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Vous ne connaissez rien de moi: Suivi d'un entretien inédit avec l'autrice
Par Julie Héraclès. 2023
« Aujourd'hui, vous m'avez rasé le crâne, vous m'avez marquée au fer rouge et maintenant vous m'insultez comme une chienne.…
Mais vous ne me détruirez pas. Vous n'aurez pas cette étincelle qui me pousse à continuer, envers et contre tout. Car, aujourd'hui, encore plus qu'hier, je suis forte d'un trésor inestimable. Un trésor que beaucoup d'entre vous passerez toute une vie à chercher et n'obtiendrez jamais. J'ai aimé. Et j'ai été aimée. » Le 16 août 1944, à Chartres, le photographe Robert Capa a immortalisé une femme, tondue, le visage incliné vers son nourrisson, conspuée par la foule. Dans un roman bouleversant qui s'inspire de ce cliché, Julie Héraclès retrace la vie de cette femme libre, Simone, au tempérament incandescent. Prix Stanislas 2023Vorpal blade: Looking glass series, book 2 (Looking Glass #2)
Par John Ringo. 2014
One of the unquestioned masters of military science fiction, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket…
scientist Travis S. Taylor for this action-packed sequel to Into the Looking Glass. The alien Dreen are still a terrifying menace across the galaxy, but Earth has a new weapon-the first human warp ship. Aboard the Vorpal Blade, America's tough-as-nails Force Recon Marines seek the Dreen, hoping to bring the fight directly to them. ". deals with the arcane mysteries of quantum mechanics, lending . an absurdist twist appropriately reminiscent of Lewis Carroll."-Publishers WeeklyInto the light (Out of the Dark #2)
Par David Weber. 2021
In New York Times- bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark , Earth beat back an alien invasion. Now…
we've got to make sure they don't come back, in Into the Light . The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and our cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn't expect the survivors' tenacity. And, crucially, they didn't know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind, the invading aliens didn't stand a chance. Now Earth is once again ours. Aided by the advanced tech the aliens left behind, we're rebuilding as fast as we can. Meanwhile, a select few of our blood-drinking immortals are on their way to the Shongairi homeworld, having commandeered one of the alien starships...the planet-busting kindLe monde connu: roman (Les grandes traductions #Vol. 6109540)
Par Edward Jones. 2005
Au milieu du XIXe siècle aux Etats-Unis, avant la guerre civile, Henry Townsend, comme d'autres esclaves devenus libres, possède un…
domaine et des esclaves noirs. A sa mort, sa femme Caldonia éprouve des difficultés à diriger la propriété et son contremaître la séduit pensant gagner ainsi sa liberté... Premier roman. Pulitzer et National book critics circle award 2004.Maîtresse: roman (Les grandes traductions #Vol. 6088520)
Par Valerie Martin. 2004
Dans le sud des Etats-Unis, en 1828. Manon Gaudet est l'épouse d'un propriétaire de plantation de canne à sucre et…
d'esclaves. Son mari ne l'aime plus et la trompe avec Sarah, une esclave. Blessée, elle sera la victime de Sarah, qui va s'installer dans sa vie jusqu'à la lui voler. Des révoltes d'esclaves secouent la région et un groupe de rebelles se rapproche de la plantation. Prix Orange 2003.Les vendanges de l'amour (Romans de nos terroirs)
Par Pierre Louty. 2021
Georges Flacassier a grandi dans la ferme familiale de Grand Bois, au contact de la nature et des paysans. A…
20 ans, il est appelé à combattre durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De retour de la guerre, il s'engage dans la vie municipale de La Violette où il est élu maire en 1953.Out of the dark (Out of the Dark #1)
Par David Weber. 2010
The launch of a new science fiction adventure series—by the New York Times -best selling author of the Safehold series…
and the Honor Harrington series The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability—the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called "sentients"—"humans," they called themselves—were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better. Now, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died. Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize scattered survivors without getting killed. And in the southeastern US, firearms instructor and former Marine Dave Dvorak finds himself at the center of a growing network of resistance—putting his extended family at lethal risk, but what else can you do? On the face of it, Buchevsky's and Dvorak's chances look bleak, as do prospects for the rest of the surviving human race. But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earth... in David Weber's Out of the DarkAt the water's edge: A novel
Par Sara Gruen. 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again…
demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman’s awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year’s Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son’s inability to serve in the war. When Ellis and his best friend, Hank, decide that the only way to regain the Colonel’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed—by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster—Maddie reluctantly follows them across the Atlantic, leaving her sheltered world behind. The trio find themselves in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, where the locals have nothing but contempt for the privileged interlopers. Maddie is left on her own at the isolated inn, where food is rationed, fuel is scarce, and a knock from the postman can bring tragic news. Yet she finds herself falling in love with the stark beauty and subtle magic of the Scottish countryside. Gradually she comes to know the villagers, and the friendships she forms with two young women open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears: the values she holds dear prove unsustainable, and monsters lurk where they are least expected. As she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, Maddie becomes aware not only of the dark forces around her, but of life’s beauty and surprising possibilities. Praise for At the Water’s Edge "Breathtaking . . . a daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII." — Harper’s Bazaar "A gripping, compelling story . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced." — The Boston Globe "A page-turner of a novel that rollicks along with crisp historical detail." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Powerfully evocative." —USA Today "Gruen is a master at the period piece—and [this] novel is just another stunning example of that craft." — GlamourInvasion: Zombie apocalypse (THEM Post-Apocalyptic Series)
Par Massey Massey. 2016
When a surprise nuclear attack forces Aidan from hiding, he finds the world to be a much different and more…
deadly place. Now he'll traverse a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by violent redneck looters, rogue military factions, and an army of hungry undead... Invasion: Zombie Apocalypse After two combat tours in the Middle East, Aidan Sullivan just wants to be left alone on his family's ranch in the Texas Hill Country. But when the bombs fall and the dead walk, Aidan risks life and limb to rescue his aging parents from the zombie horde. To save them, he'll traverse half the state of Texas while fighting rogue military units, violent redneck looters, and thousands of walking dead. The question is, can he make it there in time? Only one thing's for sure—this Ranger will complete the mission, or he'll die trying! - - - Invasion: Zombie Apocalypse is a fresh take on the end of the world as we know it, military zombie apocalypse, SHTF fiction at its gory best. Get your copy today and discover the twisted, dystopian, post-apocalyptic world of Scratch Sullivan and THEMRavage & son
Par Jerome Charyn. 2023
A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early twentieth-century Manhattan Ravage & Son reflects the lost world…
of Manhattan's Lower East Side-the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century-in a dark mirror. Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish "Mr. Hyde," a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man. A lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome CharynCounteraction: Werewolf apocalypse (THEM Post-Apocalyptic Series)
Par Massey Massey. 2016
Scratch Sullivan has been through hell surviving the apocalypse—captured by his enemies, beaten and tortured within an inch of his…
life, and finally, infected by a zombie bite and left for dead. But nothing prepared him for this... Counteraction: Werewolf Apocalypse As a hunter in post-apocalyptic central Texas, Scratch Sullivan has survived zombies, vampires, and rogue military units. Heck, he's even the only human ever known to go hand-to-hand with a werewolf, and survive. But what's a man to do when the local 'thrope pack destroys your town and abducts your best girl? If you're Scratch Sullivan, you get spittin' mad... and then you get retribution. Even if thousands of undead and an entire pack of werewolves sits in your way. Now he's on a mission to wipe out the Corridor Pack and get his girlfriend Kara back, come hell or high water. The pack is going to wish they never messed with Old Scratch, cause he's gonna put those 'thropes down like the rabid dogs they are... or die trying. - - - Counteraction: Werewolf Apocalypse is a fresh take on the end of the world as we know it, military zombie apocalypse, SHTF fiction at its gory best. Get your copy today and discover the twisted, dystopian, post-apocalyptic world of Scratch Sullivan and THEMHarlequin (The Grail Quest #1)
Par Bernard Cornwell. 2014
The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Grail Quest series, in a bright and bold repackage. The year is 1342.…
The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the archers, the common men, who are England's secret weapon. The French know them as Harlequins. Thomas of Hookton is one of these archers. But he is also on a personal mission: To avenge his father's death and retrieve a stolen relic. Thomas begins a quest that will lead him through fields smeared with the smoke of fires set by the rampaging English, until at last the two armies face each other on a hillside near the village of CrécyDoctor who and the krikkitmen: 4th doctor novel (Doctor Who by Douglas Adams #4)
Par Douglas Adams. 2018
Dan Starkey reads this brand new novel based on a storyline by Douglas Adams. The Doctor promised Romana the end…
