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Octobre 1932, Cold Mountain, Louisiane. Paul Edgecombre, gardien-chef du bloc E, réservé aux condamnés à mort et surnommé « la ligne verte », rencontre John Coffey, un condamné à mort pour le viol et le double meurtre de deux fillettes. John Coffey semble disposer d'extraordinaires pouvoirs guérisseurs.Ce roman, qui est aussi une réflexion sur la peine de mort, a remporté le prix Bram Stoker 1996. Stephen King avec ce livre renoue avec le style un peu disparu du roman-feuilleton. Un film sera réalisé en 1999 avec Tom Hanks.
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary African-American family, from the New York Times -bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming . Two black families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected teen pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's birthday celebration in her grandparent's Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, escorted by her father to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special, custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own sixteenth birthday party and a celebration which ultimately never took place, derailed by the unplanned pregnancy that resulted in Melody. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.
Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend from years ago when they were both teachers. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi became a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. When Kaga suspects something is a little bit off with Nonoguchi's statement, he investigates further, ultimately executing a search warrant on Nonoguchi's apartment. There he finds evidence that shows that the two writers' relationship was very different than they claimed...
In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the writer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. Which one of the two writers was ultimately guilty of malice?
A miami, harry arno, bookmaker de 66 ans, semble bien parti pour prendre sa retraite, avec ou sans sa copine joyce, une ex-strip-teaseuse.
Mais le fbi, qui est décidé à coincer l'associé d'arno, le gros jimmy cap, va semer la zizanie. du coup, voilà harry piégé, placé d'un côté sous la surveillance de l'officier fédéral raylan givens, et traqué de l'autre par les tueurs de cap : le zip, un italien givré, et joe macho, un frimeur musclé mais trouillard.
Harry réussira à se débiner en italie, à rapallo. une retraite mouvementée oú il sera rejoint par toute la bande, agrémentée de quelques poètes de la gâchette, qui font rimer connard - stronzo - avec tête de noeud - testa di cazzo.
Harry arno - que l'on retrouvera, pris en otage par une bande de demeures dans beyrouth-miami - est un personnage typique de l'univers d'elmore leonard.
Comme toujours, " dutch " fait merveille par sa drôlerie, son imagination et la vivacité de ses dialogues.
In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high. 'It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl - I'm the best player of all.' Geoffrey Shafer: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC, homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.
Rien à faire, Billy, un gamin de 13 ans qui préfère les rues de Los Angeles aux coups qu'il recevait chez lui, a bien vu, à 1 heure du matin, une jeune femme se faire poignarder à Griffith Park par un homme qui s'est ensuite enfui dans une voiture immatriculée PLYR 1. L'anonymat dans lequel l'enfant trouvait sa sécurité n'existe plus. Sûr que le meurtrier l'a vu, Billy a tellement peur qu'il quitte sa cachette sans prendre le temps de faire place nette.Vite alertée par les gardes du parc, l'inspectrice Petra Connor découvre l'identité de la victime, Lisa Ramsey, l'ex-femme d'un acteur célèbre dans les milieux de la télévision, soupçonne aussitôt ce dernier et, plus grave pour Billy, comprend que quelq'un a vu le crime.Peu après, dans une villa qui tombe en ruine, une vieille dame se met à lire le journal avec une assiduité qui surprend beaucoup sa demoiselle de compagnie...Auteur de douze romans, dont When the Bough Breaks qui lui valut l'Edgar du policier, La Clinique, La Sourde, etc. Jonathan Kellerman est un spécialiste réputé des problèmes de l'enfance. Il vit à Los Angeles avec son épouse, la romancière Faye Kellerman.
En 9000 avant J.-C., selon Platon, se dressait, au milieu de l'Atlantique, une île peuplée par des guerriers, les Atlantes. En quelques heures funestes, elle fut engloutie par les flots... De nos jours, au large de la Grèce. Lors de l'exploration sous-marine d'une épave, l'archéologue Jack Howard trouve un disque en or qui donnerait la clé de la cité perdue. Au même moment, dans une nécropole égyptienne, le professeur Hiebermeyer découvre un papyrus rédigé en grec ancien qui mentionne Atlantis et révèle son emplacement...
Ces deux découvertes remettent en cause toute la science archéologique. Et même les plus sceptiques doivent se rendre à l'évidence : l'Atlandide n'est peut-être pas un mythe...
Yes'>#8220;[Akunin] writes gloriously preSoviet prose, sophisticated and suffused in Slavic melanchioly and thoroughly worthy of nineteenthcentury forebearers like Gogol and Chekhov.yes'>#8221;yes'>#8211;TimeIt is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Bulgarian front resounds with the thunder of cavalry charges, the roar of artillery, and the clash of steel on steel during the worldyes'>#8217;s last great horseandcannon conflict. Amid the treacherous atmosphere of a nineteenthcentury Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin finds his most confounding case.Ityes'>#8217;s difficulties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to find her respected comradeyes'>#8211; and fiancyes'>#233;yes'>#8211;Pyotr Yablokov, an army cryptographer. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a yes'>#8220;lackey of the throneyes'>#8221; for his efforts.But when Yablokov is accused of espionage and faces imprisonment and execution, Varya must turn to Fandorin to find the real culprit . . . a mission that forces her to reconsider his courage, deductive mind, and piercing gaze.Filled with the same delicious detail, ingenious plotting, and subtle satire as The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan, #8211;and Erast Fandorin as a detective for the ages.From the Hardcover edition.
Luke Mullen, son of a former high- ranking police officer has presumed kidnapped. Thorne is brought in to locate the missing boy. He discovers that ex-DCI Tony Mullen has omitted the name of the main suspect in a murder. Is this a simple oversight - understandable considering the trauma of his son's disappearance? Or is it something more telling?
Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn't do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of SHARP OBJECTS.
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
