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Mettre en pratique le pouvoir du moment présent
Par Eckhart Tolle. 2024
Le pouvoir du moment présent est un des classiques des écrits spirituels du monde occidental. Eckhart Tolle propose des méditations…
et exercices pour arriver à un état de conscience modifié, en dépassant les schémas de la souffrance et de la négativité. Avec ce livre audio, donnez une place centrale à la réflexion personnelle et profondeOpen heart
Par Elvira Lindo. 2023
This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to…
the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents-the story of an excessive love, passionate and unstable, forged through countless fights and reconciliations, which had a profound effect on their entire family. Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn't put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings' childhood was marked by unpredictability. As they pass through temporary homes, they're caught between Manuel's outsized temper and their young mother's worsening illness, which would tragically take her life. Beginning with nine-year-old Manuel's experience in Madrid in 1939, Open Heart takes us on a sweeping journey through Spain full of beautifully observed insights about love in its many formsAn astronomer in love
Par Antoine Laurain. 2023
Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer…
in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain. In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought. 250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume's telescope in a property he's sold. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment. Then the woman walks through the doors of his office, and his life changes foreverBefore i let go (Skyland #1)
Par Kennedy Ryan. 2022
"Real, raw, magnificent — Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read." — Colleen Hoover, #1…
New York Times bestselling author Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn't solve or save everything. It couldn't save their marriage. Yasmen wasn't prepared for how her life fell apart, but she's is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they're always drawn back to each other, and now they're beginning to wonder if they're truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another...and then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around? Award-winning and bestselling "powerhouse" author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in this compelling, scorching novel about hope and healing, and what it truly means to love for a lifetime ( USA Today)An inconvenient earl (Royal Match #4)
Par Julia London. 2023
"Deliciously clever." —Booklist on The Duke Not Taken Bold. Beautiful. Beguiling. It's been over a year since Emma Clark's no-good…
husband left on an expedition. The Countess of Dearborn has played the abandoned wife, but people are beginning to presume the earl is dead, which doesn't suit Emma at all. Emma likes being head of household in Albert's absence and does her best to keep his family believing he is alive and well. She's thirty years old and finally having some fun. If the earl is in fact dead, his family is waiting in the wings to swoop in and throw Emma out, leaving her destitute. Then along comes Luka Olivien, the Weslorian Earl of Marlaine. He's traveled all the way from Egypt, duty-bound to return to the countess her deceased husband's precious pocket watch—only to discover she doesn't know he's dead... Or does she? It's hard to tell. Luka catches glimpses of the desperate vulnerability beneath the party girl exterior and can't help being drawn into the beguiling countess's ruse. A Royal Match Book 1: Last Duke Standing Book 2: The Duke Not Taken Book 3: The Viscount Who Vexed Me Book 4: An Inconvenient EarlAda's room: A novel
Par Sharon Dodua Otoo. 2023
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A…
woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman’s experience matters to another’s 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a homeA history of the island
Par Eugene Vodolazkin. 2023
This ingenious novel is presented as a chronicle of an island from medieval to modern times. The island is not…
on the map, but it is real beyond doubt. It cannot be found in history books, yet the events are painfully recognizable. The monastic chroniclers dutifully narrate events they witness. The entries mostly seem objective, but at least one monk simultaneously drafts and hides a "true" history, to be discovered centuries later. And why has someone snipped out a key prophesy about the island's fate? These chronicles receive commentary today from an elderly couple who are the island's former rulers. Prince Parfeny and Princess Ksenia are truly extraordinary: they are now 347 years old. Eyewitnesses to much of their island's turbulent history, they offer sharp-eyed observations on the changing flow of time and their people's persistent delusions. Why is the royal couple still alive? Is there a chance that an old prophecy comes to pass, and two righteous persons save the island from catastrophe? Vodolazkin is at his best recasting history, in all its hubris and horror, by finding the humor in its absurdity. For listeners with an appetite for more than a dry, rational, scientific view of what motivates, divides, and unites people, A History of the Island conjures a world still suffused with mystical powersSuborbital 7
Par John Shirley. 2024
