An alternate cover edition can be found here. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.” Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.

De tout temps, les femmes ont agi. Elles ont régné, écrit, milité, créé, combattu, crié parfois. Et pourtant elles sont pour la plupart absentes des manuels d'histoire. "C'est maintenant, à l'âge adulte, que je réalise la tromperie dont j'ai été victime sur les bancs de l'école. La relégation de mes ancêtres femmes me met en colère. Elles méritent mieux. Notre histoire commune est beaucoup plus vaste que celle que l'on nous a apprise." Pourquoi ce grand oubli ? De l'âge des cavernes jusqu'à nos jours, Titiou Lecoq s'appuie sur les découvertes les plus récentes pour analyser les mécanismes de cette vision biaisée de l'Histoire. Elle redonne vie à des visages effacés, raconte ces invisibles, si nombreuses, qui ont modifié le monde. Pédagogue, mordante, irrésistible, avec elle tout s'éclaire. Les femmes ne se sont jamais tues. Ce livre leur redonne leurs voix. " Femme libre et engagée, esprit avide et curieux, écrivaine confirmée, Titiou Lecoq livre un grand récit, passionnant et vrai. " Michelle Perrot

His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby.Until now.He wants to save her.She wants to hide.She's damaged.He's determined.Fate brought them together.Love binds them.Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. On the rugby pitch, he's a force to be reckoned with. Primed for stardom, he's heading straight for the top. Nothing can possibly get in his way, right?Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College. The one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. The one that distracts him like no one ever has.Plagued with a hidden injury and desperate to impress the scouts watching his every move, Johnny has been placed on a pedestal so high, he has no room to make mistakes.Striving to maintain balance, and on the crest of the International Summer Campaign, Johnny needs to keep his head in the game. He needs to stay focused, and cannot afford to let distractions get in the way of the bigger picture.But what happens when a lonely girl with sad eyes becomes the only picture?Life has never been easy for Shannon Lynch. Bullied and tortured, she arrives at Tommen College mid-way through the school year praying for a fresh start and desperate to shake off the demons that plague her.On her very first day at the prestigious private school, she comes into contact with the notorious Johnny Kavanagh.Thrown through a hoop over her feelings for him, and desperate to keep a low-profile, Shannon finds herself once again the target of bullies as she forms a fragile alliance with rugby's rising star.Falling into a complicated friendship and grappling with their undeniable chemistry, Johnny and Shannon must face obstacles that threaten their relationship.Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks collide.Friendship, first love, rising fame, horrifying secrets, and pain all fuel together in Binding 13.Hearts are binding and lives are entwining in Binding 13.Binding 13 is the explosive first installment of a brand-new series from Chloe Walsh. Based in Ireland, the Boys Of Tommen series is bound to captivate and lure you into the world of rugby, love, and teenage heartbreak.

Forte de la magie divine héritée de son sacrifice, Zahru gouverne seule Orkena. Elle s'apprête à mettre un terme pacifique au conflit historique qui oppose le royaume à Wyrim, mais ses alliés refusent de lui apporter leur soutien si Kasta ne règne pas à ses côtés. Alors que les pièges et les trahisons poussent Zahru à des stratégies de plus en plus sombres, elle finit par se demander si Kasta n'a pas toujours eu raison ; peut-être la paix n'a-t-elle jamais été une véritable option... Le salut d'Orkena ne pourra-t-il se gagner que si Zahru devient le monstre dont son peuple a besoin ?

Une jeune fille destinée à régner. Une guerre qui menace. Un allié plus dangereux que tout autre ennemi. Après les événements de la Traversée, Zahru s'est juré de ne plus rêver d'aventure. Mais tandis que le prince Jet cherche à éviter la guerre qui menace Orkena, le prince Kasta fait son grand retour, clamant qu'il est le vrai vainqueur et l'héritier. Il porte même la marque divine qui prouve ses dires. Mais il n'est pas le seul... Zahru aussi porte cette marque, qui fait d'elle l'égale de Kasta. Avec Jet et leurs alliés, elle va se lancer dans une course contre la montre pour enrayer l'ascension du prince impitoyable, et l'empêcher de déchaîner des horreurs sans nom dans le but de gagner la guerre. Zahru est prête à tout pour le bien d'Orkena... mais en s'opposant à la brutalité de Kasta, ne risque-t-elle pas de révéler la sienne ?

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.