Dans la vallée des ombres
Harold Appleby est un drôle de type. Son métier capturer des serpents à sonnette pour en faire commerce. Son plus proche ami : Sam, un python de six mètres. Son péché mignon : séquestrer des petites filles. Alors, quand Suzanne Selby, une gamine de onze ans, disparaît, il y a de quoi s’inquiéter. Surtout que les recherches effectuées par la police s’avèrent vite inefficaces. L’enquête piétine… C’est Booker Reeves, un policier à la retraite, engagé par Rachel, la mère de Suzanne, qui va prendre la relève. Car il faut faire vite, très vite. Un malade comme Harold Appleby, ça n’attend pas. Et un animal comme Sam, ça mange beaucoup…
Voile rouge
Kay Scarpetta, bien déterminée à découvrir les raisons du meurtre de son assistant Jack Fielding, se rend au pénitencier de femmes de Géorgie, où une prisonnière affirme détenir des informations sur ce dernier. Elle évoque aussi d’autres assassinats sans relations apparentes : une famille d’Atlanta décimée des années auparavant et une jeune femme dans le couloir de la mort. Peu après, Jaime Berger, ancienne procureur de New York, convoque Kay Scarpetta à un dîner, mais dans quel but ? Kay comprend que le meurtre de Fielding et celui auquel elle a échappé autrefois constituent le début d’un plan destructeur. Face à un adversaire malade et dangereux, elle traverse enfin le voile rouge qui l’empêchait de comprendre.
La femme qui tuait les hommes
Paris, 2017. Saint-Pétersbourg, 1909. Une rencontre sur un quai de métro. Un hallucinant fait divers. Un voyage entre deux mondes où se noue le destin d’une couturière octogénaire, d’un écrivain coureur de jupons, du jeune Lénine et d’une terrible justicière. Une comtesse savoyarde y côtoie un poseur de rails et un cirque ambulant. De la Russie prérévolutionnaire au Paris littéraire, mêlant humour, tendresse et gravité, Eve de Castro nous embarque, nous bouscule, nous envoûte.
Baton rouge
Baton rouge, Louisiane, 230 000 habitants, ancien comptoir français sur le Mississippi… Plaque tournante de tous les trafics, c’est la ville des États-Unis qui compte le plus grand nombre de crimes par habitant. C’est aussi là que Kay Scarpetta a rendez-vous avec son destin, car les frères Chandonne ne l’ont pas oubliée. La mort est tapie au fin fond du bayou et frappe en série. Les amis de Scarpetta arriveront-ils à temps pour déjouer le piège ?
Les violons du diable
Les voûtes de Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile vibrent d’un son ensorcelant… Seule fausse note à cet enchantement, un concert de crimes avec, en ouverture, la dépouille du curé. De drôles de paroissiens fréquentent le quartier. Entre artistes et grand banditisme, le commissaire Mercier, lui, connaît la musique. Sur cette île chargée d’histoire, l’enquête décryptera-t-elle le code intime signé » Cremonensis faciebat… » ? A deux pas du quai des Orfèvres, l’auteur, médecin éminent, subit l’influence d’un autre jules dont le souvenir romanesque hante encore les locaux et les nuits passées au » violon « …
Du sang sur les roses
» J’ai trop longtemps pensé que le crime était réservé à une élite de la violence. Lourd héritage d’une éducation judéo-chrétienne mal assimilée qui s’était efforcée de dresser une barrière entre les bons et les méchants, entre le blanc et le noir, comme si le gris n’existait pas… Demain, pourtant, je vais tuer ! Sans excitation particulière, calmement. Comme une chose mûrement réfléchie, savamment préparée. Parce qu’il n’y a pas d’autre solution … »
Les enfants de cendres
Au milieu d’un train bondé, une petite fille disparaît. En dépit d’une centaine de témoins potentiels, personne n’a remarqué quoi que ce soit. Sa mère était descendue sur le quai pour passer un coup de fil, et n’a pu regagner le train à temps. Affolée, elle a alerté les contrôleurs qui ont gardé un œil protecteur sur l’enfant endormie. Pourtant, à l’arrivée en gare de Stockholm, la fillette s’est volatilisée. On ne retrouve que ses chaussures sous la banquette… Une équipe de police, assistée par l’enquêtrice Fredrika Bergman, est chargée de l’affaire. Mais quand l’enfant est découverte dans le nord de la Suède, morte, les mots « non désirée » inscrits sur le front, le dossier se transforme en cauchemar : un tueur impitoyable est dans la nature, et la petite Liliane n’est que la première d’une longue liste…
