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About Face / Donna Leon
Titre : About Face Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Donna Leon Editeur : London : William Heinemann Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 278 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-434-01943-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350141 LANG LEON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible All that man is / David Szalay
Titre : All that man is Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David Szalay Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 441 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-959369-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.
Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11079889 LANG SZAL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Angela's Ashes / Frank MacCourt
Titre : Angela's Ashes Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Frank MacCourt Editeur : New York : Charles Scribner Année de publication : 1996 Importance : 364 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-684-87435-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344879 LANG MACC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Animal Dreams / Barbara Kingsolver
Titre : Animal Dreams Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Barbara Kingsolver Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2005 Importance : 352 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-092114-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : "Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070592 LANG KING LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Autumn / Ali Smith
Titre : Autumn Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ali Smith Editeur : London : Penguin Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 259 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-97331-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.
Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11337663 LANG SMITH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Becoming / Michelle Obama
Titre : Becoming Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Michelle Obama Editeur : Harmondsworth : Viking Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 426 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-33414-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11329398 LANG OBAMA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 03/06/2024 Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty
Titre : Big Little Lies Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Liane Moriarty Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 481 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4059-1636-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years.
On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease.
They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps.
But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies . . .
It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346169 LANG MORI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Billy Summers / Stephen King
Titre : Billy Summers Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Stephen King Editeur : New York : Charles Scribner Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 517 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-982182-05-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The #1 New York Times Bestseller
An Esquire Best Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
From legendary storyteller Stephen King, whose "restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job.
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
How about everything.
This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.
You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344722 LANG KING LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Book Lovers / Emily Henry
Titre : Book Lovers Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Emily Henry Editeur : New York : Berkley Books Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 377 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-44087-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didnt see coming
Nora Stephens life is booksshes read them alland she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters trip awaywith visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who shes convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that theyve met many times and its never been cute.
If Nora knows shes not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows hes nobodys hero, but as they are thrown together again and againin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allowwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories theyve written about themselves.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344516 LANG HENRY LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Titre : Brave New World Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Aldous Huxley Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2004 Importance : 229 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-947746-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress-Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11074050 LANG HUXL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Brick Lane / Monica Ali
Titre : Brick Lane Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Monica Ali Editeur : London : Black Swan Année de publication : 2004 Importance : 491 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77115-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her eider she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence-and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. But Nazneen submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until Karim, a young radical, steps into the picture. Against a background of escalating racial and gang conflict, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336593 LANG ALI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Brother and Sister / Joanna Trollope
Titre : Brother and Sister Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joanna Trollope Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2004 Importance : 311 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-7282-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336505 LANG TROL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Buried Angels / Camilla Läckberg
Titre : Buried Angels Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Camilla Läckberg Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 474 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-741961-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba.
Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack.
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE FUTURE
Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation, aided by his wife, crime writer Erica Falck, who has always been fascinated by the mystery of Ebba's abandonment and the family's tragic history.
When dried blood is found under the floorboards of the old house, it seems that the cold case involving the missing family is about to be brought back to life. And soon, Patrik and Erica are consumed by the hunt for a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried...Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336322 LANG LACK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Canada / Richard Ford
Titre : Canada Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Richard Ford Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 515 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4088-3652-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boys family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11324942 LANG FORD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Cat Out of Hell / Lynne Truss
Titre : Cat Out of Hell Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lynne Truss Editeur : London : Hammer Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 243 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-958534-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : For people who both love and hate cats comes the tale of Alec Charlesworth, a librarian who finds himself suddenly alone: hes lost his job, his beloved wife has just died. Overcome by grief, he searches for clues about her disappearance in a file of interviews between a man called "Wiggy" and a cat, Roger. Who speaks to him.
It takes a while for Alec to realize hes not gone mad from grief, that the cat is actually speaking to Wiggy . . . and that much of what we fear about cats is true. They do think theyre smarter than humans, for one thing. And, well, it seems they are! Whats more, they do have nine lives. Or at least this one does Rogers older than Methuselah, and his unblinking stare comes from the fact that hes seen it all.
And hes got a tale to tell, a tale of shocking local history and dark forces that may link not only the death of Alecs wife, but also several other local deaths. But will the cat help Alec, or is he one of the dark forces?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077686 LANG TRUSS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Christmas Feast / Katie Fforde
Titre : A Christmas Feast Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Katie Fforde Editeur : London : Arrow Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 402 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-78475-039-8 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : This is a delicious Christmas feast of short stories from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of A French Affair and The Perfect Match. Add some extra sparkle to your Christmas by joining Katie Fforde for a perfect, romantic Christmas feast of short stories. Collected together for the first time and including one brand new story. Make your Christmas wishes come true...It includes an exclusive sneak preview of Katie's new novel, A Vintage Wedding. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075310 LANG FFOR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Chronicler of the Winds / Henning Mankell
Titre : Chronicler of the Winds Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henning Mankell Editeur : London : Harvill Secker Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 233 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-86046-991-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his story.