of the universe, so she's less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then the award ceremony is interrupted by eleven figures in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets, wielding bat-shaped weapons that fire lethal bolts of light into the screaming crowd. The Krikkitmen are back. Millions of years ago, the people of Krikkit learned they were not alone in the universe, and promptly launched a xenophobic crusade to wipe out all other life-forms. After a long and bloody conflict, the Time Lords imprisoned Krikkit within an envelope of Slow Time, a prison that could only be opened with the Wicket Gate key, a device that resembles – to human eyes, at least – an oversized set of cricket stumps... From Earth to Gallifrey, from Bethselamin to Devalin, from Krikkit to Mareeve II to the far edge of infinity, the Doctor and Romana are tugged into a pan-galactic conga with fate as they rush to stop the Krikkitmen gaining all five pieces of the key. If they fail, the entire cosmos faces a fiery retribution that will leave nothing but ashesThe last lifeboat
Par Hazel Gaynor. 2023
A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! Inspired by a remarkable true story,…
a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent : Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she’d long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher—to help evacuate Britain’s children overseas. 1940, London : Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily’s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other—one on land, the other at sea—will quickly become one another’s very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwinedLes dames de Beauchêne: roman. 2 (Roman)
Par Mylène Gilbert-Dumas. 2004
Québec, novembre 1758. La Nouvelle-France vit ses dernières heures sous le signe de la famine et de la corruption. Dans…
une maison de la rue Saint-Louis, trois femmes, les dames de Beauchêne, se remettent des bouleversements de l'année précédente, alors que chacune de son côté a souffert des premières offensives de l'armée anglaise. Si Antoinette choisit le cloître pour y vivre la douleur de son deuil, Marie et sa fille, Odélie, affrontent la vie avec courage. La plus jeune ne manque pas d'imagination pour affirmer son indépendance, allant même jusqu'à compromettre l'honneur de la famille. De son côté, Marie continue de cacher son terrible secret, repoussant sans raison apparente les avances d'un capitaine de l'armée française. L'arrivée de la flotte britannique devant Québec, à l'été 1759, transformera leur vie, car elle précède, entre autres, le retour du mystérieux Jean Rousselle. Espionnage, résistance, pièges et trahisons, dans la tourmente de l'ultime bataille, les regrets se font amers, comme les longs mois de l'hiver canadien.Ce roman est le deuxième volet de la trilogie Les dames de Beauchêne, dont le premier tome a paru à l'automne 2002. Une histoire de passion, d'honneur, de feu et de sang qui nous amène derrière les murs de Québec, dans les jours qui ont précédé et ceux qui ont suivi la célèbre bataille des plaines d'Abraham. Loin des stratégies militaires, elle nous fait vivre de l'intérieur les déchirements, les déceptions et les craintes des dernières années de la Nouvelle-France.La culasse de l'enfer: roman (Les grandes traductions #Vol. 6102065)
Par Tom Franklin. 2005
A la fin du XIXe siècle, une guerre oppose les métayers blancs de Mitcham Beat, dans le quartier de Clarke…
en Alabama, aux propriétaires fonciers des villes voisines qui régentent leur vie. A la suite d'un hold-up ayant mal tourné, la population, assoiffée de vengeance, forme une sorte de société secrète, La culasse de l'enfer, qui va semer terreur et panique dans le comté. Premier roman.Le voyage d'Anna: roman
Par Henri Gougaud. 2005
A Prague, au XVIIe siècle, pendant les massacres des protestants par les catholiques, la jeune Anna recueille le fils de…
ses maîtres, resté seul après la mort de son père et la fuite de sa mère. Dans un pays en proie à la violence, Anna fait la rencontre de Missa qui a tué les soldats violeurs de son fils, et parvient à survivre grâce à l'aide de Mathias et d'un charbonnier d'allure brutale.Le prix de la pureté: roman
Par Bergljot Haff. 2004
A l'époque de l'Inquisition espagnole, dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, l'inquisiteur Desiderius, intransigeant, se rend au couvent d'Oronez…
pour faire la vérité sur un cas de possession. Beatrize, une jeune nonne issue de la noblesse locale, a accouché d'un monstre. Desiderius cherche tous les moyens pour faire accuser la nonne et son cousin par le tribunal de l'Inquisition.L'enfant de Vinci: roman
Par Gonzague Bris. 2005
Suite du roman Les vieillards de Brighton. Arthur a 13 ans et son père l'autorise à dormir dans le lit…
de Léonard de Vinci, au château du Clos-Lucé, leur demeure de famille. Arthur rencontre alors des personnages du passé où Léonard mène la danse. Une intrigue se met en place autour des deux secrets du lieu : le Codex disparu et la Joconde nue, un tableau égaré.L'âme au poing: roman
Par Patrick Rotman. 2004
Paris, 1942. Sacha Altberg se lance dans la lutte armée et devient terroriste. L'inspecteur Rodier des Brigades spéciales le traque…
et manipule dans ce but Eva, une jeune femme fatale qu'il manipule... Cinquante ans après, un cinéaste rencontre les protagonistes survivants de cette affaire. Il tente d'écrire un scénario où la vérité se dérobe jusqu'à la révélation finale.