Title: After the Fire - Robert Goolrick - book
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If you liked Gone with the Wind ... Diana Cooke was born with the century, but her name goes back much further, to America's founding fathers. Descended from a distinguished lineage, she lives in Saratoga, a magnificent Virginia estate that is the pride of the family. But this house, like its name, is weighed down by two abysmal debts. The first is financial, and the only way to pay it off is through marriage. The second is deeper: the House of Cooke and the prestige of their name are built on the South's darkest sin: slavery. And that debt can only be repaid by a curse. Perhaps it is now approaching in the form of Captain Copperton. In this splendid novel, Robert Goolrick offers us a fable about love, debt, and the weight of our fathers' sin. After the fire is followed by an unpublished autobiographical novel, Three Lamentations .
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Title: The Peony Pavilion - Lisa See - book Summary :
China, 17th century. Secluded in the women's luxurious apartments, Peony kills time before her wedding. But rather than engage in proper exercises—embroidery or singing—she prefers to immerse herself in dangerous readings that exalt mad love. When, on the occasion of her birthday, her father allows her to attend, hidden behind a screen, the performance of his favorite opera, Peony falls in love with an elegant poet. Passion will burn the young girl and take her on a journey that will last well beyond her own death.
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Title: Five Days - Douglas Kennedy - book
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Laura Warren is married and supports her family alone as a medical imaging technician. At 42, she feels she is reaching a turning point in her life. Richard Copeland is an insurance salesman and finds himself in a difficult relationship. During a five-day getaway to Boston, their two solitudes will meet. Words, books, and films shared, then the obvious: mad love, and hope reborn... But are we free to choose happiness? "In this new novel, Douglas Kennedy confirms his talents as a psychologist and his astonishing ability to slip into a woman's skin." Madame Figaro "An extraordinary power of evocation." Le Journal du Dimanche
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Title: The gods always travel incognito - Laurent Gounelle - book
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Imagine: You are on the edge of a precipice. At that fateful moment, a man saves your life. In exchange: your commitment to do whatever he asks. You accept, and you're embarked on an incredible journey where everything seems out of control. More than a novel, a reflection on oneself that invites us to take our destiny into our own hands. "These delightful pages punctuate a novel 'with messages' that shows us how to overcome our fears and inhibitions." Erik Pigani – Psychologies
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Title: The Unfinished Manuscript - Franck Thilliez - book
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Press review: "Franck Thilliez returns with a cleverly crafted mystery about violence and perversion... His plot keeps us on the edge of our seats, so hang on tight... Impeccable, as usual!" Michel Primault, Femme Actuelle "At Thilliez, it's the construction that grabs you by the guts." Éric Russon, Moustique Presse de Belgique "Franck Thilliez knows how to take us into the web of his imagination and ensnare us with mastery" Eric Hahn, Pèlerin "No downtime, no time to catch your breath, the pace is so frenetic and deliberately jerky. The Unfinished Manuscript lives up to all its promises. Devour it without delay." Aline Chartrel, La Voix du Nord " The Unfinished Manuscript , Franck Thilliez's latest novel, is once again set to be a great success." Morgane Goldenstein, La Voix du Nord "Thilliez hits hard with this trompe l'oeil thriller" François Lestavel, Paris Match "A diabolically orchestrated plunge into terror" Yves Calvi, RTL Near Grenoble, a car ends up in a ravine after a chase with customs. In the trunk is the body of a woman. At the gas station where the driver for the last time, video surveillance is clear: the man is not the owner of the vehicle. Léane Morgan and Enaël Miraure are one and the same. The schoolteacher turned thriller queen has always kept her private life a secret. Her life? A marriage of which nothing remains except a location, L'Inspirante, a villa nestled on the edge of the dunes of the Opal Coast, and the trauma of her daughter Sarah's kidnapping. Her husband's sudden assault will bring back the worst of the past four years. In the wind, the sand and the fog, one question among others arises: to whom, to what to turn, when the only truth is that everything becomes foreign to you?