Bone
Bone fait partie des milliers de sans abri qui hantent les rues de New York. Des employés de l’administration des ressources humaines essayent comme ils peuvent de les aider. Un mystérieux tueur a trouvé une solution plus radicale: il décapite la nuit quelques-uns de ces malheureux. Découvert près de Central Park, un fémur humain à la main, Bone a perdu la mémoire et l’usage de la parole. Qui est-il ? D’où vient-il ? Des traces de sang maculent ses vêtements. Ne serait-il pas le maniaque recherché par la police ? George Chesbro – connu pour une excellente série ayant pour héros le nain détective Mongo le Magnifique – signe ici un thriller sans faille qui mêle à la fois mystère, action et document social. Les pérégrinations de Bone l’amnésique le conduisent à côtoyer un monde marginal terrifiant avec comme point d’orgue une véritable descente aux enfers dans les entrailles de la ville où survivent alcooliques et désespérés rejetés par la société. –Claude Mesplède
En Anglais – A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country’s nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nation’s economic fortune. A rich deposit of valuable minerals have been found in the Hermit Kingdom. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage. There’s just one more step needed to complete this perfect plan…the elimination of the president of the United States.
White Mischief
En anglais – Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya’s colonial community, he had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men’s wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll’s current conquest, had an obvious motive for the murder, but no one was ever convicted and the question of who killed him became a classic mystery, a scandel and cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly. He joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the SUNDAY TIMES magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s. One day, on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean, Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together and convinced him that he saw a complete picture.
En anglais – We all have a little, we’d all like to have little more. And thanks to Fairy Godmother McCreevy, most of us have been saving for the past five years and we’re ready to take the money … and run ……
L’île des chiens
Tanger Island, baie de Chesapeake. Située à quelques kilomètres des côtes de Virginie, cette petite île vient de se soulever et menace de faire sécession. Au bord de la guerre civile, la région sombre dans le chaos et une bande de criminels en profite pour voler, violer et tuer en toute impunité. Le gouverneur, manipulé par des politiciens sans scrupules, est impuissant à ramener l’ordre. Judy Hammer, nouveau superintendant de la police virginienne, et Andy Brazil, son bras droit, ne pourront compter que sur eux-mêmes… L’Île des chiens, quatorzième roman de Patricia Cornwell, est une satire corrosive et irrévérencieuse d’une Amérique rongée par la peur et la corruption.
Les egoïstes
Une petite station balnéaire en Californie pendant un été de canicule. Une maison dont les portes sont toujours ouvertes. Une mère femme-enfant et un fils trop beau et trop insolent. Tous les deux surfent sur les vagues de la séduction et de l’Atlantique. Ils n’aiment personne, ne veulent personne dans leur monde. Ils sont plus égoïstes que les égoïstes. Cet été-là, ils feront le malheur de tous ceux qui les aiment d’un peu trop près. Un thriller psychologique construit comme un mécanisme d’horlogerie.
The treasure at Loatani point
En anglais : Max Donovan is an ex-Vietnaù pilot with a smart mouth and brains to match. He’s tough and he’s fast and he makes his living supplying just about anything- as long as it’s not too illegal
Stalin’s nose, across the face of Europe
En anglais : An exceptionally vivid story of a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, between Berlin and Moscow, through an eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past.
The gargoyle
En anglais – The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne’s care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.
Entre Dieu et diable
Le combat intérieur d’un homme doué d’étranges pouvoirs : deviendra-t-il l’élu de Dieu ou la proie du Diable ?
