Martha Grimes
The deer leap
In a village plagued by missing pets, Scotland Yard’s Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant face the worst of human nature when a chilling old crime leads them to a brand new way to die.
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Le Grand Livre des Parents
Cornelia Quarti, agrégée de psychiatrie, assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris, déjà auteur de Profession Parents (Stock, 1978), rassemble ses connaissances et le fruit de trente ans d’activité professionnelle pour diriger la rédaction du Grand livre des parents.
In this thy day
En Anglais – In « In this thy land » (1945) McLaverty explores the effects of the famine on the consciousness of the Irish rural poor after the passage of the Wyndham Land Act (1903) enabled to possess land. For them, it symbolized autonomy, social respectability, and the ability to resist the disasters and starvation of the past …..
Earthly powers
En Anglais – Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.