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Title: The Land of the Free - Ken Follett - book
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Between young Mack, condemned to near slavery in the Jamisson coal mines, and the non-conformist Lizzie, the disappointed wife of one of the master's sons, it only took a few glances and furtive encounters to spark the attraction of hearts. But in 18th-century English society, still feudal despite the new ideas of its philosophers, both have no choice but submission and revolt. Rebel, fugitive, recaptured and condemned, Mack will not see Lizzie again until he is on the Virginia plantation where he was deported for forced labor. Only then will they understand that happiness is earned by forcing destiny... From the slag heaps of Scotland to the docks of the Thames, from slave-owning America to the first forays into the still-virgin West, the author of The Pillars of the Earth takes us on a superb epic where passionate love merges with the aspiration of an entire era for freedom and justice.
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Title: Summer Lightning - Tamara McKinley - book
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Miriam Strong has always known how to face adversity. When she discovered, in 1969, on the eve of her seventy-fifth birthday, that she had been robbed of her inheritance, she did not hesitate for a moment and decided to take on a new fight, undoubtedly the most important of her life: to restore her father's honor and recover what was owed to him to pass it on to her daughter and granddaughters. This quest for truth and justice will be for Miriam an opportunity to take the path of memory. A journey that will take her from the devastated Ireland of the 1890s to Australia in the first half of the 20th century, a harsh, wild new world, but filled with hope for many pioneers who came there to seek their fortune - including her father who mysteriously disappeared in an opal mine, leaving her orphaned at the age of twelve.
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Title: Divergent - Volume 1 - Veronica Roth - Book
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Different. Determined. Dangerous. DIVERGENT
Tris lives in a post-apocalyptic world where society is divided into five factions. At 16, she must choose her new affiliation for the rest of her life. In a rare case, her aptitude test is inconclusive. She is divergent. This secret could save her... or kill her.
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Title : The Inheritance - Volume 1 - Eragon - Christopher Paolini - Book
Summary : Eragon is only fifteen years old, but the fate of the Empire is now in his hands! While chasing a deer in the mountains, young Eragon, aged fifteen, stumbles upon a magnificent blue stone, which turns out to be... a dragon egg! Fascinated, he takes it to Carvahall, the village where he lives in poverty with his uncle and cousin. He doesn't imagine then that a dragon, carrying an ancestral heritage, will hatch from it... Very quickly, Eragon's life is turned upside down. Forced to leave his family, the young man embarks on a quest that will take him to the far reaches of the empire of Alagaësia. Armed with his sword and guided by the advice of Brom, the old storyteller, Eragon will have to face with his dragon the terrible enemies sent by King Galbatorix, whose demonic malevolence knows no bounds.
EAN: 9782747014403
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Title : The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly - Book
Summary : "Inside the Mind of a 16-Year-Old Killer" is the article that LA Times reporter Jack McEvoy is working on . It's an article in the form of revenge: his superiors want to fire him. Quickly realizing that the kid is innocent, he sets out to prove it. This isn't to everyone's taste. Manipulated and hunted, Jack becomes the plaything of a phantom force, seemingly immaterial – and all-powerful. Born in 1956, Michael Connelly, the undisputed master of American crime fiction, has received the highest literary awards, including the Edgar for best crime novel for The Sewers of Los Angeles. He is notably the author of The Poet and Blood Credence . His novels are available in Points. "By exploring the evil side of new technologies, he creates a deep and captivating thriller." The Parisian
EAN: 9782757822807
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Title : Harry Potter, volume 3 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Joanne K. Rowling - Book
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Sirius Black, the dangerous criminal who escaped from Azkaban, is searching for Harry Potter. The apprentice wizard begins his third term under heavy guard. On the agenda: divination lessons, making a shriveling potion, training hippogriffs... But is Harry truly safe from the danger that threatens him? A breathtaking book that will sweep you away in a whirlwind of surprises and emotions.
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Title : The Circle - Bernard Minier - Book
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A new investigation for Commander Martin Servaz.
Why is death so relentless in Marsac, a small university town in the Southwest? A murdered teacher, a breeder devoured by his own dogs... and a cryptic email, perhaps signed by the most devious of serial killers. Confronted in his investigation with a terrifying universe of perversity, Commander Servaz will learn about fear, for himself as well as for his family. "Bernard Minier persists and signs. After the resounding success of his first novel, Ice , here he is confirming his talent with The Circle . " The Literary Figaro "The author masterfully manages his suspense and we slow down our reading so that the book doesn't end." Femina Version 2013 Grand Cognac Libraries and Media Libraries Prize
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Title : M, the edge of the abyss - Bernard Minier - Book
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A French woman is hired by a Chinese digital giant in Hong Kong. As soon as she arrives, violent employee deaths multiply. Why?
