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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)
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Titre : The Big Picture Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Douglas Kennedy Editeur : London : Abacus Année de publication : 1997 Importance : 374 p. Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-349-10900-8 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais (Etats-Unis) Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He wants - has always wanted - to be a photographer. When he discovers his wife is playing outside the ground, the conseqences of a moment of madness force him to question not just the design of his life but the price of fulfiment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else. From the picket fences of yuppie New England to Montana's untouchable splendour, THE BIG PICTURE spans states and states of mind in a thrilling novel of genuine originality. Exemplaires (1)
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