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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 25/05/2024 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.
Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.Exemplaires (1)
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.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11324935 LANG AMIS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible 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)
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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)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11054736 LANG KENN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible