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Title : Why Birds Die - Victor Pouchet - Book
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Birds have fallen in Upper Normandy. It's been raining birds, and clearly no one cares. Barely a few news items in the local press. Only one young Parisian, just to escape his thesis, is fascinated by the phenomenon. Especially since it happened in the village where he grew up. He searches, he searches, he investigates. The leads multiply, each more unexpected and extravagant than the last. He goes down the Seine aboard a cruise ship, falls in love, discovers allies and enemies, invents a family, and tries to put some order into his notes and his life. Victor Pouchet has written a mischievous first novel, offering a Norman river trip like others offer a Californian road trip.
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Title : The Stranger at Queen's Gate - Anne Beddingfeld - Book
Summary : Christmas is approaching in 1899 when Elisabeth Huntly, a resourceful and creative kitchen maid, replaces the cook of the aristocratic Hewes family, who has just suffered a fall. Christmas Pudding, vanilla dessert, Stilton consommé: the list of ingredients does not include any murder. And yet, discreetly out to smoke her cigar in the garden, Beth discovers the body of a woman stabbed with a Malay kriss belonging to Lord Hewes. Very quickly, suspicion falls on the Indian valet in Lord Hewes's service. After all, wasn't he the one who provided the murder weapon? But Beth doesn't believe Rajiv's guilt - whom she knows particularly well since she regularly shares the cramped confines of her servant's room with him... The strong-willed young woman is determined to discover who committed this murder.
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Title : The Gentlemen of Grandval - Signol Christian - Book
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The Vines of Sainte-Colombe, What Men Live Through ... Christian Signol's sagas happily resurrect bygone eras and unforgettable characters. From the mid-19th century to the dawn of the 20th century, the novelist brings to life a small foundry on the borders of Périgord and Limousin, ruled by the Grandval dynasty. In the Auvézère valley, the forge master is passed down from father to son, and Fabien, the eldest, will succeed the patriarch Éloi, even at the cost of his happiness and his freedom. Forbidden loves, broken or fulfilled destinies, class struggle... Christian Signol weaves with a pen full of admiration and tenderness the destiny of the people of the castle and those who serve them, workers or peasants. This serious and gripping novel is also a magnificent tribute to these men of iron and fire driven by the passion of their charge, swept by the winds of History and progress.
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Title : The Little Silk Thief - José Frèches - Book
Summary : A few silkworm eggs and mulberry seeds... and a secret jealously guarded in China for millennia will finally be leaked outside the Great Wall, leading to the fall of the powerful Han Dynasty. It's the 3rd century AD, and the "little silk thief" is called the North Star. Threatened with death, this embroiderer with golden fingers will bring happiness to a little king of Khotan and wealth to this oasis, one of the oldest Buddhist countries. His escape is the beginning of a dizzying cavalcade on the legendary Silk Road, an epic full of twists and turns, fury and sensuality, where the reader will meet, in turn, an old Taoist hermit, a general without fear or scruples, an autistic emperor and a formidable Persian woman. With this novel, José Frèches shares his passion for China with us. He shows us how silk was, for all Chinese, a sacred fabric, a symbol of beauty and softness, but also of influence and domination. Until a lightning strike comes and turns everything upside down... A great novel at the heart of the mysteries of China
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Title : The Scarlet Sin - Jean Anglade - Book
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At the beginning of the 20th century, why did Duradieu, such a well-born man, become so cynical and wicked? Blinded by an accident, he gradually discovered his own humanity and the love of others, including that of the gentle Lucie.
In Auvergne, at the beginning of the 20th century. Everything destined Georges Juradieu for a happy life: beauty, intelligence, respect, wealth. Everything was granted to him. But, while still a child, he witnessed the assassination of his father, a banker, by the son of a man whose Juradieu bank had led to ruin and suicide. Having become the son of a bankrupt banker, Georges then discovered human wickedness. From now on, with rare cynicism and violence, he applies himself to being the most wicked everywhere, until he himself becomes a victim of his system: an accident "caused" by a foreman who hates him leaves him blind and disfigured. So, from the depths of the night, slowly, Georges Juradieu becomes aware of the hidden side of man thanks to the demonstrations of kindness, patience, and attention towards him. But above all thanks to young Lucie, who will, with great love, destroy all his past errors and strip him of his old "aspic" skin...
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Title : Rain Gods - James Lee Burke - Book
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By becoming sheriff of a small Texas town near the Mexican border, Hackberry Holland hoped to leave behind painful memories. But he discovers the bodies of nine illegal immigrants, the starting point of a difficult case...