A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages, and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a…
suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr "This is the kind of book that gives military SF a good name." Financial Times Lieutenant Art Burkett is called up to take part in a rescue mission. Three scientists have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Thieves in Law. The rescue is swift. Art and his team return to military craft SubOrbital 7, intending to return to safety with hostages rescued and prisoners in tow. But Thieves in Law are not the only people looking for them. Art and his team must fight an ever-growing threat before time runs out for them, and possibly for the rest of the worldSoldier sailor
Par Claire Kilroy. 2023
AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW - a resonant and provocative novel. 'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer 'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAY…
'My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLS In one of the most acclaimed novels of the year, her first in over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the mind of her unforgettable heroine. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, she vividly realises the tumultuous emotions of a new mother. As her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of love, autonomy creativity and the passing of time, an old friend makes a welcome return - but can he really offer a lifeline to the woman she used to be? Readers adore Soldier Sailor: ***** 'Unbearably tense and frequently hilarious.' ***** 'An entirely different voltage to anything I've read. . . she somehow manages to verbalise *exactly* the feelings and thoughts I, certainly, had at points when I was a young mother' ***** 'This story touched me on such a visceral level.' ***** 'I was held captive by this novel. . . an utterly absorbing depiction of motherhood' ***** 'I loved this book. Any woman, with or without children, will see themselves mirrored in this narrative' ***** 'An excellent, interesting and rather unforgettable creation.&aposFalling hour
Par Geoffrey Morrison. 2023
All talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debut It's a hot summer night,…
and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel's letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing. The result is a strange, meandering sojourn, as if the history-haunted landscapes of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn were shrunk down to a mere 85 acres. These digressions are anchored by remarks from the letters of Keats, by snatches of lyrics from Irish rebel songs and Scottish folk ballads, and, above all else, by the world-shattering call of the red-winged blackbird. "From the first page to the last I felt wholly captivated by Falling Hour and Hugh's sensitive and far-ranging digressions. Morrison has captured the magic of Sebald and made it entirely his own, a curiously anti-capitalist exploration of what it means to live in a "fake" country. " - André Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn " Falling Hour is a profound incantatory exhalation - a quiet triumph; to read it is to engage in a smart, humane and at times very funny conversation that you will never want to end." - Simon Okotie, author of After Absalon "A stellar debut novel by a stellar new talent. Falling Hour is written in a prose style that enlivens every page." - Mauro Javier Cárdenas, author of Aphasia: A NovelRuthless vows (Letters of Enchantment #2)
Par Rebecca Ross. 2023
"This captivating production will leave listeners wanting more" — AudioFile on Divine Rivals The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic…
and beautifully written story that started in Divine Rivals . Two weeks have passed since Iris Winnow returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, and the city of Oath continues to dwell in a state of disbelief and ignorance. When Iris and Attie are given another chance to report on Dacre's movements, they both take the opportunity and head westward once more despite the danger, knowing it's only a matter of time before the conflict reaches a city that's unprepared and fracturing beneath the chancellor's reign. Since waking below in Dacre's realm, Roman cannot remember his past. But given the reassurance that his memories will return in time, Roman begins to write articles for Dacre, uncertain of his place in the greater scheme of the war. When a strange letter arrives by wardrobe door, Roman is first suspicious, then intrigued. As he strikes up a correspondence with his mysterious pen pal, Roman will soon have to make a decision: to stand with Dacre or betray the god who healed him. And as the days grow darker, inevitably drawing Roman and Iris closer together...the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur BooksThe djinn waits a hundred years: A novel
Par Shubnum Khan. 2024
AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARYREADS PICK “A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a…
ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansion’s dark corridors. Except for Sana. Unlike the others, she is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion: To the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects—and to the door at its end, locked for decades. Behind the door is a bedroom frozen in time and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman named Meena, who died there tragically a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the room’s shadows is a besotted, grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meena’s story, and unaware of the creature that follows her, Sana digs into the past like fingers into a wound, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl’s search for belongingBrutale attirance, tome 1 (Brutale Attirance #1)
