Mireille Vroege Livres

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Declan Fitzgerald, ayant fait fortune en tant qu'avocat, a décidé de se consacrer à sa passion des vieilles demeures et entrepris de redonner sa splendeur à un manoir de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Rapidement il tombe amoureux de Lena, une jeune femme indépendante au passé trouble. Tandis qu'il tente de la séduire, Declan fait des rêves étranges durant lesquels il revit des scènes qui se sont déroulées un siècle plus tôt dans la vaste demeure : Abbey Manet, une jeune servante, avait été violée et assassinée par son beau-frère. La légende veut que, depuis, l'endroit soit hanté par les témoins de cette tragédie...

Een Amerikaanse antiquair probeert in Griekenland oudheden te vinden om zijn trieste levenservaringen te vergeten.

He and Sofia are not the old couple's only visitors that night - and soon he and Sofia will be running for their lives . ...and beneath the swirling light show of the Northern Lights, a desperate fight ensues - of man against man, of man against nature - a fight for survival that plays out across the snow and ice.

Alma Whittaker naît avec le XIXe siècle, à Philadelphie, d'un père anglais qui a fait fortune dans le commerce du quinquina et d'une mère érudite d'origine hollandaise. A leurs côtés et au contact des éminents chercheurs qui gravitent autour d'eux, Alma acquiert une intelligence éclectique et la passion de la botanique. Elle grandit animée d'une soif d'apprendre sans pareille, qui la poussera à explorer le vaste monde, la nature, la société dans laquelle elle vit. et son propre corps - de l'infiniment grand à l'infiniment petit. L'auteur du best-seller Mange, prie, aime nous raconte ici, des bas-fonds de Londres en passant par Tahiti ou les cimes des Andes, le siècle kaléidoscopique qui voit jaillir l'esprit des Lumières. Sa plume est vive, insolente, savante et non dénuée de romantisme : à l'image de son héroïne.

In this gripping tale, Kathleen Kent recounts the story of Martha Carrier, one of the first women executed as a witch in Salem, and her defiant daughter, Sarah. Amidst the hysteria of the witch trials, the mother-daughter duo confronts fear and persecution, showcasing their enduring love and resilience in a brutal world.

In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage. When the moment finally comes, Cosmo seizes his chance and breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo-they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans. The Supernaturalists patrol the city at night, hunting the Parasites in hopes of saving what's left of humanity in Satellite City. Or so they think. The Supernaturalist soon find themselves caught in a web far more complicated than they'd imagined, when they discover a horrifying secret that will force them to question everything they believe in. Eoin Colfer has created an eerie and captivating world-part Blade Runner, part futuristic Dickens-replete with non-stop action

'Suddenly, she felt the thrill of being in so foreign a place, far more foreign that she had expected; a place where anything might happen ...' The restored Tuscan farmhouse on the edge of an ancient wood is the perfect setting for a late September holiday. As Justine Elliott, ehr friends and their families from university gather to relax and unwind, she hopes it will be a chance to put the most tragic events of the prvious year behind them all. However, the apparently peaceful Italian countryside holds as many secrets as its visitors and, before the week is out, the past and the present will collide, with unexpected and dramatic results ...

Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's novel Burning Bright sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring.