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Une écriture cinglante, caractérisée par un humour sauvage et macabre.
Avec ce roman, son tout dernier paru en Uruguay en 2013, Allemagne, Allemagne !, l'auteur revisite la Seconde Guerre mondiale et nous en donne une version hallucinée. Le roman se divise en trois parties de l'Angleterre bombardée o un écrivain fou et boiteux au service du contrespionnage britannique perd sa femme et ses enfants lors d'un bombardement, en passant par l'Allemagne...
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Jeanne, Eléonore, Agathe, Emma, Alice, Clémentine, Rose et Barbara sont huit femmes aux parcours de vie clairement définis. Chacune d'entre elles a pris des décisions ou a été influencée par le destin en fonction de leurs différentes phases de vie et de leurs désirs. Cependant, malgré leurs différences, une circonstance va les rassembler, scellant leur union pour l'éternité.
À PROPOS DE L'AUTRICE
Marie Moreau puise son inspiration...
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L'aventure d'un soir avec la serveuse polonaise sur une île méditerranéenne n'aurait pas dû chambouler la vie de l'ex-banquier de Zurich, chmeur, divorcé, en quête d'ailleurs.
Mais de messages en escapades, la Pologne l'envahit. La Pologne de quatre femmes, échappées du moule conservateur, peu chanceuses avec les hommes mais décidées à réussir leur vie. Une ichtyologue vagabonde, une informaticienne qu'enchante la grammaire française,...
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The Complete 3-Book Set of the Free Fall Series in Loving Summer:
FREE FALL BOOK 1
Although Summer has made her choice, the danger is far from over. In order to protect everyone he loves, Nat must continue living with his new identity for however long it takes, even if that means several years later.
Will the love he feels for Summer still last, even when he is no longer the Nat Donovan he used to be?
This can be read separately from the Loving...
7725) Madam X
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By popular demand, national bestselling author Niobia Bryant brings you the sizzling, sexy, twist-a-minute follow-up to Madam, May I, in which Manhattan's most exclusive madam discovers her past is back with a vengeance. For fans of steamy, juicy, action-packed stories and Mary B. Morrison and Noire.
Billionaire celebrity clients, anything-goes erotic nights, seductive betrayals-Desdemona Dean couldn't wait to leave the high-end prostitution game...
7726) Lie Awake
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Yasmine Everett is only sixteen years old when she's diagnosed with selective amnesia. On top of a straining relationship with her dad, she has to deal with being a social pariah at her high school. Amid these struggles, Yasmine begins to experience a euphoric feeling she refers to as 'drifting.' But when a sinister figure visits her with a shocking revelation, she finds that the truth about her condition may be more horrific than she imagined. Instead...
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Un livre pour toutes les (futures) mamans !
Vous avez une mère ? Vous êtes une mère ? Vous en connaissez une ? Plusieurs ? Pas de doute : ce livre est pour vous ! D'un test de grossesse... à un réveillon chez belle-maman. D'un samedi avec des jumeaux de deux ans... au matin d'une ado en crise. D'un divorce à la sauce Oedipe... à une tragi-comédie signée Alzheimer. D'un nid qui se vide... au centenaire de mémé Paulette. On ne naît pas...
7728) A Whisper Away From Evil
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive.Sir Walter Scott - 1808 A car accident in Kent on a miserable December night turns out to be anything but ordinary for Detective Inspector Harry Baxendale. One fatality, a missing teenager, and a girl in the hospital who has escaped the clutches of an international serial killer. Harry and Police Constable Lucy Fenton attempt to uncover the truth surrounding the collision. As the body...
7729) The Hour Before Dawn
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A rich, multi-generational saga, sweeping from Singapore to New Zealand. Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Rosanna Ley.
Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother. After their first blissfully happy years together, tragedy strikes and Fleur is...
7730) The Master
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To be the Master, how far would you go? Serena Singleton, the college student turned protege and arranged lover for world renown composer and Professor Sebastian Sorensen or S. Sorensen, the mastermind behind the Vegas musical, Rock Hard Love Hard; seemed to have moved past her past, but a shocking discovery about Sebastian and her ex-Master billionaire Price Turnsby's pasts forces her into a game so dangerous, she may not only end up losing Sebastian...
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A dual Kirkus Best Fiction and Best Debut Fiction selection, this stunning novel is an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what most makes us human.
At the outset of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task seems to be to grasp her life's meaning. From the moment of her birth, it was obvious that Jess...
7732) If You Hear Me
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In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand-but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits. A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me asks what...
7733) Le murmure des oiseaux
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Quand Xavi est incarcéré à la Modelo, la prison de Barcelone, il n'imaginait pas y rencontrer Juan. La dictature de Franco vient de s'effondrer, mais demeure toujours enkystée dans les interstices des murs. Écrasés par leurs passés et leurs différences, une amitié rare et précieuse va naître au fond de cette cellule marquée du sceau de l'histoire. Peu à peu, ils vont s'observer, se parler, s'écouter et parvenir à défier la perception...
7734) The Butcher's Daughter
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In her latest thriller, an investigative genealogist digs for her own biological roots, well aware that some secrets are better left buried. Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients’ genetic puzzles, while hers remains shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who’s hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth,...
7735) Casa de espías
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Del autor de La viuda negra, número uno en la lista de los más vendidos del New York Times, llega un nuevo éxito literario protagonizado por Gabriel Allon, espía legendario, asesino profesional y restaurador de arte. La viuda negra, una historia de suspense trepidante y uno de los mayores éxitos de Silva, fue una de las novelas más destacadas de 2016. Ahora, en Casa de espías, Gabriel Allon ha vuelto y está dispuesto a vengarse, decidido a...
7736) A Family by Design
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Norwegian born Katriina and Irish Architect Max have built their perfect life; a stunning eco-home in the Scottish Highlands, successful and fulfilling careers, and the icing on the cake - two beautiful children, Louis and Lyssa.
But, buried beneath the foundations of their marriage lurks a terrible secret and when a stranger comes into their lives, events take an unexpected and dramatic turn.
In this provocative novel, twenty years of love,...
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Du gang, il ne reste que trois survivants..Le couloir de la mort. Quand la létale devient un meurtre légal. C'est le torse gonflé à bloc et les épaules redressées par la fierté que j'y suis allé de mon plein gré. Un. Deux. Trois. Il fait noir, ça pue, ça gueule, le vacarme dans ma tête en est assourdissant. Quatre. Cinq. Six. Quand compter les pas qui me séparent de la mort devient synonyme de destin brisé et de vies gâchées. La rédemption,...
7738) Summer Brother
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Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While Lucien's home is undergoing renovations, he is sent to live with his father and younger brother for the summer. Their detached father leaves Brian to care for Lucien's special needs. But how do you look after someone when you don't know...
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A Federal Holiday on the calendar means nothing but dread in the city of Annapolis. Fear has been king ever since a black man in dreadlocks began snatching young girls on federal holidays. Any man with dreadlocks is a suspect, but only one in particular is targeted, Barry Duval. He is black and he has dreadlocks...reason enough, it seemed. The media tarnishes his good name to the point that he loses his job and was kicked out of his apartment while...
7740) Survivre
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Elle contrlait parfaitement sa vie jusqu'au jour o...
Charlène voit sa vie se décomposer petit à petit devant ses yeux. Quelques mois après le décès brutal de son mari, son employeur la nomme DRH d'une filiale de province. Son rle : liquider un maximum de travailleurs. Pour cette humaniste convaincue, c'est une véritable erreur de casting, mais surtout un véritable crève-cœur.
Et si ce déménagement forcé devenait finalement l'opportunité...
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