Par Shay Carrot. 2023
Bienvenue à Uspia, pays où vivent des sorciers, des fées, des loups-garous, des vampires, ainsi que des hybrides.Sorcière de sang…
et fière de l'être, je déteste toutes les créatures dotées de crocs, leur vouant même une haine incommensurable. Et ce n'est pas seulement à cause d'un décret mis en place des siècles auparavant, interdisant aux personnes de mon espèce de côtoyer amoureusement d'autres créatures. Non, c'est bien plus profond que ça. Ces pourritures ont tué mon frère lors de la pleine lune et continuent d'assassiner des innocents.Alors quand j'entre à l'académie universitaire de Woreth, et que l'on m'annonce que je vais devoir faire équipe avec un hybride dans le cadre d'un tournoi qui s'avère dangereux, c'est un véritable cauchemar pour moi. Et cela semble réciproque puisque ce connard d'hybride dominateur, sombre et arrogant n'hésite pas à se montrer particulièrement violent pour me le faire comprendre.C'est une évidence : notre aversion est partagée. Mais malgré toute sa puissance, je ne compte pas baisser les yeux devant lui. Alors... que la partie commence !AVERTISSEMENT : Roman classé « DARK ROMANCE ». Cet ouvrage fictionnel contient des scènes et propos pouvant choquer. Toute référence à des événements ou des lieux réels n'est utilisée que pour servir cette histoire. Tous les noms, personnages et événements sont le produit de l'imagination de l'auteure. Toute ressemblance avec des personnes et des événements serait totalement fortuite. "Grande lectrice de romans fantastiques et de science fiction, j'avoue que j'ai rarement eu un tel engouement pour une histoire. J'ai a.d.o.r.é.""Wooow ! Ce livre est complètement incroyable une DarkRomance/Fantastique comme je les aimes ! J'ai adoré du début juste qu'à la fin."Jean de florette: L'eau des collines, tome 1 (L'eau des collines #1)
Par Marcel Pagnol. 2024
Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C'est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s'installe à la…
ferme des Romarins, on ne lui parle pas de la source cachée. Ce qui facilite les manoeuvres des Soubeyran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin, qui veulent lui racheter son domaine à bas prix. Entre Ugolin, paysan pure souche, et Jean, le citadin qui pense mener une exploitation agricole grâce aux « statistiques », se noue une étrange relation, faite d'amitié, d'entraide et de non-dits. Habités tous deux par le mirage de la fortune, leur affrontement implicite mènera au drame... Jean de Florette, publié en 1962, est le premier volume de L'Eau des collines, épopée provençale, inspirée par le film réalisé par Pagnol dix ans plus tôt, Manon des sources, l'histoire de la fille de Jean. Les dialogues savoureux, la prose limpide et l'art du portrait de Marcel Pagnol font de ce roman une merveille qui traverse les décennies. Vincent Fernandel, comédien originaire du Midi, fait revivre ces personnages taillés à la serpe. Avec le soutien du CNL (Centre National du Livre). Musique composée par Michel KorbThe waters
Par Bonnie Jo Campbell. 2024
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small…
town. On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp-an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan-herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest-the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn-has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn. With a "ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world" (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life. "Bonnie Jo Campbell's The Waters is a novel, a living myth, and a place. ... Imagine a mash-up of Flannery O'Connor and the Brothers Grimm, of Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales and William Faulkner's gothic sublime. And yet, The Waters is all Bonnie Jo. ..."-DIANE SEUSS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frank: SonnetsThe search party
Par Hannah Richell. 2024
For fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware, a destination thriller about a group of college friends and their families…
who reunite on a glamping weekend in Cornwall and are forced to confront long-held secrets when a powerful storm leaves them stranded. Five old friends. One glamping weekend. A storm that will change everything. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for a dry run ahead of their opening, they invite three old university friends and their families for a long-needed reunion. But the festivities soon go awry as tensions arise between the children (and subsequently their parents), explosive secrets come to light, and a sudden storm moves in, cutting them off from help as one in the group disappears. Moving between the police investigation, a hospital room, and the catastrophic weekend, The Search Party is a propulsive and twisty destination thriller about the tenuous bonds of friendship and the lengths parents will go to protect their childrenThe night island (Lost Night Files #2)
Par Jayne Ann Krentz. 2024
The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this…
