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Dune novels. Main series volume 5
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis—has reverted to its desert climate, and...
Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis—has reverted to its desert climate, and...
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A360 Media, LLC
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English
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Director Denis Villeneuve told Total Film that Timothee Chalamet was the first person he texted when Dune: Part Two was greenlighted. "I spent almost a year with Timothee where he was saying to me, 'Can I put a little bit of the Muad'Dib here?' I said, 'No, Timothee. You're not the Muad'Dib yet, '" he said. "so I just wrote him a text message saying, 'Muad'Dib time.'"
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Dune novels. Main series volume 6
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.
Under the leadership of Mother...
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.
Under the leadership of Mother...
4) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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English
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• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOW IN THEATERS
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård,...
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård,...
5) Dune Messiah
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Dune novels. Main series volume 2
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English
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Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he...
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he...
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Dune novels. Main series volume 3
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English
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Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of...
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of...
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Dune novels. Main series volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of...
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of...
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Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By the time of his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune-where we step onto the planet Arrakis decades before Dune's...
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds.As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides-and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it...
10) House Corrino
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Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known...
11) Animal
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Martine épinglait les photos de cinq fillettes sur le tableau de liège, cinq fillettes âgées de huit et dix ans dont leurs disparitions restaient inexpliquées. Un mystère total. Pourtant, le premier cas remontait déjà un peu moins que cinq ans. Elle regardait ces cinq visages enfantins et elle ne savait pas par qui ou par o commencer. Elle avait beau relire les rapports d'enquête de ces prédécesseurs, elle n'avait aucune piste. Dans ces...
12) Déesses de glace
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Elle était resplendissante comme une poupée vitrifiée, comme une déesse dans son sanctuaire. L'espace était inviolable. Un secteur tout à fait spécial. L'immense dénivellation entre l'avenue des Pins et l'avenue Docteur Penfield faisait penser comme si elle était placée au pied d'un autel dans le choeur d'une chapelle. À quelques pas de là, un large escalier de bois rendait accessible l'avenue des Pins. Les arbres dissimulaient le haut...
13) Mosaïque
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Après 7 mois en poste, un cas compliqué échoua sur son bureau. Portant ses vêtements fétiches pour cette enquête et ayant sous la main son calepin Rhodia et sa plume Rotring, elle se plaisait à penser qu'elle était la future Colombo (la série télévisée américaine) ou Navarro (la série télévisée française). Sur place, elle découvrit une personne défigurée à coups d'un objet contondant qui gisait sans vie dans son lit. Aucune trace...
14) Simmer
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Fantasies come true on this sultry Georgia island.
Emma Vance is the serious sister, happiest running her family's Wilde Dunes Resort from behind the scenes. She leaves the parties and the host duties to her sister, Sara. But when Sara takes off for unknown adventures, Emma is thrust into Sara's role--and finds herself face to face with a sinfully sexy guest. It isn't long before Emma begins considering mixing business with pleasure. Liam Anderson...
15) 1939-1942
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Tandis qu'à Pointe-à-la-Truite Gilberte Bouchard et ses proches tentent de comprendre cette guerre si lointaine, en Normandie, la réalité est tout autre. Françoise Nicolas, fille d'un important producteur de calvados, épouse son bien-aimé Rémi à quelques heures de son départ au front.
Sans nouvelles du combattant pendant de longs mois, la jeune femme met au monde leur fils, espérant de tout coeur qu'il ait la chance de connaître son père...
16) Smolder
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Old flames burn the longest. Bar owner Jack McTeer has never managed to get over his high school sweetheart, Sara Vance. Ten years ago, she broke his heart. Yet, every time she crooks her finger, he comes back for more. Because 'more' with Sara is mind-blowing! It's not a great set-up, but Jack can live with the way things are. Until one wild night changes everything . . . For Sara, Solomon's Island is a place of regrets--and loss. So, when she returns...
17) 1942-1945
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Dans le deuxième volet de cette série dont l'intrigue se déroule sur deux continents, les grands événements de l'Histoire teintent le quotidien de gens qui nous sont chers. Tandis qu'en France Bertha et Jacob Reif, Brigitte, Rémi, Françoise et sa famille subissent directement les affres du conflit et s'affairent à survivre, Gilberte, Ernest et leurs proches tentent au Québec de trouver un sens à cette guerre horrible.
Des camps de la mort...
18) 1945-1948
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Une série bouleversante dans laquelle se ctoient des personnages de l'inoubliable série Les héritiers du fleuve ainsi que des familles françaises aux destins émouvants.
Même si la guerre est terminée, la vie tarde à reprendre son cours. Tandis que les survivants peinent à guérir leur âme écorchée, les disparus, eux, laissent des traces indélébiles et des cœurs brisés.
En Europe, la famille Nicolas trime dur pour faire renaître le...
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Extrait: "Nous étions dans la plus belle saison de l'année. Mon jardin réunissant tout ce qu'on peut s'imaginer d'agréable dans une campagne, je proposai à Théophé d'y prendre l'air après souper. Nous fîmes quelques tours dans les plus belles allées. L'obscurité n'était pas si profonde que je ne crusse avoir aperçu dans divers enfoncements la figure d'un homme."
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Great schools of Dune trilogy volume 3
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Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
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English
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Continues the origin stories of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the human-computer Mentats, and the Spacing Guild Navigators as well as the battle for the future of the human race.
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