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The Bone Sparrow / Zana Fraillon
Titre : The Bone Sparrow Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Zana Fraillon Editeur : London : Orion Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 293 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5101-0155-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. A deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre.... Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350153 LANG FRAI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 13/06/2024 The Casual Vacancy / J.K. Rowling
Titre : The Casual Vacancy Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : J.K. Rowling Editeur : London : Little, Brown Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 503 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4087-0420-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336601 LANG ROWL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
Titre : The Catcher in the Rye Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : J.D. Salinger Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2010, cop. 1945 Importance : 228 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-95042-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The Catcher in the Rye is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind, The Catcher in the Rye explores the world with disarming frankness and a warm, affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas Franny and Zooey, For Esme with Love and Squalor, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, published with Seymour - An Introduction. Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11078800 LANG SALI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 22/05/2024 The Chestnut Man / Soren Sveistrup
Titre : The Chestnut Man Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Soren Sveistrup ; Caroline Waight, Traducteur Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2019 Importance : 501 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4059-3976-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : As the leaves fall, he's coming for you
One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery.
A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands missing.
Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts.
Examining the doll, Forensics are shocked to find a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, kidnapped and murdered a year ago.
Can a new killer be the key to an old crime?
And will his spree be over when winter arrives - or is he only just getting started?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346170 LANG SVEI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
Titre : The Da Vinci Code Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Brown Editeur : London : Bantam Press Année de publication : 2003 Importance : 454 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-05244-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris- the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11101621 LANG BROWN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Dice Man / Luke Rhinehart
Titre : The Dice Man Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Luke Rhinehart Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 1999 Importance : 541 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-651390-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The cult classic that can still change your life! Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11070598 LANG RHIN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Dictionary of Lost Words / Pip Williams
Titre : The Dictionary of Lost Words Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Pip Williams Editeur : New York : Ballantine Books Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 376 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-16019-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esmes place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means slave girl, begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to womens and common folks experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
Set during the height of the womens suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.Exemplaires (1)
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Titre : The Gallows Bird Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Camilla Läckberg Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 378 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-725400-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The new psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11071544 LANG LACK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Geneva Trap / Stella Rimington
Titre : The Geneva Trap Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Stella Rimington Editeur : London : Bloomsbury Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 328 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4088-3218-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The Geneva Trap Geneva, 2012. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and what is his connection to the British agent? At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky, and ... Full description Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11073739 LANG RIMI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Gift / Cecelia Ahern
Titre : The Gift Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Cecelia Ahern Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 305 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-728497-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?
Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams, he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else.
On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. Intrigued by him and on discovering that he could also be very useful to have around, Lou gets Gabe a job in the post room.
But soon Lou begins to regret helping Gabe. His very presence unsettles Lou and how does Gabe appear to be in two places at the same time?
As Christmas draws closer, Lou starts to understand the value of time. He sees what is truly important in life yet at the same time he learns the harshest lesson of all.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11056979 LANG AHERN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins
Titre : The Girl on the Train Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Paula Hawkins Editeur : London : Black Swan Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 408 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-552-77977-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. Shes even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life as she sees it is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. Its only a minute until the train moves on, but its enough.
Now everythings changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives shes only watched from afar.
