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Dans la vie de Sarah, il y a un bol rouge, des carnets pour écrire, trois médecins, une amie de toujours, quelquefois Julien, et beaucoup de questions. Dans la vie de Sarah, pas de place pour Janvier, qui pourtant s''y installe, evinçant tout le reste. Dans la vie de Sarah il n''y a plus que Janvier. Un jour, c''est sur, elle le tuera.

Qu''est-ce qu''être un Juif français ? La tentation est grande pour un Juif d''apporter à la question de l''identité une réponse purement juive. Mais Bernard Kanovitch repousse cette solution. Il ref

En Pere, navegant, i la Carme, muntanyenca, decideixen danar, plegats, a creuar lAtlantic, dacomplir la quimera de qui viu a la mar i per a la mar. Una passejada per locea damunt del veler Solstici, que en Pere havia construit amb la il·lusio posada en aquesta travessa. Un viatge que es perfilava tranquil, portats de costa a costa pels alisis, i que resulta força atribolat, amb mal temps, mars enfurismats i mil i una dificultats que el converteixen en una aventura apassionant. LAtlantic a quatre mans es el llibre daquest viatge, patit, gaudit entre tots dos, escrit entre tots dos, que ens transmet duna manera directa, punyent, totes les seves vivencies, emocions, sensacions, pors... LAtlantic a quatre mans es la historia dun somni fet realitat.Pere Fores i Carme Parareda

Dick and Felix Francis team up for another father/son collaboration with the fast-paced thriller SILKS. Their latest page-turner is once again set at a race track, and revolves around a barrister who has regrets after taking on the case of a jockey accused of murder. When he begins to feel pressure to purposely throw the case, he is thrown into a moral crisis of whether to protect himself or go against everything he believes in. Dick Francis is a former jockey, and his many tales of the track have been a huge hit among racing and mystery fans alike.

Un célèbre homme d''affaires se donne la mort à l''antenne, en direct, d''une balle dans la bouche. C''est un choc terrible pour les Athéniens, mais une aubaine pour le commissaire Charistos, qui en

A haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of "Astrid & Veronika" Linda Olssonas first novel, "Astrid & Veronika," introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extraordinary understanding of human relationships. With her second novel, she once again charts that terrain in a novel that also explores the significant impact of history on individual lives. In Sonata for Miriam two events occur that will change composer Adam Ankeras life forever. Embarking on a journey that ranges from New Zealand to Poland, and then Sweden, Anker not only uncovers his parentsa true fate during World War II, but he also finally faces the consequences of an impossible choice he was forced to make twenty years beforeaa choice that changed the trajectory of his life.

Unes golfes rònegues. Un espai desolat on algú s'acaba de suïcidar. L'inici de l'obra sembla tancar definitivament una porta. Però hom no pot estar mai segur d'haverse alliberat del tot. Ni tan sols

Toutes les fenêtres dans la nuit racontent une histoire différente. Un peu de la nôtre aussi. Je guette des ombres aux fenêtres. Selon qu''on aperçoit une bibliothèque ou l''éclair d''un écran de tél

Paris, une nuit de février 1578. Dans une ruelle sombre des abords de la Bastille, Louis de Clermont d''Amboise, sire de Bussy, gentilhomme courageux et loyal, tombe dans l''embuscade que les mignons du roi Henri III lui ont tendue. Seul contre cinq, il ne doit la vie sauve qu''a l''intervention providentielle d''une belle inconnue blonde comme un ange. Ainsi commence l''histoire d''amour qui forme le cur de La Dame de Monsoreau, histoire lumineuse qui se detache sur un fond de sombres intrigues politiques et de noires rivalites de pouvoir. En 1578, en effet, la royaute est menacee de toutes parts : guerres civiles entre protestants et catholiques, ambitions du duc d''Anjou, frere cadet du roi, complot des Guises pour s''emparer du trone et promouvoir un catholicisme integriste. D''un meme elan, Dumas mene le lecteur de la petite maison des Tournelles au palais du Louvre, de l''intimite des amants au cur du pouvoir royal, en un roman d''amour eperdu aussi bien qu''une fresque saisissante du regne du dernier des Valois.

