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Anne Perry

A Sunless Sea

<p>Anne Perry's spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled readers for a generation. The <i>Plain Dealer</i> calls Monk "a marvelously dark, brooding creation"--and, true to form, this new Perry masterpiece is as deceptively deep and twisty as the Thames.<br> <br> As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little--only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but--described as quiet and kempt--she doesn't appear to be a fallen woman.<br> <br> What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monk's investigation?<br> <br> While the public cries out for blood, Monk, his spirited wife, Hester, and...</p><

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Reflections on Life and Death

Our last story, “The Gallery of His Dreams” (September 1991), by the Hugo-award-winning former editor of Kristine Kathryn Rusch, won the 1991 Award for best short fiction. Ms. Rusch has had fifteen novels published under her own name. Her latest books include: a mainstream hardcover written under the name Kris Rusch; mass market paperback; written with Dean Wesley Smith; and Science Fiction novel that was a finalist for England’s prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award.<

Anne Perry

Blind Justice: A William Monk Novel

<div><p>For a generation, Anne Perry’s <em>New York Times</em> bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great men sometimes make unfortunate choices.<br><br>In Perry’s stunning new novel, Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members’ hard-earned charitable gifts appear to have ended up in the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft, paying for his fine home and the stylish outfits of his wife and daughters.<br><br>Taft is accused of extortion, and brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, is chosen to preside over his trial. It seems clear that Taft is indeed guilty. However, at the last second, the defense produces a witness who completely undermines the charges. Then Rathbone makes a well-meaning but reckless move that could ruin his career, his reputation, and his life.<br><br><em>Blind Justice</em> presents a rich and lively panorama of London life, from the teeming Thames docks to the wealthy West End, while unfolding a magnificent courtroom drama. And while justice, law, and morality hang in the balance, Hester and Monk race to save their distinguished friend Rathbone from disgrace. The incomparable art of Anne Perry grips us fast until the final, unforgettable scene.<br><br><strong>PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRY AND HER WILLIAM MONK NOVELS</strong><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>A Sunless Sea</strong><br><br>“Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”—<em>The New York Times Book Review</em><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>Acceptable Loss</strong><br><strong> </strong><br>“Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue.”—<em>The Star-Ledger</em><br><em> </em><br><strong>Execution Dock</strong><br><br>“[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”—<em>The Boston Globe</em><br><br><strong>Dark Assassin</strong><br><br>“Brilliant . . . a page-turning thriller . . . blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail.”—Jeffery Deaver, author of <em>Edge</em><br><br><strong>The Shifting Tide</strong><br><br>“The mysterious and dangerous waterfront world of London’s ‘longest street,’ the Thames, comes to life.”—South Florida<em> Sun-Sentinel</em><br></p><p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Set in Victorian England, bestseller Perry's entertaining, if flawed, 19th William Monk novel (after 2012's A Sunless Sea) poses a complicated moral question. The Thames River policeman's wife, Hester, can't help wanting to assist Josephine Raleigh, a nurse who works with her at a clinic for prostitutes and is in despair over her father's debt, since Hester's own father killed himself when he was unable to meet his financial obligations. Hester is disturbed to learn that the senior Raleigh's woes stem from being coerced into making donations he couldn't afford to a suburban London church, whose leader, Abel Taft, is charged with fraud. A new judge, Sir Oliver Rathbone, a friend of the Monk's, presides over the trial. The interesting ethical bind Rathbone finds himself facing could have been more sharply framed, and the resolution's tidiness will be a minus for some. Agent: Donald Maass, Donald Maas Literary Agency. (Aug. 27) </p><h3>Review</h3><p><strong>PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRY AND HER WILLIAM MONK NOVELS</strong><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>A Sunless Sea</strong><br><br>“Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”—<em>The New York Times Book Review</em><br><strong> </strong><br><strong>Acceptable Loss</strong><br><strong> </strong><br>“Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue.”—<em>The Star-Ledger</em><br><em> </em><br><strong>Execution Dock</strong><br><br>“[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”—<em>The Boston Globe</em><br><br><strong>Dark Assassin</strong><br><br>“Brilliant . . . a page-turning thriller . . . blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail.”—Jeffery Deaver, author of <em>Edge</em><br><br><strong>The Shifting Tide</strong><br><br>“The mysterious and dangerous waterfront world of London’s ‘longest street,’ the Thames, comes to life.”—South Florida<em> Sun-Sentinel</em></p></div><