Now theyll see; shes much more than just the girl on the trainRéservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344998 LANG HAWK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 05/06/2024 The Golden Egg / Donna Leon
Titre : The Golden Egg Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Donna Leon Editeur : London : William Heinemann Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 276 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-434-02252-6 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992's Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the world. For her millions of fans, Leon's novels have opened a window into the private Venice of her citizens, a world of incomparable beauty, family intimacy, shocking crime, and insidious corruption. This internationally acclaimed, bestselling series is widely considered one of the best ever written, and William Heinemann is thrilled to be publishing the twenty-second installment, The Golden Egg, in April 2013. When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor - a humiliation Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid - Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Brunetti's dry cleaners has been found dead - an 'accidental' overdose of his mother's sleeping pills - and for some reason Paola is distraught by the news. To the neighbourhood he was just the 'boy' who helped out, but nobody knew much about him - not even his name. That a soul could have lived such a joyless life is too much for Paola to bear, and she asks Guido if he can find out what happened. It is a surprise to Brunetti just how little was known about this man-child - there are no official records to show he even existed. The man's mother is angry and contradictory when questioned about his death, and Brunetti senses that there much more to the story than she is willing to tell. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, perhaps Brunetti can get to the truth and find some measure of solace. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075321 LANG LEON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Golden Egg / Donna Leon
Titre : The Golden Egg Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Donna Leon Editeur : London : William Heinemann Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 276 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-434-02251-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : While making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case, Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola. The deaf-mute man who helped out at the Brunetti¿s dry cleaners has been found dead. An empty bottle of pills points to suicide, but Paolo is unconvinced. To the neighbourhood he was the `boy¿ they came to rely upon, but nobody knew much about him - not even his name. That a soul could have lived such a joyless and lonely life is too much for Paola to bear, and she begs her husband to investigate. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350147 LANG LEON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Good Left Undone / Adriana Trigiani
Titre : The Good Left Undone Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Adriana Trigiani Editeur : Londres : Penguin Michael Joseph Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 439 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-56584-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life.
The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had a chance to begin.
Then, on an idyllic French coastline in the shadow of war, Domenica's second great love affair, which would go on to define her - a mysterious captain, with a future on the front line.
Many decades later, only her daughter, Matelda, knows the true story of these two men's lives, and the secret that connects them. And, as the end of her life nears, Matelda realises that some truths are too great to be lost.
But as she works against the clock with her own daughter to unpack their family's legacy, more questions arise than answers.
What was the real story of her mother's wartime years?
What kept her away from Italy for so long, after the fighting had ended?
And what, ultimately, brought her home again?...Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344548 LANG TRIG LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 22/05/2024 The Good Sister / Sally Hepworth
Titre : The Good Sister Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sally Hepworth Editeur : New York : St. Martin's Press Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 309 p. Format : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-250-12095-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be...dangerous. When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple. Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of what families keep hidden. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344519 LANG HEPW LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The gravedigger's daughter / Joyce Carol Oates
Titre : The gravedigger's daughter Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joyce Carol Oates Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 582 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-725846-8 Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Beautiful Hazel Jones and her young son Zach are liked and admired by all they meet - but they inspire curiosity too. Why is Zach forbidden to mention his father, and how did Hazel get the scars on her forehead wich she takes such pains to hide ? Why do they roam from the place to place, settling nowhere and confiding in no one ?
Because Hazel Jones wasn't always Hazel Jones. Once she was Rebecca Schwart, the dark-eyed daughter of German asylum seekers who fled to the US to escape the Nazis. Her father, hampered by language and chained by poverty, could only find work as a gravedigger, and Rebecca and her family lived in a hovel on the edge of the cemetery.
Driven mad by subjection to daily humiliation and destitution, Rebecca's father commited a horrific crime wich changed the course of her life forever. But can you re-invent yourself in the aftermath of murder - or is history destined to repeat itself ?Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076802 LANG OATES LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 18/05/2024 The Guncle / Steven Rowley
Titre : The Guncle Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Steven Rowley Editeur : New-York : Putnam Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 326 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-525-54228-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed.
Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled acting career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. But when his waggish set of Guncle Rules no longer appease Maisie and Grants parental void, Patricks eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means youre unfailingly human.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344515 LANG ROWL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The heat of Betrayal / Douglas Kennedy
Titre : The heat of Betrayal Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Douglas Kennedy Editeur : London : Hutchinson Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 325 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-195372-0 Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant.
But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry, everything changes.
As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.
With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think, Douglas Kennedy takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: what would you do if your life depended on it?Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11076807 LANG KENN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Help / Kathryn Stockett
Titre : The Help Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kathryn Stockett Editeur : Amy Einhorn Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 451 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-399-15534-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In Jackson, Mississippi, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child, but with a bitter heart after the death of her son. Minny is the sassiest woman in Mississippi; she can cook like nobody's business, but she can't keep her lip buttoned. And Skeeter is a white woman with a degree but no ring on her finger. Home from college, Skeeter discovers her beloved maid Constantine has disappeared without a trace. And as different as they may be, these three women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk.
