Cleveland Amory
The proper Bostonians
En Anglais – A Chicago banking firm once asked a Boston investment house for references on a Beacon Hill scion. Promptly the Chicago bank was informed that the applicant descended from Cabots, Lowells, Saltonstalls – in short could not bo more acceptable. « We were not, » the Chicago firm replied curtly, « contemplating using Mr — for breeding purposes ….. That story is legendary, but basic to an understanding of Boston and the Proper Bostonian, for he is the charter member of a Society called the most exclusive in America. Clevaland Amory’s scintillating and devastating analysis of that Society is an established bestseller, a modern classic ….
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Toujours Provence
En Anglais – Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog « Boy »—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite « get away from it all, » you can surely have a very good time trying.
Man vs Beast
En Anglais – CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these agents DO NOT EXIST. Mainstream animal protection groups have always stayed within the law, but a new band of radical liberationists argues that if humans and animals are equal, then it's right to kill or threaten one human in order to save the lives of many animals. In a new mission, James and the other CHERUB agents must go up against the most radical group yet in a daring and violent attempt to save hundreds of lives… including their own.
Begraven dromen
En néerlandais – Dr. Victoria McClellan schrijft een biografie over het turbulente leven van de dichteres Lydia Brooke, vijf jaar na haar tragische zelfmoord. Naarmate Vic meer in de ban raakt van Lydia’s poëzie en leven, groeien haar twijfels over de toedracht van Lydia’s dood. Was het werkelijk zelfmoord? Vic besluit haar ex-man Duncan Kincaid, hoofdinspecteur bij Scotland Yard, om hulp te vragen. Kincaids adjudant en geliefde Gemma James ziet het hernieuwde contact tussen de ex-echtgenoten met gemengde gevoelens aan. Maar als Vic in groot gevaar blijkt te zijn, kan Gemma niet langer aan de zijlijn blijven staan.
Paula Spencer
En Anglais – One of Ireland’s most popular novelists and the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, who is fighting back and finally equipped to be a mother to her children. But now that they’re mostly grown up, is it too late?