Marilynne Robinson

Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

The Terry Lectures Series

<p>In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought — science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.</p><p>By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.</p><

Richard Preston

Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

SUMMARY: Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never dreamed of.Panic in Level 4 is a grand tour through the eerie and unforgettable universe of Richard Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that refuse to leave one’s mind. Here are dramatic true stories from this acclaimed and award-winning author, including:• The phenomenon of “self-cannibals,” who suffer from a rare genetic condition caused by one wrong letter in their DNA that forces them to compulsively chew their own flesh–and why everyone may have a touch of this disease.• The search for the unknown host of Ebola virus, an organism hidden somewhere in African rain forests, where the disease finds its way into the human species, causing outbreaks of unparalleled horror.• The brilliant Russian brothers–“one mathematician divided between two bodies”–who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find hidden order in the number pi (π).In fascinating, intimate, and exhilarating detail, Richard Preston portrays the frightening forces and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world, once again proving himself a master of the nonfiction narrative and, as noted in The Washington Post, “a science writer with an uncommon gift for turning complex biology into riveting page-turners.”From the Hardcover edition.<

Marilynne Robinson

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.<

Elizabeth Peters

Čuvar horizonta

Marilynne Robinson

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book.<

Djevičanski Plavo

Tracy Chevalier

A J Rich

The Hand That Feeds You

<p>Morgan's life seems to be settled — she is completing her thesis on victim psychology and newly engaged to Bennett, a man more possessive than those she has dated in the past, but also more chivalrous and passionate.</p><p>But she returns from class one day to find Bennett savagely killed, and her dogs — a Great Pyrenees, and two pit bulls she was fostering — circling the body, covered in blood. Everything she holds dear in life is taken away from her in an instant.</p><p>Devastated and traumatised, Morgan tries to locate Bennett's parents to tell them about their son's death. Only then does she begin to discover layer after layer of deceit. Bennett is not the man she thought he was. And she is not the only woman now in immense danger…</p><

Anuradha Roy

The Folded Earth

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote enough or small enough. The world she has come to love, where people are connected with nature, is endangered by the town's new administration. The impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who divide people and threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible.<

Anuradha Roy

An Atlas of Impossible Longing

<p>On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden.</p><p>As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost — and he knows that he must return.</p><

Anuradha Roy

Sleeping On Jupiter

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping.The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next five days, the old women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a photographer battling his own demons. The fullforce of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide. Unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark past that transforms all who encounter it. This is a stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love, and violence in the modern world.<

J K Rowling

Very Good Lives : The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

<p>In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?</p><p>Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.</p><p>Sales of VERY GOOD LIVES will benefit both Lumos, a non-profit international organization founded by J.K. Rowling, which works to end the institutionalization of children around the world, and university-wide financial aid at Harvard University.</p><

Dawn Raffel

In the Year of Long Division

Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentiment, Raffel masterfully reifies the new will to absence that marks the moral and emotional bearing of her generation. The result is not just an acknowledgment of all our long divisions — the divide between impulse and the means to apprehend it, between desire and entrapment — but of the final sweet concession that we must each of us make to the futility of even the smallest mending. In the Year of Long Division gives us the triumph of craft over the obstinance of expression and the installation of a writer certain to be cited in the continuing reinvention of the American short story.<