At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, but instead he turned the gun on the bandit and ran. He made his way to the coast, encountering en route bizarre characters who gave him guidance. Upon arrival in the city Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101618 LANG MANK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible City of The Beasts / Isabel Allende
Titre : City of The Beasts Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Isabel Allende Editeur : London : Flamingo Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 406 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-714637-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Adventure seekers will find plenty of thrills in Allende's first novel for young readers. When 15-year-old Alexander Cold is sent to stay with his eccentric, gruff grandmother, Kate, while his mother is being treated for cancer, he is more than a little reluctant to accompany Kate on a writing assignment in South America to search for a legendary nine-foot-tall "Beast." However, once the expedition down the Amazon begins, Alexander's doubts are pushed out of his mind by more immediate concerns, such as keeping an eye on two suspicious members of the party: a native named Karakawe and Mauro Cari as, a wealthy entrepreneur. After Alexander's mysterious encounter with a caged jaguar, another teen, Nadia, explains its importance to him, and begins calling Alexander "Jaguar." This marks the beginning of their somewhat surreal journey: the two teens are kidnapped by the "People of the Mist," a tribe possessing the power of turning invisible, and enter a mountain to discover the mythical city of El Dorado and the enigmatic "Beasts." Reluctant readers may be intimidated by the thickness of this volume, but the plot moves at a rapid pace, laced with surprises and ironic twists. The action and outcome seem preordained, cleverly crafted to deliver the moral, but many readers will find the author's formula successful with its environmentalist theme, a pinch of the grotesque and a larger dose of magic. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057924 LANG ALLE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 15/05/2024 Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier
Titre : Cold Mountain : A Novel Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Charles Frazier Editeur : New York : Atlantic Monthly Press Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 356 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-277-13679-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057380 LANG FRAZ LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Complete Stories / Dorothy Parker
Titre : Complete Stories Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dorothy Parker Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2003, cop. 1995 Importance : 447 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-243721-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parkers talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100442 LANG PARK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court / Mark Twain
Titre : A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mark Twain Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 1986 Importance : 410 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-043064-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realises that his knowledge of the future can transform his fate. Correctly predicting a solar eclipse from inside his prison cell, Morgan terrifies the people of England into releasing him and swiftly establishes himself as the most powerful magician in the land, stronger than Merlin and greatly admired by Arthur himself. But the Connecticut Yankee wishes for more than simply a place at the Round Table. Soon, he begins a far greater struggle: to bring American democratic ideals to Old England. Complex and fascinating, A Connecticut Yankee is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100445 LANG TWAIN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Crossing the Lines / Melvyn Bragg
Titre : Crossing the Lines Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Melvyn Bragg Editeur : Sceptre Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 490 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-340-82967-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sam and Ellen, face the frontiers of middle age, Joe finds himself drawn by the intoxicating world outside home, and swept into situations that seem beyond his control. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is a masterly successor to the award-winning THE SOLDIER'S RETURN and A SON OF WAR. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100280 LANG BRAGG LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Daddy's Girls / Danielle Steel
Titre : Daddy's Girls Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Danielle Steel Editeur : London : MacMillan Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 272 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5098-7823-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Many years have passed since Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to start a new life. With a will of iron, and a lot of hard work, he eventually built the largest ranch in California. But success came at a price and, with no mother in their lives, the domineering Tucker's relationship with each of his very different daughters was complicated.
Caroline, the youngest, was overlooked by her father for her entire life. She fled the ranch as early as she could to become a wife and mother, pursuing a career writing children's books.
Gemma, his declared favourite, wanted to escape and, yearning for Hollywood glamour, became a major TV star.
Kate, the eldest, stayed at home to work on the ranch, forsaking relationships and family for a father who took her completely for granted.
When JT dies suddenly, the paper trail he leaves behind reveals much more than the sisters could ever have guessed. The truth brings a new reality, strengthening their bond with each other and helping them to understand who they really are and what they really want.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344033 LANG STEEL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Dark Moon Walking / R.J. MacMillen
Titre : Dark Moon Walking Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : R.J. MacMillen Editeur : Victoria (Canada) : Touch Wood Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 232 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-77151-066-0 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Its been more than eight years since ex-cop Dan Connor put a troubled criminal named Walker behind bars, and a year since he handed in his badge. The remote islands off the Pacific Northwest coast seem like the perfect destination for his retirement. That is until increasingly sinister events disrupt his peace. When a mysterious boat drives Connor from his anchorage and a marine biologist working in the area goes missing, Connor is forced to team up with his former nemesis, Walker. They have little in common and are from very different cultures, but when a life hangs in the balance and a terrorist plot comes into play, their distinct knowledge and skills are the perfect mix. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100718 LANG MACM LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 05/06/2024 Daughters-in-Law / Joanna Trollope
Titre : Daughters-in-Law Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joanna Trollope Editeur : London : Doubleday Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 328 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-385-61799-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336504 LANG TROL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Desert God / Wilbur Smith
Titre : Desert God Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Wilbur Smith Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 451 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-810833-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.
On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise
Egypt is under threat. Taita, a freed slave and the Pharaoh's closest advisor, must create a master plan to crush the kingdom's historic enemy and return Egypt to its former glory.
He must call on his powers as both tactician and warrior to lead a great army up the Nile, through Arabia to the magical city of Babylon, then across the open seas to Crete.
This army will meet battle and betrayal head on. But their greatest challenge will not be found on the battleground and it will threaten not only Taita's plan, but the very future of Egypt.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11324911 LANG SMITH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 05/06/2024 Doctored Evidence / Donna Leon
Titre : Doctored Evidence Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Donna Leon Editeur : London : Arrow Books Année de publication : 2005 Importance : 322 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-944675-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11053486 LANG LEO LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories / Robert Louis Stevenson
Titre : Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Robert Louis Stevenson Editeur : Vintage Books Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 239 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-951158-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : How thin is the line between good and evil?
Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll's control puts all of London in grave peril.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100440 LANG STEV LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
Titre : Eat, Pray, Love Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elizabeth Gilbert Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 349 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-8935-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Gilbert (The Last American Man) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence. First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights--the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners--Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise "betwixt and between" realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair. Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry--conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor--as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057045 LANG GILB LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Emma's Secret / Barbara Taylor Bradford
Titre : Emma's Secret Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Barbara Taylor Bradford Editeur : Dublin : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2003-2020 Importance : 506 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-836561-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns...
At the centre of this sweeping saga stands Paula O'Neill, beloved granddaughter of Emma and the guardian of her vast business empire. Paula believes that all that Emma left to the family is secure. However, beneath the surface sibling rivalry and discontent are beginning to flare.
Into this volatile mix walks Evan Hughes, a young American fashion designer. On her deathbed, Evan's grandmother told her to find Emma Harte. But Emma has been dead for thirty years; and Evan bears an uncanny resemblance to Paula O'Neill.
Troubled by Evan's presence, Paula turns to Emma's recently discovered war-time diaries to find the truth...
The decades fall away. It is London during The Blitz and Emma Harte comes vividly back to life. Working hard under war-time conditions, she is also holding her family together as bombs drop, sirens wail and her sons go off to war. As she struggles to cope, the indomitability, will power and strength that have forged Emma into the woman she is all come to the fore.
As the pages unfurl, Paula discovers the secret Emma Harte took to the grave to protect others.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344264 LANG BRAD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Every Last Secret / A. R. Torre
Titre : Every Last Secret Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : A. R. Torre Editeur : Thomas & Mercer Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 289 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5420-2019-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality.
Neena Ryder isnt a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasnt delivered, shes anxious to move up in the world. This beautiful new town is a step in the right direction. Its also making Neena aware of what she doesnt have. Namely, William. When Neenas infatuation escalates into obsession, its just a matter of eliminating a few obstacles to get the life she wants. The life next door.
As Neenas secret fixation grows, so does her friendship with Cat. But beneath their cordial interactions is a wealth of temptations, secrets, and toxic jealousy. For both women, the desire for a perfect life can turn perfectly dangerous.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344721 LANG TORRE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 25/05/2024 Exposure / Helen Dunmore
Titre : Exposure Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Helen Dunmore Editeur : London [UK] : Windmill Books Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 391 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-955929-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets.
When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested.
His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall.
She knows that she too is in danger, and must fight to protect her children. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11078327 LANG DUNM LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Fallen Angels / Tara Hyland
Titre : Fallen Angels Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Tara Hyland Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 485 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84739-853-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : An unwanted child, San Francisco, 1958. On a dark December night, a baby girl is left at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage on Telegraph Hill.
A mysterious suicide: one year later, movie star Frances Fitzgerald takes her own life. Her husband, wealthy businessman Maximilian Stanhope, is rumoured to know more about her death than he is letting on, but nothing is ever proved.
A terrible secret: What is the connection between these two events? Frances's daughter, Cara, is determined to find out. Abandoned by her mother when she is just seven years old, her childhood is filled with hardship and loss. As a young woman she finds professional success as a journalist but, on a personal level, she still struggles to trust those around her. Soon Cara becomes convinced that uncovering the secret behind her mother's death is the only way to lay her demons to rest, but learning the truth may end up tearing her apart.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101915 LANG HYLA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Falling for Rachel / Nora Roberts
Titre : Falling for Rachel Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nora Roberts Editeur : Richmond, Surrey : Mills & Boon Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 328 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-263-90214-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Do you really consider the law enough of an outlet for passion?' 'The way I play it.' Former naval officer Zack Muldoon needed a tough, no-nonsense lawyer to save his delinquent kid brother from a prison sentence. Ambitious, workaholic Rachel Stanislaski was not who he had in mind. But when he and the beautiful, cool-headed lawyer are made co-guardians of the young boy, he discovers there's a lot more to Rachel than meets the eye...and he likes what he sees. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072296 LANG ROBE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Finding Perfect / Colleen Hoover
Titre : Finding Perfect Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Colleen Hoover Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 83 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-398-52117-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The #1 New York Times bestselling Hopeless series continues with this heartwarming conclusion that illustrates the power of following a difficult journey to discover what happens next.
Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with a Friendsgiving dinner at Sky's parents' house.
But things have been off within the tightknit group and when Daniel reaches out to Six to ask the hard questions he hasn't dared to bring up since they last spoke about their shared secret, he's dismayed to learn that it's this very secret bringing a cloud over the holiday. Suddenly, Daniel must do everything he can to find answers for the one person he loves the most in the world, but will this search only lead to despair.
