine living, as their individual hopes and dreams suddenly mean very little, or perhaps they now mean everything. As our modern world reaches the brink of collapse, experience ten different stories about bold escape, sinister survival, unspoken love and much more, as each of us get there differently but all find one inevitable end. Welcome to the Apocalypse. What are you doing tonight?<

When an EMP wipes out Britain’s power grid, four strangers are forced to band together to survive. The power’s out, the water’s gone and cars have stopped working. Two hundred miles from home, Annie soon suspects the cause, but accepting the truth means giving up the hope she’s been clinging to for months. London is the last place Clive wants to be now that darkness has fallen. Armed, trained and resourceful, getting out should be easy—but life isn’t that simple. Terry has seen the chaos first hand, but what can he do? He’s kept his mouth shut and his head down for so long, he no longer knows how to stick up for himself. Can he step up now the world is crumbling around him? Soon they’re left with no choice but to leave, as London descends into chaos. It’s only two hundred miles to safety, but it might as well be two thousand miles in this new, dark world where criminals are rushing to take advantage of the lawlessness. Pushed to their limits and with only a run-down block of flats in common, can they bury their differences and fight their way to safety?<

By mid-century, Arctic oil drilling accelerates global warming and triggers famine and war. A team at Google launches Project Titan to reverse climate change and end fossil fuel addiction. Without a radical solution, humanity faces catastrophe. Earth’s sixth mass extinction is underway. One hope remains.<