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Je ne sais pas si certains d'entre vous se souviennent de moi. Il y a quelques années, j'ai publié Le…
potentiel érotique de ma femme. Ce roman, traduit dans de nombreuses langues, avait obtenu un réel succès. J'étais alors dans la promesse. Pourquoi les choses ont-elles si mal tourné ? Depuis ce succès qui s'efface des mémoires, j'ai publié quatre autres romans et tous sont passés inaperçus. J'ai tenté d'analyser les raisons de mes échecs, mais il est impossible de comprendre pourquoi l'on devient invisible. Serais-je devenu médiocre ? Suis-je trop allé chez le coiffeur ? Pourtant, je dois absolument m'accrocher : bientôt, une fabuleuse idée de roman va surgir en moi. Bientôt, je serai à nouveau propulsé parmi les auteurs vivants. Enfin, on va se souvenir de moi. 2007.
Cette enquête sur le meurtre d'un jeune soldat donne l'occasion à Vargas Llosa de dénoncer la hiérarchie militaire et politique…
du Pérou qui se maintient au pouvoir par la corruption et la violence. 1987. Titre uniforme: Quién mató a Palomino Molero?
Réédition. Volume publié en 1984 dans la même collection. Une encyclopédie "miniature" qui répond à de nombreuses questions: Comment naissent…
les crocodiles? Où vivent-ils? Sont-ils vraiment féroces?, etc. Années 1-3. 2005.
Deux nuits ont bouleversé la vie d'Hélène à trente ans d'intervalle. La troisième, à la veille d'un procès, sera-t-elle enfin…
celle de la vérité ? Alternant le présent et le passé, Sylvie Le Bihan construit un roman à tiroirs où le lecteur est tenu en haleine jusqu'à la fin. 2017.
"Elle court, elle court, la légende. Elle ne semble pas près de disparaître. Cinquante ans après l'assassinat de John F.…
Kennedy, le 22 novembre 1963 à Dallas, qui peut dire ce que l'on sait avec certitude ? Magistrats, journalistes, cinéastes : tous y vont de leur théorie, remettant sans cesse en question la culpabilité de Lee Harvey Oswald. Bien des supposées anomalies ont pourtant été expliquées : celles de l'homme au parapluie ouvert, des clochards de Dealey Plaza trop bien habillés ou encore la fameuse piste française de l'OAS, du Milieu corse ou marseillais, évoquée par un quotidien basque et qui alimente, depuis, les spéculations... Comme bien d'autres, elle montre surtout l'étrange facilité avec laquelle une hypothèse devient, au fil du temps, indiscutable. Vincent Quivy décortique les théories et démêle la réalité des fantasmes. Toutes les recherches, toutes les analyses techniques, sont ici passées au crible. Une brillante démonstration, un vrai thriller, et un récit passionnant. " -- 4e de couv.
In sixteenth-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls in order to bathe in their…
blood, believing this would preserve her youth and beauty. Danica, a psychologist, is working at a London forensic hospital containing patient Martin Foster, who murdered a fourteen-year-old girl in homage to Báthory. When Maria, an old friend, reveals passages from what she claims is Báthory’s long-lost diaries, and lures Danica into a complex social sphere, Danica must decide what she is willing to risk to satisfy her attraction to Báthory’s ominous legend. Explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.
A collection of short stories, exploring the intuitive and subconscious motivations that have the power to harm and heal. In…
one story, a young boy equates the dissolution of his parents' marriage with a natural disaster, in another, a grieving mother revives the memory of her daughter by imagining the ultimate sacrifice. Each characterizes the art and chaos of the modern relationship. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.
When fourteen-year-old Cyril MacIntyre's mother disappears, Cyril uses every skill at his disposal to find her. Since Mom is a…
recent law school graduate who forced Cyril to attend many classes with her, Cyril has more wits than most. Some strong language. Grades 5-8. 2005.
At seven Pat learned to roll drunks for money. At twelve, she was targeted for sex by a grown man;…
by thirteen she was pregnant, and by fifteen, a mother of two. Alone at sixteen, Pat determined to make a better life for her children. 2017.
Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a…
star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together. Grades 5-8. 2017.
It is estimated that 45 million Americans smoke and nearly 500,000 deaths occur yearly due to smoke-related illnesses. In this…
concise audiobook, Charles F. Wetherall challenges smokers to put out their cigarettes, stop smoking and live a better, healthier life. He offers an easy five-step plan to get smokers to kick the habit - and keep it kicked! 2008.
When Tony Dungy led the Indianapolis Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI - and made history as the first…
African American coach to win the big game - millions of people, amazed by the success of his quiet, authoritative leadership style, wondered: how does he get it done? Dungy reveals the secrets to his success - principles, practices, and priorities that have kept him on track despite overwhelming personal and professional obstacles, including firings, stereotypes, and the tragic loss of a child. Bestseller. 2008.
Kaya, who is adopted and multiracial, has just been released from a Youth Detention Centre and is carrying a painful…
secret: she was sexually abused by a neighbour for years. Kaya keeps away, repeatedly disappearing into a life of sex work and addiction. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, uses food and a rediscovered love of magic tricks to escape her own troubles. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, they eventually find their way towards a moment of illumination and healing. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.
Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest colour, she knows…
a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know--like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother's silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. 2017.
The author, herself a wartime nurse, has produced a full account of nursing during the Second World War. Being 'there'…
when the need arose often meant working under difficult and dangerous conditions. Through the violence and tragedy which stained the war years. The humanity of the doctors and nurses gleams with a reassuring endurance. 1989.
Help Dr. J. L. Quicksolve, retired detective, solve murders, kidnappings, and burglaries. Use your powers of deduction, reasoning and careful…
attention to detail to solve the puzzles, before checking the offered solution. Grades 3-6. 1995.
U.S. Secret Service agent John Quincannon pursues a gang of murderers and counterfeiters to Silver City, Idaho. Before long, he…
is over his head, dealing with opium addicts, kidnapping, and falling in love. 1985.
Much has been written about Tutu's role as head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where apartheid perpetrators came…
forward to confess and ask forgiveness, but the focus of this biography is on Tutu's leadership role in the apartheid resistance, when those racist perpetrators were in power. The inside story of his life is also a gripping history of the fight for peaceful change. 2006.