Hong Kong. Between its frenetic streets and sleepless neon lights, the city's skyscrapers rise. Immense technological aquariums where the future of humanity is decided. It's there, in the sticky atmosphere of a tropical summer, that a French woman, Moïra, joins the Ming firm, a concentrate of artificial intelligence supposed to anticipate our desires. But for the young woman, the utopia turns into a nightmare. Behind the walls of the top-secret center, employees are found dead, raped, tortured. What is the Ming empire really looking for? Welcome to M... On the edge of the abyss.
EAN: 9782266306560
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Title : Alex - Pierre Lemaitre - Book
Summary : Who really knows Alex? She's beautiful. Exciting. Is that why she was kidnapped, held captive, and left to the unimaginable? But when Commissioner Verhoeven finally discovers her prison, Alex has disappeared. Alex, smarter than her tormentor. Alex who forgives nothing, who forgets nothing, and no one. A chilling thriller that juggles the codes of murderous madness, a diabolical and unpredictable mechanism where we find the talent of the author of Wedding dress.
[Pierre Lemaitre] raises the noir genre to a height that is extremely rare among French writers: that where literature stands. Jean-Christophe Buisson, Le Figaro magazine.
Jubilant, literary, Hitchcockian. Yann Plougastel, The Literary World.
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Title : The Furious Army - Fred Vargas - Book
Summary : That night, she said slowly, Lina saw the Furious Army pass by. And Herbier was there. And he was shouting. And three others too. Is it an association? The Furious Army, she repeated quietly. The Great Hunt. You don't know it? No, said Adamsberg, holding her astonished gaze. But you don't even know its name? The Mesnie Hellequin? she whispered. I'm sorry, said Adamsberg. Veyrenc, the Furious Army, do you know this gang? A look of intense surprise crossed Lieutenant Veyrenc's face. Your daughter really saw them? With the missing person? Where? Where they pass by our house. On the road to Bonneval. They've always passed by there. Veyrenc discreetly detained the commissioner. Jean-Baptiste, really, you've never heard of this? Adamsberg shook his head. Well, Danglard, he insisted. Why? Because, for all I know, it's the announcement of a shock. Perhaps a real shock. There's no doubt that the "cursed" siblings from the Normandy village will join Fred Vargas' galaxy of memorable characters. As for Momo-mèche-courte, he's the common thread of the double investigation led here by Commissioner Adamsberg, confronted by the immemorial Lord Hellequin, leader of the Furious Army.
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Title : The Black River - Arnaldur Indridason - Book Summary :
Blood has dried on the parquet floor, the carpet is stained. With his throat slit, Runolfur is wearing the T-shirt of the woman he likely drugged and raped before dying. Could his latest victim be his murderer? No struggle, no weapon. Only a spice-scented shawl lies on the bed. Inspector Elinborg is investigating this model employee who frequented gyms and bars... for their female clientele.
Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason is a journalist and film critic. His novels have been published in over 30 countries. The Woman in Green And The City of Jars are notably available in Points.
“A gem of detective literature.”
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Title : The Secret of Making Unwearable Socks - Annie Barrows - Book
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It wasn't the summer project Layla had dreamed of. Write the story of a small West Virginia town and its sock factory, Les Inusables Américaines. And yet... Summer 1938. Layla Beck, a wealthy young city girl, rejects the wealthy match her father has chosen for her and finds herself forced, for the first time in her life, to work. Recruited by a government agency, she travels to Macedonia to write a commissioned book about the small town. The summer promises to be deadly boring. But she'll fall under the spell of the penniless eccentrics she's boarding with. In the Romeyn family, there's... The daughter, Willa, twelve years old, who has decided to turn her back on childhood... The aunt, Jottie, who can't forget the tragedy that cost the life of the man she loved... And the father, the disturbing Felix, whose activities seem unorthodox. Formerly the owner of the factory, this family's history is closely linked to that of the town. From suspicions to revelations, Layla will forever change the lives of the members of this community, and bring to light buried truths and poorly healed wounds.
