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"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." ùStephen King "Our generation’s next beloved literary heroine.ö ûHarper’s Bazaar A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.

When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work. Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair

Mona Gray vient d'avoir vingt ans, et Dieu sait si les chiffres comptent dans sa vie : elle est prof de maths ! Une vie en quête d'un ordre acceptable, où chacun trouverait sa place, une exploration des mondes féeriques.

Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence, and not a moment too soon. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the courtroom to do what she does best. But even she can’t anticipate the complexity of her first case when she meets Lucy, a young woman who testified years earlier at a landmark federal trialàand now reveals that she was sexually assaulted by a prominent official during that time.

Yet Lucy’s isn’t the only secret Alex must uncover, with rumors swirling about one colleague’s abusive conduct behind closed doors and another’s violent, mysterious collapse. As the seemingly disparate cases of her client, adversary, and friend start to intertwine, Alex, along with NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, finds herself in uncharted territory within Manhattan’s Rockefeller University, a premier research institute, hospital, and cornerstone of higher learning. But not even the greatest minds in the city can help her when unearthed secrets begin to collide in dangerous waysàand unless she can uncover the truth, the life-saving facility just may become her grave.

L'inspecteur adjoint John Rebus enquête sur une série de meurtres. Pour traquer sa proie, il traîne dans des bars de voyous et parcourt les bas-fonds de la ville d'Edimbourg, ravagés par le chômage et l'héroïne. Avec des notes pour comprendre la version originale.

Alice, une vieille dame qui commence à perdre la mémoire, est passionnée par la natation et appartient à un groupe qui se réunit régulièrement pour nager. Lorsque la piscine ferme, Alice est placée dans une maison de retraite. Lors de ses visites, sa fille recueille ses souvenirs qui s'effacent, depuis le camp pour Nippo-Américains pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu'à la perte d'une fille.

Henri Bosch travaille sur deux affaires. D'une part, celle d'un homme de 29 ans, dont l'ADN correspond à un viol datant de 1989, alors qu'il n'avait que 8 ans. D'autre part, il enquête sur le fils du conseiller municipal Irving, qui a été retrouvé défenestré au château Marmont. Avec des notes dans la marge pour comprendre la langue originale.

Lorsque Bond bat Le Chiffre, un puissant agent russe, dans un jeu de cartes, il pense que sa mission est terminée. Mais Le Chiffre voit les choses différemment.