From an author who has joined "the ranks of such luminaries as Jennifer Weiner and Jojo Moyes" (Library Journal), this moving and unputdownable novel will stay with you long after you turn the final page.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346361 LANG HOOV LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Fire and Blood / George R.R. Martin
Titre : Fire and Blood Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : George R.R. Martin ; Doug Wheatley, Illustrateur Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2018 Collection : Voyager Importance : 706 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-830773-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Queen Visenya rose and stalked from the hall without the king's leave. That aright she mounted Vhagar ,.and returned`to Dragonstone. When her dragon passed before the moon, it turned as red as blood. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346702 LANG MART LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Fortune-Teller Told Me / Tiziano Terzani
Titre : A Fortune-Teller Told Me : Earthbound Travels in the Far East Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Tiziano Terzani Editeur : London : Flamingo Année de publication : 1998 Importance : 375 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-655071-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : It was 1976 when Tiziano Terzani was warned by the fortune-teller in Hong Kong: "Beware! You run a grave risk of dying in 1993. You mustn't fly that year. Don't fly, not even once." Sixteen years later, Terzani had not forgotten. Despite living the life of a jet-hopping journalist, he decided that, after a lifetime of sensible decisions, he would confront the prophecy the Asian way, not by fighting it, but by submitting. He also resolved that on the way he would seek out the most eminent local oracle, fortune-teller or sorcerer and look again into his future. So after a feast of red ant egg omelet and a glass of fresh water, he brought the new year in on the back of the elephant. He even made it to his appointments--Cambodia to cover the first democratic elections; Burma, for the opening of the first road to connect Thailand and China; and even Florence to visit his mother, a trip that would take him 13,000 miles across Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia and Siberia. In this way, the jet-hopping journalist rediscovered the art of travel, the intricate chains of chance which lead to discovery, and the mass of humanity he'd overlooked in his rush for newsworthy quotes. And he also saved his life. Terzani's odyssey across Asia is full of revelations and reflections on the dramatic changes underway in Asia. Having spent two decades on the continent, he brings a deep love for the place to his journeys, but also the eyes of someone troubled by the changes he sees. Burma and Laos, finally open to outside contact, are now funnels for AIDS and drugs; Thailand has been traumatised by its rapid development; China is an anarchy fuelled by money rather than ideology and Mao has been transformed into the God of traffic. Surrounded by the loss of diversity wrought by modernism, Terzani asks if the "missionaries of materialism and economic progress" aren't destroying the continent in order to save it. Fortunately, there is a flip side to his occasionally dispiriting commentary, which Terzani discovers in his hunt for fortune-tellers. Through his side trips to seers who read the soles of his feet, the ashes of incense, even the burned scapula of sheep, it becomes clear that the Orient of legends, myths and magic still determines people's lives as much as the quest for money. By staying earthbound, Terzani lived to tell of an extraordinary journey through the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of Asia.--Lesley Reed Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11059981 LANG TERZ LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Girl from the South / Joanna Trollope
Titre : Girl from the South Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joanna Trollope Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2002 Importance : 311 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-5877-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336502 LANG TRO LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Golden Girl / Elin Hilderbrand
Titre : Golden Girl Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elin Hilderbrand Editeur : London : Hodder & Stoughton Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 377 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5293-7481-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three nudges to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently off again with his high-maintenance girlfriend, shell have to think carefully where to use them.
From the Beyond, Vivi watches The Chief Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivis family will have to sort out their past and present mistakeswith or without a nudge of help from abovewhile Vivi finally lets them grow without her.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344528 LANG HILD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Titre : Gone Girl Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Gillian Flynn Editeur : London : Phoenix Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 475 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7538-2766-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction. Gone Girls toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunnes fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nicks clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isnt doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wifes head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the mediaas well as Amys fiercely doting parentsthe town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and hes definitely bitterbut is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didnt do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet? With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075042 LANG FLYNN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Happy Birthday / Danielle Steel
Titre : Happy Birthday Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Danielle Steel Editeur : London : Corgi Books Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 413 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-15480-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future!
For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single, with no interest in changing that. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April's life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday.
April's mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she's having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can't hide the fact that she is turning sixty - and the whole world discovers it on her birthday.
It is also Jack Adams' birthday - the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor.
As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075856 LANG STEEL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Highland Storms / Christina Courtenay
Titre : Highland Storms Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Christina Courtenay Editeur : Camberley (Surrey) : Choc Lit Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 318 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-906931-71-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Who can you trust? Betrayed by his brother and his childhood love, Brice Kinross needs a fresh start. So he welcomes the opportunity to leave Sweden for the Scottish Highlands to take over the family estate. But there's trouble afoot at Rosyth in 1754 and Brice finds himself unwelcome. The estate's in ruin and money is disappearing. He discovers an ally in Marsaili Buchanan, the beautiful redheaded housekeeper, but can he trust her? Marsaili is determined to build a good life. She works hard at being a housekeeper and harder still at avoiding men who want to take advantage of her. But she's irresistibly drawn to the new clan chief, even though he's made it plain he doesn't want to be shackled to anyone. And the young laird has more than romance on his mind. His investigations are stirring up an enemy. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what he wants including Marsaili even if that means destroying Brice's life forever ... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101916 LANG COUR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Holy Cow / David Duchovny
Titre : Holy Cow Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David Duchovny Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 206 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4722-2591-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Holy Cow by David Duchovny is a comic delight that will thrill fans of Jasper Fforde and Ben Aaronovitch. And anyone who enjoys a witty wisecrack in a novel.
Elsie Bovary is a cow and a pretty happy one at that. Until one night, Elsie sneaks out of the pasture and finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God - and what the Box God reveals about something called an 'industrial meat farm' shakes Elsie's understanding of her world to its core.
The only solution? To escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Shalom, a grumpy pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave turkey who can't fly, but can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport ...
Elsie is a wise-cracking, slyly witty narrator; Tom dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny's charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance the world desperately needs.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077692 LANG DUCH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Honor / Thrity Umrigar
Titre : Honor Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Thrity Umrigar Editeur : Londres : Swift Press Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 326 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-80075-160-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than ones own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smitas own past. While Meenas fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. She also finds herself increasingly drawn to Mohan, an Indian man she meets while on assignment. But the dual love stories of Honor are as different as the cultures of Meena and Smita themselves: Smita realizes she has the freedom to enter into a casual affair, knowing she can decide later how much it means to her.
