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Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido' - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally 'disappeared' during the country's brutal military dictatorship in the seventies - while her mother, a political prisoner, was killed trying to flee the country. The infant Luz was secretly adopted by a wealthy couple, unaware of her true origins. Only three people know Luz's real identity - Eduardo, her 'father', racked by guilt at this deception; the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso, her 'grandfather', determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who befriended Luz's real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth. MY NAME IS LIGHT is a gripping, emotionally charged book, a powerful story about a young girl's quest to find her identity and to uncover the deadly secrets of one of Argentina's darkest periods.

Gary Soneji est persuadé depuis l'enfance qu'il deviendra célèbre. Son but est atteint lorsqu'il réussit à kidnapper le fils du ministre des finances et Maggie-Rose, la fille d'une star. Sa vanité lui sera fatale face à la perspicacité d'Alex Cross, détective et docteur en psychologie, qui saura lui tendre le piège final. Pourtant, malgré son arrestation, sa victime, Maggie-Rose, reste introuvable. Confronté à un coupable simulant la folie et persuadé qu'un autre kidnappeur a volé la vedette au premier et dérobé la rançon, Alex Cross ne pourra compter que sur lui-même pour retrouver les ravisseurs de la fillette. Gary Soneji, qui réussit à s'évader, est bien décidé à se venger des inconnus qui lui ont ravi la première place dans les médias. Le Masque de l'araignée est un modèle d'analyse psychologique sur la mythomanie. Ce roman réussi l'exploit de relancer le suspense grâce à la duplicité des coupables et à la complexité de leurs mobiles. Il crée un univers de paranoïa où tous les personnages sont potentiellement coupables

De retour au royaume d'Ambre après avoir vaincu le prince Eric, Corwin découvre son frère Caine assassiné par de mystérieuses créatures d'Ombre, manifestement aux ordres d'un commanditaire occulte et vindicatif. La recherche du véritable meurtrier parmi les innombrables reflets d'Ambre va conduire Corwin, confronté à maints périls et intrigues, au seuil d'une révélation infiniment plus importante : la véritable nature de l'étrange royaume d'Ambre, de ses mystères et de ses contradictions. Ce troisième volume de la série des Princes d'Ambre repousse une fois encore les frontières du monumental et prodigieux univers imaginé par Roger Zelazny.

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans' culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin's 'Hainish Cycle'. It explores a future history of Earth and pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and resistance. 'A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote, packs a powerful emotional and critical punch'- Tordotcom 'Deeply moving and shocking by turns'- Suzanne Reid 'Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society . . . and who fight courageously to remain whole' - The New York Times Book Review Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction

The story follows seven-year-old Mary, whose world shatters when her beloved cat, Thomasina, is deemed too sick to survive by her stern father, the town vet. Heartbroken and silent towards her father, Mary faces her own life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, Thomasina is saved by Lori, the enigmatic Red Witch, and transformed into Talitha, a powerful being with ties to an Egyptian goddess, now returning for vengeance. Themes of love, loss, and transformation intertwine in this magical tale.

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Washington D.C. Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast.

Une suite à ##2001 odyssée de l'espace## (1968), prétexte à un autre film. La critique, sauf quelques thuriféraires de rigueur dont Asimov et Sagan, a été unanimement déçue car comme disait un chroniqueur, dans cette sorte d'histoire, on préfère les bonnes vieilles incertitudes aux laborieuses explications.

Dès son retour des Flandres, le capitaine Alatriste doit honorer une autre mission, d'importance nationale. Il est chargé de déjouer le complot d'une bande de contrebandiers qui souhaite mettre la main sur l'or espagnol rapporté des Indes. Son fidèle page Iñigo et son ami Francisco de Quevedo l'aident à se constituer un groupe pour l'aider dans sa tâche. Composée de truands, de galériens de Séville et de spadassins, la fine équipe entre en scène avec fracas.

Amber is het volmaakte koninkrijk dat in feite een geestestoestand is die iedereen hoopt te bereiken. Amber betekent macht en geluk, terwijl Aarde en vele parallelle werelden slechts schaduwen zijn, stukjes doolhof op de weg naar Amber. Maar de weg terug naar Amber is bijzonder gevaarlijk, zoals Corwin, een van de negen prinsen, ondervindt. Pas ontsnapt uit de kerker van zijn broer Eric, is Corwin vastbeloten al zijn bovenmenselijke krachten aan te wenden om de troon van Amber terug te winnen.

The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus? The first book in this enthralling new series by Angie Sage leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters and magykal charms, potions, and spells. Magyk is an original story of lost and rediscovered identities, rich with humor and heart.

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. THE LOST CONTINENT is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens. Their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness & has decided that it is God. Now it is insisting--with the considerable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up--that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.

Tim Cornish, a creative writing student, sits composing a confession: an admission of a crime committed two years ago that has yet to be discovered. It began when he first encountered Ivo, a magnetic man, older than himself, and felt compelled to kiss him. By the time they travel together to Alaska's glacial wastes, Tim has fallen in and out of love with Ivo; his real passion is now only for Isabel whom he has met in Ivo's absence. The horror of Tim's subsequent journey with Ivo, battling with disgust and despair, may andure in his memory for ever

Deborah Moggach examines sexual betrayal and human failings in 17th century Amsterdam as the characters in Tulip Fever move inexorably towards a grand deception and a tragic climax

" "Revoir Paris." Arrivé à la gare du Nord, monsieur Spitzweg se surprend à siffloter la chanson de Trenet. Ah oui ! Finalement, c'est surtout pour ça qu'il est parti. Dans la rumeur de sept heures du matin, une grande bouffée de Paris lui monte au cœur, et c'est plus fort que toutes les vagues de la mer du Nord. Il prend un café sur le zinc, dans les annonces des haut-parleurs : "Le T.G.V. 2525 à destination de Bruxelles partira de la voie 8..." Mais on peut bien parler d'ailleurs, Arnold sait désormais qu'il est ici. Cette désinvolture du serveur, l'odeur des journaux frais, un je-ne-sais-quoi de parisien dans l'arôme du café... Monsieur Spitzweg reprend sa valise et hume les couloirs du métro comme un jardin d'essences rares. Les carreaux de faïence, la couleur des affiches, tout lui plaît. Dans le wagon qui le ramène à Guy-Môquet, il y a un Noir avec un gros vélo rouillé auquel il manque une pédale. "

In 1970s California, a makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event and they are sent off on separate courses.

"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....

Tekst van de toelichting die de joodse politicoloog aan het Beierse gerechtshof zond bij zijn eis tot schadeloosstelling voor het in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ondergane leed.