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...

Maigret zoekt een seriemoordenaar. Om hem uit zijn tent te lokken, pakt hij een kruimeldief op en presenteert hem dan aan de pers als de dader. Prompt laat de ware dader weer van zich horen.

It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential.

It begins with a singing and dancing septet, with Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters' singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice and Enda, plain Pertilly, gentle Oona, wild Ida and fearful, flame-haired Manticory ? the inimitable narrator of their on-and-off stage adventures ? out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. For their past trails behind the sisters like the tresses on their heads, and their fame and fortune will come at a terrible price...

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), n Paris, est un crivain franais. Li Gustave Flaubert et mile Zola, il a marqu la littrature franaise par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitules contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Bcasse en 1883 ou Le Horla en 1887. Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force raliste, la prsence importante du fantastique et par le pessimisme qui s'en dgage le plus souvent mais aussi par la matrise stylistique. La carrire littraire de Guy de Maupassant se limite une dcennie - de 1880 1890. Reconnu de son vivant, Guy de Maupassant conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvel encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmes de ses oeuvres. Autres oeuvres comprennent: La Maison Tellier (1881), Monsieur Parent (1885), Fort Comme la Mort (1889), La Vie Errante (1890) et L'Inutile Beaut (1890).

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

Après avoir créé le ciel, la Terre, les animaux et l'homme, Dieu commença à s'ennuyer. Il lui fallait de l'activité. Il décida de chercher du travail et il rédigea son curriculum vitae...