Cet homme, c’est Jonathan Darrow, un jeune pasteur anglais qui s’est découvert très tôt de surprenants talents d’exorciste. Mais l’appel de Dieu reste difficile à interpréter. Pour en saisir le sens, et peut-être accéder à la sainteté à laquelle il aspire, il lui faudra prendre à bras le corps les blessures de son passé et ses démons intime, et mettre en péril son bonheur auprès de sa femme qu’il aime.
History of Landlordism in Donegal
En Anglais – Rare book. This book is dedicated to the memory of those who suffered persecution at the hand of landlordism. Their heroic resistance to tyranny paved the way to the freedom that is ours to-day.
The death committee
En Anglais – At Suffolk County General Hospital, three brilliant young men are brought together by their ambition and passionate dedication to life. But they work in the shadow of the Death Committee, a formidable hospital tribunal where doctors sit in judgment of their peers, deciding who is to blame when a death could have been prevented. During an unforgettable year of love and fear, failure and victory, the young doctors must face the crucial dramas and triumphs of hospital life.
Flint
En anglais – Undercover cop Grace Flint is cool, quick-thinking and fearless under pressure. Until an operation to trap international money-launderer Frank Harling goes wrong – and Grace is almost beaten to death. After reconstructive surgery, Grace is physically restored to an icy beauty. But inside, her superiors fear that she has been irreversibly damaged. So when she insists on returning to duty, there are those who are certain she’s going to crack. And when her new target reveals a link to Frank Harling, Grace refuses to back off. Determined to track down the man who almost destroyed her, Grace is on a collision course with her worst nightmare…adian frontier.
Four modern plays (second series)
En anglais – 1°) IBSEN – Rosmersholm 2°) WILDE – The importance of being earnest 3°) ROSTAND – Cirano de Bergerac 4°) GORKI – The lower depths
Leaves of grass and selected prose
En anglais – … » I’ve been reading bits and pieces of this mammoth collection for decades. Though I haven’t finished every last page, I’ve completed the lion’s share of the famous sections and will keep whittling away on the rest. » …
A history of Europe – Volume I
En anglais – From the end of the roman world in the west to the beginnings of the western states. « A model of descriptive and objective commentary, so objective that it seems to be itself a part of history »
Sister Carrie
En anglais – When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. The tale of Carrie Meeber’s rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood’s slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser’s remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author’s final version.
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The universal Ustinov
En anglais – In his lifetime, Sir Peter Ustinov has been an actor, writer, dramatist and humorist, an unwilling soldier, a goodwill ambassador and a famous raconteur. But for all his talents, Ustinov is till a man of many contradictions ; a theatrical knight who claims to « hate showbusiness », a famous wit who often describes himself as « retiring » …
En anglais – … In Running with the Firm, Bannon shares his intense and dangerous journey into the underworld of football hooliganism where sickening levels of violence prevail over anything else. He introduces you to the hardest thugs from football’s most notorious gangs, tells all about the secret and almost comical police operations that were meant to bring them down, and, how once you’re on the inside, getting out from the mob proves to be the biggest mission of all. A disturbing but compelling read, this is the book that proves fact really is stranger than fiction …
The leavetaking
En anglais – Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called “arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett” (The Guardian) whose “spare but luminous prose” (Chicago Tribune) is frequently compared to that of James Joyce. In The Leavetaking, McGahern presents a crucial, cathartic day in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who, along with his new wife, returns to Ireland after a year’s sabbatical in London. Moving from the earliest memories of both characters into the present day, The Leavetaking recounts the couple’s struggle to overcome the suffocating influence of the church in order to find happiness in a fulfilling adult love.
Leftover life to kill
En anglais – One of the most daring and uninhibited confessions ever written – a candid self-searching story by the widow of the poet Dylan Thomas
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a story
En anglais – This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules…people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves…people who know there’s more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull’s right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!
