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Title : In a Nutshell - Ian McEwan - book
Summary : "Cramped in my mother's womb, with only a few weeks left before my entry into the world, I keep watch. I hear everything. A plot is being hatched against my father. My mother and her lover want to get rid of him. The beautiful, so beautiful Trudy prefers to my father, John, a talented poet in need of recognition who nevertheless loves her madly, that ignorant Claude. And now I learn that Claude is none other than my uncle: my father's brother. A crime of passion coupled with a fratricide that may see me born in prison, orphaned forever! I must stop them." There is something rotten in the kingdom of England in the 21st century... After The Best Interest of the Child, Ian McEwan never ceases to surprise and composes here, in a short novel of remarkable intensity, a brilliant rewriting of Hamlet in utero.
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Title : The Little Girl of His Dreams - An Investigation by Inspector Brunetti - Donna Leon - book
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Just as Commissioner Brunetti has buried his mother, a strange request is presented to him by a missionary who has just returned from Africa: could the police officer be interested in the activities of a sect that has been operating in Venice for some time? Brunetti hesitates. Perhaps Father Antonin Scallon is simply afraid of competition. On the other hand, if the guru is trying to fleece his followers, he will have to take a closer look. But soon, a more serious matter will monopolize Brunetti's thoughts. One cold, rainy morning, a little girl's body is found in a canal. Strangely, no one has reported her disappearance, nor that of the jewelry recovered from her clothes. Who is this child? Who caused her death? To protect what secrets was she murdered? Until Brunetti discovers the truth about her, this little girl will haunt his nights...
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Title : The Ball of the Wolves, volume 1 - The Cursed Room - Mireille Calmel - book
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~Between history and legend, a powerful and captivating novel December 1500. At the foot of the ramparts of Montguerlhe Castle, under the icy moon, lies a young girl with long, soiled hair. She is bloodied, unconscious. Because she was too beautiful and refused her master, Lord François de Chazeron, he had her husband hanged as they left their wedding, raped her, beat her, and branded her with a hot iron. But he was wrong to have her thrown to the wolves. For she is not a young girl like the others. The women in his family have strange powers. Some, like Isabeau, speak to wolves. Others, like her sister Albérie, transform on nights of the full moon... And from now on, these two women, as well as little Loraline who will be born from this filthy rape, will live for only one thing: revenge! A deadly plot is brewing around François de Chazeron. When he is struck down by an unknown illness, his wife doesn't seem very upset... but she is afraid of him and so calls a doctor. He agrees to sit at the sick man's bedside to try to understand. One night, half asleep, he thinks he sees a long silhouette leaning over the bed where the lord is moaning. Can Death have such a pretty face? In any case, the doctor falls in love and will do anything to find this young girl, whether she is real or a ghost. Isabeau, Albérie, Loraline, these women hardened by trials will be torn between their desire to live life to the fullest and the thirst for revenge that never leaves them. Their destiny takes us from the underground passages of an Auvergne fortress to the ballrooms of the Louvre, from the Cour des Miracles to that of François Ier, from the prophecies of a child who will become Nostradamus to the search for the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone... Blending alchemy, sensuality, and cruelty, Le Bal des louves sweeps us into a whirlwind of violent feelings and twists and turns. As in Eleanor's Bed, historical elements and forgotten legends have allowed Mireille Calmel to weave the threads of her plot. Under her pen, reality is transformed, and one would swear it was the truth. The supernatural slips into the characters' lives with such spontaneity and obviousness that the reader is captivated. This second novel reaffirms it: this young woman has incredible talent.
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Title : Muchachas - Volume 2 - Katherine Pancol - book
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These girls are fearless.
They don't ask anything from others.
All to themselves.
Hide their fear under a smile.
It is the surest way to move forward, to invent, to invent oneself. They feel like they have wings, they fly away, fall and take off again with renewed vigor.
There are secrets, mysteries, betrayals.
Obstacles to overcome.
Words of love thrown out in a jiffy.
Life, what!
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Title : The Great Journey Volume 1 - Mohawks and the People Above - Nicolas Vanier - book
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After the extraordinary success of his novel Wolf (200,000 copies sold in all formats)... As the cinema release of another of his great successes is being prepared, Gold under the snow (Christmas 2012)... Nicolas Vanier offers us a new great novel of breath and adventure.
"You will go by land, stone, sea, and ice." These are the last words Raian, the old chief of the Nahanni Indians, addressed to Mounio, his sixteen-year-old great-grandson. The Great Journey! The highest mission there is. Very rarely initiated, even more rarely successful. Among the obstacles, and not the least: love, which immobilizes. For the road is long... The new Zuhis, the Traveler, must connect the tribes and recreate the bond that is the unity and strength of the Nahannis. Everyone will await his return. We must not delay. A threat looms over the peoples above... Munio sets off on a journey of 48 moons. By canoe, on horseback, and then with a team of dogs, he will connect the different villages, tirelessly crossing the taiga, the tundra, and the ice floes. He will learn a lot from the different tribes. From the women too. He will also go astray and risk losing his quest... But ardent, virile and valiant, the Traveler will never give up... And Mounio, in this extraordinary odyssey, will gradually build the man he will become...
