Joseph O'Connor
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.
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The messengers
Nick Bunick was confronted by angels. It will change your life forever… Prominent and successful Portland, Oregon, businessman Nick Bunick never considered himself a particularly religious person. But he knew in his heart that he had experienced something extraordinary in a past life. Anxious to share it, but convinced that his story would seem unbelievable to most people, he kept it to himself. Then, two years ago, angels intervened. Nick came to understand that angels were prevailing upon him to tell his story — a story that began 2,000 years ago when he lived as Paul the Apostle, and walked alongside Jesus. An inspiring chronicle of the angelic visitations that led Nick to finally share his memories, The Messengers also illuminates the events of his life as Paul. Rich with the wisdom and awe borne of Nick’s incredible encounter with Jesus, this magnificent book truly signals a return to the Age of Miracles.
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…
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 ….
Scrupules – Tome II
Billy est la reine de Beverly Hills. Elle est belle, riche, inventive. Elle a créé « Scrupules », le magasin le plus somptueux que la terre ait jamais porté, le temple de l’élégance, du luxe et de la beauté. Aujourd’hui, elle se prépare avec délices à goûter les joies de la maternité. Mais, en quelques mois, son bonheur est réduit à néant Elle découvre que son mari a une liaison, perd l’enfant qu’elle attend et voit sa meilleure amie périr dans le mystérieux incendie qui ravage « Scrupules ». Effondrée, Billy s’envole pour Paris et tente de se construire une nouvelle vie. Mais, là encore, elle connaît de terribles désillusions. Serait-elle victime de la « malédiction » qui parfois pèse sur les femmes trop belles et trop riches ?