Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Without official lessons, though, Hazel will need more than just her books – she’ll need bodies to study, corpses to dissect. Lucky that she’s made the acquaintance of someone who digs them up for a living, then. But Jack has his own problems: strange men have been seen skulking around cemeteries, his friends are disappearing off the streets. Hazel and Jack work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves, but in the very heart of Edinburgh society. A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it—and she can’t do the job alone. Calling on some of the city's most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate the sinister, glittering vampire society known as the Athereum. But not everyone in her ragtag crew is on her side, and as the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it. From the New York Times—bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes the first book in a hotly anticipated fantasy duology teeming with romance and revenge, led by an orphan girl willing to do whatever it takes to save her self-made kingdom. Dark, action-packed, and swoonworthy, this is Hafsah Faizal better than ever.

Quatorze siècles de silence avaient fait tomber la signification des hiéroglyphes dans l'oubli, avant que le génial Champollion en perce les secrets et fasse revivre toute une civilisation. Désormais, s'initier au langage sacré des anciens Égyptiens est à la portée de tous grâce à Christian Jacq, égyptologue et célèbre auteur de best-sellers, avec cette initiation facile et amusante à l'art des hiéroglyphes. D'exemples simples en exercices pratiques, voici une promenade captivante à la découverte des symboles mystérieux d'une écriture millénaire, pour tous les nombreux passionnés de l'Égypte éternelle des pharaons.

Aboutissement de quarante années de fréquentation quotidienne de la documentation pharaonique, au Louvre et en Égypte, par l’auteur, Le monde par les hiéroglyphes aborde un champ pratiquement vierge sur le plan éditorial. Il met en lumière les ressorts de la pensée hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens, dont l’extraordinaire singularité repose sur une logique très puissante, totalement différente de la nôtre, que le lecteur est invité à découvrir page après page comme un explorateur en terre nouvelle. On découvre combien l’environnement naturel a façonné en profondeur l’esprit des centaines de générations qui se sont succédé sur les bords du Nil pendant plus de trois mille ans. En tout cas celui des lettrés, car notre connaissance dépend presque entièrement des textes et monuments que nous ont laissés les détenteurs des hiéroglyphes, ces « paroles du dieu » dont la maîtrise conférait le pouvoir. Les anciens Égyptiens s’y révèlent comme des gens simples, heureux de vivre, à l’éthique conservatrice et bienveillante, doués d’un humour décapant à l’égard de leurs propres autorités, et surtout ennemis de la mort contre laquelle ils ont conçu tant de barrières.