But The Help is not just about race, it's about how women, whether mothers or daughters, the help or the boss, relate to each other. It's about the dramas of domestic life: pride, competition on the cooking and home front complex emotions about the raising of young children, and that horrible feeling that those who look after your children may understand them, deal with them and love them, even, better than you . . .Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344880 LANG STOC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Hidden Girl / Louise Millar
Titre : The Hidden Girl Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Louise Millar Editeur : London : Pan Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 368 p., Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4472-3502-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : One cold March morning, a removal van arrives at Tornley Hall in Suffolk. Will and Hannah Riley have been waiting a long time to adopt, and Hannah is obsessed that this new dream family home in Tornley, will improve their chances with social services. She has given up her career at a human rights organisation, and persuaded a reluctant Will to give up their flat in London. Yet as Will starts to commute back to work, heavy snow arrives. Hannah finds herself cut off from the world in this tiny, isolated hamlet. As she paints over the cracks in the abandoned old house, trying to ignore its reflection of the recent change in her once-happy marriage to Will, the house starts to reveal unexpected secrets to her. Rooms are locked. Intruders break in. There are strange noises and shadows at night. When Hannah witnesses an assault on a vulnerable woman in a neighbouring field, she starts to realise that everything in Tornley is also not what it seems. She has to make a choice. Tell the police, and risk her social worker becoming suspicious about the safety of Hannah and Wills new home; or cover up the crime, to get what she wants. Hannah makes her choice. Then just as their social worker is due to visit to approve their new home, a shocking turn of events takes place that rips Hannahs world apart. Before she knows it, she is alone, frightened, and trapped in a place where no one ever goes . . . Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077684 LANG MILL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Hundred-Foot Journey / Richard C. Morais
Titre : The Hundred-Foot Journey Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Richard C. Morais Editeur : Alma Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 279 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84688-332-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, DreamWorks Studios, and Participant Media. The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues, pitting Hassan's Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred cordon bleu, until Madame Mallory realizes that Hassan is a cook with natural talents far superior to her own. Full of eccentric characters, hilarious cultural mishaps, vivid settings and delicious meals described in rich, sensuous detail, Hassan's charming account lays bare the inner workings of the elite world of French haute cuisine, and provides a life-affirming and poignant coming-of-age tale. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11325741 LANG MORA LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Hunting Party / Lucy Foley
Titre : The Hunting Party Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lucy Foley Editeur : Dublin : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2019 Importance : 390 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-829715-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, theyve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlandsthe perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the groups tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Years Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Years Day, one of them is dead. . . and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage says. But how close is too close? DON'T BE LEFT OUT. JOIN THE PARTY NOW. ... Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350143 LANG FOLEY LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Sorti jusqu'au 25/05/2024 The Ice Princess / Camilla Läckberg
Titre : The Ice Princess Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Camilla Läckberg Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 393 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-742156-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11071325 LANG LACK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Incomplete Husband / Ben Faccini
Titre : The Incomplete Husband Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ben Faccini Editeur : London : Portobello Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 343 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84627-082-6 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Elena falls in love with Riccardo, she also falls in love with the idea of a bigger world beyond her sheltered life in rural Italy. And when she loses him, she gives up her hopes for the future and her expectations of happiness, filling the sudden void in her life with her son and brother-in-law. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075312 LANG FACC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Island of Missing Trees / Elif Shafak
Titre : The Island of Missing Trees Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elif Shafak Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2021 Collection : Viking Importance : 353 p. Présentation : ill. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-43500-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows.
In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart.
Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344438 LANG SHAF LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The King's Curse / Philippa Gregory
Titre : The King's Curse Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Philippa Gregory Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 610 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-85720-759-3 Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Princess comes the riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11075315 LANG GREG LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Lacuna / Barbara Kingsolver
Titre : The Lacuna Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Barbara Kingsolver Editeur : London : Faber and Faber Année de publication : 2009 Importance : 507 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-571-25264-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The first novel in ten years from the bestselling author of THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. A gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of More...
a Congress bent on eradicating the colour Red, THE LACUNA is as deep and rich as the New World.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057922 LANG KING LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Last Anniversary / Liane Moriarty
Titre : The Last Anniversary Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Liane Moriarty Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 402 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4059-1851-0 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Résumé : From Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's Secret, comes The Last Anniversary, a captivating story laced with mystery.One abandoned baby. Two sisters with a secret. One chance to rewrite the past.Over seventy years have passed since sisters Rose and Connie Doughty found an abandoned baby near their home on the island Scribbly Gum. With no one to take care of it, Rose and Connie took the baby in as their own.Since then the 'Munro Baby Mystery' has brought fame and fortune, putting Scribbly Gum on the tourist map, especially for the island's annual celebration.But now, with Connie dead and outsider Sophie Honeywell about to move into her home, Rose begins to wonder if they made the right decision all those years ago. How much longer can they cover up the lie that has sustained their community for generations? And what other secrets are about to be revealed? Praise for Liane Moriarty: 'Highly addictive' She 'Gripping, acutely observed, thought-provoking and funny' Marie Claire 'The writing is beautiful: sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always compelling' Good Housekeeping 'The Husband's Secret is a staggeringly brilliant novel. It is literally unputdownable' Sophie Hannah Liane Moriarty is the author of six novels including Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story, The Husband's Secret, which was a million copy bestseller and won the most popular Richard and Judy book club title for the autumn 2013 book club and, most recently, Little Lies. Liane lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11077217 LANG MORI LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Litigators / John Grisham
Titre : The Litigators Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Grisham Editeur : New-York : Doubleday Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 385 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-385-53513-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-described boutique law firm that is anything but. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are in fact just two ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. But now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners richwithout requiring them to actually practice much law. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true . . . and it is. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11071312 LANG GRIS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul / Deborah Rodriguez
Titre : The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Deborah Rodriguez Editeur : London : Sphere Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 408 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7515-5040-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call homein the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves up her American hospitality to the expats who patronize her coffee shop, including a British journalist, a danger pay consultant, and a wealthy and well-connected woman. True to her name, Sunny also bonds with people whose language and landscape are unfamiliar to most Westerners, but whose hearts and souls are very much like our own: the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son; and Yazmina, a young Afghan villager with a secret that could put everyones life in jeopardy. In this gorgeous first novel, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Rodriguez paints a stirring portrait of a faraway place whereeven in the fog of political and social conflictfriendship, passion, and hope still exist. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11074051 LANG RODR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Lonely Ones / Håkan Nesser
Titre : The Lonely Ones Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Håkan Nesser ; Sarah Death, Traducteur Editeur : London : MacMillan Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 595 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5098-9228-0 Note générale : Trad. du suédois : "De ensamma" Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever...
It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at Uppsala University is over it also signals the end of something else.
Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before.
Detective Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti takes on this ominous case of history repeating itself, and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344508 LANG NESS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Lost Boy / Camilla Läckberg
Titre : The Lost Boy Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Camilla Läckberg Editeur : London : Harper Collins Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 497 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-741958-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On a late summer's night, a young woman jumps in her car, her hands slippery with blood on the steering wheel. Taking her five-year-old son, Nathalie flees to the only safe haven she knows: the island of Graskar off the coast of Fjallbacka. Meanwhile, Detective Patrik Hedstrom has barely stepped foot inside his office following a lengthy sick leave before he catches a murder investigation. A man has been murdered in his home: the victim, Mats Sverin, was the council's financial director, heading up a regeneration project worth millions. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072767 LANG LACK LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Lost Daughter / Lucretia Grindle
Titre : The Lost Daughter Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lucretia Grindle Editeur : London : Mantle Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 385 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-230-74623-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : A compelling new mystery from the author of The Villa Triste Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11072074 LANG GRIN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Maltese Falcon / Dashiell Hammett
Titre : The Maltese Falcon Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dashiell Hammett Editeur : London : Orion Année de publication : 2002 Collection : crime masterworks Importance : 213 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7528-4764-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Voted #1 mystery of all time by the Mystery Writers of America, The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister. When his partner, Miles Archer, is shot while on the trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted : can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird before the Fat Man finds him? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336591 LANG HAMM LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Midnight Library / Matt Haig
Titre : The Midnight Library Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Matt Haig Editeur : Edinburgh : Canongate Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 288 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-78689-273-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11347069 LANG HAIG LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Murders at Fleat House / Lucinda Riley
Titre : The Murders at Fleat House Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lucinda Riley Editeur : London : MacMillan Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 470 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-5290-9495-4 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephens a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.