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Title : The Grip of the Past - Charlotte Link - Book
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Think you know your loved ones? Big mistake. Who could possibly have wanted to harm Richard Linville, a former police inspector found murdered in his home in Scalby? The investigation is stalling and his only daughter, Kate, 39, a detective, like dad, decides to take matters into his own hands. Even if it means upsetting Caleb Hale, who has been assigned the case and who intends to use it to improve his image – he has just come out of rehab. The truth, however, is that Kate is moving much faster than him. She has no sooner dived into the case than the leads multiply—and, with them, the deaths. Including that of a certain Melissa Cooper, who was allegedly once the deceased's mistress. While Caleb, convinced that Richard was the victim of a criminal's vendetta, combs through the police archives, Kate, for her part, will dig into the life of this father about whom she thought she knew everything... But is she really ready to stir up the past?
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Title : The One Who Knew Everything - Ruth Rendell - Book
Summary : In June 1944, during air raids, a group of children discovers a network of underground tunnels in the green meadows of a suburb near London. Throughout the summer, these tunnels become their secret refuge. Seventy years later, this same neighborhood is covered over by modern buildings. Construction workers make a gruesome discovery in the foundations of one of the houses: a biscuit tin containing two hands, those of a man and a woman. These remnants of a barbaric act bring together the now elderly children of yesteryear and will change their lives forever. Memories return, doubts devour their certainties, and with these hands, other secrets are unearthed, including the secrets of Daphne Jones, the one who knew everything... “No one can compete with Ruth Rendell when it comes to obsession, paranoia, and unfortunate coincidences!” Stephen King
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Title : Barbarian Nights in Bordeaux - François Fuentes - Book
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Title : The Absence of the Ogre - Volume 4 - Dominique Sylvain - Book
Summary : "Every man carries within him an ideal garden. That of Louis Guillaume Giblet de Montfaury combined delicacy and luxuriance, freshness and darkness. Luminous and dark, mixing the scents of childhood with the fragrances of unknown worlds, it would draw its roots from the travels of a young botanist who would spend years dreaming it up, and a whole life making it emerge from sweet France." It is this Eden, protected for centuries by the walls of a convent, that a real estate developer wants to eradicate. Lou Necker, the rocker strangled in the Parc Montsouris, had violently opposed the "Tolbiac-Prestige" operation. The alleged murderer, the one all the police are looking for, is an American-born gardener named Brad Arceneaux. But for Ingrid Diesel, her friend Brad is the gentlest of men, his ogre-like build is only a pretense! All that remains is to prove her innocence to the insufferable Commander Sacha Duguin. The investigation she will lead with her sidekick Lola Jost has its roots in the botanist's paradise, the past of Ingrid and Brad, and will uncover the sinister mysteries of Tolbiac-Prestige. With dialogues à la Audiard, scents that she conjures from the slightest blade of grass, Dominique Sylvain is at the peak of her talent, just like Ingrid and Lola, whom the reader met in Passage du Désir, winner of the 2005 Elle Policier Readers' Prize.
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Title : Revolution - Sébastien Gendron - Book
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Standing in the middle of a highway bridge, legs slightly apart, body erect, right arm along the hip, left arm bent and supported by an orthosis, Pandora Guaperal has a Glock 23 placed on her temple, hammer raised, wadcutter bullet in the chamber, index finger on the trigger set to one kilo of pressure, safety catch in the on position . Facing her, at the exit of the tunnel, a vehicle approaches. Behind it, thousands of others whose only horizon is the road to their vacation. Pandora is ready: the revolution can't wait. And it's worth a bullet to the head. To resist the absurdity of the world, Sébastien Gendron, the author of Road Tripes and La Revalorisation des déchets, also has a weapon: nonsense and subversion in a black comedy, between Frédéric Dard and Monty Python.
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Title : In Praise of the Missing Piece - Antoine Bello - Book
Summary : Who murdered Rijk Krijek and Olof Niels, two of the most prominent champions of the JP Tour, the professional speed puzzle circuit? Upton Sutter, the tyrant who rules over the intellectual quartet of the Puzzlology Society? It is said that Sutter, usually busy discussing the division of space in Margaret Richardson's puzzles, cannot come to terms with the overwhelming success of the JP Tour. Nicholas Spillsbury, the young idiot with a prodigious visual memory that allowed him to become the youngest winner of the JP Tour? It is said that Spillsbury felt increasingly threatened by the exploits of Olof Niels... Charles Wallerstein, the extremely wealthy boss of the Ubiqus group and creator of the JP Tour? It is rumored that each murder boosts the audience for the JP Tour broadcasts on Ubiqus channels... Can you piece together the puzzle?
