It’s 2013, and much of the world still reels from the global economic collapse. Yet in the auction rooms of London, artworks are selling for record-breaking prices. Seeking a place in this gilded world is Martin, a junior specialist at a prestigious auction house. Martin spends his days catering to the whims of obscenely wealthy clients and his nights drinking in grubby pubs with his demoralized roommate. However, a chance meeting with Marina, an old university friend, presents Martin with a chance to change everything.
Pursuing distraction from her failing marriage and from a career she doesn’t quite believe in, Marina draws Martin into her circle and that of her husband, Oleg, an art-collecting oligarch. Shaken by the death of his mother and chafing against his diminishing influence in his homeland, Oleg appears primed to change his own life—and perhaps to relinquish his priceless art collection long coveted by London’s auction houses. Martin is determined to secure the sale and transform his career. But his ambitions are threatened by factors he hasn’t reckoned with: a dangerous attraction between himself and Marina, and half-baked political plans through which Oleg aims to redeem himself and Russia but which instead imperil the safety of the oligarch and all those around him.
Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors.
After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend—a fierce nonbeliever—is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs, but the motives behind the murder are deeper and darker than she imagines.
As Reina delves into the city’s shadows, she untangles more than just the truth behind a devious crime. It’s a conspiracy. As a killer wields dangerous magic to thwart Reina’s investigation, she must tap into the strength of her own power and faith to solve a mystery that threatens to destroy her entire way of life.
Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing’s Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Her wartime marriage of convenience to Simon Barre, the eighth earl of Camden, granted her the independence she craved and saved his estate. Now, as part of his covert team in postwar Vienna, she uses her charm to uncover a lethal double agent immersed in the world of relics—including the long lost death mask of Mozart.
Simon is determined to gather any information he can to end the Cold War before it becomes as devastating as the war Britain has just won. He has been secretly in love with Sophie Villiers for years, and their work together in Vienna leads him to hope for genuine romance in their marriage. Until a mission in Prague drives Sophie to a decision that will brand her not only a traitor to her country but also to her husband.
With Sophie’s allegiance in question, Simon is torn between his duty to the crown and saving the woman who might have betrayed his cause and his heart.
In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.
Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.
Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian empire. She is insulated by luxury and spoiled by her father, who dreams for her to marry King Louis XV of France and rule in Versailles. But when a woodland creature gives her a Delphic prophecy, her life is turned upside down. Her volatile father suddenly dies, her only brother has been executed and her mother takes the throne of Russia.
As friends turn to foes in the dangerous atmosphere of the Court, the princess must fear for her freedom and her life. Fate deals her blow after blow, and even loving her becomes a crime that warrants cruel torture and capital punishment: Elizabeth matures from suffering victim to strong and savvy survivor. But only her true love and their burning passion finally help her become who she is. When the Imperial Crown is left to an infant Tsarevich, Elizabeth finds herself in mortal danger and must confront a terrible dilemma–seize the reins of power and harm an innocent child, or find herself following in the footsteps of her murdered brother.
Hidden behind a gorgeous, wildly decadent façade, the Russian Imperial Court is a viper’s den of intrigue and ambition. Only a woman possessed of boundless courage and cunning can prove herself worthy to sit on the throne of Peter the Great.
Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger.
Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood.
But this summer everything has changed. Girls are missing and a boy is dead. It’s because of Margaret Moore, the boys say. It’s because of what happened that night in the storm.
Margaret’s friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the world at his feet. Can she unravel the secrets of this summer and last, or will she be pulled under by the place she once called home?
In 1999, an elite interdisciplinary team headed by Nobel laureate Andrew Danicek gathered in California to carry out a ground-breaking time-travel experiment. While the rest of the world remained unaware, Julius Caesar was successfully transported from the last day of his life to a specially-constructed covert facility. Four days of conversation with historians and Latin scholars were planned, followed by Caesar’s return to the moment from which he was extracted. But despite the team’s meticulous efforts to maintain secrecy and plan for all possible exigencies, a kidnap attempt plunges Caesar into peril. Fully aware that the future of civilization may hang in the balance, one team member must summon strength she didn’t know she possessed to return Caesar to the Ides of March.
After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual–and very secret–assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel’s most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply personal reasons, and has enlisted Dan’s help to find it. But Jules doesn’t have much time; the famous designer is dying.
Meanwhile, in Europe, provocative and powerful Margaux de Laurent also searches for the painting. Heir to her art collector family’s millions, Margaux is a cunning gallerist who gets everything she wants. The only thing standing in her way is Jules. Yet the passionate and determined Jules has unexpected resources of her own, including Adam Baum, Ellis’s grandson. A recovering addict and brilliant artist in his own right, Adam was once in Margaux’s clutches. He knows how ruthless she is, and he’ll do anything to help Jules locate the painting before Margaux gets to it first.