Olivia, everyones favorite porcine heroine and star of the Caldecott Honor-winning "Olivia," is back in an all-new holiday adventure. As Kris Kringles #1 enthusiast, she busies herself by preparing for the best Christmas ever. Everyone''s favorite Caldecott honor-winning porcine and #1 Kris Cringle enthusiast is helping to make the season brighter than ever. Christmas is coming, and Olivia is incredibly busy. She has to wait for Santa, make sure dad sets up the tree, wait for Santa, watch mom make the Christmas dinner, wait for Santa, oversee the care with which the stockings are hung and, of course, OPEN HER PRESENTS Do you see how hard it is to be so helpful during the holidays A lovingly-told and lavishly-illustrated "Olivia Helps With Christmas" is the perfect stuffing for any stocking, and the newest star atop the Olivia series.

Un filou, qui se dit avocat, ne gagne plus rien. Il lui faut de l'étoffe pour remplacer ses habits usés jusqu'à la corde. Il se fait fort d'en rapporter sans rien débourser. La Farce de Maître Pathelin, écrite au XVe siècle, met en place une belle mécanique comique dont le succès depuis cinq siècles ne s'est pas démenti. Le rire se déploie au rythme d'un ballet de ruses sans cesse renouvelées : flatterie éhontée, délire verbal, jeu de langage, invention de stratagèmes toujours plus ingénieux... Chacun cherche à tromper l'autre. Qui l'emportera ? Maître Pathelin le beau parleur ? Guillaume le marchand benêt ? le naïf Thibaut l'Agnelet, berger de son état ?

Verdun, avril 1916. En première ligne, l''épouvante des tranchées : un gouffre de peur, de faim, de froid. Mais pas seulement. Non loin de l''ennemi déclaré, un autre, plus sournois, sévit. Un adjuda

Dans une petite ville de la province hongroise, un respectable professeur de latin mène une vie terne et solitaire, dénuée de surprise. Lorsqu''il entreprend de tenir son journal, pour " faire passer

Erri De Luca accompagne la célèbre alpiniste italienne Nives Meroi dans l'une de ses expéditions himalayennes. Réfugiés sous la tente, en pleine tempête, ils engagent une conversation à bâtons rompus. Dans ce lieu magique à la jonction entre le ciel et la terre, où la beauté des montagnes contraste avec la violence des conditions climatiques, les récits d'altitude de la jeune femme sont une trame où se tissent réflexions et souvenirs de l'auteur autour du métier d'écrire et de la Bible. Présenté sous les traits d'une Pénélope qui n'a de cesse de faire et de défaire son ouvrage - car son ascension se conclut fatalement par le retour vers la plaine et par un nouveau départ vers une nouvelle conquête -, le personnage de Nives, symbole de force et de courage, est l'occasion pour l'auteur d'explorer plus avant les chemins de son écriture et de dévoiler au lecteur d'autres facettes de son parcours à la fois humain et littéraire.

Jack war ein aufstrebender Kunstler - aber seit seine Familie einem brutalen Mord zum Opfer fiel, kennt er nur noch ein Ziel: Gerechtigkeit fur alle, denen ein geliebter Mensch genommen wurde! Jack und seine Partnerin Nikki haben sich darauf spezialisiert, Killer aufzuspuren und sie zu einem Gestandnis zu zwingen. Nikki ubernimmt die Rolle des Lockvogels, Jack fuhrt die Verhore. Durch eins seiner Opfer erfahrt er von einer geheimen Serienmorder-Community im Internet. Jack schleust sich dort ein, um ein Mitglied nach dem anderen auszuschalten. So stot er auch auf einen Killer, der sich The Patron nennt - und kein anderer ist als der Morder seiner Familie! Jack versucht, ruhig zu bleiben. Es geht ihm um Gerechtigkeit, nicht um Rache. Doch wer zu lange Bestien jagt, lauft Gefahr, selbst eine zu werden ...

The year is 1959, and strange events are brewing in Paris, a city where nothing (and no one) is as it seems. We meet Will, who hails from Detroit and works at an international advertising agency, which is also a front for the CIA. Then there's the enchanting Zoya, who could cast a spell with her looks--and, as a witch, she often does (she also recently impaled her ex on a spike). Inspector Vidot, on the other hand, is a hardworking police detective who cherishes a quiet evening at home. Until he follows a lead on a particularly gruesome murder--and finds himself turned into a flea. And the adventure wouldn't be complete without Oliver, a fun-loving American patrician who has come to Paris to launch a literary journal with the support of certain secretive friends. Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of angry witches, and a weaponized LSD program, and you have Toby Barlow's "Babayaga" a wickedly sharp tale of the City of Light that's part love story, part thriller, and pure brilliance.

