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Adrenaline junkie Lily Peterson is no stranger to taking chances. She's been there, hiked/rafted/skied that. But that was before an accident nearly put her out of commission for good. Now, after months in physiotherapy, this former firefighter has a new motto: look before you leap. It's not as much fun, but it works.
Still, it's killing her that she has to start all over again, more slowly this time. But she's going to do whatever it takes. After...

"Looks at types of skiing found at the X Games and the athletes who take part."--

"Offers students an overview of extreme snowmobiling, describing the flips, tricks, techniques, and machines that are used in the sport."--

Dark offers chilling stories, both fiction and real life, about the things that scare us the most: murder, hauntings, visitations, insanity and our own vulnerability! Examined through the eyes of some of the world's most gifted writers—Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, W.W. Jacobs, Iain Banks, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Paul Bowles, Will Self, Marjorie Bowen, A.M. Burrage, Blue Balliett—we feel the malice of serial murderers,

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The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audio book experience ideal for people who are fascinated...

Depuis la perte d'Émile, Adrénaline n'est plus ce qu'elle était. L'équipe de sport extrême, en constante recherche de sensations fortes, est sur le point d'être abandonnée par son principal commanditaire. Des énigmes, qui entrent au compte-gouttes, compliquent grandement la consolidation de l'équipe. Doutant de tout un chacun, Zoé devra combattre le deuil de son frère, la peur de ce qui l'attend, en plus d'effectuer un saut qui pourrait...