Ian Rankin
The complaints
Nobody likes The Complaints–they’re the cops who investigate other cops. It’s a department known within the force as “The Dark Side,” and it’s where Malcolm Fox works. He’s a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There’s a cop named Jamie Breck, and he’s dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there’s more to Breck than anyone thinks–dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.
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En anglais – When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report ? Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy’s disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband into action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn’s loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee’s underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel’s gritty and stunning conclusion.
Every secret thing
En anglais – A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa’s pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family’s persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents’ relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
Femme debout
Ségolène Royal, ou l'art de renaître. De la campagne présidentielle au congrès du PS, du triomphe de la primaire à l'échec de Reims, elle aura en deux ans côtoyé le sommet et frôlé les abîmes. À quoi tient un destin politique? À des rencontres. À une persévérance sans limite et à une confiance absolue dans son étoile. Mais aussi à l'adversité, aux échecs, aux trahisons. De tout cela, Ségolène Royal parle librement, sans fard, sans contourner le questionnement. Une radioscopie de pensées parfois contradictoires, parfois déconcertantes, mais toujours parfaitement assumées. Dans ces entretiens menés tout au long de l'année 2008, elle a accepté que je fixe la règle du jeu. À travers les mille détails de la vie, ces conversations portent sur les questions essentielles : Comment se reconstruire après l'échec? Comment réinventer la politique? Comment tenir son rôle, quel que soit ce rôle ? Une année dans la vie d'une femme française au destin si peu ordinaire. Toujours debout. Déjà dans le jour d'après. Déjà tournée vers 2012.
Balade choreïale
Azir : le premier monde habité découvert par l’humanité. Un monde à la technologie balbutiante, divisé en minuscules provinces. Bientôt, les hommes vont arriver en masse, avec leur savoir et leur réalisme économique, et menacer de changer le visage de la planète. Nerbrume, la gouvernante azirie, et Méline, ambassadrice du Conseil de l’humanité, vont-elles réussir à inventer un nouveau mode de coexistence ?