V. Myron, bibliothécaire de la ville de Spencer, dans l'Iowa, trouve un jour, dans une caisse de livres au fond de la bibliothèque, un chaton abandonné. Après l'avoir réchauffé et nourri, Vicki et ses collègues décident d'en faire la mascotte des lieux. Appelé Dewey en référence au système de classification décimale utilisé dans les bibliothèques, le petit chat devient une personnalité en ville.
On les appelait les « Monuments men » ; ils venaient de treize pays différents et dans la vie civile ils étaient architectes, conservateurs, historiens de l'art... Leur mission : accompagner les armées de la libération pour protéger le patrimoine architectural européen et récupérer les milliers d'œuvres d'art saisies par les Nazis. Robert Edsel a suivi particulièrement les aventures de neuf hommes et une femme de ce commando d’experts. Des plages du D-Day au Nid d'aigle de Berchtesgaden, des mines de Merkers à celles de Altaussee, il nous fait participer à la plus extraordinaire et dangereuse chasse au trésor du XXe siècle.
The story of Dewey the celebrated library cat is now available for the youngest of readers in this new, fully-illustrated picture book adventure.When Librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books. Dewey loves his new home, but once he discovers the littlest library visitors-who like to chase him, pull his tail, and squeeze him extra tight-Dewey begins to wonder if he's truly cut out for the demands of his new job. In the end, he is triumphant as he realizes that helping people big and small is what he is meant to do, and that by sharing his special brand of Dewey love, he can be the best library cat of all.
The New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the basis of the major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw the guy. Looked right at me," setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Just thirty hours before, Jeff had been at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon cheering on his girlfriend, Erin, when the first bomb went off at his feet. As he was rushed to the hospital, he realized he was severely injured and that he might die, but he didn't know that a photograph of him in a wheelchair was circulating throughout the world, making him the human face of the Boston Marathon bombing victims, or that what he'd seen would give the Boston police their most important breakthrough. In STRONGER, Jeff describes the chaos and terror of the bombing itself and the ongoing FBI investigation in which he was a key witness. He takes us inside his grueling rehabilitation, and discusses his attempt to reconcile the world's admiration with his own guilt and frustration. . Brave, compassionate, and emotionally compelling, Jeff Bauman's story is not just his, but ours as well.
A moving and inspirational memoir by celebrated journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Mit dieser überwältigenden Reaktion auf „Dewey und ich“ hatte Vicki Myron nicht gerechnet: Tausende Fanbriefe erreichten die Bibliothekarin, und sie alle hatten eine eigene Geschichte zu erzählen. Die Schönsten hat sie zusammengetragen, und so kommen neben dem Kater Dewey auch dessen Freunde zu Wort. Neun bezaubernde Geschichten, die davon erzählen, wie die Vierbeiner unser Leben bereichern. Von einer geschiedenen Mutter, die im kalten Alaska am Weihnachtsabend ein ertrinkendes Junges rettet, bis zu einem traumatisierten Vietnam-Veteran, dessen Herz sich durch die Liebe einer Katze öffnet.
Tom Locke pracuje ako elitný žoldnier pre Apollo Outcomes, úspešnú vojenskú firmu. Po návrate z misie v Líbyi mu pridelia prísne tajnú nelegálnu operáciu na Ukrajine. Má len sedem dní, aby zachránil rodinu známeho ukrajinského oligarchu a realizoval veľkolepú útočnú akciu. Locke však netuší, že jeho ctižiadostivý a záhadný šéf Brad Winters sa zaplietol do vysokej geopolitickej hry s vplyvnými kapitálovými investormi po celom svete. Jediným chybným krokom riskujú všetko. A toho chybného kroku sa už možno dopustila Lockova stará láska, vojnová korešpondentka Alie MacFarlanová, ktorá impulzívnym konaním ohrozí ich život. Locke tak musí vynaložiť všetky sily, aby predišiel zrade, ktorá by mohla vyústiť do katastrofy... a nakloniť misky mocenských váh na stranu Putinovho Ruska.