In this tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal and sacrifice, Thrity Umrigar shows us two courageous women trying to navigate how to be true to their homelands and themselves at the same time.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344509 LANG UMRI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 10/05/2024 Hope and Happiness in Bluebell Wood / Ali MacNamara
Titre : Hope and Happiness in Bluebell Wood Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ali MacNamara Editeur : London : Little, Brown Année de publication : 2021 Collection : Sphere Importance : 389 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7515-8099-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : There's something in the air in Bluebell Wood.
Ava loves city life but when something happens to make her feel unsafe, she retreats to the calm and quiet of Bluebell Wood. The once high-flying Ava now locks herself away in her fairy-tale cottage, only leaving to explore the trails of the nearby woods or to potter in the garden with her dog, Merlin.
When Ava begins to feed the wild birds that flock to her bird table, they start leaving her trinkets of appreciation in return. The gifts seem innocent at first, but they soon seem to take on a deeper meaning.
It isn't until Ava meets Callum, the handsome parish priest, that she can't help but wonder if the birds might have been trying to get her out of the house all along. But will their curious behaviour help to heal Ava, and transform her and Callum into the lovebirds they clearly long to be ?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344035 LANG MACN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush / Emmy Abrahamson
Titre : How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Emmy Abrahamson Editeur : New-York : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 230 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-267803-4 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Vienna: famous for Mozart, waltzes, and pastry; less famous for Julia, a Swedish transplant who spends her days teaching English to unemployed Austrians and her evenings watching Netflix with her cat or club hopping with a frenemy. An aspiring novelist, Julias full of ideas for future bestsellers: A writer moves his family to a deserted hotel in the dead of winter and spirals into madness! A homely governess loves a brooding man whose crazy wife is locked up in the attic! Fine, so theyve been done. Doesnt mean Julia wont find something original.
Then something original finds Juliasits down next to her on a bench, as a matter of fact. Ben is handsome (under all that beard) and adventurous (leaps from small bridges in a single bound). Hes also sexy as hell and planning to shuffle off to Berlin before things can get too serious. Oh, and Ben lives in a public park.
Thus begins a truth stranger than any fiction Julia might have imagined: a whirlwind relationship with a guy who shares her warped sense of humor and shakes up the just-okay existence shes been too lazy to change. Ben challenges her to break out; she challenges him to settle down. As weeks turn to months, Julia keeps telling herself that this is a chapter in her life, not the whole book. If she writes the ending, she cant get hurt.
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100720 LANG ABRA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible I've Got Your Number / Sophie Kinsella
Titre : I've Got Your Number Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sophie Kinsella Editeur : London : Bantam Press Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 381 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-05981-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus' family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! :) A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls at a charity do and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072075 LANG KINS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible In another country / David Constantine
Titre : In another country : selected stories Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David Constantine Editeur : Comma Press Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 263 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-905583-76-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they do- sometimes as exiles, driven into isolation by convictions that even they don t fully understand; sometimes as carriers of an unspoken but unbearable weight. The things they pursue, or evade, are often unseen and at a distance- like the perfectly preserved body of a woman in the title story, waiting to be discovered in the receding ice of a Swiss glacier. These tokens of the past, or future, haunt Constantine s characters, but the landscapes that produce them also offer salvation, places of refuge or small treasures to take solace in- like the piece of driftwood a beachcomber chooses to carve into his idea of perfection.
Gathering together stories from over two decades of writing, this selection demonstrates why Constantine has been hailed as perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form . Their bewitching and urgent language is at one and the same time unsettling and strong enough to help .Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11333054 LANG CONS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 13/06/2024 In the Shadow of the Banyan / Vaddey Ratner
Titre : In the Shadow of the Banyan Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Vaddey Ratner Editeur : New-York : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 322 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4516-5771-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in the Cambodian killing fields between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but transcend suffering, cruelty, and loss.
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours, bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodias capital. Soon the familys world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as the Khmer Rouge attempts to strip the population of every shred of individual identity, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of her childhoodthe mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the authors extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11074062 LANG RATN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Inferno / Dan Brown
Titre : Inferno Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Brown Editeur : New-York : Doubleday Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 461 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-385-53785-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of historys most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dantes Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dantes dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072018 LANG BROWN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Into the Dark / Fiona Cummins
Titre : Into the Dark Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Fiona Cummins Editeur : London : MacMillan Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 326 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5290-4015-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One late autumn morning, Pipers best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene the kettle is still warm, all the familys phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted. In fifteen-year-old Riva Holdens bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three words: Make Them Stop. What happens next? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344506 LANG CUMM LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Into the Forest / Jean Hegland
Titre : Into the Forest Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jean Hegland Editeur : New York : Dial Press Année de publication : 1996 Importance : 241 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-553-37961-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350144 LANG HEGL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 13/06/2024 It Ends With Us / Colleen Hoover
Titre : It Ends With Us Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Colleen Hoover Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 376 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4711-5626-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A bold, heart-wrenching story of love coming at the ultimate price from the beloved No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346947 LANG HOOV LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Italian Shoes / Henning Mankell
Titre : Italian Shoes Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henning Mankell Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2010, cop. 2006 Importance : 358 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-951298-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : As with the best of crime fiction, Mankell deals not only in character, plot and action, mystery and revelation, concealment and discovery, but also creates a world with its own mental and emotional atmosphere Irish TimesMankell has always been an ambitious writer this novel transcends the limits of his earlier work Sunday TimesSurgeon Frederick Welin has lived alone on a deserted island, in self-imposed exile, since he was disgraced for trying to cover up a mistake on operating table. Then, one morning, he sees a figure struggling across the ice towards him and realises that his past is about to catch up with him.The figure approaching him is Harriet, the only woman he ever loved, the woman he abandoned forty years ago in order to study in America. Now Harriet has tracked him down to ask him to honour a promise made many years ago: to take her to a beautiful lake, hidden deep in the forests of northern Sweden. But Welin soon discovers that Harriet has left his biggest surprise until last.Authoritative plotting and well-defined characterisation an examination of the boundless human capacity for making the wrong decisions and a recognition of the challenges posed by ageing Daily Express Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070006 LANG MANK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Just Me / Sheila Hancock
Titre : Just Me Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sheila Hancock Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 274 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-8882-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : 'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, 'Put your money where your mouth is'. Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' This work presents a story about moving on, but it is also about looking back, and looking anew. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100278 LANG HANC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Killed at the Whim of a Hat / Colin Cotterill
Titre : Killed at the Whim of a Hat Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Colin Cotterill Editeur : London : Quercus Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 373 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84916-552-5 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place? Answer: plenty. A local palm oil plantation owner and his worker are excavating a well. They dig down six feet and hit metal. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which, once unearthed, is found to contain two skeletons - one of them wearing a hat. A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others. Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising - and a great deal more dangerous. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100723 LANG COTT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms / George R.R. Martin
Titre : A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : George R.R. Martin Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2017 Collection : Voyager Importance : 355 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-823809-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne there was Dunk and Egg.
