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Quand un satellite de la NASA détecte une météorite d'une exceptionnelle rareté enfouie sous les glaces du cercle polaire, cela tombe à pic pour l'agence spatiale, impatiente de faire oublier une série d'opérations ratées. À la veille de l'élection présidentielle, alors que son avenir politique est en jeu, le président des États-Unis envoie dans l'Arctique Rachel Sexton, analyste des services secrets, vérifier l'authenticité de cette découverte. Elle y rejoint une équipe d'experts, dont le charismatique océanologue Michael Tolland. Ce que Rachel va découvrir est presque inconcevable : une mystification audacieuse qui risque de déclencher un scandale mondial.

Il pomeriggio del 3 dicembre del 1980, Romain Gary si reco da Charvet, in place Vendôme a Parigi, e acquisto una vestaglia di sera rossa. Aveva deciso di ammazzarsi coi un coloo di pistola al-la testa e, per delicatezza verso il prossimo, aveva pensato di indossare una vestaglia di quel colore perché il langue non si notasse troppo. Nella sua casa di rue du Bac sistemo tutto con cura, gli oggetti personali, la pistola, la vestaglia. Poi prese un biglietto e vi scrisse : " Nessun rapporte, con Jean Seberg. I patin dei cuori infranti sono pregati di rivolgersi altrove ". Uanno prima Jean Seberg, la sua ex moglie, l'attrice americana, l'adolescente triste di Bonjour tristesse, era stata trovata nuda, sbronza e morta dentro una macchina. Aveva 40 anni. Si erano sposati nel 1962, 24 anni lei, il doppio lui. Il colpo di pistola con cui Romain Gary si uccise la notre del 3 dicembre 1980 fece scalpore nella società letteraria parigina, ma non giunse completamente inaspettato. Eroe di guerra, diplomatico, viaggiatore, cineasta, tombeur de femmes, vincitore di un Goncourt, Gary era considerato un sopravvissuto, un romanziere a fine corsa, senza più nella da dire. Pochi mesi dopo la sua morte, il colpo di senza. Con la pubblicazione postuma di Vie et mort d'Emile Ajar, si seppe che Emile Ajar, il romanziere più promettente degli anni Settanta, il vincitore, chique anni prima, del Goncourt coi La vita davanti a sé, l'inventore di un gergo da banlieu e da emigrazione, il cantore di quella Francia multietnica che cominciava a cambiare il volte, di Parigi, altri non era che Romain Gary.

Lodenbacher, der Chef von Kommissar Kluftinger, tobt. Ausgerechnet bei ihnen im schönen Allgäu hat sich ein Unbekannter auf der Flucht vor der österreichischen Polizei erschossen. Verdacht: er plane einen terroristischen Anschlag. Bloß wo? Nun muss Kluftinger nicht nur mit Spezialisten des BKA, sondern auch noch mit den Kollegen aus Österreich zusammenarbeiten. Doch das ist nicht sein Hauptproblem. Er soll mit seiner Frau Erika und dem Ehepaar Langhammer einen Tanzkurs absolvieren. Dabei hat er gar keine Zeit, denn er steckt mitten in den Endproben für die große Freilichtinszenierung von »Wilhelm Tell« à Kluftingers neuer Fall vom Allgäuer Autorenduo Volker Klüpfel und Michael Kobr.

Sumida todavía en los temores de una infancia carente de afecto, Lulú, una niña de quince años, sucumbe a la atracción que ejerce sobre ella un joven, amigo de la familia, a quien hasta entonces ella había deseado vagamente. Después de esta primera experiencia, Lulú, niña eterna, alimenta durante años, en solitario, el fantasma de aquel hombre que acaba por aceptar el desafío de prolongar indefinidamente, en su peculiar relación sexual, el juego amoroso de la niñez. Crea para ella un mundo aparte, un universo privado donde el tiempo pierde valor. Pero el sortilegio arriesgado de vivir fuera de la realidad se rompe bruscamente un día.

Dans un monde du futur où tout est contrôlé, même les sentiments, le souvenir des civilisations passées constituent le plus fantastique et le plus dangereux des pouvoirs. Jonas, 12 ans, en fera l'expérience.

Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village overlooking the vast steppes. Here, during the warm evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered bacony and listen to tales from another time, another place: Paris at the turn of the century. She who used to see Proust playing tennis in Neuilly captivates the children with stories of Tsar Nicholas's visit to Paris in 1896, of the great Paris flood of 1910, of the death of French president Felix Faure in the arms of his mistress. But from Charlotte the boy also learns of a Russia he has never known, of famine and misery, of brutal injustice, of the hopeless chaos of war. He follows her as she travels by foot from Moscow half the way to Siberia; suffers with her as she tells of her husband - his grandfather - a victim of Stalin's purges; shudders as she describes her own capture by bandits, who brutalize her and left her for dead. Could all this pain and suffering really have happened to his gentle, beloved Charlotte? Mesmerized, the boy weaves Charlotte's stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. Yet, despite all the deprivations and injustices of the Soviet world, he like many Russians still feels a strong affinity with and "an indestructible love" for his homeland.

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.

Now that a chalk outline no longer marks their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband can turn their attention back to the living. 'Tis the season in bucolic Emerald Springs, Ohio. As a gift to her daughters, Aggie's mom has invited their former foster sister, Ginger, to join their Christmas reunion. A potential candidate for Sociopaths Anonymous, Ginger could make Aggie nostalgic for the chalk line. But when Ginger turns up deader than a drumstick, Aggie's sister is the logical suspect because she always resented her mother's attachment to Ginger. Aggie knows her sister is incapable of murder. But that won't convince the police. Now Aggie has to find the murderer--someone who's decided there's a loophole in thou shalt not kill.

Ces "propositions pour le prochain millénaire" sont une formidable leçon de littérature. De Lucrèce à Henry James, l'auteur suggère que les chefs-d'ouvre littéraires peuvent tous être lus à travers le prisme de cinq valeurs : légèreté, rapidité, exactitude, visibilité, multiplicité. Italo Calvino devait donner ces Leçons américaines à l'université de Harvard peu avant sa disparition. Elles constituent son héritage intellectuel et artistique.

WHAT IF YOUR WHOLE LIFE WAS BASED ON LIES? When Joe Lynch stumbles across his wife driving into a hotel car park while she's supposed to be at work, he's intrigued enough to follow her in. And when he witnesses her in an angry altercation with family friend Ben, he knows he ought to intervene. But just as the confrontation between the two men turns violent, and Ben is knocked unconscious, Joe's young son has an asthma attack - and Joe must flee in order to help him. When he returns, desperate to make sure Ben is OK, Joe is horrified to find that Ben has disappeared. And that's when Joe receives the first message . . .

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Ein Hochhaus in einem Vorort von Stockholm wird lebendig û und zu einer grausigen Bedrohung. Eine Frau findet eine Leiche û und mag sich nicht mehr von ihr trennen. Ein Mann überlebt einen Schiffbruch û und glaubt, das Geheimnis ewiger Jugend gefunden zu haben ... Zehn meisterhaft komponierte Erzählungen, die zeigen, wie hauchdünn die Grenze zum Unheimlichen und Unerklärlichen in unserem Leben ist. Gruselstoff vom Feinsten!

Harriet Vanger desapareció hace treinta y seis años en una isla sueca propiedad de su poderosa familia. A pesar del despliegue policial, no se encontró ni rastro de la muchacha. ¿Se escapó? ¿Fue secuestrada? ¿Asesinada? El caso está cerrado y los detalles olvidados. Pero su tío Henrik Vanger, un empresario retirado, vive obsesionado con resolver el misterio antes de morir. En las paredes de su estudio cuelgan cuarenta y tres flores secas y enmarcadas. Las primeras siete fueron regalos de su sobrina; las otras llegaron puntualmente para su cumpleaños, de forma anónima, desde que Harriet desapareció. Mikael Blomkvist acepta el extraño encargo de Vanger de retomar la búsqueda de su sobrina. Periodista de investigación y alma de la revista Millennium, dedicada a sacar a la luz los trapos sucios de la política y las finanzas, Blomkvist está vigilado y encausado por una querella por difamación y calumnia presentada por un gran grupo industrial que amenaza con arruinar su carrera y su reputación. Contará con la colaboración inesperada de Lisbeth Salander, una peculiar investigadora privada, socialmente inadaptada, tatuada y llena de piercings, y con extraordinarias e insólitas cualidades. Así empieza esta magnífica novela que es la crónica de los conflictos de una familia, un fascinante fresco del crimen y del castigo, de perversiones sexuales y trampas financieras; un entramado violento y amenazante en el que, no obstante, crecerá una tierna y frágil historia de amor entre dos personajes absolutamente inolvidables.