"How much of our lives is real and how much is an illusion? The world's gaze is focussed on the feats and daring of the amazing Harry Houdini, while not a soul is aware of down-and-out Martin Strauss. However, Strauss' fate is inextricably linked with the magician's, and as Houdini continues to rise, and Strauss continues to fall, their lives will converge in spectacular and devastating fashion...At once entertaining and suspenseful, historically rich and cleverly told, The Confabulist is an novel of magic and memory, truth and illusion, and the ways that love, hope, grief, and imagination can - for better or for worse - alter what we perceive and what we believe."

As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin's enslaved on a galley, and when he finally escapes, he finds himself in less than friendly hands. Without the ability to draft which has defined him ...Meanwhile, the Color Prince's army continues its inexorable advance, having swallowed two of the seven satrapies, they now invade the Blood Forest. Andross Guile, thinking his son Gavin lost, tasks his two grandsons with stopping the advance. Kip and his psychopathic half-brother Zymun will compete for the ultimate prize: who will become the next Prism.

Friendship, betrayal, revenge, and the dawn of Flamenco .1748, Seville: Caridad, a former Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Forced to leave behind her young son, she has just arrived by boat to forge a new life for herself in Spain. When she meets Milagros Carmona, a young, rebellious gypsy, the two women instantly become friends. Milagros, like the rest of her people, is standing up to the vicious persecution of gypsies. When Milagros introduces Caridad to her exotic life on the edge of society, her life is changed forever.From the bustle of 18th-century Seville to the theatres of Madrid, THE BAREFOOT QUEEN is a riproaring tale of friendship, betrayal and identity. Drawing us into the world of tobacco smuggling, music, dance, and gypsies, it tells the magnificent story of the birth of Flamenco.

A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic Northanger Abbey by the bestselling crime author Val McDermid. The second book in The Austen Project.For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. But if Cat can tear her eyes away from the page, shes in for a shock: the very stuff of her dreams is about to come true.An invite to the Edinburgh Festival from some wealthy neighbours throws her in the way of a mysterious young man, Henry Tilney; a like-minded friend, Isabella Thorpe; and her odious brother, who threatens to ruin Cats chances of adventure. But this heroine is not so easily deterred, especially when shes singled out by the Tilney family to stay with them at their imposing gothic castle, Northanger Abbey.Turrets and creaking doors there may be, but in the depths of the Scottish Borders Cat is isolated from the outside world, with no phone signal and no internet. Shes all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets and a family who are not quite as they seem. Is real life about to become more terrifying than the world of her imagination?

Une pièce prise entre deux feux : d'une part un pamphlet révolutionnaire et, d'autre part, un mélodrame flamboyant. L'amour entre le major Ferdinand de Walter et Louise Miller, fille d'un musicien, c

Ecco un classico della poesia italiana ed europea studiato e commentato da altri due poeti che hanno ormai un loro posto indiscutibile nel panorama della nostra letteratura.Foscolo si occupo del Petrarca nel 1823 e di Leopardi tra il 1825-26. E proprio nell''eta di un grande risveglio culturale dove, accanto allo sbocciare della sensibilita romantica, prendeva il via il sentire estetico moderno.Il "Saggio sopra la poesia del Petrarca" di Ugo Foscolo non segna soltanto un punto fermo nella stessa storia della critica della poesia petrarchesca: e anche la testimonianza di come un grande poeta sappia ''far critica'', riuscendo a cogliere, dietro il cristallo apparentemente immobile dello ''stile'' petrarchesco, i grandi e problematici destini dell''uomo di sempre.Il commento del Leopardi alle "Rime" del Petrarca e esemplare sia perche puo considerarsi una acuta guida alla loro lettura sia perche, al contempo, e lo strumento per comprendere la poetica dello stesso autore dei "Canti".

A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighbouring base rush in to discover everyone already dead - and not just the scientists, but every living thing for 50 square miles has been annihilated. The land is entirely sterile - and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it already too late?