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Title : Death Cure - Harlan Coben - book
Summary : The master of your sleepless nights returns with a new collector's item: after Without a farewell, here is a second novel, unpublished in France, written by a Harlan Coben barely twenty-five years old! A mysterious clinic that discovers a miracle treatment for AIDS, a serial killer who brutally murders gay patients, a scandal that threatens Washington... against the backdrop of a medical-political conspiracy, a plot woven by a diabolical Harlan Coben.
After Without a Goodbye, a new collector's item published in 1991 in the United States, signed by a young, diabolical Harlan Coben. A highly secure New York clinic. A doctor who commits suicide. Patients brutally murdered. Coincidences? Conspiracy? What if the upcoming announcement of an extraordinary medical discovery had triggered this deadly wave? Sara Lowell, a prominent young journalist, leads the investigation. But her revelations could well make her the next victim of a mysterious serial killer... Pharmaceutical lobby wars, political machinations, media pressure, lies... At the heart of a debate that remains as heated as ever, a harrowing and terribly realistic thriller by the man who would become the master of your sleepless nights.
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Title : Marie - Marek Halter - book
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After The Bible in the feminine , Marek Halter's new challenge.
"Is there a person in the world who does not know the name of Mary, mother of Jesus, the one who brought about the greatest spiritual upheaval since the birth of monotheism? Yet, what the Gospels tell us about her is summed up in a few elliptical and mysterious verses. During the years it took to write this novel, which paints a portrait of "my Mary," I tried to imagine who this Miriam of Nazareth could have been, born in Galilee in the chaotic kingdom of Israel, facing Roman occupation. What ties did she have with the resistance and one of its most popular leaders, Barabbas? What was her relationship with the Essenes of Damascus, the sect of therapists? And with her distant cousin John the Baptist? Born in Poland, where the cult of Mary dominates the Catholic Church, I have been fascinated since my childhood by the destiny of this young Jewish woman at the origin of Christianity. One day I had to go looking for her. Today, I would like to share this fascinating story with you.
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Title : Bed bug - Katherine Pancol - book
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Rose is a young biologist. She is conducting research in Paris and New York on a firefly, Lamprohiza splendidula, which shows great promise for medical research. Although she studies the sexual alchemy of insects and their reproduction with great mastery, she finds herself completely helpless when faced with Leo when she falls in love with him.
Life is not like being in a laboratory.
And it's not his mother (hidden behind dark glasses) nor his grandmother (who talks to God and her toes) who will be able to help him.
Bed bug or the romantic disarray of a woman on the edge of a bed.
“An irresistible novelist.”
“Well-crafted stories, told with intelligence, generosity and ambition.” The Point
“Literature that gives a little hope” The World
"And what if she were, in her own way, modern, a skimmer of the little things that make great things, of the most tenuous observations, of the colors of the soul?" The Parisian
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Title : Acadia, Promised Land - Alain Dubos - book
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From 1695 to 1755, the great saga of the Lestang family, their allies (the Héberts, the Melansons, etc.) and their descendants in New France and Acadia. Arriving from Béarn, Julien, Catherine, Ti'Pierre, and their parents disembark at Port-Royal in the spring of 1695. Each of the children will follow their own path, following the tumult of this distant France coveted by the English. Julien blends into the wild world of hunters and Indians; Catherine experiences passionate love affairs; Pierre becomes a feared privateer. Their destiny, as well as that of their children and grandchildren, will be eventful: discovery of a new world, passions, marriages and betrayals, exodus, fierce struggle against the English or agreement with them. All nevertheless have this in common: the conquering spirit, the visceral love for their new homeland, and the pain of exile, the inevitable tragedy to come...
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Title : Erec Rex, Volume 1 - The Eye of the Dragon - Kaza Kingsley - book
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Twelve-year-old Erec Rex, searching for his missing mother, unwittingly leaves the world as we know it. Traveling through a secret passage beneath New York's Central Station with his new friend Bethany, he finds himself in Alypium: a world hidden within our own, a beautiful and mysterious place where our ancient knowledge of magic lives on, but where everything is falling apart.