new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them-all they have to do is find the list. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio's podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished. Talia isn't the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It's clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list. The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest. The retreat promises to rejuvenate guests with the Unplugged Experience. Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover guests are quite literally cut off from the outside world because none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience retreat. And then the first mysterious death occursThe house of fortune (Miniaturist #2)
Par Jessie Burton. 2022
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times…
bestseller The Miniaturist , which has sold more than two million copies. In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt is coming of age, trying to grapple with her family's secrets and her own identity as a young Dutch-African woman. She's drawn to the theater and an artistic life, but with her family in serious financial decline, pressure is on Thea to marry up in society. As her father and Aunt Nella work desperately to save the family home and catastrophe threatens to engulf them, Thea seeks refuge in the arms of her secret lover, Walter, the chief set-painter at her favorite theater. But the thrill of their romance is shadowed by another secret she keeps close: Her birthday marks the day her mother, Marin, died in labor. Thea's family refuses to share the details of the story, just as they seem terrified to speak of the shadowy artist from their past whose tiny figurines seem to capture the things most carefully hidden away. Aunt Nella believes the solution to Thea's problems is to find her a husband, and an unexpected invitation to Amsterdam's most exclusive ball seems like a golden opportunity. But when a miniature figure of Walter turns up on Thea's doorstep, it becomes clear that someone out there has another fate in mind for the family— and that perhaps the new beginning Thea seeks won't depend on a man. A feat of sweeping, magical storytelling, The House of Fortune is an unputdownable novel about love and obsession, family and loyalty, and the fantastic power of secretsThe wisdom of plagues: Lessons from 25 years of covering pandemics
Par Donald G Mcneil. 2024
Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them,…
how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one. For millions of Americans, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on The New York Times 's popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. He'd covered public health for twenty-five years and quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China, was destined to grow into a global pandemic rivaling the 1918 Spanish flu. Because of his clear advice, a generation of Times readers knew the risk was real but that they might be spared by taking the right precautions. Because of his prescient work, The New York Times won the 2021 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. The Wisdom of Plagues is his account of what he learned over a quarter-century of reporting in over sixty countries. Many science reporters understand the basics of diseases—how a virus works, for example, or what goes into making a vaccine. But very few understand the psychology of how small outbreaks turn into pandemics, why people refuse to believe they're at risk, or why they reject protective measures like quarantine or vaccines. The COVID-19 pandemic was the story McNeil had trained his whole life to cover. His expertise and breadth of sources let him make many accurate predictions in 2020 about the course that a deadly new virus would take and how different countries would respond. By the time McNeil wrote his last New York Times stories, he had not lost his compassion—but he had grown far more stone-hearted about how governments should react. He had witnessed enough disasters and read enough history to realize that while every epidemic is different, failure was the one constant. Small case-clusters ballooned into catastrophe because weak leaders became mired in denial. Citizens refused to make even minor sacrifices for the common good. They were encouraged in that by money-hungry entrepreneurs and power-hungry populists. Science was ignored, obvious truths were denied, and the innocent too often died. In The Wisdom of Plagues , McNeil offers tough, prescriptive advice on what we can do to improve global health and be better prepared for the inevitable next pandemicThe weekend retreat
Par Tara Laskowski. 2023
A wealthy family's vacation at their lush winery estate becomes a weekend to kill for in this deliciously twisted novel…
of suspense "Absolutely captivating! A riveting and immersive puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware." —Hank Phillippi Ryan Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's a tradition they've followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight. With lavish comforts, gorgeous scenery, and indulgent drinking, the trip should be the perfect escape. But it soon becomes clear that even a remote idyllic getaway can't keep out the problems simmering in each of their lives. As old tensions are reignited, the three couples are pushed to the edge. Will their secrets destroy them, or will they destroy each other first? And who's been watching them from beyond the vineyard gates? When a torrential rainstorm hits, plunging them into darkness, the answers prove all too deadly... "Clever... [A] satisfying mash-up of Succession and Agatha Christie." —Publishers Weekly