Dawn Raffel

Further Adventures in the Restless Universe

<p>“Dawn Raffel's stories are like prismatic drops of rain, hanging from the edge of a roof or sliding down a windshield, reflecting an entire world within. The language of motherhood, of adulthood, of childhood — the language of family and individual — has never been like this. Sly and probing, with the sting of precision and pain.” —Susan Straight</p><p>“In Dawn Raffel's the oppressive truth of our mortality unsettles but does not vanquish the spirit. The woman as drudge may be "a failure at folding," but she is a rare songmaker whose dialogues with a son, a sister — the usual figures from the family romance — make for a musical and philosophical call and response. The son proposes one way to keep birds from crashing into fatally clear windows is to ‘open the windows all over the world.’ These stories promise more life. Take them to heart!” —Christine Schutt</p><p>When Dawn Raffel was a very small child, her father used to read to her nightly from The Restless Universe — a layman’s guide to physics by the Nobel Laureate Max Born. Although she loved the time spent with her father, she didn’t — despite his statements to the contrary — comprehend a word of the physics. It was her first recognition that love so often comes with imperfect understanding.</p><p>The 21 stories in are about fathers, daughters, mothers, sisters, husbands, wives, strangers, lovers, sons, neighbors, kings, death, faith, astronomical phenomena, and the way the heart warps time. Of her previous work, one reviewer stated, “Raffel takes conventions and smashes them to bits” and another called it “extreme literature.” Of Further Adventures, Publisher’s Weekly says, “Raffel's stripped-to-the-bone prose is a model of economy and grace.”</p><p>Dawn Raffel is the author of a previous collection of short stories, , and a novel, . Her work has appeared in , and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She has taught creative writing in the MFA program at Columbia University and is a magazine editor in New York City.</p><p>“Readers have come to expect from Dawn Raffel’s prose nothing less than the syllable-by-syllable perfections of purest poetry and the boldest wisdom a human heart can hold. Her new collection of pithy, exquisite fictions about the timeless crises of mothers, daughters, and wives is breathtaking and haunting in its majestic exactitudes.” —Gary Lutz</p><p>“Less has never been more than in Dawn Raffel's . These spare, high-intensity stories of brave people at the end of their ropes are not only models of writerly integrity, but monuments of the spirit asserting itself out of the depths of silence.” — David Gates</p><

Fran Ross

Oreo

Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.<

Dick Philip

L'oeil dans le ciel

<div><div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; ">Ils sont huit à avoir été précipités dans un faisceau de protons. Huit miraculés qui s'étonnent de revenir à la vie normale. Normale ? L'est-elle vraiment ? Jack et Marsha, sa femme, ressentent une sorte de gêne indéfinissable, comme si tout, autour d'eux, était bizarre, irréel. La réalité semble se fissurer, le quotidien se craqueler. Comment un essaim de sauterelles peut-il surgir de nulle part ? Pourquoi attaque-t-il Jack ? Mais surtout, pourquoi le visage et le corps de Marsha se déforment-ils monstrueusement ? Les rescapés sont-ils encore des hommes ou des simulacres ? La réalité n'a-t-elle pas fait place à un délirant monde de cauchemars, où les règles de notre univers n'ont plus cours, où tout est possible, même, dans le ciel, la présence de l'œil de Dieu qui surveille.</div><div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Loeil-dans-ciel-Philip-Dick/dp/2221021223">http://www.amazon.fr/Loeil-dans-ciel-Philip-Dick/dp/2221021223</a></div></div><

Jacob Rubin

The Poser

<p>All his life, Giovanni Bernini has possessed an uncanny gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom. As Giovanni describes it, “No one’s disguise is perfect. There is in every person, no matter how graceful, a seam, a thread curling out of them. . When pulled by the right hands, it will unravel the person entire.” As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a beautiful and enigmatic stage singer, Lucy Starlight — the only person whose thread he cannot find — and becomes increasingly trapped inside his many poses. Ultimately, he must assume the one identity he has never been able to master: his own.</p><p>In the vein of Jonathan Lethem’s and Kevin Wilson’s playful surrealism, Jacob Rubin’s is the debut of a major literary voice, a masterfully written, deeply original comic novel, and the moving story of a man who must risk everything for the chance to save his life and know true love.</p><

Salman Rushdie

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

<p>In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub — Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.</p><p>Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.</p><p>Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia’s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights — or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, where beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse.</p><

Eris Patrick

Rock Stars. Anthologie

<p class="description">Qui est ce bluesman éternel qui se cache dans le passé à Memphis, Egypte ? Quel est le message de ce prophète des temps futurs qui cite The Offspring ? Quelle est cette musique infernale qui pousse un banal camionneur à se transformer en serial-killer ? L'avènement de la société des loisirs précipitera-t-il la fin de notre culture ? Autant de questions auxquelles dix-huit auteurs inspirés par des groupes aussi marquants que The Offspring, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, Elvis Presley, Genesis ou The Sisters of Mercy ne pouvaient que répondre par une gamme de textes aussi large...</p><

Mary Rosenblum

The Botanist

Readers of Mary Rosenblum’s popular novel, have asked her what will become of the forests in that future—does she envision the entire country as a desert? Ms. Rosenblum replies, “Well no, I don’t. So I took a look at the forests of southern Oregon, and what happens to the trees, in ‘The Botanist.’ ” The author has just sold her first mainstream mystery, and she is working on —the second book in the series.<