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Title : The Borgias' Golden Chimera - Juliette Benzoni - book
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Between Venice and Paris, the new adventures of the Venetian antiques dealer prince Aldo Morosini in search of the fabulous chimera of gold and emeralds that Cesare Borgia considered his talisman... While the Titanic is sinking and panic reigns on board, a beautiful young girl murders, to steal her jewels with incredible audacity, a very rich passenger: the Marchesa d'Anguisola, née Belmont. A chambermaid, Helen Adler, saw her leave with her loot but is unable to find her... No more upon returning to New York and, thinking that the murderer could have remained among the victims, she ends up forgetting. Twenty years later, in Paris, the Renaissance jewel collection of Van Tilden, a wealthy American who has just committed suicide in his castle in Touraine, is being sold. Aldo Morosini has brought to this sale a picturesque Texan client, fabulously rich, in love with Lucrezia Torelli, a singer who claims to be descended from the Borgias and wants Caesar's Golden Chimera found for her, which is unlikely to be resurrected because it belonged to the Marchesa d'Anguisola and must lie somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic. However, the sale is interrupted at the request of John-Augustus Belmont: she is offering two of the jewels of Madame d'Anguisola, her aunt. And the Chimera should have been there... The next day, Helen Adler, who has become Pauline Belmont's maid and who has identified the murderer in a newspaper, is left for dead. This is the first blood in a dramatic adventure, but others will come that could lead Morosini to his downfall...
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Title : Blue are the summers - Christian Signol - book
Summary : Aurélien, the old shepherd, has always lived alone on the causse. Life has denied him the companion who would have made his days sweeter and, worse still, the descendants to whom he would have passed on his heritage as a landowner raised under the stars, far from the cities he has never seen. During a magnificent summer, vacationers settle in the hamlet. Between Benjamin, the young adopted son of these Parisians, and the old Aurélien, an immediate and strong bond is formed. Aurélien introduces the young boy to the wild and rugged beauty of this land of short grass, stones, and junipers. Sharing the simplest joys—the flight of a sparrowhawk, watching over the flock—the old man and the child are inseparable. The separation, though inevitable, seems impossible to them.
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Title : Twins - Saskia Sarginson - book
Summary : Isolte and Viola are twins. Inseparable as children, they are now very different adults: Isolte is an editor at a fashion magazine and shares her life with a prominent photographer; Viola, destroyed by anorexia, is slowly wasting away in a hospital bed. The two sisters barely speak to each other. Why did their paths take such different directions? What tragedy separated them? As they try to unravel the threads of a summer buried deep in their minds, the terrible secrets of their past resurface, threatening to change their lives forever.
A dizzying psychological thriller with a stunning ending.
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Title : The Four Daughters of the Reverend Latimer - Colleen McCullough - book Summary :
Australia, early 20th century. There are four Latimer sisters: Edda and Grace, the eldest, twin sisters born from the first marriage of their father, a minister whose wife died in childbirth; Heather and Kitty, also twins, daughters of the former housekeeper of the presbytery who married the reverend for the second time. In 1925, the sisters, aged 18 and 19, flee the austerity of the presbytery and maternal authority to train as nurses in the hospital of their hometown, in New South Wales. There, each will also be able to give free rein to her personal aspirations, including the search for love. But the Great Depression is not far off, which could sweep away many dreams of emancipation in a society still very patriarchal... A great sentimental fresco which focuses on the destiny of four energetic and endearing young women.
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Title : Sashenka - Simon Montefiore - book
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From the last hours of the Romanov Empire to post-perestroika Russia in the 1990s, via Stalinist terror, the moving destiny of an unforgettable heroine. In the tradition of Doctor Zhivago, a dazzling fresco by one of Russia's greatest historians.
Saint Petersburg, winter 1916. In front of the Smolny Institute for Girls, Sashenka Zeitlin, a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl, is arrested. In a Tsarist Russia on the brink of collapse, while her mother continues to get drunk at parties with Rasputin and his clique, Sashenka has chosen her side. That of the revolution... Some twenty years later, Sashenka embodies the model Soviet woman. The wife of a high-ranking party official and the happy mother of two children, she nevertheless gives in to a torrid passion for a seductive writer whose ideas prove dangerously compromising. He endangers the lives of those she loves... and her own. For more than fifty years, her story remained hidden. Until a young historian delved into the KGB archives and revealed the fate of a woman faced with an impossible choice...
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Title : Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell - book
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“With a feast of fine character descriptions and each chapter treated like a painting, Rendell delicately leads us along the path of the assassin.”
Marie France The first girl had a bite mark on her neck. According to the police, DNA analysis pointed to her fiancé. No matter! The tabloids immediately seized on the story: they dubbed the killer the Rottweiler, and the nickname stuck. The last body was discovered near Inez Ferry's antiques shop in London's Marylebone district. However, since her husband's death, Inez has been supplementing her income by taking in tenants above her shop. The Rottweiler's obsessive and unpredictable activities spread suspicion within this small, disparate community: a maniac, a murderer, is hiding among them.