Anna loves Girls’ Night with her friends. With the kids safely in bed, it’s a chance for the women to let loose, enjoy some wine, and just laugh. But after one lively evening, Anna doesn’t arrive for school drop-off the next morning—or the next, or the next.
Everyone, especially her husband and young son, are frantic with worry but none more so than Grace, her childhood best friend. Grace is certain that someone is hiding the truth about Anna’s unexplained disappearance. As rumors fly and accusations are whispered among neighbors, Grace decides to take matters into her own hands and find out what happened to Anna…or die trying.
By April 1916, the fervor that accompanied war’s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German shepherd guides a battle-blinded soldier over a garden path, Dr. Stalling is inspired with an idea—to train dogs as companions for sightless veterans.
Anna convinces Dr. Stalling to let her work at his new guide dog training school. Some of the dogs that arrive are themselves veterans of war, including Nia, a German shepherd with trench-damaged paws. Anna brings the ailing Nia home and secretly tends and trains her, convinced she may yet be the perfect guide for the right soldier. In Max Benesch, a Jewish soldier blinded by chlorine gas at the front, Nia finds her person.
War has taken Max’s sight, his fiancée, and his hopes of being a composer. Yet despite all he’s given for his country, the tide of anti-Semitism at home is rising, and Max encounters it first-hand in one of the school’s trainers, who is determined to make Max fail. Still, through Anna’s prompting, he rediscovers his passion for music. But as Anna discovers more about the conflict’s escalating brutality—and Bruno’s role in it—she realizes how impossible it will be for any of them to escape the war unscathed
1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. She’s sure that if they keep their heads down they’ll make it through. But as the call to resist the enemy grows around her, Virginia must decide if she’s willing to risk everything to help those in need.
Nineteen-year-old Violette is a crack shot with an unquenchable spirit of adventure, and she’s desperate to fight the Nazis however she can. When her mother sends her to find an exiled soldier, Violette meets the man who will change her life. Then tragedy strikes, and Britain’s clandestine war organization—the Special Operations Executive—learns of Violette’s dual citizenship and adept firearm handling and starts to recruit her. But Violette is no stranger to loss and must decide whether the cost of defiance is too great a price to pay.
On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface.
Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one.
Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest one may be her enigmatic new neighbor.
Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between Bea and Emmeline at one of the island’s extravagant parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where the boundaries of wickedness are tested, and the cost of illicit magic might be death.
Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.
Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain.
Charm is a whore, and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren’t real.
Except on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself.
She’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone.
But one frigid night, the governor’s wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor’s dead son. Desperate, Myra ventures to his legendary stone mansion.
Once she arrives, however, it becomes clear the boy’s death was no accident. Someone dangerous lurks within these glittering halls. Someone harboring a disturbing obsession with portrait magic.
Myra cannot do the painting until she knows what really happened, so she turns to the governor’s older son, a captivating redheaded poet. Together, they delve into the family’s most shadowed affairs, racing to uncover the truth before the secret Myra spent her life concealing makes her the killer’s next victim.
The winter hike is meant to bring their nature group together.
Emily, the sister who never lets her hearing loss hold her back.
Lauren, the sister who always feels a step behind.
Morna, who doesn’t get on with Lauren.
Ben, whose feelings for Emily border on obsession.
Dan, the quiet newcomer to the group.
Kai, who isn’t just on the hike to enjoy the wildlife.
And Alec, the one who knows all their secrets.
Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need.
The women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. There’s ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, the newest addition of this tight-knit band. Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together until her husband died suddenly.
But what they hoped would be a relaxing break soon turns to horror. Upon arrival at Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note claiming one of their husbands will be murdered. There are no phones, no cell service to check on their men. Friendships fracture as the situation spins wildly out of control. Betrayal can come in many forms.
The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. Their members are caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity. And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. Each decade, the world’s six most uniquely talented magicians are selected for initiation – and here are the chosen few…
– Libby Rhodes and Nicolás Ferrer de Varona: inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds.
– Reina Mori: a naturalist who can speak the language of life itself.
– Parisa Kamali: a mind reader whose powers of seduction are unmatched.
– Tristan Caine: the son of a crime kingpin who can see the secrets of the universe.
– Callum Nova: an insanely rich pretty boy who could bring about the end of the world. He need only ask.
When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they must spend one year together to qualify for initiation. During this time, they will be permitted access to the Society’s archives and judged on their contributions to arcane areas of knowledge. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. If they can prove themselves to be the best, they will survive. Most of them.
When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. If Margaret wins the hunt, it may finally bring her mother home. While Margaret is the best sharpshooter in town, only teams of two can register, and she needs an alchemist.
Weston Winters isn’t an alchemist–yet. Fired from every apprenticeship he’s landed, his last chance hinges on Master Welty taking him in. But when Wes arrives at Welty Manor, he finds only Margaret and her bloodhound Trouble. Margaret begrudgingly allows him to stay, but on one condition: he must join the hunt with her.
Although they make an unlikely team, Wes is in awe of the girl who has endured alone on the outskirts of a town that doesn’t want her, in this creaking house of ghosts and sorrow. And even though Wes disrupts every aspect of her life, Margaret is drawn to him. He, too, knows what it’s like to be an outsider. As the hunt looms closer and tensions rise, Margaret and Wes uncover dark magic that could be the key to winning the hunt – if they survive that long.
Norway, 1942. War rages, and operation Shetland bus is in full swing. Under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and other locals smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea to the relative safety of Scotland.
But when one mission goes awry, and Rumi’s husband is lost to the dangerous waters, she retreats from the clandestine group, vowing never to take to the seas again.
Meanwhile, her childhood friend Anya has been placed in Lebensborn, one of Himmler’s secret Aryan maternity camps. And when Rumi learns the fate of Anya’s child, she knows she has no choice but to face her fears and help Anya flee from Nazi grip…
After her eighteenth birthday, Hilde, a former orphan in 1930s Berlin, goes out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers—and Rosa, the club’s waitress and performer. As the café and all who work there embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings for Rosa.
But Berlin is in turmoil. Between the elections, protests in the streets, and the beginning seeds of unrest in Café Lila itself, Hilde will have to decide what’s best for her future
In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son–but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper–a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.
Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC–until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
« Nous avons tous notre petite idée sur le Ciel. Cette histoire est racontée pour que les gens qui ont pu croire leur passage sur terre sans importance se rendent au contraire compte qu’ils en ont eu beaucoup, et aussi combien ils ont été aimés. »
Et si les femmes prenaient enfin le pouvoir dans le monde entier ?
En ce début de trentième millénaire, l’Empire n’a jamais été aussi puissant, aussi étendu à travers toute la galaxie. C’est dans sa capitale, Trantor, que l’éminent savant Hari Seldon invente la psychohistoire, une science toute nouvelle, à base de psychologie et de mathématiques, qui lui permet de prédire l’avenir… C’est-à-dire l’effondrement de l’Empire d’ici cinq siècles et au-delà, trente mille années de chaos et de ténèbres. Pour empêcher cette catastrophe et sauver la civilisation, Seldon crée la Fondation.
Au n°3 de Lauriston Garden, près de Londres, dans une maison aide, un homme est trouvé mort. Assassiné ? Aucune blessure apparente ne permet de le dire, en dépit des taches de sang qui maculent la pièce alentour. Sur le mur, griffonnée à la hâte, une inscription : Rache ! Vengeance ! Vingt ans plus tôt, en 1860, dans les gorges de la Nevada, Jean Ferrier est exécuté par de sanguinaires Mormons chargés de faire respecter la loi du prophète. Sa fille, Lucie, est séquestrée dans le harem du fils de l’Ancien. Quel lien entre ces deux événements aussi insolites que dramatiques Un fil ténu, un fil rouge que seul Sherlock Holmes est capable de dévider. Une intrigue tout en subtilités où, pour la première fois, Watson découvre le maître…
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l’Arche d’Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre à la Citacielle, capitale flottante du Pôle. À quelle fin a-t-elle été choisie ? Pourquoi doit-elle dissimuler sa véritable identité ? Sans le savoir, Ophélie devient le jouet d’un complot mortel.
Peut-on encore aujourd’hui aimer Francesca, être troublé par Ugolino, trembler aux tourments des damnés de la Comédie ? L’Enfer de Dante, poétique et médiéval, n’a-t-il pas pâli irréparablement auprès des Enfers tout proches, et actifs, que notre époque n’a pas encore fini, semble-t-il, de susciter ? L’imagination créatrice de Dante est si puissante, et si précise, qu’elle semble décrire par avance, parfois, l’inimaginable horreur moderne.
Il y a le père, Fiodor Pavlovich, riche, malhonnête et débauché, et ses trois fils légitimes : Mitia, impulsif, orgueilleux, sauvage ; Yvan, intellectuel, raffiné, intransigeant ; Aliocha, sincère, pieux, naïf. Et puis il y a le fils illégitime, Smerdiakov, libertin cynique, vivant en serviteur chez son père. L’un d’eux sera parricide.
Depuis leur parution aux Etats-Unis en 1998, Les Monologues du vagin ont déclenché un véritable phénomène culturel : rarement pièce de théâtre aura été jouée tant de fois, en tant de lieux différents, devant des publics si différents… Mais que sont donc ces Monologues dans lesquels toutes les femmes se reconnaissent ? Il s’agit ni plus ni moins de la célébration touchante et drôle du dernier des tabous : celui de la sexualité féminine. Malicieux et impertinent, tendre et subtil, le chef-d’œuvre d’Eve Ensler donne la parole aux femmes, à leurs fantasmes et craintes les plus intimes. Qui lit ce texte ne regarde plus le corps d’une femme de la même manière.
