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Hey, are you looking book "Le Seigneur des Anneaux, tome 3 : Le Retour du roi"? Avec "Le Retour du Roi" s'achèvent dans un fracas d'apocalypse les derniers combats de la guerre de l'anneau. Tandis que le continent se couvre de ténèbres, annonçant pour le peuple des Hobbits l'aube d'une ère nouvelle, Frodon poursuit son entreprise. Alors qu'il n'a pu franchir la Porte Noire, il se demande comment atteindre le Mont du Destin. Peut-être est-il trop tard : le seigneur des Ténèbres mobilise ses troupes. Les Rohirrim n'ont plus le temps d'en finir avec le traître assiégé dans l'imprenable tour d'Orhanc ; ils doivent se rassembler pour faire face à l'ennemi. Tentant une fois de plus sa chance, Frodon passe par le Haut Col, où il sera livré à l'abominable Arachné. Survivra-t-il à son dangereux périple à travers le Pays Noir ? L'œuvre complète de J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) figure au catalogue de Pocket.

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary   Paperback   – August 4, 2015 New York Times  bestseller “A thrill . . .  Beowulf  was Tolkien’s lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it.” — New Yorker   J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of  Beowulf  in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s.   His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beach their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to Beowulf’s rising anger at Unferth’s taunting, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set unde...

The Corpse Reader Kindle Edition After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself—or was murdered. His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí’s gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth—especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself. Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of  CSI -style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during ...

A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works   Kindle Edition The classic  A Year with C.S. Lewis  is an intimate day-to-day companion by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century. The daily meditations have been culled from Lewis’ celebrated signature classics:  Mere Christianity ,  The Screwtape Letters ,  The Great Divorce ,  The Problem of Pain, Miracles,  and  A Grief Observed,  as well as from the distinguished works  The Weight of Glory  and  The Abolition of Man . Ruminating on such themes as the nature of love, the existence of miracles, overcoming a devastating loss, and discovering a profound Christian faith,  A Year  with C.S. Lewis offers unflinchingly honest insight for each day of the year.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks   Kindle Edition Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.

A Sinner in Paradise   Paperback   – August 15, 2013 Set in 1977 West Virginia, A Sinner in Paradise is a heartwarming, uproarious affair with love in all its forms. Jilted by her fiance, Geneva watches her seemingly idyllic life suddenly fall apart. Bereft and desolate, she packs up her nine cats and leaves her home in Washington, DC to return to her native hills of West Virginia where she plans rest and heal from her heartbreak. When Geneva's ambition, and machinations run up against rugged mountain ways, she finds herself flung from one perilous adventure, romance, crazy circumstance, and heartbreak to another. After facing illness, disaster in the wilderness and an encounter with an old mountain man who teaches her that her soul needs more than men, courtship, and adventure, Geneva finally finds what she's been missing. Ultimately, Geneva realizes she must face herself before she is free to truly love and be loved.