A young, naïve but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg whose true identity must be hidden from all he and Dunk encounter: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346703 LANG MART LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lessons / Ian MacEwan
Titre : Lessons Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ian MacEwan Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2022 Autre Editeur : London : Vintage Importance : 486 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5291-1631-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.
From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - music, literature, friends, sex, politics and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350140 LANG MACE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 15/06/2024 Life after Life / Kate Atkinson
Titre : Life after Life Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kate Atkinson Editeur : London : Black Swan Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 621 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77968-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Résumé : During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifes bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077210 LANG ATKI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk / Kathleen Rooney
Titre : Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kathleen Rooney Editeur : New York : St. Martin's Press Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 287 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-250-13760-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it."
Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It's chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now--her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl--but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed--and has not.
A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101290 LANG ROON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lionel Asbo : State of England / Martin Amis
Titre : Lionel Asbo : State of England Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Martin Amis Editeur : Vintage Books Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 275 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-958205-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won £139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle's implacable vengeance.
Savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant, Lionel Asbo is a modern fairytale from one of the world's great writers.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11324935 LANG AMIS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 15/06/2024 Little bee / Chris Cleave
Titre : Little bee Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Chris Cleave Editeur : New York : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 271 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4165-8964-8 Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts here....
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076806 LANG CLEA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Little Foxes Took Up Matches / Katya Kazbek
Titre : Little Foxes Took Up Matches Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Katya Kazbek Editeur : Portland : Tin House Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 360 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-953534-02-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmothers sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain death. For Mitya, it is a small, metal treasure that guides him from within. As he grows, his life mirrors the uncertain future of his country, which is attempting to rebuild itself after the collapse of the Soviet Union, torn between its past and the promise of modern freedom. Mitya finds himself facing a different sort of ambiguity: is he a boy, as everyone keeps telling him, or is he not quite a boy, as he often feels?
After suffering horrific abuse from his cousin Vovka who has returned broken from war, Mitya embarks on a journey across underground Moscow to find something better, a place to belong. His experiences are interlaced with a retelling of a foundational Russian fairytale, Koschei the Deathless, offering an element of fantasy to the brutal realities of Mityas everyday life.
Told with deep empathy, humor, and a bit of surreality, Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a revelation about the life of one community in a country of turmoil and upheaval, glimpsed through the eyes of a precocious and empathetic child, whose heart and mind understand that there are often more than two choices. An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a comedy about family, Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344523 LANG KAZB LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Titre : Lord of the Flies Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : William Golding Editeur : New York : Penguin Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 208 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-399-50148-7 Note générale : With a biographical and critical note Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.
William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with themthe world of cricket and homework and adventure storiesand another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076809 LANG GOLD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 21/05/2024 Love, etc / Julian Barnes
Titre : Love, etc Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Julian Barnes Editeur : London : Cape Année de publication : 2000 Importance : 249 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-224-06109-4 Prix : 41,90 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11033920 LANG BAR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Martin Dressler / Steven Millhauser
Titre : Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Steven Millhauser Editeur : Vintage Books Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 293 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-679-78127-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075478 LANG MILL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
Titre : Memoirs of a Geisha Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Arthur Golden Année de publication : 1998 Importance : 434 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-977151-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Contemporary / American English Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri's life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness - a man who seems to be out of her reach. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070599 LANG GOLD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Mercy / Toni Morrison
Titre : A Mercy Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Toni Morrison Editeur : London : Vintage Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 165 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-950254-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11059173 LANG MORR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Miss Iceland / Audur Ava Olafsdóttir
Titre : Miss Iceland Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Audur Ava Olafsdóttir ; Brian FitzGibbon, Traducteur Editeur : London : Pushkin Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 250 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-78227-567-1 Note générale : Trad. de l'islandais : "Ungfrú Island" Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A funny and poignant new novel about a female writer trying to make it in a conservative world, from Iceland's hottest literary star. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346019 LANG OLAF LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Murder House / James Patterson
Titre : Murder House Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Patterson ; David Ellis Editeur : London : Arrow Books Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 546 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-959488-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, Jenna becomes involved in a case that at first seems open and shut, but reveals more secrets than she could possibly imagine. As more bodies surface and Jenna is drawn deeper into the dark history of No.... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346044 LANG PATT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible My Cousin Rachel / Daphné Du Maurier
Titre : My Cousin Rachel Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Daphné Du Maurier Editeur : Virago Année de publication : 2017, cop. 1951 Importance : 335 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-349-00985-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and then dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances.
Before long, the new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel - arrives in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, mysterious woman. But could she have caused Ambrose's death?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11079920 LANG DUMA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
Titre : Never Let Me Go Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kazuo Ishiguro Editeur : London : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 282 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-22413-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them specialand how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072297 LANG ISHI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Normal people / Sally Rooney
Titre : Normal people Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sally Rooney Editeur : London : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 284 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-33465-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : 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. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346942 LANG ROON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka
Titre : Notes on an Execution Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Danya Kukafka Editeur : London : Phoenix Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 308 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4746-2595-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.
He knows what hes done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesnt want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. But this is not his story.
As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansels mother, is a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. Hazel, twin sister to his wife, is forced to watch helplessly as the relationship threatens to devour them all. And Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, is devoted to bringing bad men to justice but struggling to see her own life clearly.
This is the story of the women left behind. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our cultural obsession with crime stories, and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the minds of violent men.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344526 LANG KUKA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible On Chesil Beach / Ian MacEwan
Titre : On Chesil Beach Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ian MacEwan Editeur : London : Jonathan Cape Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 166 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-224-08118-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101619 LANG MACE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Once There Were Wolves / Charlotte MacConaghy
Titre : Once There Were Wolves Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Charlotte MacConaghy Editeur : Farmington Hills : Thorndike Press Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 453 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4328-9315-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm shes witnessedinflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didnt make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?
Propulsive and spell-binding, Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she lovesif she isnt consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344441 LANG MACC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Origin / Dan Brown
Titre : Origin Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Brown Editeur : New-York : Doubleday Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 461 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-385-51423-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement--the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon's first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.
As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch's precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336602 LANG BROWN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell
Titre : Outliers : The Story of Success Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Malcolm Gladwell Editeur : New York : Little, Brown and Company Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 309 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-316-01792-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100025 LANG GLAD LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 21/05/2024 Palace of Treason / Jason Matthews
Titre : Palace of Treason Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jason Matthews Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 536 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4059-2083-4 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : From the bestselling, Edgar Awardwinning author of the terrifically good (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish.
Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putins Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washingtons most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin. As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; survives an Iranian assassination attempt; escapes a counterintelligence ambush; rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia; and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin. Complicating these risks is the fact that Dominika is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, and their lust is as dangerous as committing espionage in Moscow. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominikas name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentenceExemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077269 LANG MATT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Payback : Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth / Margaret Atwood
Titre : Payback : Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Margaret Atwood Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 230 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7475-9871-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100930 LANG ATWO LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Perfect / Rachel Joyce
Titre : Perfect Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Rachel Joyce Editeur : London : Black Swan Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 447 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77810-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis.
Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights.
Little would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything.
And if your world can be shattered in an instant, can time also put it right?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336590 LANG JOYCE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Private Paris / James Patterson
Titre : Private Paris Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Patterson ; Mark Sullivan Editeur : London : Arrow Books Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 411 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-959446-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.
We are Private. And we're the best.
Paris: city of art. City of culture. City of death.
When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from one of his most important clients asking Private to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer.
As Jack scours the city, several members of Paris's cultural elite are found dead - murdered in shocking, symbolic fashion - and the French police need Private's help.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346043 LANG PATT LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Ravenscliffe
Titre : Ravenscliffe Type de document : texte imprimé Editeur : London : Sphere Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 534 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7515-4768-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11059983 LANG SAND LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Richistan / Robert Frank
Titre : Richistan : a journey through the American wealth boom and the lives of the new rich Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Robert Frank Editeur : New York : Crown Publishers Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 364 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-307-33926-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through "Richistan" entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own "arborists." They're also different from Old Money, and have torn down blue-blood institutions to build their own shining empire. Richistan is like the best travel writing, full of colorful and interesting stories providing insights into exotic locales. Robert Frank has been loitering on the docks of yacht marinas, pestering his way into charity balls, and schmoozing with real estate agents selling mega-houses to capture the story of the twenty-first century's nouveau riche: House-training the rich. People with new wealth have to be taught how to act like, well, proper rich people. Just in the nick of time, there's been a boom in the number of newly trained butlers--"household managers"--who will serve just the right cabernet when a Richistani's new buddies from Palm Beach stop by. "My boat is bigger than your boat." Only in Richistan would a 100-foot-boat be considered a dinghy. Personal pleasure craft have started to rival navy destroyers in size and speed. Richistan is also a place where friends make fun of those misers who buy the new girlfriend a mere Mercedes SLK. "You want my money? Prove that you're helping the needy!" Richistanis are not only consuming like crazy, they're also shaking up the establishment's bureaucratic, slow-moving charity network, making lean, results-oriented philanthropy an important new driving force. Move over, Christian Coalition. Richistanis are more Democratic than Republican, "fed up and not going to take it anymore," and willing to spend millions to get progressive-oriented politicians elected. "My name is Mike and I'm rich." Think that money is the answer? Think again as Robert Frank explores the emotional complexities of wealth. And, as Robert Frank reveals, there is not one Richistan but three: Lower, Middle, and Upper, each of which has its own levels and distinctions of wealth --the haves and the have-mores. The influence of Richistan and the Richistanis extends well beyond the almost ten million households that make up its population, as the nonstop quest for status and an insatiable demand for luxury goods reshapes the entire American economy. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344878 LANG FRANK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Rogue Lawyer / John Grisham
Titre : Rogue Lawyer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Grisham Editeur : London : Hodder & Stoughton Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 371 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4736-2288-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The breakneck and gripping legal thriller from worldwide bestseller John Grisham. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346042 LANG GRIS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel
Titre : Sea of Tranquility Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Emily St. John Mandel Editeur : New York : Alfred Knopf Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 255 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-32144-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminalan experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. Shes traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olives best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344518 LANG MAND LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Seven Days in June / Tia Williams
Titre : Seven Days in June Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Tia Williams Editeur : London : Quercus Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 328 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5294-1896-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...
Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up unexpectedly in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.
Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect - but Eva's wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered...
With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344527 LANG WILL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Sleeping Arrangements / Madeleine Wickham
Titre : Sleeping Arrangements Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Madeleine Wickham Editeur : New York : St. Martin's Année de publication : 2010 Importance : 328 p. Format : 17 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-312-94397-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect.
Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he'll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect.
Both families arrive at the villa and realise the awful truth - Gerard has double-booked. What no-one else realises is that Chloe and Hugh have a history, and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard's 'accidental' double booking may not be an accident after all...Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072769 LANG WICK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Someone to Watch Over Me / Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Titre : Someone to Watch Over Me Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Yrsa Sigurdardottir Editeur : London : Hodder and Stoughton Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 483 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4447-3444-7 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A haunting and absorbing debut - fans of Before I Go to Sleep and Sister will be hooked. She closed her eyes and he was gone - who is watching him now ? When Carrie s five-year old son, Charlie, disappeared on a Norfolk beach, her world was destroyed. Now, three years on, she is persuaded by her mother to visit a local medium. Initially sceptical, Carrie is blown away when he appears to reveal something about Charlie s disappearance; something that nobody could ever have known except herself. Single mum, Molly, is worried about her young son, Max, who has been having more of his little accidents at school and has recently starting talking again to his imaginary friend. Molly knows that Max s problems stem from his very real anxieties about his father a violent and unstable man who they are now in hiding from. Little do the women know that their worlds are about to converge and both of them will have to face the thing they fear the most. But could the truth destroy them? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077225 LANG SIGU LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Sorrow and Bliss / Meg Mason
Titre : Sorrow and Bliss Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Meg Mason Editeur : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 374 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-399-60565-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why is everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave? Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her. Something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain. Forced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister Ingrid), Martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix - or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346945 LANG MASON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Spring / Ali Smith
Titre : Spring Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ali Smith Editeur : London : Penguin Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 335 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-97335-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.
The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?
Hope springs eternal.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11337662 LANG SMITH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible A Street Cat Named Bob / James Bowen
Titre : A Street Cat Named Bob Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Bowen Editeur : London : Hodder & Stoughton Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 279 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4447-3711-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.
Yet James couldnt resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.
Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each others troubled pasts.
A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346940 LANG BOWEN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible Summer / Ali Smith
Titre : Summer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ali Smith Editeur : London : Penguin Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 384 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-97337-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11337665 LANG SMITH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible That Old Cape Magic / Richard Russo
Titre : That Old Cape Magic Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Richard Russo Editeur : New York : Vintage Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 261 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4000-3091-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Following Bridge of Sighsa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as an astounding achievement and a masterpieceRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his fathers ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Lauras best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together thats now thirty years old and has largely come true. Hed left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; theyd moved into an old house full of character; and theyd started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Lauras, on the coast of Maine, Griffins chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughters new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072079 LANG RUSSO LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The accidental woman / Jonathan Coe
Titre : The accidental woman Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jonathan Coe Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 164 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-96771-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless propsals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. She is a young woman unable to control the direction of her life. Will it end, as it began, by accident ? Or will something intervene to save the accidental woman from herself ? Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11333055 LANG COE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 27/05/2024 The Audacity of Hope / Barack Obama
Titre : The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Barack Obama Editeur : New York : Crown Publishers Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 375 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-307-23769-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called the audacity of hope.
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obamas call for a different brand of politicsa politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the endless clash of armies we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our improbable experiment in democracy. He explores those forcesfrom the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the mediathat can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100277 LANG OBAMA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 01/06/2024 The Ballad of the Sad Café / Carson MacCullers
Titre : The Ballad of the Sad Café Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Carson MacCullers (1917 - 1967) Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 1951 Importance : 160 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-118369-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11328254 LANG MACC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Bastard of Istanbul / Elif Shafak
Titre : The Bastard of Istanbul Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elif Shafak Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 360 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-103169-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One day a 19-year old and unmarried girl has an abortion. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072081 LANG SHAF LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Best American / John Sandford
Titre : The Best American : Mystery Stories 2017 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Sandford Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 360 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-544-94908-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshitalthough theres always a little, just to grease the wheels, writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100023 LANG SAND LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Big Picture / Douglas Kennedy
Titre : The Big Picture Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Douglas Kennedy Editeur : London : Abacus Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 374 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-349-10900-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais (Etats-Unis) Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He wants - has always wanted - to be a photographer. When he discovers his wife is playing outside the ground, the conseqences of a moment of madness force him to question not just the design of his life but the price of fulfiment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else. From the picket fences of yuppie New England to Montana's untouchable splendour, THE BIG PICTURE spans states and states of mind in a thrilling novel of genuine originality. Exemplaires (1)
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