L’Étranger est un roman d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l’absurde. Cette trilogie comprend également l’essai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.En 1999. La revue Le Monde classa ce roman premier parmi les 100 romans du siècle.Meursault, le narrateur, employé de bureau algérois, apprend la mort de sa mère. Il prend l'autobus pour se rendre à l'asile où elle a fini ses jours et assiste avec indifférence à la veillée et à l'enterrement. Le lendemain, samedi, il rencontre Marie dans un établissement de bains, l'emmène au cinéma et passe la nuit avec elle. Le dimanche s'étire dans l'ennui et le désoeuvrement. Meursault retrouve son bureau et ses voisins: Céleste le restaurateur, le vieux Salamano qui bat son chien, et Raymond Sintès, dont on dit dans le quartier qu'il «vit des femmes». Celui-ci demande à Meursault de rédiger une lettre destinée à une femme qui l'a trompé. Le samedi suivant, Meursault se rend à la plage avec Marie. Au retour, ils assistent à une scène violente au cours de laquelle Raymond frappe sa maîtresse. La police étant intervenue, Meursault accepte de témoigner en faveur de Raymond ... Meursault et Marie vont passer le dimanche à la plage, avec Raymond. Deux Arabes les ont suivis. L'un est le frère de la femme que Raymond a maltraitée. Une dispute éclate: Raymond est blessé d'un coup de couteau. Un peu plus tard, par une chaleur accablante, il revient provoquer son agresseur. Meursault, qui lui, a pris son revolver par précaution, se retrouve seul face à l'Arabe. Aveuglé par le soleil et l'éclat du couteau que celui-ci a sorti de sa poche, il tire sur lui...

Features some of the most memorably drawn villains - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets.

PAS D'OSCAR POUR L'ASSASSIN - A partir du Niveau A2 :
A Paris, dans le quartier de Saint Germain-des-Prés, le tournage du dernier film de Simon Barot est interrompu. Une des actrices vient d'être sauvagement assassinée. Rose Vérone n'en était qu'à ses débuts et elle n'imaginait pas que sa carrière prendrait un tel tournant...
Le lieutenant Oscar Tenon ne s'intéresse pas au cinema, mais il s'y connait en scène de crime. Saura-t-il reconstituer le scénario de ce terrible meurtre?

Un roman en plein coeur de la capitale française et des coulisses du monde du cinéma.

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years.

When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.

This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.

Ce livre contient la série Arsène Lupin qui compte 19 romans et 4 recueils de nouvelle. Arsène Lupin parue en 1905, il présente la particularité de se grimer, se maquiller, se déguiser ou même se transformer selon le personnage qu'il incarne. Néanmoins, au naturel, il s'agit, semble-t-il, d'un personnage plutôt élancé, de belle allure et d'une force peu commune, liée à son entraînement. Il fait montre de ses talents dans de nombreuses aventures qui se suivent chronologiquement et ont pour cadre la France de la Belle Époque puis, plus brièvement, celle des Années Folles. Sa répulsion à tuer et son respect des femmes le rendent fort sympathique pour un large public jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

Maurice Leblanc est un écrivain français (1864-1941), à Perpignan. Auteur de nombreux romans policiers et d’aventures, il est le créateur du célèbre personnage d’Arsène Lupin, le gentleman-cambrioleur.

Tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rocheste

Ces deux là s'écrivent par mail depuis des semaines, et ce soir enfin ils vont se voir. Ceux-là se croisent dans un train, d'un mot leur vie peut changer. Il y a cette femme qui n'embrasse pas, telle autre, insaisissable, qui tient son amant à distance en se cachant derrière un numéro de portable, et cette mère célibataire qui aime sans réveiller son fils. Ou encore cet homme, qui fait défiler comme autant de souvenirs les numéros de son répertoire. Combien de fois aime-t-on dans une vie ? Dix-sept rencontres, dix-sept histoires pour dire, sur le fil de l'émotion, qu'on n'en finit jamais d'aimer.

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino and FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time - against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.

A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice

LA CRAVATE DE SIMENON - A partir du Niveau A2 :
Si Leopold a trouvé du travail, c'est grâce à cette cravate. S'il a découvert sa vocation d'écrivain, c'est encore grâce à elle. Avant lui déjà, son père avait soin de la porter dans les moments décisifs de l'existence.
Ce qu'elle a de spécial? Son origine : elle aurait appartenu à Georges Simenon, le célèbre écrivain belge !
Mais lorsque le père de Leopold tombe gravement malade, la pauvre cravate semble impuissante...
A moins que?

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.

