Annie Ferdinand is believed to have been born into a noble family in Prussia in 1851. Her mother died when she was very young, a loss that affected both her and her father significantly. She travelled to London, England with him to support him while he sought to regain control of his estates after the Franco-Prussian war. Annie was devoted to her father but yearned for the company of someone who would love her and care for her as her father had loved and cherished the memory of her mother....

The barque Peruvian was lost in a gale off the east coast of Australia in February 1846. When it was found wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef several months later there was evidence that some of the passengers and crew may have constructed a raft and abandoned ship. Nothing further was heard, however, and it was assumed all on board had perished. Seventeen years later a man claiming to be a sailor from the Peruvian made contact with shepherds at an outstation on the Burdek...

Bill Smith slid unobtrusively into Cairns, North Queensland sometime in the early 1940's. He arrived with several packhorses, a pony that he rode and very little else. Bill fitted the category of the post-depression drifter perfectly. Nobody knew or cared where he came from. He gradually insinuated his small presence into the Cairns horse racing fraternity and began to earn a bit of money from riding trackwork and shoeing horses, but still nobody thought it necessary to get to know him wel...

Felix Reitano arrived in Sydney, Australia from Naples, Italy in 1896 as a young teenager. He quickly learned to speak English after a chance meeting with an equally young aristocrat from England. Felix travelled to Queensland, first to the sugar cane town of Mossman and then to Halifax, a small cane farming settlement about 100km north of Townsville. In Halifax he met and fell in love with a Scottish lass, Sarah Livingstone.Sarah's journey to Australia at the age of nineteen, havi...

Alors que, pour la première fois, Eve a la possibilité de passer les fêtes de fin d’année en compagnie de son mari Connors, elle est soudainement appelée pour élucider le meurtre d’un juge. L’assassin ? David Palmer, tueur en série et scientifique, qui testait sur ses victimes les limites psychologiques d’un être humain lorsqu’il est soumis à une souffrance extrême. Arrêté trois ans plus tôt par le lieutenant après un long chassé-croisé, il s’est évadé et espère à présent se venger de ceux...

Accompagnée de son mari Connors, Eve Dallas participe à un important séminaire de la police interplanétaire. Elle y rencontre l’ancien commandant Douglas R. Skinner, une légende du milieu. Ce dernier ayant toujours nourri une haine tenace envers Connors, il propose un marché au lieutenant : en échange de l’arrestation de son mari, il fait nommer Eve capitaine. Évidemment, elle refuse. Mais voilà que l’un des gardes du corps de Skinner est retrouvé mort. Toutes les preuves désignent Connors...

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on best practices for improving the sustainability of dairy production. The first chapter reviews the main, internationally accepted methods available to evaluate the environmental impact of dairy farming, identify levers of action and set environmental targets.The second chapter considers how dairy farms can manage both energy consumption and water in order to minimise their environmental impacts. The chapter also addresses the issue o...

L’enfant de Donovan Murphy**,** Yvonne LindsayKayla se tient face à lui, plus belle que jamais, et Van sent une rage gronder en lui. Comment Kayla ose-t-elle venir le trouver aujourd’hui pour lui réclamer de l’argent, après lui avoir brisé le cœur cinq ans plus tôt ? Croit-elle parvenir à l’émouvoir en prétendant que la petite Sienna est sa fille ? Plus jamais il ne se laissera manipuler par cette intrigante, Van s’en est fait la promesse. Même si Kayla év...

Trois cadavres, beaucoup de sang et une mise en scène à donner des sueurs froides… D’après une recherche ADN, le tueur aurait la peau verte, des yeux rouges et gonflés, des oreilles de gobelins et une mâchoire défiant les lois de l’humanité. Serait-ce un masque ? Du maquillage ? Ou est-ce que cette effrayante apparence cache une plus sinistre réalité ? L’état des premières victimes révélant une certaine expertise chirurgicale, les principaux suspects sont tous des étudiants en médecine. Ev...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill HouseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol OatesShirley Jackson is one of the most important Americ...

Afin de résoudre un meurtre, le lieutenant Dallas embarque à bord du ferry reliant Manhattan à Staten Island. Difficile d’enquêter, toutefois, lorsqu’il manque le corps de la victime ! Les seuls indices qui témoignent de l’existence d’un cadavre sont des traces de sang retrouvées dans les toilettes. Et, quand un témoin capital, qui a surpris le tueur en flagrant délit une heure plus tôt, est soudain en proie à de terribles trous de mémoire, le mystère touche à son comble. Face à ces nombre...