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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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