This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside-but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park-a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore-Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by her ex-husband-a man hell bent on destroying Astrid's reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to China's second richest man, billionaire Jack Bing, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing. A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong's most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is de langverwachte nieuwe roman van Helen Fielding. Toen Het dagboek van Bridget Jones verscheen, over het leven van een dolende dertiger in Londen, maakten miljoenen lezers over de hele wereld kennis met een van de meest geliefde personages in de moderne literatuur.
Bridget is een nieuwe fase in haar leven ingegaan, waarin ze probeert haar sexappeal te behouden terwijl de jaren voorbijvliegen. Het lukt haar nog steeds niet altijd om alcohol en calorieën te weerstaan, en ze krijgt te maken met compleet nieuwe fenomenen als 's nachts dronken sms'en en de skinny jeans. Maar ook het gebrek aan volgers op Twitter houdt haar wakker, en haar televisie, waarvoor ze alleen al negentig knoppen en drie afstandsbedieningen nodig heeft om er leven in te krijgen. Wederom komt Bridget voor veel nieuwe uitdagingen te staan. Zal ze zich ook nu weer weten te redden?
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is de hilarische en tegelijk ontroerende terugkeer van de favoriete vrouw van onze tijd.
Helen Fielding woont en werkt in Londen. Haar romans Het dagboek van Bridget Jones en Bridget Jones: het nieuwe dagboek verschenen in veertig landen en er werden miljoenen exemplaren van verkocht. Ook de verfilmingen van de boeken, met in de hoofdrollen Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant en Colin Firth, waren wereldwijd een doorslaand succes. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is het nieuwe dagboek.

It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.

In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when his home is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and it soon becomes clear to her that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power.

When the daughter of an enigmatic cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death while being drawn into the director's eerie world. By the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Der Steppenwolf ist ein 1927 erschienener Roman von Hermann Hesse. Er schildert die Erlebnisse der Hauptfigur Harry Haller, eines Alter Egos des Verfassers. Ähnlichkeiten der Figur Hallers zu Hermann Hesse sowie etwa zum Faust von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe werden im Text mehrfach angedeutet oder sind offensichtlich, zum Beispiel stimmen die Initialen von Harry Haller und Hermann Hesse überein.

Haller leidet an der Zerrissenheit seiner Persönlichkeit: Seine menschliche, bürgerlich-angepasste Seite und seine steppenwölfische, einsame, sozial- und kulturkritische Seite bekämpfen sich und blockieren Hallers künstlerische Entwicklung. Der Weg der Heilung ist die Versöhnung beider Seiten im Humor, im Lachen über sich selbst und das Ungenügen in Kultur und Gesellschaft. Erst mit der Betrachtung der Wirklichkeit vom Standpunkt des Humors werden Hallers weitere, im Roman nicht mehr beschriebenen Schritte auf dem Weg seiner künstlerischen Vollendung möglich.

Der Steppenwolf, eine Kritik der Gesellschaft und eine Persönlichkeitsanalyse gleichermaßen, hatte einen wesentlichen Anteil am Welterfolg Hesses und an der Verleihung des Nobelpreises für Literatur an ihn. Das Werk löste die internationale Hesse-Renaissance in den 1960er Jahren aus.

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began

 Cherchez à qui le crime profite. Quand un roman commence par cette phrase, on s'attend à ce que ce soit un polar. On n'a pas tort, ce livre pourrait être un polar. Sauf qu'il n'y a pas de policier. Mais il y a un crime. Mobile : Pompéi. Arme du crime : Vésuve. Et le coupable ? Ce pourrait être le temps. À moins qu'il n'ait un alibi. » Avec Hygiène de l'assassin, Le Sabotage amoureux, Les Combustibles et Les Catilinaires, Amélie Nothomb, 29 ans, s'est imposée comme une romancière singulière, grand maître de l'ironie, de la joute verbale, de la cruauté et de l'absurde. Son Péplum est bien plus que la version policière d'une des plus grandes manipulations de l'histoire de l'humanité, plus qu'un récit d'aventures ou qu'un roman fantastique. ll conjugue tous ces genres, avec la virtuosité et le talent exceptionnel de cet écrivain surdoué qui a déjà conquis un public international.

With a new introduction from Margaret Atwoodl believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known the United States. She is placed in the household of the Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means of Fred. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs. Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction. As relevant Today as it was when Atwood wrote it. . . no television event has hit such a nerve . . .

In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.

But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.

When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition with Argentine artist Isol.

It begins with a writer's dilemma: he's been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problem: How to write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colorful character named Auggie Wren. "A Christmas story? Is that all?" Auggie counters. "If you buy me lunch, my friend, I'll tell you the best Christmas story you ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true."

And an unconventional story it is, involving a lost wallet, a blind woman, and a Christmas dinner. Everything gets turned upside down. What's stealing? What's giving? What's a lie? What's the truth? It's vintage Auster, and pure pleasure: a truly unsentimental but completely affecting tale.

A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. It's high time for Stella Lane to settle down and find a husband - or so her mother tells her. This is no easy task for a wealthy, successful woman like Stella, who also happens to have Asperger's. Analyzing data is easy; handling the awkwardness of one-on-one dates is hard. To overcome her lack of dating experience, Stella decides to hire a male escort to teach her how to be a good girlfriend. Faced with mounting bills, Michael decides to use his good looks and charm to make extra cash on the side. He has a very firm no repeat customer policy, but he's tempted to bend that rule when Stella approaches him with an unconventional proposal. The more time they spend together, the harder Michael falls for this disarming woman with a beautiful mind, and Stella discovers that love defies logic. Heart-tugging, sexy and utterly joyful - The Kiss Quotient is a book for anyone who has been in love, or in lust...