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Rêveuse, seule et un peu perdue dans un jardin au bord de la Seine, Alina, qui a treize ans, s'intéresse à Christophe Colomb. Entre les arbres et les immeubles, à l'ombre de la tour Eiffel, se trouve un musée qui va l'émerveiller. Quai Branly, tous les peuples du monde dialoguent. Ce qui ne devait être qu'une visite instructive devient pour elle mi voyage. Elle ne s'attend pas à être la première à comprendre 1 lien mystérieux qui unit les Taïnos, peuple pour lequel elle va se passionner, au découvreur de l'Amérique.
Pendant la semaine où s’écroule le bloc de l’Est, Carlo, jeune dandy américain, espion et diplomate, parcourt l’Europe.
Ce qui le conduit à Lugano, à Budapest, à Prague et enfin à Sienne, le matin du Palio, doit rester secret. Il n’en parlera ni à Marge avec qui il vit, ni à Irène, lancée à sa poursuite. Il ose à peine se l’avouer : c’est l’amour de l’art, un coup de foudre, la découverte d’un artiste siennois oublié dont il a vu une œuvre par hasard à la National Gallery de Washington.
Le « Maître de l’Observance », peintre énigmatique de la Renaissance, commence à le hanter et transforme sa futile existence en une petite légende dorée.
Adrien Goetz fait de la peinture sa trame romanesque. Il entraîne le lecteur dans une troublante enquête à travers musées et collections privées. Un nouvel hymne à l’Italie par l’auteur de (Prix des Deux Magots, Prix Roger Nimier).
Gossec, pionnier de l’art conceptuel, est un mythe vivant. Marié à un top model, il orchestre depuis son château la canonisation médiatique de son centième anniversaire. Alors qu’il rédige ses mémoires, son fils est assassiné. Une chasse à l’homme s’engage dans le monde des galeries, des collectionneurs et des journalistes, jusque sur les rivages les plus secrets de la Méditerranée. Mais la vraie partie se joue sur le web…
Adrien Goetz est maître de conférences en histoire de l’art à l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne. Après un premier roman remarqué, dont le héros était un créateur contemporain imaginaire, il a fait revivre trois flamboyantes figures d’artistes du XIX siècle dans et fait paraître deux autres romans : (2004) et (2006).
Tama est une esclave. Elle n'a quasiment connu que la servitude. Prisonnière de bourreaux qui ignorent la pitié, elle sait pourtant rêver, aimer, espérer. Une rencontre va peut-être changer son destin…
Gabriel est un homme qui vit à l'écart du monde, avec pour seule compagnie ses démons et ses profondes meurtrissures.
Un homme dangereux.
Un matin, il découvre une inconnue qui a trouvé refuge chez lui. Une jeune femme blessée et amnésique.
Qui est-elle ? D'où vient-elle ?
Grande collectionneuse de prix littéraires et maître ès thrillers psychologiques, Karine Giébel est née en 1971. Elle est l'auteur de (collection « Rail noir », 2006), des (Fleuve noir, 2007) prix Intramuros du festival de Cognac 2008 et prix SNCF du polar 2009 et de (Fleuve noir, 2008). Pour (Fleuve noir, 2012), elle reçoit le prix Polar francophone du festival de Cognac et le Prix marseillais du polar en 2012. (Fleuve noir, 2013) confirme son talent et la consacre définitivement « reine du polar ». Après (Fleuve noir, 2014), elle rejoint les éditions Belfond pour la parution de (2016), qui a rencontré un immense succès, de (2016) dans une nouvelle édition augmentée, puis de (2017), un recueil de nouvelles où elle condense en quelques pages toute la force de ses romans. Les livres de Karine Giébel se sont vendus à plus d'un million d'exemplaires à ce jour et sont traduits dans une douzaine de langues.
New York Times bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.
The Capitol Game
It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist's dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of both wars.