EAN: 9782070749669
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Title : Doggy bag - Season 4 - Philippe Djian - Book
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Le Vaudeville Prize (formerly La Coupole) 2007
What was feared has happened: Victor Sollens has hanged himself. The water level is falling, the river is returning to its bed, Irene is safe and sound, but the old man could not bear to be rejected by his own people - for some vague story of betrayal of which he was allegedly guilty. For his part, David discovers that Josianne is not pregnant, which he is not very happy about since that was the reason he married her. Suffice to say that for some people things are not going very well. Now, several months have passed. The late season is magnificent, nature astonishingly lush. And there is great pleasure in writing about it, about the journey of souls. Today , on these things that we have before our eyes, strangely beautiful and threatening.
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Title : Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis - Book
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Five years after the dazzling Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis changes register and takes the stage to become the central character of Lunar Park. We remember the decadent characters Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) and Victor Ward (Glamorama), the artificial paradises, the glory and the violence that were at the heart of their experiences. As if to dismiss a sulphurous reputation, mixing his own memories, his demons and the characters who populate his previous texts, Ellis decides with Lunar Park to play himself as a married man, father of a family, living on a huge estate in Midland County. Ultimately, a bourgeois life divided between the shopping center on Saturday afternoons, sessions with a couples therapist, and dinners with neighbors. A comic twist that turns into a nightmare. The narrator, Bret Easton Ellis, thinks that Proust's madeleines are tangerines, that his house on Elsinore Lane is haunted, that the specter is his dead father and perhaps also the murderous hero of American Psycho, that he must rediscover the simplicity of the sentences of his first novel... A hallucinatory and jubilant dream that mixes autobiography and astonishing visions: Bret Easton Ellis plays with humor and virtuosity on the myth of the writer to write a powerful and masterfully controlled novel. Lunar Park appears almost simultaneously in the United States, England and France. The author will be present in France at the time of the book's release.
EAN: 9782221104118
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Title : My Heroines - Douglas Kennedy - Book
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Portraits of women in search of freedom in an America dominated by the cult of success
The pursuit of happiness - A Dangerous Relationship - The Discreet Charms of Married Life Their names are Sara, Sally, Hannah. These energetic and strong-willed women are simply looking for happiness, but fate decides otherwise. And they will fight, struggle to escape the headwinds that carry them away: against the social and ideological burdens of McCarthyism for one, to free themselves from an unsatisfying life and a husband who turns out to be perverse for another, to escape a past that resurfaces for the third. With his immense talent as a storyteller, Douglas Kennedy manages to penetrate the hearts of women through the portraits of these heroines in search of freedom in a moralizing and stifling America dominated by the cult of success. "That's what a novel is: love at first sight, dilemmas, regrets – and the near certainty that happiness is always conjugated in the conditional or imperfect tense. [...] Kennedy does what he wants with his reader. How good it is, sometimes, to let yourself be led by the nose." Éric Neuhoff - Le Figaro
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Title : The Curse of Satapur - Sujata Massey - Book
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“A gem. Historical mystery at its best.” New York Journal of Books
India, 1922. Perveen Mistry has joined her father's law firm, becoming the first female lawyer in India. This status is not without controversy, given that only men are allowed to plead in court. But when a curse appears to befall the royal family of Satapur, a small princely state practicing purdah (strict separation of women and men), she is the only one who can lead the investigation. The Maharajah and his eldest son died abruptly, one after the other, under strange circumstances. As the Dowager Maharani and her daughter-in-law vie for control of the young crown prince, Perveen finds herself at the center of dangerous power struggles. Between ancient jealousies and deadly vendettas, will she be able to protect the royal children? A captivating mystery that takes us to early 20th-century India and sheds light on the role of women there. “A fascinating snapshot of British India combined with a masterful investigative piece.” Library Journal
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Title : Frictions - Philippe Djian - Book
Summary : Five episodes of a life, five demons impossible to chase away. Such is the program of Frictions. Handsome, crazy about his mother, married to a model and having found the solution to his money problems, the narrator has everything he needs to get out of it, at least in theory, because in practice it's much, much more complicated.
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Title : La Hire - Or The Wrath of Jehanne - Régine Deforges - Book
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In 1429, Etienne de Vignoles, a great captain, known as "La Hire", scoured the French countryside at the head of his rovers and waged war on behalf of King Charles VII. For many years, most of the kingdom had been under English rule. It was then that a seventeen-year-old peasant girl from Lorraine, named Jehanne, made a name for herself: she claimed to have received from God the mission to deliver Orléans from its occupiers and to have the king crowned in Reims. She succeeded. Everything would have ended there if the "Maid" had not wanted to continue the war to "drive the English out of France." She failed in front of Paris, then was taken prisoner at Compiègne. La Hire, Gilles de Rais, her fellow soldiers, Guillaume de Lathus, the man who loved her, the ribalds of Mother Catherine, the gypsies, all tried the impossible to free her.
