40 Document (s)

Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of Enid Bolam, a middle-aged woman working in a psychiatric clinic in London. Who is the killer ? A doctor of the clinic ? A porter ? A nurse ? Dalgliesh explores their relationship with the victim. They could all have a reason to kill her. Of course, the murderer might also be somebody from outside the clinic...

From beloved daughter to abused foster child to crack addict, this is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown.

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the technical university of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours ; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns ans retraits to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhytms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

William Tobias Merrick, an energic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and fermant, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies. the city in question in London in the 1690s, but it is also New York in the 1990s. The new technologies are diving bells, pneumatic winches, and "sucking worm" drainage engines; but they are also wireless telecommunication devices, patented biotechnology processes, and revolutionary electronic Internet routers. Unfolding simultaneously in two distant - but remarkably similar - periods of history. Extravagance is a comic picaresque novel of financial mania, the story of a world gripped by a terminal case of irrational exuberance. Navigating the perils of both eras is a single cast of characters : young Will himself, a make on the make, eager to do whatever it takes to make his fortune; Benjamin Fletcher, the developper of a pioneering new technology destined to set the world on fire; and Ben's sister, Eliza, the gorgeous and disconcertingly assertive woman who is as desirable as she is elusive. can Will succed in his efforts to win both Eliza and the fortune that her brother's new technology seems likely to bring him ? and can he make it all happen before the general euphoria of the age reaches its inevitable climax ?

Le jeune Buddy vit à la campagne avec sa vieille cousine, Miss Sook. Dans Un Noël, Buddy a six ans et se retrouve contraint de quitter sa campagne adorée le temps des fêtes pour les passer à La Nouvelle-Orléans avec son père, cet inconnu qui l'intimide. Pour le jeune garçon, Noël ne sera plus jamais comme avant... Dans L'invité d'un jour, Buddy a huit ans lorsque sa cousine et meilleure amie Miss Sook décide d'inviter son pire ennemi à leur dîner de Thanksgiving : Odd Henderson, petit voyou de son école qui l'a choisi comme souffre-douleur. Truman Capote conte à merveille les affres de l'enfance dans ces deux nouvelles largement autobiographiques.

Ever dreamed of starting over? Issy Randall can bake. No, more than that û Issy can create stunning, mouth-wateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe’s bakery she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. So when she’s made redundant from her safe but dull City job, Issy decides to seize the moment and open up her own cafe. It should be a piece of cake, right? Wrong. As her friends point out, she has trouble remembering where she left her house keys, let alone trying to run her own business. But Issy is determined. Armed with recipes posted to her from Grampa, and with her local bank manager fighting her corner, Issy attempts to prove everyone wrong. Following your dreams is never easy and this is no exception. Can Issy do it?

Paul Sheldon has written several bestsellers about Misery Chastain, but he now knows that he can write better novels. Involved in a car accident which leaves his legs badly broken, Paul is rescued by a nurse called Annie Wilkes, who also happens to be his number-one fan. Is Annie going to nurse Paul back to health or has she other intentions ? Découvrez un thriller de Stephen King en VO, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte.

La 4e de couv. indique : "Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't."

Printemps 2009. Sur l’île d’Antigua. Un oligarque russe, menacé par des rivaux avec l’appui du Kremlin, décide de livrer sa connaissance intime des circuits internationaux du recyclage de l’argent mafieux en échange de la protection des services secrets de sa Majesté et de la possibilité d’être accueilli avec sa famille en Angleterre. L’oligarque, dépeint d’une manière qui lui attire, au moins en partie, la sympathie du lecteur, mobilise à cet effet un jeune couple britannique en vacances sur l’île et destiné à le mettre en contact avec les dits services. La passion du tennis les a rapprochés. De l’île caribéenne à la finale Federer / Söderling à Roland Garros, en passant par les recoins feutrés des banques suisses et les paysages romantiques de l’Oberland bernois, la trame narrative permet à l’auteur d’exposer avec une rage contenue, à la fois l’étendue des enjeux économiques en question et la duplicité des acteurs dont le cynisme ne semble avoir d’égal que la cupidité ou la soif de pouvoir. «La parole a été donnée aux hommes pour dissimuler leurs pensées,» disait Talleyrand. L’usage de la parole crée une aliénation chez les personnages. Il engendre une lutte entre les naïfs qui subissent cette aliénation et les cyniques qui l’exploitent à leur profit. La guerre est là au commencement et à la fin. Et toujours, elle broie les plus faibles.

Qu'ils se déroulent dans les montagnes de l'Ouest, sur une île côtière de Caroline du Nord ou sur le fleuve Colorado au sein du Grand Canyon, les trois récits qui composent cet ouvrage sont autant de voyages initiatiques au coeur de l'Amérique des grands espaces. A travers les rencontres qui mettent aux prises trois hommes et l"archidruide" David Brower, ce livre dépeint la confrontation entre les besoins d'une société en développement constant et ceux d'une nature sauvage toujours plus rare. John Mcphee nous entraîne parmi les somptueux paysages et brosse le portrait sincère et authentique d'un homme qui leur a consacré son existence.

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the britrish Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under ghis tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone : she needs her daughter's help.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, the Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal.