Gerda Baardman Livres

« Je suis entré dans le jardin et j’ai fait un signe de tête à mon frère. J’ai pensé : une enfance difficile est comme un ennemi invisible. On ne sait jamais quand il se retournera contre vous. » Liz, Marty et Jules sont inséparables. Jusqu’au jour où ils perdent leurs parents dans un tragique accident de voiture dans le sud de la France. Placés dans le même pensionnat, ils deviennent vite des étrangers les uns pour les autres, s’enfermant chacun dans une forme de solitude. Jules est le plus solitaire des trois lorsqu’il rencontre Alva, qui devient sa seule amie. Son obsession. Vingt ans plus tard, Jules se réveille d’un coma de quelques jours. À la lisière de l’inconscient, il se souvient. Benedict Wells a su, sans cruauté ni sensiblerie, décrire la faiblesse humaine, l’échec ou le vieillissement. Nicolas Weill, Le Monde. Ce roman n’a qu’une ambition : raconter des destins tourmentés par le deuil et l’espérance de la communion amoureuse. Gilles Heuré, Télérama. Prix de littérature de l’Union européenne. Prix littéraire des lycéens de l’Euregio. Traduit de l’allemand par Juliette Aubert.

It begins on the road to Damascus, in a moment graven on the consciousness of Western civilization. "Saul, Saul", asks the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, "why persecutest thou me?" From this experience, & from the response of the Jewish merchant later known as Paul, springs the Christian Church as we know it today. For as A.N. Wilson makes clear in this gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of scholarship & ceremony stripped away, is a fastidious & fervent Jew who will lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism. It's Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion. In Wilson's astute narrative, we see Paul negotiating the dangerous political currents of the Roman Empire, making converts, & writing the great epistles that define our understanding of Christ & of the sublime paradoxes of his teaching. What drove Paul? What would he think of what his church has become? The answers lie in this biography, which lays bare the psychological journey of Christianity's true inventor.

Sam et Sadie sont amis depuis l'enfance. Ils sont souvent amoureux l'un de l'autre, mais leur relation n'a jamais dépassé le stade de l'amitié. Ils forment un partenariat créatif dans le domaine fascinant mais complexe du design de jeux vidéo, et leur succès leur apporte gloire, joie, tragédie, hypocrisie et surtout une forme d'immortalité. Sam Masur, étudiant à Harvard, croise un jour Sadie Green dans une station de métro. Après un moment d'hésitation, elle se retourne et commence un jeu qui propulse leur collaboration légendaire vers les sommets du monde du jeu vidéo. En empruntant de l'argent, ils créent leur premier succès, le jeu Ichigo, avant même d'avoir terminé leurs études. En un rien de temps, ils deviennent brillants, prospères et riches, mais cela ne les protège pas de leurs propres ambitions créatives ni des trahisons. Ce récit s'étend sur trente ans, de Cambridge dans le Massachusetts à Venice Beach en Californie, explorant la nature complexe de l'identité, des échecs, des possibilités de rédemption dans les jeux, et notre besoin fondamental d'appartenir : aimer et être aimé.

From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.-back cover

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

"1859 : Grace Marks, condamnée à perpétuité, s'étiole dans un pénitencier canadien. A l'âge de seize ans, Grace a été accusée de deux horribles meurtres. Personne n'a jamais su si elle était coupable, innocente ou folle. Lors de son procès, après avoir donné trois versions des faits, Grace s'est murée dans le silence : amnésie ou dissimulation ? Le docteur Simon Jordan veut découvrir la vérité. Gagnant sa confiance, Jordan découvre peu à peu la personnalité de Grace, qui ne semble ni démente ni criminelle. Mais pourquoi lui cache-t-elle les troublants rêves qui hantent ses nuits ? Inspiré d'un sanglant fait divers qui a bouleversé le Canada du XIXe siècle, Margaret Atwood nous offre un roman baroque où le mensonge etla vérité se jouent sans fin du lecteur."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Een ambitieuze oudere zakenman in het Amerikaanse Atlanta wordt geconfronteerd met corruptie, racisme en andere problemen die het hem niet makkelijk maken aan de top.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Ludo's mother, Sibylla, is obsessed with Kurosawa's famous film, "The Seven Samurai" and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother's shaky past.

Throughout his life Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women; and he appeared equally fascinating to them. But, first and last, Mozart loved and respected women. His mother, his sister, his wife, her sisters, his patrons, his friends, his lovers and his artists all figure prominently in his life. Jane Glover introduces us to Mozart’s mother, Maria Anna and his beloved and talented sister, Nannerl. We meet, too, Mozart’s ‘other family’, the Webers: Constanze, his wife, much maligned by history, and her sisters Aloysia, Sophie and Josepha. This is their story. But it is also the story of the women in his operas, all of whom were – like his sister, his mother, his wife and entire female acquaintance – restrained by the conventions and strictures of eighteenth-century society. Yet through his glorious writing, he identified and released the emotions of his characters. They hold up the mirror to their audiences and offer inestimable insight, together constituting yet further proof of Mozart’s true genius and phenomenal understanding of human nature. Rich, evocative and compellingly readable, Mozart's Women illuminates the music and the man, but above all, the women who inspired him.

Oskar, 9 ans, est surdoué, ultrasensible, fou d’astrophysique, fan des Beatles et collectionneur de cactées miniatures. Son père est mort dans les attentats du World Trade Center en lui laissant une clé. Persuadé qu’elle expliquera cette disparition injuste, le jeune garçon recherche la serrure qui lui correspond. Sa quête désespérée l’entraîne aux quatre coins de la ville où règne le climat délétère de l’après 11 septembre.

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of 'Victorian verse'

A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered pygmy. By turns hilarious and moving, David Sedaris masterfully looks at life's absurdities as he takes us on adventures that are not to be forgotten.

Piscine Molitor Patel, dit Pi, est fils du directeur du zoo de Pondichéry. Lorsque son père décide de quitter l'Inde, la famille liquide ses affaires et embarque, accompagné d'une étonnante ménagerie, sur un cargo japonais : direction le Canada. Le navire fait naufrage, et Pi se retrouve seul survivant à bord d'un canot de sauvetage. Seul, ou presque... Richard Parker, splendide tigre du Bengale, est aussi du voyage. Comment survit-on pendant 227 jours en tête à tête avec un fauve de trois cents kilos ? C'est l'incroyable histoire de Pi Patel. Fable métaphysique, roman d'aventures, L'Histoire de Pi - vendu à plus de quatre millions d'exemplaires dans le monde - est un miracle tant littéraire que commercial. Lauréat du Man Booker Prize 2002.

'Immersive, satisfying, tense-and timely' Lee Child 'A knockout of an international thriller' Chris Pavone, author of The Expats 'Whip smart and fraught with tension...Brilliant.' Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl 'Kept me guessing until the very last page. I couldn't tear myself away' Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear 'A gripping, twisty thriller that asks how well we really know the people closest to us' Alafair Burke, author of The Wife The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead Is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew husband at all. Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating Swiss United, the bank where Matthew worked. But when she uncovers evidence of a shocking global financial scandal that implicates someone close to home, she is forced to make an impossible choice.

La famille Lambert est une famille comme les autres, c'est-à-dire unique. Contradictoire, en guerre perpétuelle, dévorée par sa propre histoire, par ses conflits passés et à venir, ses silences. Derrière les visages, les cerveaux abritent des choses que, désespérément, on tente de cacher : Alfred, le père, derrière un caractère de fer dissimule l'impossibilité d'exprimer ses sentiments, tout comme ses désirs les plus profonds. Enid, sa femme, derrière sa soif inextinguible de moralité, tente d'affirmer sa personnalitém - et sa libération. Gary, le banquier, le fils modèle est dévoré par la certitude paranoïaque du mensonge et de la trahison, du besoin de richesse. Chip, l'intellectuel, à la poursuite d'une gloire littéraire et de ses contradictions politiques, et Denise, en quête d'un amour véritable et de cette liberté qui la révélera à elle-même, complètent le tableau. Au travers d'une histoire aux multiples rebondissements, haletante, tout ce petit monde va s'aimer, se déchirer et tenter d'approcher de la vérité : quel visage pour l'Amérique ? Et quelle place pour les vivants en quête de bonheur, parmi les multiples névroses que ce monde s'efforce d'engendrer ?

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or be punished. As a small spark of defiance begins to spread among communities, the landlords vow to break them; party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up. But it only strengthens the villagers' resistance. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example for the others. An exciting new release from this Chennai-based poet, writer and activist.

'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020** Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile- love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

Dans ce roman captivant, Connell et Marianne, deux adolescents d'une petite ville, se croisent dans un monde où les apparences sont trompeuses. À l'école, Connell, populaire et bien intégré, feint de ne pas connaître Marianne, qui est solitaire et réservée. Leur lien étrange se forme lorsque Connell vient chercher sa mère chez Marianne, une connexion qu'ils s'efforcent de garder secrète. Un an plus tard, à l'université de Trinity, Marianne s'épanouit socialement tandis que Connell reste timide et incertain. Au fil de leurs années universitaires, ils se retrouvent inévitablement, malgré leurs autres relations. Alors que Marianne s'engage sur la voie de l'autodestruction et que Connell cherche un sens à sa vie, ils doivent faire face à la question de jusqu'où ils sont prêts à aller pour se sauver mutuellement. Rooney explore avec une acuité psychologique les thèmes de la classe sociale, du premier amour et des complexités des relations familiales et amicales.

The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best. When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta, sticks by Pavel, his wife, Anneliese, and their little son, Pepik, bound by her deep affection for her employers and friends. But when Marta learns of their impending betrayal at the hands of her lover, Ernst, Pavel's best friend, she is paralyzed by her own fear of discovery—even as the endangered family for whom she cares so deeply struggles with the most difficult decision of their lives. Interwoven with a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the fate of the Bauer family during and after the war, Far to Go is a riveting family epic, love story, and psychological drama.

Quatre semaines et cinq jours après la fin du "Journal", Bridget Jones entretient toujours une "relation fonctionnelle avec un adulte mâle". Mais tout n'est pas gagné car une amie parfaitement déloyale rôde et son méticuleux travail de séduction a raison de la fidélité de Marc.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous--and, oddly enough, most beloved--monopoly ever known: the Every.Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?Studded with unforgettable characters, outrageous outfits, and lacerating set-pieces, this companion to The Circle blends absurdity and terror, satire and suspense, while keeping the reader in apprehensive excitement about the fate of the company--and the human animal.

Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.

Sur deux îles voisines le long des côtes du Maine, des pêcheurs de homards se livrent depuis des générations une lutte sans merci pour s'approprier les ressources de l'océan. Ruth Thomas, âgée de dix-huit ans, revient parmi les siens après des années passées en pension sur le continent, résolue à intégrer pleinement cette communauté de durs à cuire. Plus la lutte qui oppose Fort Niles à Port Courne s'envenime, plus la détermination de Ruth s'affermit : sa place est parmi ces drôles d'insulaires, la truculente Mme Pommeroy et sa ribambelle de garçons, Simon le Sénateur et son rêve de musée, Angus le teigneux, Webster et sa chasse au trésor... Mais l'intrépide Ruth succombera bien vite au charme d'Owney Wishnell, un jeune et beau pêcheur issu de du clan adverse... Ce premier roman d'Elizabeth Gilbert brosse le portrait d'une inoubliable héroïne promise à un destin hors du commun.

Roadnovel over een 18-jarige jongen die samen met een vriend en een vriendin in een auto Amerika doorkruist, op zoek naar zijn onbekende vader.

Homme d'affaires bientôt quinquagénaire et déjà coupé du monde, Richard Novak ne sort plus guère de sa luxueuse maison qui domine Los Angeles, se consacrant au double entretien compulsif de sa fortune sur Internet et de sa forme physique. Deux incidents viennent un jour le réveiller et bouleverser son existence. Le premier prend la forme d'une intense douleur physique défiant toute tentative de diagnostic. Le second est le spectacle inquiétant offert par l'étrange dépression de terrain qui s'approfondit à quelques mètres de sa forteresse californienne... Notre homme s'aperçoit alors avec stupéfaction qu'une ex-mère au foyer déprimée et une star d'Hollywood peuvent avoir mille choses à se dire, qu'un partenariat commercial peut naître entre le financier qu'il est, un vendeur de donuts immigré et un ancien beatnik icône de la contre-culture, que les amitiés ne connaissent de frontières ni ethniques ni sociales, enfin qu'aucun père ne peut décider d'oublier son fils - et inversement. Se risquer à vivre, réapprendre le goût des autres... Et si le salut résidait dans l'aventure très concrètement humaine ?

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. `Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen

This novel features a woman who embarks on a transformative journey, challenging societal norms and expectations. With a blend of humor and tenderness, it explores themes of self-discovery and reinvention. The narrative is marked by the author's signature irreverent style, promising both laughter and poignant moments as the protagonist navigates her new path. Expect a compelling mix of wit and emotional depth in this literary work.

Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

Lorsque Mae Holland est embauchée par le Cercle, elle est émerveillée par ce fournisseur d'accès Internet californien qui relie mails, réseaux sociaux, achats et transactions bancaires dans un système universel prônant la transparence. En explorant les vastes open-spaces, les cafétérias en verre et les dortoirs confortables, Mae est séduite par la modernité et l'effervescence du campus. Les soirées festives, les concerts de musiciens célèbres et les nombreuses activités proposées la comblent. Travailler pour cette entreprise influente semble être un rêve, mais cette immersion totale l'éloigne de ses proches. En participant à un projet technologique audacieux du Cercle, Mae se retrouve exposée au regard du monde. Ce qui débute comme le portrait d'une femme ambitieuse et idéaliste se transforme rapidement en un récit haletant, explorant les liens complexes entre mémoire et histoire, vie privée et dépendance aux réseaux sociaux, tout en questionnant les limites de la connaissance humaine.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: - What President Trump's staff really thinks of him - What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama - Why FBI director James Comey was really fired - Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room - Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing - What the secret to communicating with Trump is - What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. "Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent to them by the adult world.