Georges Simenon
Maigret, Lognon and the gangsters
‘You’re a good soul, inspector, and when you’re up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you’re a crack policeman. But this business isn’t for you. These guys play rough and they may hurt you. Just drop it! What concern is it of yours, anyway?’ When Maigret learns that his hapless colleague Inspector Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, he makes it his mission to bring them to justice – despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth.
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Pedigree
Le 13 février 1903 naît à Liège Roger Mamelin, fils de Désiré, employé d’assurances, et d’Elise Peeters, sans profession. Autour de l’enfant, des oncles et des tantes, des cousins, puis plus tard les pensionnaires auxquels sa mère loue des chambres : tout un monde de personnages avec ses bonheurs et ses malheurs, ses petitesses, ses folies, comme celle de l’oncle Léopold, protecteur de l’anarchiste Marette, coupable d’un attentat… Puis viennent la guerre, les premiers émois sexuels, la révolte aussi, lorsque le jeune garçon prend conscience de sa pauvreté, en même temps que de la médiocrité du monde qui l’environne. Il s’arrêtera in extremis sur le chemin de la délinquance et du vice, résolu à se construire, ailleurs, une autre existence. Roman autobiographique, inoubliable tableau d’un Liège de brouillard et de neige, Pedigree est assurément une des œuvres les plus fortes de Georges Simenon, où l’écrivain a livré, à travers un inventaire sans concession de son enfance, les clefs essentielles de son univers romanesque.
Rome Houses
Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol – The streets of Rome may be filled with monuments to its imperial past but among the Renaissance palaces and Baroque basilicas, tombs and medieval bell towers, are several impressive examples of contemporary architecture and design. Packed with over 400 color illustrations that reveal a range of interior design styles both contemporary and classic, this addition to teNeues' highly regarded « Design Pocket » series allows the reader a rare glimpse into modern living in this most historic of European cities.
Undermajordomo minor
En Anglais – Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder. Undermajordomo Minor is an ink-black comedy of manners, an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.
Codice a zero
En italien – 29 gennaio 1958, Cape Canaveral: inizia il conto alla rovescia per il lancio del primo satellite americano, fervono attesa e i preparativi ma per qualche motivo l'evento verrà rimandato di due giorni. Come mai qualcuno cerca di ostacolare la riuscita di questa storica impresa? 29 gennaio 1958, Union Station, Washington: alba un uomo si sveglia in una toilette maschile vestito come un barbone; è intontito come se soffrisse per i postumi di una sbornia ed è privo di memoria. Come è finito lì? E chi è veramente ? ambiguo mondo delle spie, in piena guerra fredda, Follett ambienta una storia di suspence che ha come protagonista uno scienziato spaziale che tenta di ricostruire il puzzle della sua esistenza.