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Title : You will kill the angel - Sandrone Dazieri - Book
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Death lurks, as beautiful as it is fatal. Will you be its next victim? When the Milan-Rome TGV train arrives at the platform, the police make a gruesome discovery: all the business class passengers are dead. While the first clues point the investigation toward an attack, Assistant Commissioner Colomba Caselli, with muscles of steel and a fragile soul, has serious doubts. For her, only Dante Torre, the "Man in the Silo," is capable of seeing clearly through this fog of lies and false leads. They quickly discover that this massacre is just the umpteenth episode in a long series of carnage, over which hovers the shadow of a mysterious female figure. She leaves no trace, just a name: Giltiné, the Lithuanian angel of the dead. After the success of You will kill the father , a new investigation by Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre. "Dazieri created two of the most memorable characters in the world of crime fiction." Jonathan Kellerman. "With his atypical and grandiose thrillers, Sandrone Dazieri is Italy's new leading author." Antoine Mallet, Espace culturel Leclerc, Cleunay.
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Title : Miracle - Danielle Steel - Book
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A violent storm in San Francisco will turn the lives of three people who were never meant to meet up upside down.
For Quinn Thompson, the storm will bring down the barriers he's built around himself since his wife's death. For his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, it will be the starting point of a timely friendship. And for Jack Adams, the carpenter tasked with repairing Quinn and Maggie's homes, it will be a unique opportunity to help two people and receive the greatest gift of all. As bonds develop between these three characters, something extraordinary happens. Maggie is reborn, and Jack finally shares the dark secret he's been hiding for years. As for Quinn... This man, consumed by guilt over sacrificing his family for his career, now yearns for nothing more than to set sail on a solo round-the-world voyage. But as his plan takes shape, his friendship for Maggie turns into love, and he soon finds himself faced with a difficult choice...
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Title : A Two-Faced Truth - Michael Connelly - Book
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Large-scale drug trafficking and a two-faced truth. Still volunteering to work on cold cases for the San Fernando police, Harry Bosch is called to a crime scene at a pharmacy. The two employees, father and son, have just been murdered by hitmen, and all leads point to a trafficking ring of painkillers, which, if taken carelessly, turn into real drugs. Bosch doesn't hesitate for a second and launches into the investigation. But suddenly, he's accused by the Los Angeles police of having, thirty years earlier, tampered with evidence to send a serial killer to death row. Bosch will have to prove his innocence, and the game is far from over. Because there are two kinds of truth: the one that leads to freedom and the other, which leads to darkness... "Connelly tells us two stories that, each taken separately, would be an exciting read on their own, but which, read together, make this novel a classic of the genre." Jeff Ayers, Associated Press
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Title : The Lady of Aquitaine - Jacques Chaban Delmas - Book
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Title : The Devil's Claw - Lara Dearman - Book
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"I'm not afraid of the dark... just what's hidden there." Hounded by her demons, Jennifer Dorey left London to return to her childhood home in Guernsey with her mother, where she became a reporter for the local newspaper. She thought she could take a breather. She was wrong. When the body of a young woman washes up on a beach, the journalist conducts her own investigation and unearths several similar deaths spanning fifty years. Even more disturbing, all the victims had marks on their arms similar to a symbol carved into a rock on the island: the "devil's claws," which legend has it were left by Satan himself... An island so close to France and yet so little known: Discover Guernsey, its inhabitants, its folklore, its beaches, its little murders. An investigation by Jennifer Dorey in the heart of the Channel Islands, for all fans of Peter May. Soon to be adapted into a TV series.
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Title : The Snack Thief - Andréa Camilleri - Book
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A pensioner stabbed in an elevator, a Tunisian machine-gunned off the coast Vigàta, a flamboyant prostitute, a dwarf colonel, an old schoolteacher in wheelchair… and a snack thief. With the appearance of a child in the midst of what already made the charm of the Montalbano series - the colorful characters, the tenderness of the a look at a corner of Sicily — the gourmet and grumpy commissioner is going to be confronted for the first time with the Secret Services, the embodiment of an Italy occult and evil.
In trying to save a child against the murderous reason of state, Montalbano will be faced with choices that will challenge him at his most intimate level itself, while giving it a new and unique depth.
"Commissioner Salvo Monialbano is back... The Sicilian policeman created by Andrea Camilleri who became the favorite literary hero of Italians have kept their lucid humor, their taste for good food and their disillusioned intelligence that allows him to unravel the thread of complex intrigues Sicilians".
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