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country's largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven…until the Pentagon's investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack's back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen…
The receptionist told Perry Mason there were two men waiting in the outer office; one of them looked like a prosperous banker, the other a tramp. One wanted to see him about some corporation law, and the other had a damage claim. So Mason said, “I’ll see the tramp. Tell the banker I can’t be bothered with corporation law.”
But it turned out it was the tramp who wanted to sec him about corporation law. And that, in turn, merged into the story of one of the famous Lost Mines of the desert region of Southern California; of a sinewy little desert prospector and his partner, who had struck it rich, “housed-up” and, losing his health, had forsaken the big red-tiled mansion in the fashionable district of San Roberto to spread his sleeping bag out in the cactus garden at the far corner of the grounds. And finally there was the mysterious drowsy mosquito — was it a harbinger of death?
These characters, together with the lure of a fabulously rich gold deposit, discovered more than half a century ago, then lost, and lying untouched year after year, waiting only for chance and the ingenuity of Perry Mason to bring it back into the limelight, make for a fast moving, baffling Perry Mason yarn.
From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa – never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City, and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations from maneuvering in an unfamiliar city to making nice with his tall, blond son-in-law, Lloyd, to taking care of a sickly child…to finding a dead body in the rubble of a former koi pond.
The victim was Kazzy Ouchi, a half-Japanese millionaire who also happened to be Mari and Lloyd's boss. Stumbling onto the scene, Mas sees more amiss than the detectives do, but his instinct is to keep his mouth shut. Only when the case threatens his daughter and her family does Mas take action: patiently, stubbornly tugging at the end of a tangled, dangerous mystery. And as he does, he begins to lay bare a tragic secret on the dark side of an American dream…
Both a riveting mystery and a powerful story of passionate relationships across a cultural divide, Gasa-Gasa Girl is a tale told with heart and wisdom: an unforgettable portrait of fathers, daughters, and other strangers.
[Starred Review] ”What makes this series unique is its flawed and honorable protagonist… A fascinating insight into a complex and admirable man.”-Booklist
“The endearing, quietly dignified Mas, supported by a cast of spirited New Yorkers, as well as the distinctive Japanese-flavored prose, make this a memorable read.”-Publishers Weekly
“A compelling grasp of the Japanese American subculture… absolutely fascinating.”-Asian American Press
Marilee Jennings came to New Eden, Montana for a much needed break, but the dream soon turns into a nightmare when her best friend is murdered. J D Rafferty is a hardened rancher, a man whose rough charm and dark desires Mari finds impossible to resist. But when his way of life is threatened, he is determined to protect it, nomatter who gets in the way. Someone else has a stake in the wild beauty of New Eden. Someone with an appetite for evil – and the power to turn a slice of heaven into a dark paradise…
The Break is an adventure story in which the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State. Which side wins?
No one knows what caused The Break eleven months ago, but there’s no sign of its end.
England is settling into its new future as a reindustrialising concentration camp. The rest of the world is watching… waiting… curious…
It’s Wednesday the 7th March 2018—in the mainland UK. Everywhere else, it’s some time in June 1065.
Jennifer thinks her family survived The Hunger because of their smuggling business—tampons and paracetamol to France, silver back to England. Little does she know what game her father was really playing, as she recrosses the Channel from an impromptu mission of her own. Little can she know how her life has already been torn apart.
Who has taken Jennifer’s parents? Where are they? What is the Home Secretary up to with the Americans? Why is she so desperate to lay hands on Michael? Will Jesus Christ return to Earth above Oxford Circus? When will the “Doomsday Project” go live?
Can the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State, and win?
All will be answered—if Jennifer can stay alive in a post-apocalyptic London terrorised by cannibals, by thugs in uniform, and by motorbike gangs of Islamic suicide bombers.
In a snowbound village in the German mountains, a young woman discovers an extraordinary secret. Before she can reveal it, she disappears. All that survives is a picture of a mysterious medieval playing card that has perplexed scholars for centuries. Nick Ash does research for the FBI in New York. Six months ago his girlfriend Gillian walked out and broke his heart. Now he's the only person who can save her – if it's not too late. Within hours of getting her message, Nick finds himself on the run, delving deep into the past before it catches up with him. Hunted across Europe, Nick follows Gillian's trail into the heart of a five-hundred-year-old mystery. But across the centuries, powerful forces are closing around him. There are men who have devoted their lives to keeping the secret, and they will stop at nothing to protect it.