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.''It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books published every year. But it''s worth doing a little excavating to dig it up. The past few years have seen late-in-the-day and posthumous revivals of interest in writers such ... John Williams. Get out your pickaxes''New YorkerBreece D''J Pancake left behind an astonishing achievement. He was a master of a distinctly American vernacular, which he used to remind us of all the ways that fiction could teach us about ourselves. These stories are absolutely essential reading - Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

Jack Searle is an American widower, bringing up his two stepdaughters Lidia and Marina alone in the border town of Laredo after losing his wife to cancer.Jack often takes the girls to visit their Mexican family over the border in Nuevo Laredo. Marina, the elder sister, persuades him to let her go there without him one night, to attend a concert with her cousin Patricia. Jack wants to say no - Nuevo Laredo is a very dangerous city, controlled by drug cartels and devastated by violence and corruption. But eventually he agrees - she''s growing up and he has to let her have some independence.Marina and Patricia head out to the concert, but they never come back.A frantic hunt for them begins, with Jack leading the way. But this is Nuevo Laredo, and girls go missing all the time here. They''re lucky to find that a good cop - Gonzalo Soler - is leading their investigation, but soon the whole police force is suspended due to endemic corruption. The army take over the city, and finding the missing girls is not their priority.To survive this nightmare and have any chance of finding Marina and Patricia, Jack and Gonzalo must take the law into their own hands. Their efforts to find the girls become more and more dangerous, and they uncover truths about the city of Nuevo Laredo that neither one of them ever wanted to face.

A Captain Carmine Delmonico mystery from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.August 1969. Two anonymous male corpses are discovered in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut. After connecting the emaciated bodies to four other victims, the police realise that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose.Captain Carmine Delmonicos team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics who share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. Things become even murkier when one of them turns out to be a friend of Sergeant Delia Carstairs. Delia has also recently befriended the head of the local mental hospital, who has been trying to rehabilitate a very difficult patient.When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine realises that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi. Suddenly the summer isnt so sleepy anymore. ..

The No 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist and The Fire Witness He's Sweden's most prolific serial killer. Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff. He'll lull you into a sense of calm. Mikael knows him as "the sandman". Seven years ago, he was taken from his bed along with his sister. They are both presumed dead. He has one target left. When Mikael is discovered on a railway line, close to death, the hunt begins for his sister. To get to the truth, Detective Inspector Joona Linna will need to get closer than ever to the man who stripped him of a family; the man who wants Linna dead.

L''Anna és la bibliotecària de Húsavik, un petit poble de pescadors d''Islàndia. Quan rep una carta que firma "el teu pare que t''estima", s''obre dins seu una porta que creia que havia tancat per se

Dans la campagne andalouse. Yerma est allée porter son repas à son mari, qui travaille dans les oliviers. Cela fait trois ans qu'elle attend un enfant. Elle rencontre la vieille païenne, mère de neuf

Ce livre est la reproduction fidèle d''une oeuvre publiée avant 1920 et fait partie d''une collection de livres réimprimés à la demande éditée par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d''un partenariat avec

Les amateurs d'opéra sont réunis à la Fenice de Venise où ce soir-là, Wellauer, le célébrissime chef d'orchestre allemand, dirige La Traviata. La sonnerie annonçant la fin de l'entracte retentit, les

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, "Othello "is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers.

Am Grab seines Bruders begegnet Christian dessen Frau Karoline, die in der Zeit vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg seine Geliebte war. Vieles liegt im Dunkel der Erinnerung, und Christian versucht, sich das langst vergessene oder verdrangte? Geschehen zu vergegenwartigen. Damals: Karoline geht noch zur Schule, als Christian sie in einer kleinen Stadt an der Odermundung kennenlernt. Er selbst lebt schon seit einiger Zeit in Berlin, wo er in linken intellektuellen Kreisen verkehrt, mit denen er den Glauben an eine bessere, kommunistische Zukunft teilt. Karoline ist fasziniert und folgt ihm in die Reichshauptstadt. Statt der sozialistischen Revolution kommen aber die Nazis, und das junge Paar flieht nach Paris. Dort stellt sich den beiden und ihren Freunden bald die Frage: Im Exil bleiben oder zuruckkehren? Und so trennen sich ihre Wege.

Una confessió d'amor amb el cor obert a la mare malalta; l'autofàgia com a única possibilitat per a sobreviure; la llum encegadora de l'amor en l'ombra de la ceguesa; la persecució en el no-res de pr