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1881. « Big Jim » Durham crée pour Elianne Desmarais, sa jeune épouse française, la plus grande exploitation de cannes à sucre du sud du Queensland, et la nomme « Elianne » en son honneur. L’immense domaine devient une forteresse autosuffisante et abrite des centaines de travailleurs, mais « Elianne » et la famille Durham cachent de sombres secrets, qui vont refaire surface dans les années 1960. Pour Kate Durham et ses frères Neil et Alan, la liberté est le maître-mot de la décennie. Rock’n’roll, pilule, guerre du Vietnam, montée du féminisme, immigration asiatique et...

INESPERADAMENTE, Joan Rambert viene al Caribe a resolver un caso desconcertante. Un patriarca árabe lo ha contratado para que le siga la pista a un tahúr italiano involucrado de manera sucia con su familia, lo que incluye una muerte, pero en la contratación hay mucha letra menuda y pequeña que el exinspector no ha leído. Si algo le sucede a nuestro personaje, el mar de Colón es un laberinto que hará imposible encontrar la mínima pista sobre él. Rambert presume esto último y ha cobrado duro, una parte por adelantado. Son los días calurosos de diciembre de 1965, en el trópico. Y hay ...

ALMOST OFFICIALFor the kids of the Neighborhood Watch, the final weeks of middle school are interminable. In the fall they will get to attend the Hero Academy, studying to become Just Cause superheroes. Their plans get derailed when police officers gun down an unarmed black man. Annalisa, aka La Capitána, gets video of them trying to cover up the killing.The incident leads to protests, which inevitably turn violent as emotions run high. The kids of the Neighborhood Watch do their best to calm things down and keep people civil, but situations escalate and people get hurt. How can a group of...

Hercule Poirot finds that he cannot escape death, even when travelling across Mesopotamia, on a boat on the Nile or exploring the ruins at Petra. This magnificent omnibus contains three exotic mysteries: ''Murder in Mesopotamia'' which sends Poirot on an archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert, ''Death on the Nile'' where his perfectly pleasant vacation is ruined when he must investigate a crime of passion, and finally in ''Appointment with Death'' when an unholy murder casts a shadow over the Holy Land. Contains a preface by Agatha Christie on the character of Poirot.