The faithful tribe
En anglais – The first, intimate portrait of the Orange Order. // If there is any more controversial body of men (and, with the exception of Ruth Dudley Edwards, who has been admitted to an honorary position in her very own lodge, they are all men) in the British Isles, it is hard to think who they might be. To most outsiders, grown men parading in bowler hats, white gloves, coloured sashes or collarettes, rolled umbrellas and banners showing scenes from the Old Testament or from a war that ended three centuries ago, are anachronistic, silly and provocative; to their enemies they are triumphalist bigots; to most of their members, the lodges’ parades are a commemoration of the courage of their forefathers, a proud declaration of their belief in civil and religious freedom, a demonstration of their Britishness, a chance to catch up with old friends and a jolly day out. // Ruth Dudley Edwards is an unlikely Joan of Arc for the Orangemen, but that she is; a trusted and liked sympathizer, a woman, a Catholic from southern Ireland; one who sees them as possibly rather bumptious and certainly their own worst enemy, endlessly outpaced by the nimble Republicans in terms of PR (which the Orangemen scorn to meddle with). She has written a fond but not uncritical, indeed rather exasperated, portrait of this tribe, with lashings of insider detail and revelation which no one else could hope to obtain.
In the time of madness
En anglais – In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now the age of Suharto was coming to an end. Would freedom prevail, or was the “time of madness” predicted centuries before now at hand? A book of hair-raising immediacy and a riveting account of a voyage into the abyss, In the Time of Madness is an accomplishment in the great tradition of Conrad, Orwell, and Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Blood of the isles
En anglais – One of the world’s leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in North Wales to the resting place of « The Red Lady » of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur. Genealogy has become a popular pastime of Americans interested in their heritage, and this is the perfect work for anyone interested in finding their heritage in England, Scotland, or Ireland.
Red sky in morning
En anglais – Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. A visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent. A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from « a writer to watch out for » (Colum McCann). It’s 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man’s father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States.
Nightshade
En anglais – In a small New England town, Joan Hapgood is content with her life until the events of one fateful afternoon trigger a long string of tragedies that threaten both her future and her sanity. It starts when Joan’s mother, Emily, who has been steadily deteriorating under the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, accidentally starts a fire while trying to cook. To say Joan’s relationship with her mother is strained would be a gross understatement. In Emily’s eyes, Joan has always been a poor second to her sister, Cynthia, who was beautiful, devoted, and bright. Despite Cynthia’s death many years before, Joan still lives in her big sister’s shadow whenever Emily is around. Not only has Joan never been pretty enough, bright enough, or loving enough, but she has a bastard son whose father remains unknown — all unforgivable sins to Emily. …….
The keepers of truth
En anglais – The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the « Truth, » the moribund local paper. He yearns to write long philosophical pieces about the American dream gone sour, not the flaccid write-ups of bake-off contests demanded by the « Truth. » Then, old man Lawton goes missing, and suspicion fixes on his son, Ronny. Paradoxically, the specter of violent death breathes new life into the town. For Bill, a deeper and more disturbing involvement with the Lawtons ensues. The Lawton murder and the obsessions it awakes in the town come to symbolize the mood of a nation on the edge. Compulsively readable, « The Keepers of Truth » startles both with its insights and with Collins’s powerful, incisive writing.
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
En Anglais – – First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin’s forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn’s stature as « a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy »–Harrison Salisbury
En Anglais – In Londoners, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today’s London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. In the style of Studs Terkel (Working, Hard Times, The Good War) and Dave Isay (Listening Is an Act of Love), Londoners offers up the stories, the gripes, the memories, and the dreams of those in the great and vibrant British metropolis who “love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it,” from a West End rickshaw driver to a Soldier of the Guard at Buckingham Palace to a recovering heroin addict seeing Big Ben for the very first time. Published just in time for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Londoners is a glorious literary celebration of one of the world’s truly great cities.
Brook farm
En Anglais – The definitive study of one of America’s most unusual experiments in establishing the ideal society. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman
A whiff of death
En Anglais – Everyone knew that Ralph Neufeld was a careful young chemist, especially his professor, Lou Brade. That’s why Ralph’s accidental demise due to a confusion of chemicals struck Brade, as well as the police, as highly unlikely. Someone on campus had, somehow, switched bottles on poor Neufeld, and the result was as deadly as had been planned. The trouble was all the right suspects were in the wrong places when it happened…all the wrong suspects had the right motives…and the one person most qualified to solve the crime was already being considered the killer!
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