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In the year 2145, a revolutionary NeuroChip promises to save lives and unlock humanity’s hidden potential... Until a corrupt corpo-couple, Vivian Cordell and Heath Brower, decide they want to use it as a weapon. In Cybercorpses, a high-tech corporation called NeuroCore unveils the NeuroChip, designed to boost IQ and harmonize cybernetic enhancements with the human body. But when the brilliant inventor’s desperate fail-safe is triggered, the chip’s hidden virus transforms its recipients into mindless, zombie-like savages.

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about – someone who has seen and done amazing things. This compilation features a selection of seven of the best interviews from the program.

Meixing Lim and her family have arrived in the New Land to begin a new life. Everything is scary and different. Their ever-changing house is confusing, and she finds it hard to understand the other children at school. Yet in her magical glasshouse, with a strange black-and-white cat, Meixing finds a place to dream.

Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a comfortable life for themselves in Toronto with their family nail salon. But when an ultra-glam chain salon opens across the street, their world is rocked. Complicating matters further, their landlord has jacked up the rent and it seems only a matter of time before they lose their business. They enlist the help of their daughter, Jessica, who has just returned home after a messy breakup and a messier firing. Together with their son, Dustin, and niece, Thuy, they devise some good old-fashioned sabotage.

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Après le succès du premier opus, pénétrez à nouveau dans l'univers des rêves. Cette adaptation audio de « la plus grande épopée de l'histoire des comics » se poursuit dans "The Sandman : Acte II". Sébastien Desjours revient prêter sa voix à Morphée, le Roi des songes, dans la suite du « meilleur best-seller audio » d'après le New York Times. Plongez dans un monde de mythes, d'imagination et de terreur inspiré des célèbres comics DC et des romans graphiques écrits par Neil Gaiman, qui interprète le narrateur dans la version originale.

What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us 14 new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The 14 startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds, and Peter Watts.

In A Human's Guide to the Future, Dr Jordan takes us on a journey through the big innovations being developed around the world, along the fun and amazing rollercoaster of his own adventures and to envisage where our collective future is headed. Written by one of this generation's most exciting voices, this is a book that will deepen your understanding of new and emerging technologies and fuel your imagination at the dawn of what will be the most transformative era in human history.

La vie et les rêves des petits rats de l'École de danse de l'Opéra La journée portes ouvertes de l'Opéra Garnier est imminente ! Les petits rats de l'École de Danse donneront de courtes représentations un peu partout dans le prestigieux bâtiment. Mais Constance ne parvient pas à se concentrer sur les préparatifs : son père, qu'elle n'a jamais connu, vient de surgir dans sa vie... Dès 8 ans.

La vie et les rêves des petits rats de l'école de danse de l'Opéra de Paris ! À l'École, les jeunes danseurs ne parlent que d'une chose : le tournage d'un film pour lequel le réalisateur va recruter des petits rats ! La plupart des rôles seront muets - et dansés bien sûr ! Mais il y a quand même des premiers rôles... et donc des auditions. Colas les passe avec succès et décroche le premier rôle ! Le tournage se déroule bien, et le garçon prend goût à la caméra.

La vie et les rêves des petits rats de l'École de danse de l'Opéra. Les examens de fin d'année approchent. Les petits rats de l'École de Danse commencent à s'inquiéter. Surtout la perfectionniste Constance. Sera-t-elle admise en 5e division ?

Frances will unbedingt nach Cambridge! Dafür büffelt sie Tag und Nacht wie eine Besessene. Zwar ist sie bereits Schulsprecherin und die Beste ihres Jahrgangs - doch das hält sie nicht davon ab, den Druck stets hochzuhalten. Nichts soll ihr dabei im Weg stehen. Nicht ihre Freunde und auch nicht ihr künstlerisches Talent - nicht einmal die Person, die sie in ihrem Inneren ist. Doch als Frances Aled trifft, das schüchterne Genie hinter ihrem Lieblingspodcast, verändert sich etwas.

History colliding with the now. These are just some of the stories and personalities featured in the Grave Tales series. Grave Tales: Sydney visits cemeteries to feature people who willingly, or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest, in Sydney, Australia.

All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship’s dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family’s empty summer mansion on a gulf island.

La nuit, Sapphire se déhanche sans honte sur la scène du Gentlemen's Jewels. Le jour, elle redevient Rafaëlla Gonzalez et s'occupe avec acharnement de son fils, Aljan, et de sa sœur Angelina. Ruslan Volkov a mis entre parenthèses sa carrière de flic et a quitté New York dans l'espoir de retrouver Irina, disparue deux ans plus tôt. Sa piste ? Andrei Kosma, proche de Poliakov, nouveau client du club de strip-tease le plus huppé de Pittsburgh.

Dexter Foreman is twelve going on eighty. He has lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He's homeschooled by the residents up until the day the county’s truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to go to a “real” school, to the local middle school. At school, Dex sticks out like a sore thumb. He dresses like a grandpa (and can be just as cranky). His taste in movies and music is decades out of date.

Sujette au syndrome d'Asperger et diagnostiquée à l'âge adulte, l'auteure témoigne de son parcours, de ses questionnements et de la relation aux autres qu'entraîne ce trouble du spectre autistique.

The six teenagers who make up the Lit Lair have it made. A beachfront mansion, millions of followers, stunning good looks, and sponsorship deals worth more money than they ever dreamed. They live together, making videos about their perfect lives. Except it’s not so perfect after one of them turns up dead in the infinity pool. When the group TikTok account starts posting cryptic messages, the police stop looking outside the house for suspects — and start looking straight at them. Everyone in the Lit Lair had reasons why their lives would have been easier without Sydney Reynolds.

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1945, U.S. anti-aircraft artillery opened fire on an unidentified object in the skies above Los Angeles. Over the course of the next three hours, "swarms of planes" were reported as roaming the skies above the city of angels, though in the end the public was told it was a false alarm. Now, Moonstone Books has unearthed the truth about that night, and how classic pulp and comic characters The Phantom Detective, The Black Bat, The Domino Lady, Airboy, and Secret Agent X fought back against a menace from another world!

Martin est garde au parc national des Pyrénées. Il travaille notamment au suivi des derniers ours. Mais depuis un an et demi, on n'a plus trouvé la moindre trace de Cannellito, le seul plantigrade avec un peu de sang pyrénéen qui fréquentait encore ces forêts, pas d'empreinte de tout l'hiver, aucun poil sur les centaines d'arbres observés. Martin en est chaque jour plus convaincu : les chasseurs auront eu la peau de l'animal. L'histoire des hommes, n'est-ce pas celle du massacre de la faune sauvage ?