But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine Jazz Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss.
Reunited with her loyal sergeant Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendishs tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn.
Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy.
As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons...
Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined...Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344525 LANG RILEY LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Night She Disappeared / Lisa Jewell
Titre : The Night She Disappeared Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lisa Jewell Editeur : Farmington Hills : Thorndike Press Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 615 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4328-9039-1 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : 2017: 19 year old Tallulah is going out on a date, leaving her baby with her mother, Kim.
Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits.
The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah's friends who tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a party at a house in the nearby woods called Dark Place. She never returns.
2019: Sophie is walking in the woods near the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started work as a head-teacher when she sees a note fixed to a tree. 'DIG HERE'...
A cold case, an abandoned mansion, family trauma and dark secrets lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's remarkable new novel.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344547 LANG JEWE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Night Shift / Alex Finlay
Titre : The Night Shift Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Alex Finlay Editeur : Londres : Head of Zeus Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 312 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-80024-530-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : What connects a massacre at a Blockbuster video store in 1999 with the murder of four teenagers fifteen years later?
It's New Year's Eve of 1999 when four teenagers working late are attacked at a Blockbuster video store in New Jersey. Only one survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.
Fifteen years later, four more teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive.
In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre, who is forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who is convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller, who must delve into the secrets of both nights to uncover the truth about the Night Shift Murders...Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344507 LANG FINL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Notebook / Nicholas Sparks
Titre : The Notebook Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nicholas Sparks Editeur : London : Sphere Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 256 p. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7515-3891-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057406 LANG SPAR LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot / Marianne Cronin
Titre : The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Marianne Cronin Editeur : London : Penguin Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 392 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-85752-720-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Life is short.
No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.
Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years.
To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person who is everything.
As their friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344510 LANG CRON LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Other Daughter / Caroline Bishop
Titre : The Other Daughter Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Caroline Bishop Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 407 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4711-9005-6 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of answers. She knows her journalist mother spent time in the country forty years earlier, reporting on the Swiss women's liberation movement, but what she doesn't know is what happened to her while she was there. Can Jess summon the courage to face the truth about her family, or will her search only hurt herself and those around her even more? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346049 LANG BISH LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The other family / Joanna Trollope
Titre : The other family Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Joanna Trollope Editeur : London : Doubleday Année de publication : 2010 Importance : 331 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-385-61615-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11336503 LANG TROL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Paper Palace / Miranda Cowley Heller
Titre : The Paper Palace Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Miranda Cowley Heller Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 389 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-99045-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace' - her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before, against the side of the house that knows all her darkest secrets, while her husband and mother chatted to their guests inside... Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11346946 LANG HELL LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Party / Elizabeth Day
Titre : The Party Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elizabeth Day Editeur : London : 4th Estate Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 294 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-00-819430-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Martin's public school friendship with Ben always alleviated Martin's feeling of being the scholarship boy who struggled to fit in, but the secret that Martin knows about Ben injects a destabilising tension into Ben's elite 40th birthday celebration, in a literary thriller reminiscent of Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line Of Beauty". Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350145 LANG DAY LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Party Crasher / Sophie Kinsella
Titre : The Party Crasher Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sophie Kinsella Editeur : New York : Dial Press Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 349 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-593-44917-2 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Its been almost two years since Effies beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, shes become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Theyve sold Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie has always called home.
