L'enfant prodigue qui, aujourd'hui, rentre chez son père n'estpas celui qu'on croit, l'humble, le repenti. C'est un vaincu. Lamisère le ramène à sa famille, de même que jadis le mirage del'aventure l'avait poussé sur les routes. Il tombe ainsi dans unpiège. Quand il s'en aper?oit, il est trop tard. On ne quitte pasles siens deux fois. Mais il aidera son jeune frère à partir de lamaison.

Pride and Prejudice is a delightful socialcomedy and a timelessly affecting love story. Elizabeth Bennet is the headstrong young woman whom no man seems capable of taming; Fitzwilliam Darcy is the arrogant landowner who disdains to thinkit would be worth his trying to do so. Jane Austen's poisednarrative shows how these two apparently incompatible characterslearn to overcome their initial feelings of mutual dislike. A tourde force of wit and sparkling dialogue, Pride and Prejudice is alsoa sumptuously detailed picture of contemporary society, which, inits exploration of manners and motives, has a great deal to sayabout the society of today. Austen's best-loved novel is amemorable story about the inaccuracy offirst impressions, about the power of reason, and above all aboutthe strange dynamics of human relationships and emotions.

"Nevada Rose" Demille was one of the most beautiful and desired sports groupies in Las Vegas, a fixture at the trendiest casinos and clubs on the Strip. But the endless party came to a tragic end the morning her nude body was found bound and gagged in her home. As crime scene investigators Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown dig deeper, all roads (and a growing media circus) lead to Mark Baker -- a.k.a. "The Fireball" -- a hard-throwing, Cooperstown-bound major-league pitcher and fancier of gorgeous women who recently conducted a very public affair with one "Nevada Rose" Demille.... Meanwhile, miles away on the grounds of a world-class championship golf course, Gil Grissom is probing the macabre discovery of a John Doe -- an intense investigation that will unearth a bitter sibling rivalry twisted by jealousy and distrust over a "Nevada Rose" of a very different nature.... 作者简介： Jerome Preisler is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Tom Clanc

DIV Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth whotravels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join theEnglish father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted bythe exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling cityprominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. Butgradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality ofthe colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novelwith a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism andcolonialism. /DIV DIV /DIV DIV Inthe words of translator Alison Anderson, Onitsha isremarkable for its almost mythological evocation of local historyand beliefs. It is full of atmosphere sights, sounds, smells and attimes the author s sentences seem to flow with the dreamy languorof the river itself. But J. M. G. Le Cl??zio never lets us forgetthe harsh realities of life nor the subsequent tragedy of war. Astartling account and indictment of colonialism, Onitsha isalso a work of clear, forthright prose that ably portrays

This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called "today's Dostoevsky of crime literature." Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Th

Book De*ion The past fills me with deep emotion. I recall the evening Miao Yan and I first talked. The details return with such vividness that it seems as if I am watching a video of it – the low-hanging moon, the whitish cement ground, Miao Yan’s glittering eyes, her fluttering blouse, the way she lit her cigarette and exhaled the smoke. It is all imprinted on my memory and can never be removed. Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying in the same college. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is, by contrast, sexy but cynical, beautiful but wild. She uses her looks to get what she wants from the many men in her life. When the two girls meet, and become best friends, Ming’s world is changed forever. She is attracted to Yan’s free-spirit, while Yan yearns for the kind of stability Ming’s seriousness can bring. But their differences in upbringing and ideologies ultimately driven them apa

'Hornby's best novel to date, impossible to put down.., how can an examination of four people's anguish be so enthralling?' 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's prettySimple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on NewYear's Eve he's going ta end it all.., but not, as it happens, alone.Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess andlastly American rack-gad JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen Idis idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and same slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

This is the new Shardlake mystery from the No 1 bestsellingauthor of "REVELATION". Summer, 1545. England is at war. HenryVIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massiveFrench fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As theEnglish fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largestmilitia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency topay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflationand economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given anintriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr.Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed againsta young ward of the court, which have already involved onemysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey toPortsmouth. Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in acity preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes theopportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of EllenFettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emergingmysteries around the

When successful young Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship, just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. As Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her grandfather, a feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and her fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her ,is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel. Written with the authority, grace, and wisdom of an author far beyond her years, The Opposite of Love heralds the debu

It's winter break at St Vladimir's, and a massive Strigoi vampire attack has put the school on high alert. This year's trip away from the academy to the wintery peaks of Idaho has suddenly become mandatory. But Rose's troubles seem to follow her wherever she goes - dealing with the pain of knowing that her relationship with her tutor Dimitri can never be, things get even more complicated when one of her closest friends admits his feelings for her. The glittering winter landscape may create the illusion of safety but Rose - and her heart - are in more danger than she ever could have imagined...

This is the story of a man named Charley who loses his job, leaves his family, and decides, one night, to end his life. Somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother, who died years ago, and he spends one last day with her - a day he never had on earth. This 'ordinary' day covers the whole of their existence, and reveals how Charley, like many children, was constantly forced to choose between his mother and his father. He gets the chance many of us yearn for - to ask the questions never asked while our parents are alive. In the end, Charley learns how little he really knew about his mother, how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the chance to save his own.

Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.

Small town Louisiana has a big problem - or rather a number of big problems. And now some of them have come knocking on Sookie's door ...Sookie is an unassuming cocktail waitress in an (outwardly) unremarkable town. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. Attractive as she is, her hidden 'talents' send men running. For some reason her mindreading skills are just a bit threatening ...Then the unreadable Bill appears on the scene. Tall, dark and handsome, Bill seems to be the man of her dreams. Except he's not technically human. Bill is a vampire and a vampire who keeps seriously bad company, some suspected - unsurprisingly - of murder. Things get a bit close to home when a co-worker is murdered and Sookie starts wondering whether she will be next ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

In Wilson's (The Story of Tracy Beaker) fast-paced first book in the Girlfriends Trilogy, ninth-grader Ellie describes why she's "feeling so fed up" and the sticky situations in which she finds herself. Ellie's first-person narration possesses a Bridget Jones-like energy and compulsiveness. Her constant obsession with her weight gets old, but her loathing of teachers, family and herself will feel familiar. Ellie's relationship with her two best friends, Nadine and Magda, and especially with nerdy Dan, whom she meets on holiday, serve as good models without being didactic. Feeling jealous after hearing about Nadine's new older boyfriend and Magda's summer flirtations, Ellie pretends that Dan is her boyfriend, though she substitutes his looks with those of a cute boy she's crushing on. As Dan expresses his romantic feelings for her through the letters they exchange, it becomes obvious that she won't be able to keep up her farce forever. Meanwhile, Nadine's boyfriend pressures Nadine for sex, and there's t

Leigh Tyler was once a kindergarten teacher with starry-eyed dreams dreams that turned into mghtmares when the biggest mistake she ever made came back to tear her world apart. Now. Leigh lives only for the hunt. Werewolves are her prey, and love is no longer an option. Leigh has been called to Wisconsin for something big. As long as it means killing fanged and furry demons, shets up for it. But the worst is yet to come, because something stronger and smarter than the average beast is on the prowl...and it's doing Leigh's work for her. Intoxicating and intriguing, Damien Fitzgerald is making Leigh question her vow never to let another man into her bed, or her heart. Every moment with him brings forth familiarwand dangerous--urges. Urges that may prove too strong to resist. Leigh's job is a dance with death, and she has nointention of letting Damien become involved and get hurt. Especially now that she knows her enemy is watching from the forest. Waiting for her first wrong step.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

La Bruyère livre ses réflexions sur les moeurs du XVIIesiècle, en seize chapitres dont, selon lui, ?quinze s'attachent àdécouvrir le faux et le ridicule qui se rencontrent dans l'objetdes passions et des attachements humains [et ] ne sont que lapréparation du seizième [ ... ] où l'athéisme est attaqué et où lespreuves de Dieu [ ... ] sont apportées. Satire sociale, protraits réflexions et maximes émaillent cetexte éminemment moraliste.

Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, reveal what it is like to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. Reprint."

Pour expliquer le succès du Roi se meurt, on a dit que c'estun classique. Il montre l'homme ramené à sa condition fondamentale.Donc à l'angoisse devant la mort. Cet homme qui parle avec lesaccents du roi Lear est néanmoins notre contemporain. Il esttellement notre contemporain que son histoire - une existence qui aoublié ses limites - reflète exactement la célèbre ? crise de lamort ? qui secoue l'Europe de l'après-guerre. Le Roi se meurt n'estpourtant pas une pièce triste. D'abord, parce que l'humour n'y estpas absent. Ensuite, et surtout, parce que Ionesco propose lesremèdes pour sortir de la crise. C'est également cela, une grandeoeuvre classique une le?on de dignité devant le destin. --Cetexte fait référence à l’édition Poche .