Jennifer Roberson

Sword Bound

Sword–Dancer Saga

<p>For the first time in years, life seems settled for Tiger and Del. They run a school for sword-dancers in the South. They’re raising a two-year-old daughter. They collect income from their interest in a thriving cantina. Occasionally Tiger must dance against sword-dancers bent on killing him for forsaking the oaths and vows of the circle, but for the most part it’s an idyllic life. Until Tiger’s twenty-five-year-old son accuses him of being "domesticated."</p><p>Thus challenged by his own flesh-and-blood to reclaim his legendary status, Tiger, accompanied by Del and his son, embarks on a journey northwards that will test his sword skill and resolve, and lead him and Del into danger from an old enemy. Though Tiger had forsaken his magic years before, he now faces the choice to reclaim it, and to wield it, in order to save those he loves.</p><

Robert Reed

Mind's Eye

<p>Robert Reed has had a run of good fortune lately.</p><p>His short story, “Decency” (June 1996), won our Eleventh Annual Readers’ Award Poll, and it is currently nominated for a Hugo award. In September, his latest novel, sequel to his well-received went on sale and he was married just short of his forty-first birthday. Unfortunately, all of this good cheer doesn’t spill over into his coldly furnished new tale about how distorted the world can appear through our… .</p><p>A word of warning: there are a few scenes in this story that may be disturbing to some.</p><

Aaron Rosenberg

Jenseits des dunklen Portals

Jack Rogan

The Ocean Dark

<p>In the uncharted waters of the Caribbean, far from the usual shipping lanes, lies a mysterious island surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships — an island so remote that it’s the perfect rendezvous point for a handful of Central American arms dealers and the Antoinette, a gun-smuggling cargo ship out of Miami. Amid the wreckage of ships new and old, the crew of the Antoinette — and the undercover FBI agent on board — enter what looks like a haven for modern pirates, only to discover that it hides something far more terrifying.</p><p>In Washington, two Department of Defense scientists might understand what is about to happen. On an FBI ship monitoring the Antoinette’s illegal trade, armed agents might be able to intervene. But this assumes that the Antoinette’s crew survives their first encounter with a creature virtually unknown to man, yet whose eerie songs nevertheless echo down the corridors of mankind’s darkest legends.</p><

Anthony Riches

Thunder of the Gods

Empire

M J Rose

The Witch of Painted Sorrows

<p>Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.</p><p>Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother’s Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insists it’s dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the forbidden occult underground and Sandrine’s deepest desires.</p><p>Among the bohemians and the demi-monde, Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Then darker influences threaten—her cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. She’s become possessed by La Lune: A witch, a legend, and a sixteenth-century courtesan, who opens up her life to a darkness that may become a gift or a curse.</p><p>This is Sandrine’s “wild night of the soul,” her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris, of art, love, and witchery.</p><

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Wild Shore

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be—and dreams of playing a crucial role in America’s rebirth.<

Marcel Pagnol

Souvenirs d’enfance IV - LE TEMPS DES AMOURS

Le lecteur trouvera ici tous les chapitres que Marcel Pagnol avait écrits pour composer le Temps des Amours, et qui ont été retrouvés dans ses dossiers après sa mort.<

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Gold Coast

Orange County

21st century Orange County, CA is full of designer drugs, freeways that glide and soar. It's a mass-culture, video-saturated world for Jim McPherson who is adrift in society. He lives his life through dreams of the past. Dennis, his dad, is an aerospace engineer involved in military research, a fact that Jim ignores -- until he becomes a minor urban terrorist out of boredom. Father and son, separate for so long, are finally on a collision course.<

Chuck Palahniuk

Journal intime

<div><div style="text-align: justify;">Misty Wilmot est une femme frustrée, intelligente et sensible, coincée sur une île défigurée parle tourisme où elle travaille comme une esclave dans un grand hôtel régulièrement vide. Son mari, architecte rencontré dans une école d'art, est dans le coma après ce qui ressemble à un suicide. Plus rien ne tourne rond. L'île, secrète, devient inquiétante, génératrice de psychoses. Pourquoi Peter, avant de vouloir en finir, a-t-il scellé certaines pièces des villas sur lesquelles il travaillait ? Comment expliquer les messages haineux qu'il a bombés sur les murs, annonçant la vengeance des habitants de l'île contre les envahisseurs ? Pourquoi les autochtones se mettent-ils à regarder Misty bizarrement comme si, subitement, elle était devenue autre, comme une sorte d'ennemie ?... Un livre de Palahniuk ne se résume pas, c'est déjanté, subversif, incroyablement lucide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Journal-intime-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/2070398803">http://www.amazon.fr/Journal-intime-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/2070398803</a><br></div></div><