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Title : The Prince's Act - Amélie Nothomb - book
Summary : “There is a moment, between the fifteenth and sixteenth sip of champagne, when every man is an aristocrat.” Amélie Nothomb.
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Title : The Bestial Servant of Pastor Huuskonen - Arto Paasilinna - book
Summary : As he approaches his fifties, Pastor Oskari Huuskonen is going through a rough patch. His marriage is on the rocks, his faith is wavering, his preaching, which doesn't conform to the canons of the Church, is drawing the wrath of his superiors, and his parishioners, each one crazier than the last, are causing him a lot of worry. As if that weren't enough, the parish council decides to give him a poisoned chalice for his birthday: a bear cub who has just lost his mother, spectacularly electrocuted to death at the top of a high-voltage pylon. But Huuskonen gradually becomes attached to the bear cub and goes so far as to build him a den for the winter, where he eventually joins them, along with a charming biologist who has come to study the animal's habits. Having rediscovered her faith through contact with the pastor, the biologist, Sonia, distances herself from him, which doesn't stop Huuskonen's wife from filing for divorce. The bishop, for his part, tired of the pastor's oddities, automatically places him on leave. Huuskonen, ruined by his divorce, deprived of a home and a job, sets off on an adventure with his bear. A long journey that will take them from Odessa to Syracuse, from Malta to Southampton, in search of meaning in their lives.
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Title : Three Days and a Life - Pierre Lemaitre - book
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Three Days and a Life is part of the final selection for the 25th Hour Favorite Award. "At the end of December 1999, a surprising series of tragic events struck Beauval, first and foremost, of course, the disappearance of little Rémi Desmedt. In this region covered in forests, subject to slow rhythms, the sudden disappearance of this child caused stupor and was even considered, by many inhabitants, as a sign of the catastrophes to come. For Antoine, who was at the center of this drama, it all began with the death of the dog...
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Title : Deep Storm - Lincoln Child - book
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Deep Storm is the world's most advanced technology center, yet no researcher will ever mention its name, or even its existence. Built in the icy depths of the Atlantic, this top-secret base houses an armada of scientists subject to strict military discipline. They relentlessly drill into the ocean floor, approaching a submerged site, a mystery that has captivated humanity since ancient times: Atlantis. But a series of unknown illnesses and mental disorders suddenly overwhelm the personnel of the underwater base. Could the greatest archaeological discovery in history also be the most terrifying?
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Title : Behind the Scenes and Other Stories - Tatiana de Rosnay - book
Summary : The true, the false. The setting, its underside. Life like a theater. There are those who hide, beneath their grand airs of actresses, horrible and dark secrets. Others whose fallow memory chases after a regret, a remorse, a adored—abhorred—minute. So we play. The same scene, over and over again. Until the breakup. A grain of salt and everything falters. A name on the radio, a stranger's novel, a love note, a street from before, a shift, and the comedy ends. With her keen sense of twists, her novelistic writing, and her talent for creating unique atmospheres, Tatiana de Rosnay, through these short stories, immerses us in her world, combining fiction and personal memories, childhood anecdotes and adult impulses. A delight.
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Title : One of Two Roses - Juliette Benzoni - book
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Destined to become Queen of England by marrying the weak and pious Henry IV, the beautiful Margaret of Anjou was only fourteen years old in the spring of 1444. Intelligent and ambitious, she soon assumed the responsibility of power with firmness. But her tumultuous love affairs and her French origins quickly earned her the hostility of the people, won over to the cause of the Duke of York, the young queen's mortal enemy. Thus began the Civil War of the Two Roses, a fratricidal struggle that would tear England apart for thirty years... Desperately trying to save her husband's throne, Margaret has only one hope: that her son, young Edward, will one day rule England. From bloody battles to unhappy passions, Margaret will not escape her tragic destiny, that of a warrior heroine merciless to her enemies and too weak for her lovers.
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Title : Letter from an Unknown Woman, followed by Moonlit Alley - Stefan Zweig - book
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A Viennese writer learns from his mail that a woman has secretly loved him with absolute love for years... One night, a traveler meets in a bar a man who was once domineering, now humiliated by a sailor girl... These two short stories, published in 1922, demonstrate Stefan Zweig's art in depicting the torments of unrequited love, the passion that burns hearts and destroys lives...
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Title : Priceless Gifts - Danielle Steel - book
Summary : Paul was a rather absent father. When he suddenly passes away, his family discovers he has left them a surprising inheritance. To his eldest daughter, who works with the homeless, he leaves the necessary sum to open a shelter. He encourages the youngest to use her inheritance to travel. Thanks to him, the youngest has the freedom to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. And his ex-wife, Véronique, is entrusted with the mission of traveling to Europe in search of the artist of a mysterious painting. From Rome to Paris, from New York to Venice, this inheritance will change their lives far more than they could have imagined...
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