Editions stock dez 2021 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Une femme et un homme, nés au mitan du XXe siècle au Chili. Elle, Carmen, fille de la bourgeoisie, vit à Santiago; lui, Teo, a grandi dans les mines de salpêtre au nord du pays. Tout les oppose. Mais voilà que le Chili gronde. Les mouvements révolutionnaires des années soixante secouent les corps et les consciences. Après l'élection d'Allende et la ferveur de l'Unité populaire, viendra le coup d'État du 11 septembre 1973, et avec lui, la violence de la dictature. Pour Carmen et Teo, la vie rime avec engagement, lutte, épreuves et exil. En ligne de mire un ennemi: Pinochet. Et un espoir: la liberté.Flamboyant, enlevé et virtuose, voici le roman vrai de deux héros qui n'ont jamais renoncé à leurs idéaux et continuent de nous inspirer aujourd'hui.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Choyé par les siens, Mathieu vit une enfance idyllique dans la vallée de Chantebrie. Mais tout bascule le jour où il perd ses parents dans un accident tragique. C'est décidé, il consacrera sa vie à défier la mort. Il quitte sa vallée et Amandine, sa fiancée, pour suivre des études de médecine à Paris. Là, il travaillera pour un taxidermiste dont la plus belle pièce est un mystérieux cerbère blanc.Mais peut-on vraiment oublier son passé Tiraillé par ses démons, ses regrets et son ambition, Mathieu ira d'aventure en aventure jusqu'à ce lieu ultime, interdit, duquel il reviendra transformé.Dans ce roman, Pierre Raufast joue avec l'imaginaire et la fantaisie pour aborder des sujets graves: le culte de la jeunesse, la peur du déclin, la folie d'une société qui croit pouvoir nier la mort. Il est aussi question de métamorphoses; de l'amour, de nos choix et de nos âmes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - « You are of the race of masters, my son. ' Liberating himself from the lifelong hold of a toxic father, the son of a famous actor faces his demons over the course of one fateful night, and wakes up a new man. Can a life be turned upside down in one night Alex Delval, eighteen-years-old, dreams of becoming an actor like his father. For the first time, he is offered a big part. But very quickly, doubt sets in, and everything falls apart. Too much alcohol, anxiety. a fight breaks out, and when he comes around, Alex finds himself face to face with a man he doesn't know: a sixty -year-old, good looking shrink who will become his accomplice and his confident in one night. Alex will dare to open up and tell his story. He, child who was neither raised nor regarded by his father, yet who remains proud to be a Delval. The face-off of a father and son who love to hate one another. And the hope, at the end of the night, of finding a self.Alain-Fabien Delon, born in 1994, is a model and actor. He is the son of European film giant Alain Delon, star of Rocco and his brothers, The Leopard. Of the Race of Masters is his debut novel and is inspired by his personal life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two estranged brothers embark on an investigation that makes them reappraise their relationship. Julien and Loïs are brothers. They grew up like twins, love each other and live a few kilometres apart in Paris. But they've hardly spoken for the past two years. Julien, the older brother, is a statistician, projecting himself into the future by analysing client behaviour for Endless, a large insurance company. Loïs is interested in the other extremity of time: he's an archaeologist. They're both passionate about the truth - Julien likes the precision of numbers, Loïs the mysteries of the past.Then one day Julien disappears and sends Loïs a strange letter, inviting him to investigate Endless, which is riven with internal conflict. but also to revisit their past. Perhaps an opportunity for the brothers to rediscover each other. Fabrice Tassel lives in Paris. He is co-editor of GQ magazine and has written two previous novels. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alors qu'elle prépare sa prochaine exposition, Billie, artiste trentenaire, parisienne, apprend la mort brutale de Louise. Sa mère, dont elle s'est tenue éloignéesi longtemps, s'est mystérieusement noyée.Pour Billie, l'heure est venue de retourner à V., le village de son enfance.Elle retrouve intacts l'arrière-pays méditerranéen, les collines asséchées qu'elle arpentait gamine, la rivière galopante aux échos enchanteurs et féroces, et surtout le souvenir obsédant de celle qu'elle a laissée derrière elle: Lila, l'amie éternelle, la soeur de coeur -- la grande absente.Les Heures solaires brosse le portrait de trois générations de femmes unies par les secrets d'une rivière. Y palpitent l'enfance, l'attachement à sa terre d'origine, l'impossibilité de l'oubli.Et c'est en creusant la puissance des mémoires familiales que Caroline Caugant pose aussi cette question: les monstres engendrent-ils toujours des monstres.