When Krista decides to throw a grand house-cooling party, Effie is originally left off the guest listand then receives a last-minute anti-invitation (maybe its because she called Krista a gold-digger, but Krista totally deserved it, and it was mostly a joke anyway). Effie declines, but then remembers a beloved childhood treasure is still hidden in the house. Her only chance to retrieve it is to break into Greenoaks while everyone is busy celebrating. As Effie sneaks around the house, hiding under tables and peeping through trapdoors, she realizes the secrets Greenoaks holds arent just in the dusty passageways and hidden attics she grew up exploring. Watching how her sister, brother, and dad behave when they think no one is looking, Effie overhears conversations, makes discoveries, and begins to see her family in a new light. Then she runs into Joethe love of her life, who long ago broke her heart, and whos still as handsome and funny as everand even more truths emerge.
But will Effie act on these revelations? Will she stay hidden or step out into the party and take her place with her family? And truthfully, what did she really come back to Greenoaks for? Over the course of one blowout party, Effie realizes that she must be honest with herself and confront her past before shell ever be able to face her future.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344514 LANG KINS LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Patron Saint of Liars / Ann Patchett
Titre : The Patron Saint of Liars Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ann Patchett Editeur : Londres : Harper Perennial Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 336 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-133921-9 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Unanticipated pregnancy makes liars out of young women, this thoughtful first novel shows, as they try to rationalize, explain, and accept what is happening to them. When she arrives at St. Elizabeth's, a home for pregnant girls in Habit, Kentucky, Rose Clinton seems as evasive and deceptive as the other unwed mothers. But Rose is different: she has a husband whom she has deserted. Unlike most St. Elizabeth's visitors, she neither gives up her baby nor leaves the home, staying on as cook while her daughter grows up among expectant mothers fantasizing that they, too, might keep their infants. The reader learns from Rose how she came to St. Elizabeth's, but it is her doting husband and rebellious daughter who reveal her motives and helpless need for freedom. Together, the three create a complex character study of a woman driven by forces she can neither understand nor control. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11057912 LANG PATC LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Picture House By the Sea / Holly Hepburn
Titre : The Picture House By the Sea Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Holly Hepburn Editeur : London : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 451 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4711-9259-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Sometimes love is exactly like it is in the movies . . . With captivating views of the sparkling Cornish sea, the local picture house once thrived and not only because its home to the best ice-cream shop for miles. But the cinema is long since past its heyday, and when former resident Gina returns and realises her fond memories are just that, she sets about restoring the picture house to its former glory. As Gina reconnects with local renovator Ben, with whom she shares a past, old feelings begin to resurface. And when the pair learn the cinemas future is under threat from a developer, they realise itll take more than a lick of paint to save The Picture House by the Sea. . . . Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11344034 LANG HEPB LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James
Titre : The Portrait of a Lady Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henry James Editeur : Hertfordshire : Wordsworth classics Année de publication : 1999 Importance : 504 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-85326-177-0 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword and that there is a price to be paid for independence. With its subtle delineation of American characters in a European setting, Portrait of a Lady is one of the most accomplished and popular of Henry James's early novels. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11074057 LANG JAMES LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Prince and the Pauper / Mark Twain
Titre : The Prince and the Pauper Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mark Twain Editeur : London : Penguin Books Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 199 p. Format : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-043669-3 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twains classic tale for young people of all ages features two identical-looking boysa prince and a pauperwho trade clothes and step into each others lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, The Prince and the Pauper is funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet also chock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues against societys ills. Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11100444 LANG TWAIN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The Racketeer / John Grisham
Titre : The Racketeer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Grisham Editeur : London : Hodder & Stoughton Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 340 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4447-2975-7 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered.
Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five.
His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young secretary.
I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why.
I am a lawyer, and I am in prison.
It's a long story.Exemplaires (1)
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