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Thanatea / Sonja Delzongle
Titre : Thanatea Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sonja Delzongle Editeur : Paris : Fleuve Année de publication : 2023 Collection : Noir Importance : 409 p. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-2-265-15617-3 Catégories : [Genre] Policier : suspense
[Centre d'intérêt] Amitié
[Centre d'intérêt] Ile
[Centre d'intérêt] Léman (lac)
[Centre d'intérêt] Littérature française
[Centre d'intérêt] Mort
[Centre d'intérêt] SecretIndex. décimale : 843 Résumé : Sur cette île qui ne figure sur aucune carte, les morts sont rois. Thanatea. Un nom qui sonne comme celui d'une femme ou d'une déesse. Un mot plutôt agréable, exotique, à condition de ne pas en connaître la racine grecque, thanatos, la mort. Le plus long des voyages. L'éternité. Une autre qu'Esther aurait sûrement été refroidie, mais, durant ses années passées à la police judiciaire, elle a côtoyé la mort sous ses aspects les plus sombres, les plus violents. Un quotidien qui l'a usée, au point d'être prête à tout quitter pour rejoindre cette entreprise de pompes funèbres située au coeur du lac Léman. Et même si ce nouvel environnement s'annonce quelque peu macabre, au moins elle n'aura plus à voir les stigmates d'un meurtre sur la chair, les organes, les os. Là-bas, la mort sera un concept, du marketing, elle sera travaillée, pensée, enrobée dans du velours ou du satin. Là-bas, Esther espère trouver enfin la paix... Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11350411 RP DELZ NOU Adultes R. policiers Sorti jusqu'au 09/10/2024 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 ? Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 11333055 LANG COE LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible The art of racing in the rain / Garth Stein
Titre : The art of racing in the rain Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Garth Stein Editeur : Harper Année de publication : 2019 Importance : 340 p. Format : 19 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-06-237094-5 Catégories : [Centre d'intérêt] Livre en anglais Index. décimale : 843 Résumé : Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.
Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.
A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.Exemplaires (1)
Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité BCD104614821 LANG STEIN LIV Adultes Livres en anglais Disponible 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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