Kathy Reichs
Déjà dead
En anglais – Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern—and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her—her best friend and her own daughter—in mortal danger…
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Angela’s ashes, a memoir of a childhood
En Anglais – “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy– exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling– does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies ….
Burning Man
En Anglais – Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland’s most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter’s landed in the public defender’s office of a small Oregon town — and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career. His mentally retarded client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty. And Peter faces a choice — between the pursuit of headlines and the pursuit of truth, between the compulsion to save himself and the courage to save his client — in a devastating trial by fire.
The secret world of the Irish Male
En Anglais – – The author of Desperadoes and Cowboys and Indians directs his acid humour upon contemporary Irish life at home and abroad. The result is a headlong, love-struck, end-of-millenium, coast-to-coast tour of the frustrations, contraditions and giddying glories of being Irish in the 1990s.
1244. Tandis que fume encore le bûcher de Montségur, deux enfants, réchappés du massacre des Cathares, s'enfuient sous la protection de Guillaume de Robrouck, le moine flamand qui les a pris en pitié. D'implacables ennemis les traquent, représentant des puissances colossales, ramifiées en tous les pays – Templiers, Dominicains, « Assassins » de l'Orient – tandis que Saint Louis, l'empereur Frédéric II et le Pape Innocent IV s'affrontent dans un conflit dont l'enjeu est rien moins que l'hégémonie européenne… Or les deux enfants sont porteurs d'un secret susceptible de bouleverser les trônes et les pouvoirs. Dans leurs veines coule un sang qui les voue à réconcilier un jour Islam et Chrétienté. Ils incarnent – au sens premier du mot – le légendaire Graal…