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The friendship between two women, based on mistrust, fascination, betrayal and the unspoken. Brigitte and Brune are opposites in every way, but as soon as they meet at high school they become best friends. They promise each other that together they can do anything. Bamboozling their way through the wild teenage years, these two comets discover the pleasures of love, dancing, laughter and drinking till dawn while they dream of their future lives. But one strange summer day it all suddenly stops. Without any explanation, Brigitte breaks off their friendships and disappears.Brune simply has to cauterise the wound. Years go by, she turns thirty and finds she's pregnant. It's at this point that Brigitte, who she hasn't heard a word from, comes back to haunt her: in her dreams, her lost friend is also expecting a baby.Through this parallel, dreamed pregnancy, Brune retraces their friendship in the hopes of understanding what came between them. Agathe Ruga gave up her career as a dentist to write a very popular literary blog. Sous le soleil de mes cheveux blonds is her debut novel.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lost in translation Julien Sauvage is a translator of Italian who dreams of writing his own novel: an exquisite account of a romantic break-up. To help him get over the beautiful French-Italian Laura who trampled all over his heart. But a Paris-based editor unexpectedly asks him for an urgently needed translation of an acclaimed Italian novel, Rebus. The author, Agostino Leonelli, is sensationally talented.As he works on the translation, Julien is catapulted back to the red soil of Puglia, the spiny leaves of prickly pears and gardens bursting with luxuriant plants overlooking the sea. He delves into the Years of Lead, a time that his old mentor Salvatore - a bookseller exiled in Paris - avoids mentioning. He sees the luminous Laura again. He embraces all the fluidity and whims of the Italian language. until a suspicion creeps up on him: could the story on which Rebus is based be about him Romane Lafore is an editor and a translator of Italian. Belle infidèle is her first novel.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thomas Lynch is on the track of the 'movie buff' killer, but inside one investigation, there may be another.Baltimore has been holding its breath for months. A serial killer nicknamed 'the movie-buff' has been killing women, embalming them and making them up to look like Grace Kelly. Everything takes off when Maggie Exton, wife of the Assistant Chief of Staff at the Whitehouse, disappears.The investigation is entrusted to three very different men: Thomas Lynch, a cop who fights his terrible moods with excessive donut consumption; Jack Miller, a former FBI agent turned private detective; and Peter, an exceptionally intelligent misanthropic geek. They could never have imagined where this would take them. because in the days of the Patriot Act, America is drowning. Crowd surveillance, the war on terror, cyber technology. the end justifies the means and the CIA will stop at nothing. And definitely not at the unmentionable. Zoé Shepard has written several hilarious satires about civil servants, including Absolument dé-bor-dée ! which has sold over 400,000 copies. Maggie Exton is her first thriller.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The love story between an actress and a frontline soldier in the Vosges during World War I. Blanche Baulieu, a beauty from the Paris suburbs, has been performing in the capital's theatres since the beginning of the war and dreams of becoming a great actress. But times are hard and she struggles to make her mark, so when she's asked to join a company to entertain the troops she doesn't hesitate.Blanche arrives on the Vosges front in 1917 with a group of actors from Paris led by Sarah Bernhardt. Their objective is to raise morale among the troops and contribute to their country's victory. Antoine comes to collect her at the station. A soldier. A quiet type. A young man. Her heart is captivated but around them the snow falls quietly. And enemy soldiers watch. Carl Aderhold is the author of two previous novels that enjoyed considerable commercial success.…