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Title : Based on a true story - Delphine de Vigan - Book
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2015 Goncourt High School Students' Prize - Renaudot Prize 2015
“This book is the story of my meeting with L. L. is every writer's nightmare. Or rather, the kind of person a writer should never meet. Renaudot Prize 2015 2015 Goncourt High School Students' Prize
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Title : The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst - Book
Summary : It all begins in 1913, in the garden of the Sawle family's Middlesex country house. A Cambridge student, the shy George Sawle has invited one of his classmates, the aristocratic and enigmatic Cecil Valance, to the Two Acres. These days in the family home and the poem they inspire in Cecil will change their destiny. And even more so that of Daphne, George's sister. In this spring, when nothing heralds the imminent upheavals of history, a pact is secretly formed between the three young people, the starting point for a striking fresco spanning the 20th century, by one of the greatest contemporary English novelists.
A vast novel that you have to let yourself sink into. You come away dazzled like never before. Alexandre Fillon, Livres-hebdo. Welcome to the vertigo of time and the whims of memory. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles.
This book received the Best Foreign Book Award in 2013.
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Title : A Summer of Heatwave - Françoise Bourdin - Book Summary :
A bright sun, a loving marriage: all that's missing is the song of the cicadas to complete the picture. In Cucuron, it's a day of celebration: the Soubeyrands are swimming in happiness, led by Emma, mother of the groom and owner of the Café des Tilleuls. We could easily forget the letters, signed by a mysterious crow, that she's been receiving since her son's return from Brazil. Someone has probably not forgotten the disappearance of Laurent Labaume, which occurred seven years earlier. It is well known that the Soubeyrands, mother and son, were not unconnected. The justice system, alerted, quickly takes a close interest in the family...
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Title : Apocalypse on Command - Ken Follett - Book
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The Great California Fault, a weak point in the Earth's crust, experiences frequent earthquakes. The one that just occurred, of low intensity, might have gone unnoticed if it hadn't been claimed by terrorists. A claim that neither the FBI nor the police take seriously. Only seismologist Michael Quercus is troubled, because everything indicates that this earthquake was artificially induced. Then a second earthquake shakes a small town, kills the inhabitants, destroys the houses, causes panic, and mysterious "Soldiers of Heaven" threaten to cause a third, apocalyptic one. As comfortable with scientific anticipation as with espionage or historical epics, the author of The Pillars of the Earth draws us here into a terrifying... and perfectly plausible disaster scenario.
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Title : The Choice of Others - Françoise Bourdin - Book
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Lucas and Clémence, Virgile and Philippine, two couples of friends like so many others. But these four thirty-somethings don't take turns inviting each other over for dinner; they live under the same roof, in a huge chalet designed for a large family. Friends since high school, the two mountain-loving boys took their family to the heart of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region, and since then, four adults and two little girls have been living in harmony at an altitude of 900 meters. But will this beautiful harmony survive the return to the region of Clémence's ex-husband, who has been unable to bear their separation and is determined to win back the woman he still considers his wife? It's Jealousy herself who invites herself to the chalet, at the risk of contaminating its inhabitants...
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Title : We'll regret it later - Agnès Ledig - Book
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One stormy summer night, there's a violent knock at the door of Valentine, the village teacher. On the steps, she discovers a soaked man, a sleeping little girl in his arms, burning with fever. She needs help. Valentine offers it, spontaneously accepting the disturbing intrusion. Eric and Anna-Nina, his 7-year-old daughter, enter the house. They stay there until the child recovers. There are destinies that we believe are all mapped out, but sometimes all it takes is a single flash of lightning to change them. The paths of life and the heart are unpredictable... "It's sweet and it's precious, it sometimes tightens the heart and it also brings joy. Life, what!" Émilie Poyard – SHE "Agnès Ledig tells us sincere stories rooted in real life." Christophe Mangelle – metronews
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Title : The First Night - Marc Levy - book
Summary : Love is the ultimate adventure, m But the adventure is not without dangers... "There is a legend that tells that the child in his mother's womb knows everything about the mystery of Creation, from the origin of the world to the end of time. At his birth, a messenger passes over his cradle and places a finger on his lips so that he will never reveal the secret entrusted to him, the secret of life. This finger, which erases the child's memory forever, leaves a mark. We all have this mark above our upper lip, except me. The day I was born, the messenger forgot to visit me, and I remember everything..." From the Ethiopian highlands to the frozen expanses of the northern Urals, Marc Levy concludes with this novel the fantastic epic begun with The First Day .
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