Kim Stanley Robinson

Le rêve de Galilée

<p>Entre vérité historique et science-fiction, un portrait original du visionnaire Galilée.</p><p>Venise, en 1609. La science est en pleine expansion. Philosophes et mathématiciens mènent leurs recherches à l’ombre de l’Eglise, qui veille à ce que leurs découvertes ne soient surtout pas trop audacieuses. C’est à cette époque que Galilée rencontre un étranger qui l’aide à mettre au point un télescope révolutionnaire. Cette invention va lui ouvrir les portes du monde dont est justement originaire cet homme : Europe, la deuxième lune de Jupiter, en 3020.</p><p>Galilée va désormais naviguer entre le XVIIe siècle et le 4e millénaire, rapportant de ses voyages dans le futur de quoi alimenter de nouvelles découvertes. Celles-ci ne tardent pas à lui valoir des accusations d’hérésie. Fusion étonnante d’histoire et de science-fiction, ce roman ambitieux dresse un portrait fouillé et passionnant d’un Galilée plus vrai que nature, tout en redonnant vie au bouillonnement intellectuel et aux controverses du XVIIe siècle.</p><

Kim Stanley Robinson

Les 40 signes de la pluie

Capital Code (fr)

<p>À Washington, Anna et Charlie Quibler oeuvrent aux applications des découvertes scientifiques visant à améliorer la vie sur terre. L’enjeu est de taille : alerter le monde sur les dangers du réchauffement climatique global et convaincre une administration réticente de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent.</p><p>L’urgence devient criante lorsque des pluies torrentielles s’abattent sur la ville, bientôt engloutie sous les eaux. Pour l’humanité, l’adoption des lois préparées par Charlie est désormais une question de vie ou de mort…</p><

Briggs Patricia

L'appel de la lune

Kim Stanley Robinson

Galileo's Dream

At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it. From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future--in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.<

Süskind Patrick

Le Pigeon

<p>89pages. in12. Broché. Lorsque lui arriva cette histoire de pigeon qui, du jour au lendemain, bouleversa son existence, Jonathan Noël avait déjà dépassé la cinquantaine, il avait derrière lui une période d'une bonne vingtaine d'année qui n'avait pas été marquée par le moindre événement, et jamais il n'aurait escompté que pût encore lui arriver rien de notable, sauf de mourir un jour. Et cela lui convenait tout à fait. Car il n'aimait pas les événements, et il avait une véritable horreur de ceux qui ébranlaient son équilibre intérieur et chamboulaient ordonnance de sa vie.</p><

Lewis B Patten

L'Orage Gronde Au Wyoming

<p>188pages. poche. Broché.</p><

James Patterson

1er à mourir

James Patterson

La 8e Confession

<p class="description">Les apparences sont parfois trompeuses...Tandis que le gotha de San Francisco assiste à la soirée la plus courue de l’année, une personne observe et attend le moment où elle pourra se venger d’Isa et Ethan Bailey, le couple star de la ville. Elle commettra le meurtre parfait... Mais la vérité peut s’avérer mortelle.Peu de temps avant, une autre personne a été retrouvée assassinée. La victime est un prédicateur porteur d’un message d’espoir pour les sans-abri. L’enquête est sur le point de tomber aux oubliettes, mais Cindy Thomas sent qu’elle tient là de quoi publier un article et décide de prendre l’affaire en main. En fouillant dans le passé de la victime, elle découvre que l’homme, qui se faisait appeler Bagman Jesus, n’était peut-être pas le saint que tout le monde croyait. C’est maintenant l’heure des confessions... Alors que la traque simultanée de deux tueurs pousse les membres du Women’s Murder Club dans leurs derniers retranchements, Lindsay voit naître une idylle entre Rich et Cindy. L’amour viendra-t-il détruire ce que les quatre amies ont mis tant de temps à batir ? Plus nerveux que jamais, ce huitième épisode du Women’s Murder Club offre au lecteur un feu d’artifices de rebondissements et de révélations. Un thriller incisif, comme seul James Patterson sait en écrire. Traduit de l’anglais par Nicolas Thiberville</p><

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