The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

From the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.Only he isn’t sure he wants to.After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year.Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it…or let the world—and his pain—be destroyed forever.

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life. Discover the four types of difficult parents: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory  

Une jeune fille se réveille dans un lit qui n'est pas le sien. Plus inquiétant : la chambre dans laquelle elle se trouve n'est qu'un décor reconstitué dans une cave dont elle est prisonnière. La panique monte. Comment a-t-elle atterri ici ? Et pourquoi ? Pendant ce temps, des promeneurs font une découverte macabre : le corps décomposé d'une femme sur une plage. La disparition de la victime remonte à plusieurs années sans jamais avoir été signalée : la famille continuait de recevoir des nouvelles via les réseaux sociaux et n'avait donc aucune raison de s'inquiéter. Pour la détective Helen Grace, c'est la preuve que le meurtrier qu'elle traque est pervers, mais aussi intelligent et manipulateur. L'heure tourne. Et quelque part, une autre femme lutte pour sa survie...

Une jeune fille se réveille dans un lit qui n'est pas le sien. Plus inquiétant : la chambre dans laquelle elle se trouve n'est qu'un décor reconstitué dans une cave dont elle est prisonnière. La panique monte. Comment a-t-elle atterri ici ? Et pourquoi ? Pendant ce temps, des promeneurs font une découverte macabre : le corps décomposé d'une femme sur une plage. La disparition de la victime remonte à plusieurs années sans jamais avoir été signalée : la famille continuait de recevoir des nouvelles via les réseaux sociaux et n'avait donc aucune raison de s'inquiéter. Pour la détective Helen Grace, c'est la preuve que le meurtrier qu'elle traque est pervers, mais aussi intelligent et manipulateur. L'heure tourne. Et quelque part, une autre femme lutte pour sa survie...

Southampton, quartier rouge. Le corps d'un homme est découvert. Atrocement mutilé, le cœur arraché. Peu de temps après, un colis est déposé au domicile de la victime. Sur un écrin de journaux, repose... son cœur. Bientôt, un autre corps est retrouvé. Même mise en scène macabre. La peur s'empare de la ville. Pain bénit pour les tabloïds, le tueur en série est bientôt comparé à Jack l'Éventreur. Pourtant, ce ne sont pas les prostituées qui sont visées mais leurs clients. Les victimes, des hommes en apparence bien sous tout rapport, fréquentaient tous en secret les bas-fonds de la ville. Le commandant Helen Grace est chargée de l'enquête. Le tueur est déchaîné. À elle de l'arrêter avant qu'il ne frappe de nouveau. M.J. Arlidge travaille pour la télévision depuis quinze ans. Il dirige également une maison de production indépendante, qui a permis à plusieurs séries policières de voir le jour. Am stram gram, premier roman mettant en scène les enquêtes d’Helen Grace, est suivi de Il court, il court, le furet et La Maison de poupée aux éditions Les Escales

Southampton, quartier rouge. Le corps d'un homme est découvert. Atrocement mutilé, le cœur arraché. Peu de temps après, un colis est déposé au domicile de la victime. Sur un écrin de journaux, repose... son cœur. Bientôt, un autre corps est retrouvé. Même mise en scène macabre. La peur s'empare de la ville. Pain bénit pour les tabloïds, le tueur en série est bientôt comparé à Jack l'Éventreur. Pourtant, ce ne sont pas les prostituées qui sont visées mais leurs clients. Les victimes, des hommes en apparence bien sous tout rapport, fréquentaient tous en secret les bas-fonds de la ville. Le commandant Helen Grace est chargée de l'enquête. Le tueur est déchaîné. À elle de l'arrêter avant qu'il ne frappe de nouveau. M.J. Arlidge travaille pour la télévision depuis quinze ans. Il dirige également une maison de production indépendante, qui a permis à plusieurs séries policières de voir le jour. Am stram gram, premier roman mettant en scène les enquêtes d’Helen Grace, est suivi de Il court, il court, le furet et La Maison de poupée aux éditions Les Escales

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.

The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin.

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . . Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?