Jeanie vuelve a enamorarse con 60 años, pero ¿valdrá la pena abandonar a su marido y una vida cómoda por un hombre que conoce tan poco? Nunca es tarde para enamorarse Jeanie tiene sesenta años, una casa bonita, su propio negocio, una hija casada y una encantadora nieta de dos años. Aunque en apariencia lleva una vida cómoda y tranquila, la verdad es que su matrimonio con George es aburrido y totalmente predecible. Hasta que un día conoce a Ray. Cada jueves, cuando acompaña a su nieta al parque, se encuentra con este atractivo abuelo que juega con su nieto. Empiezan hablando de los niños y acaban explicándose la vida. Las conversaciones de los jueves en el parque son cada vez más importantes para ambos y, poco a poco, Ray y Jeanie se dan cuenta de que se han enamorado. Pero ¿tiene derecho a abandonar lo que ha sido su vida durante treinta años y a destrozar a su marido? ¿Sería una locura a su edad arriesgarlo todo para perseguir un nuevo amor?

En la Barcelona de 1979, en vísperas de las elecciones municipales, el detective privado Pepe Carvalho tiene que investigar las causas de un misterioso crimen : la caída social de un importante hombre de negocios que huye de una vida acomodada en uno de los barrios más selectos de Barcelona y reaparece un ano después, muerto a navajazos, en su Polinesia particular, en los bajos fondos de la ciudad.

Un relato a un tiempo realista, poético y trágico que contiene algunas de las mejores páginas del gran novelista de Valladolid. La historia de unos seres humillados, sometidos al capricho de un amo que se cree propietario de sus vidas. Una magnífica novela que inspiró una de las mejores películas del cine español.

In this powerful series of short stories Helen Dunmore reveals a harsh, serious world of endless winters and midnight sun. In Short days, Long Nights a woman wakes to find a man in her bed and tries to piece together the jigsaw of the night before. But is he dead or just sleeping? In Girls on Ice two fashion students walk on the frozen sea until they are caught in a snowstorn, out of sight of land. Set as far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol and upstate New York, the worlds of these stores come alive to the touch. Characters, themes and nuances resound from story to story forming unexpected connections and delightful surprises.

Uthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie’s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.

Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ôAtlantisöùa fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Genevaùhaving been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritageùa clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings. Eighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabelaùpassionate and longing to see the worldùconvinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. In this sweeping, epic tale of love and lossùthe first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven novelsùLucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.

1775 all'alba della rivoluzione che generò gli Stati Uniti d'America. Lealisti e ribelli si contendono l'alleanza delle Sei Nazioni irochesi, la più potente confederazione indiana. Nella valle del fiume Mohawk, indigeni e coloni convivono da decenni. Scelte laceranti travolgono il futuro di una comunità meticcia: il viaggio deve cominciare, fino alla capitale dell'Impero, e la via del ritorno è già sentiero di guerra. Un cacciatore irochese abbandona i boschi e i romanzi di Voltaire. Un guerriero del Clan del Lupo interrompe la traduzione del Vangelo e imbraccia il fucile. Un baronetto di Sua Maestà compare nei sogni di bianchi e indiani. Una donna guida il suo popolo attraverso le fiamme. Dopo anni di ricerche e scrittura, la nuova narrazione dell'officina di cantastorie nota coi nomi "Luther Blissett" (ieri) e "Wu Ming" (oggi). Un romanzo epico sulla nascita di una nazione e lo sterminio di molti mondi possibili.