Au fil d'une promenade dans les vieilles rues de Barcelone, Oscar rencontre la jolie et mystérieuse Marina.
Liés par un amour de plus en plus fort, les adolescents n'ont peur de rien, pas même de suivre une femme au comportement bizarre... Qui est-elle ? Pourquoi se rend-elle sur une tombe gravée d'un papillon noir ? Voilà Oscar et Marina lancés dans une aventure inoubliable à travers la ville, pour élucider une énigme vieille de plus de trente ans...
Paru en 1924, L'Histoire de France de Jacques Bainville est un ouvrage majeur pour qui veut comprendre les événements marquants de notre histoire, de la Gaule romaine jusqu'à la première Guerre Mondiale.
Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) était un historien, journaliste et écrivain français. Il est reconnu pour sa spécialisation dans l'histoire politique et diplomatique.
Napoléon de Jacques Bainville déroule le fil de l'épopée napoléonienne dans un style éclatant. Paru en 1931, cette oeuvre très équilibrée sur Napoléon Bonaparte, rencontre un immense succès et devient une véritable référence.
Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) était un historien, journaliste et écrivain français. Il est reconnu pour sa spécialisation dans l'histoire politique et diplomatique.
René Grousset réussit à résumer dans l'Épopée des Croisades, cette période de deux cents ans pendant laquelle les chrétiens tenteront en vain de reprendre et conserver Jérusalem. Redécouvrez les exploits militaires et politiques de Bohémond de Tarente, Tancrède de Hauteville, Godefroy de Bouillon, Baudouin I, Baudouin II, Jean de Brienne, Jean d'Ibelin, Saint Louis...
Poétesse rom à la voix de feu, Zoli fascine ceux qui l'approchent mais reste insaisissable. Élevée sur les routes par son grand-père, qui a bravé l'interdit tzigane en lui apprenant à lire et à écrire, Zoli découvre très jeune le pouvoir des mots. Mais coucher sur le papier l'histoire de sa communauté, c'est livrer aux gadze une partie de l'âme tzigane. Adulée par le régime communiste avant de devenir paria, bannie par les siens pour avoir transgressé les règles, Zoli paiera sa liberté au prix fort... Parabole sur l'exil, éloge de la différence, Zoli est le voyage sans retour dans l'Europe des années trente à nos jours, d'une femme à la volonté impitoyable, et, à travers elle, un hymne aux " errants du monde " que l'on veut à toute force sangler à la terre.
Detective Dave Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to help an old friend who is addicted to cocaine. The friend, Dixie, carries with him a brutal trail of violence and murder and even Dave's young ward Alafair is threatened.
Publié en 1751, le Siècle de Louis XIV de Voltaire marque un tournant décisif dans la gloire du Roi Soleil. S'appuyant sur les mémoires et les témoignages de l'époque, Voltaire rédige une historiographie complète : enfance du Roi, la Fronde, guerres, politique internationale et culturelle, affaires religieuses et anecdotes diverses, ...
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.
''Spellbinding and beautifully written, an irresistible, unbearably tense thriller'' Megan Abbott ''Destined to become a contemporary classic'' Esquire ''Provocative, intelligent, thrilling, moving'' Paula Hawkins ''Unlike the other books about serial killers you''ve read . . . brilliant'' Marie Claire ---------------- Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he''s done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn''t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. But this is not his story. As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansel''s mother, is a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. Hazel, twin sister to his wife, is forced to watch helplessly as the relationship threatens to devour them all. And Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, is devoted to bringing bad men to justice but struggling to see her own life clearly. This is the story of the women left behind. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our cultural obsession with crime stories, and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the minds of violent men.
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women''s hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with it the right to determine their own destinies. Or so she believes. When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school-age Black girls, the Williams sisters, who live off an old unpaved road in a shack without running water, Civil can''t help but feel uneasy. She grows close to the family and becomes fiercely invested in their well-being. And then she makes a shocking discovery: the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil is shocked that such a terrible mistake could have taken place, and vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon learns that this is no isolated event but a pattern, far more serious than she could ever have imagined, targeting poor Black women. Could her clinic be responsible? Had she and her fellow Black nurses been complicit? No matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. Based on true events, Take My Hand brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
It''s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island when Phoebe Stone arrives at the Cornwall Inn wearing her best dress and least comfortable heels. The lobby, in fact every room at the hotel, is occupied by wedding people. Every room except Phoebe''s.
On her way up in the elevator, she gets trapped with the bride, who realizes Phoebe isn''t here for the ''wedding week'' and demands to know her intentions. Without shame, Phoebe shares that she has come to the Cornwall because it is her happy place, and it''s here that she plans to end her life.
The bride is livid, and simply will not have her perfectly planned wedding ruined by this sad stranger. That night - as the wedding people begin their atrocious speeches - Phoebe wavers and finds that she cannot turn away from their drama and dysfunction. She is still broken, but for the next five days she is suddenly pulled into a family she doesn''t belong to, and the matrimonial chaos that might just lead to a happy ever after.