Elegantly handsome Shane Callan was trouble – dirty Harry in disguise – and not quite civilized underneath. but Faith Kincaid was stuck with him. Her decision to appear as a witness in a bribery trial had placed her in peril so great. Shane had been assigned to protect her, He wanted her to be guilty – he'd be safe then – but he knew she wasn't and he found her innocence irresistible.
Quand le commandant Corso est chargé d'enquêter sur une série de meurtres de strip-teaseuses, il pense avoir affaire à une traque criminelle classique.
Il a tort : c'est d'un duel qu'il s'agit. Un combat à mort avec son principal suspect, Philippe Sobieski, peintre, débauché, assassin.
Mais ce duel est bien plus encore : une plongée dans les méandres du porno, du bondage et de la perversité sous toutes ses formes. Un vertige noir dans lequel Corso se perdra lui-même, apprenant à ses dépens qu'un assassin peut en cacher un autre, et que la réalité d'un flic peut totalement basculer, surtout quand il s'agit de la jouissance par le Mal.
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award.
At the age of nine, Pet is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her older sister’s book of secrets—horrors that indeed come true.
At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her sister to wreak vengeance. At thirty, Pet attains strength and power enough to protect her from the present—but not from her sister’s raging past.
With humour, insight, compassion and unrelenting suspense, Patricia Geary’s Strange Toys takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural, and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and the unknown.
STEPHEN HAWKING, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de nuestro tiempo, se ha convertido en un icono intelectual no sólo por la osadía de sus ideas, sino también por la claridad y agudeza con que las expresa. En este nuevo libro, Hawking nos conduce hasta la frontera misma de la física teórica -donde la verdad supera muchas veces a la ficción- para explicarnos en términos verdaderamente sencillos los principios que rigen nuestro universo.
Como otros muchos físicos teóricos, también Hawking se ha lanzado en pos del grial de la ciencia: la escurridiza Teoría del Todo que guarda el corazón del cosmos. Con un estilo asequible y divertido, nos lleva de la mano en su búsqueda de los secretos del universo, desde la supergravedad hasta la supersimetría, desde la teoría cuántica hasta la teoría M, desde la holografía hasta la dualidad, nos hace alcanzar las últimas fronteras de la ciencia, donde la teoría de supercuerdas y las p-branas podrían esconder la clave final del rompecabezas, y nos permite asistir entre bastidores a una de sus aventuras intelectuales más ambiciosas donde trata de «combinar la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein con la idea de Richard Feynman sobre la posibilidad de encajar múltiples historias en una teoría completa y unificada que habrá de describir todo cuanto sucede en el universo».
Con su característico entusiasmo, el profesor Hawking nos invita a acompañarle en ese extraordinario viaje por el espacio-tiempo, hacia un increíble país de las maravillas en el que partículas, membranas y cuerdas danzan en once dimensiones, allí donde los agujeros negros se evaporan y desaparecen llevandose consigo su secreto, y donde habita la pequeña nuez, la semilla cósmica originaria, de la que surgió nuestro universo.
El universo en una cáscara de nuez es imprescindible para cuantos deseamos comprender el universo en que vivimos. Como ya sucedió con la Historia del tiempo, el nuevo libro de Hawking nos ilumina y nos conmueve porque a través de su lectura experimentamos también nosotros la misma emoción que embarga a la comunidad científica a medida que va arrancando al cosmos sus secretos.
Fleeing Stalin’s advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child’s life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved her half-witted brother, struggles to take care of him. Justine, a concert pianist raped during the war, strives to regain her ability to make music. Father Geras, an illegitimate child steered into the priesthood by family, finds purpose in guiding his exiled people. Trying to resume normal lives, longing for their country’s freedom, they wait to go home.
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