Biplane

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.” Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and…

The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post "A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous." --The Daily Beast He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his…

MASTERFULLY PLOTTED AND PACKED WITH ACTION, THIS NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF SIVAGAMI AND HER PAST. When five-year-old Sivagami witnesses her father being branded a traitor and executed by the maharaja of Mahishmathi, she vows to one day destroy the kingdom. At seventeen, she recovers a manuscript from her crumbling ancestral mansion. Written in a strange language called Paisachi, the manuscript contains a secret that may redeem her father or condemn him further. Meanwhile, Kattappa, a proud and idealistic young slave who blindly believes in his duty, finds himself in the service of a spoilt p…

« Vous voulez du plus noir encore ? Tant mieux. Moi aussi. Ce qui fait de moi votre frère de sang. » Stephen King.

Avec ce nouveau recueil, Joe Hill nous propose quatre récits horriblement addictifs et délicieusement dérangeants, qui allient l'angoisse au surnaturel et le thriller au drame apocalyptique. Instantané : Dans la Silicon Valley, en 1988, un adolescent inventif se retrouve traqué par un homme armé d'un appareil photo Polaroid capable d'e­ acer les souvenirs. Chargé : Dans une ville de Floride, un agent de sécurité d'un centre commercial, qui a prétendument arrêté une fusillade de masse, devient un héros du mouvement de défense des armes à feu. Mais à la lueur des projecteurs, son histoire com…