Chicago, fin des années 1960. Karen Reyes, dix ans, adore les fantômes, les vampires et autres morts-vivants. Elle s’imagine même être un loup-garou: plus facile, ici, d’être un monstre que d’être une femme. Le jour de la Saint-Valentin, sa voisine, la belle Anka Silverberg, se suicide d’une balle dans le cœur. Mais Karen n’y croit pas et décide d’élucider ce mystère. Elle va vite découvrir qu’entre le passé d’Anka dans l’Allemagne nazie, son propre quartier prêt à s’embraser et les secrets tapis dans l’ombre de son quotidien, les monstres, bons ou mauvais, sont des êtres comme les autres, ambigus, torturés et fascinants. Journal intime d’une artiste prodige, Moi, ce que j’aime, c’est les monstres est un kaléidoscope brillant d’énergie et d’émotions, l’histoire magnifiquement contée d’une fascinante enfant. Dans cette œuvre magistrale, tout à la fois enquête, drame familial et témoignage historique, Emil Ferris tisse un lien infiniment personnel entre un expressionnisme féroce, les hachures d’un Crumb et l’univers de Maurice Sendak.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
Jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d’Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L’enfant qu’elle met au monde meurt en naissant.
Voici le premier livre que Stephen Hawking ait écrit pour le grand public.
Comment une petite bourgade du Maine peut elle, du jour au lendemain, devenir une ville fantôme ? Jerusalem’s Lot – Salem – n’avait pourtant pas de caractéristiques particulières sinon, sur la colline, la présence de cette grande demeure – Marsten House – inhabitée depuis la mort tragique de ses propriétaires, vingts ans auparavant. Et lorsque Ben mears y revient, c’est seulement pour y retrouver ses souvenirs d’enfance. Mais très vite, il devrait se rendre à l’évidence : il se passe des choses très étrange à Salem. Un chien est immolé, un enfant disparaît et l’horreur s’infiltre, s’étend, se répand, aussi inéluctable que la nuit qui descend sur Salem…
Ici il y a des dragons.
Dans une petite ville d’Alabama, au moment de la Grande Dépression, Atticus Finch élève seul ses deux enfants, Jem et Scout. Homme intègre et rigoureux, cet avocat est commis d’office pour défendre un Noir accusé d’avoir violé une Blanche. Celui-ci risque la peine de mort.
Franck Mc court est né à Brooklyn en pleine Dépression, de parents irlandais récemment immigrés : sa mère, Angela,vient du Sud, et son farouche patriote de père, Malachy, du Nord. Leur première rencontre, un « tremblé de genoux « , annonce une longue série de grossesses pour Angela. Mais il n’y a pas d’argent pour nourrir les enfants, et les rares fois où Malachy travaille, il boit son salaire aussitôt après.
Award-winning writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions? This is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals, in February and October, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year, of their intrigues, negotiations, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. Historians have debated the revolution for a hundred years, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting.But here is a book for those new to the events, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness.
Pendant la guerre de Sécession, alors que le Sud esclavagiste auquel ils appartiennent tous les deux est en train de perdre ses dernières batailles contre le Nord, Rhett Butler et Scarlett O’Hara s’aiment et se déchirent.
Humbert Humbert est en prison pour meurtre. Il raconte tout ce qui l’a conduit jusqu’ici, de son enfance avec son premier amour à sa rencontre des dizaines d’années plus tard avec Dolorès Haze une « nymphette » de 12 ans. Humbert est subjugué par la jeune fille et accepte même d’épouser la mère de Dolorès pour rester près d’elle. Jusqu’au jour où la « Grosse Haze » comme la surnomme Humbert découvre la vérité et meurt accidentellement. Commence alors un long voyage en tête à tête entre Humbert et l’adolescence.
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
A nouveau disponible dans son intégralité en français, l’un des textes fondateurs de la littérature universelle revisité ici par une traduction en vers libres qui en restitue toute l’âme et la fraîcheur poétique. L’ouvrage est enrichi d’une préface, de notes, d’un glossaire et d’un index.
Vida Winter, auteur de best-sellers vivant à l’écart du monde, s’est inventé plusieurs vies à travers des histoires toutes plus étranges les unes que les autres et toutes sorties de son imagination. Aujourd’hui, âgée et malade, elle souhaite enfin lever le voile sur l’extraordinaire existence qui fut la sienne. Sa lettre à Margaret Lea est une injonction : elle l’invite à un voyage dans son passé, à la découverte de ses secrets. Margaret succombe à la séduction de Vida mais, en tant que biographe, elle doit traiter des faits, non de l’imaginaire. Et elle ne croit pas au récit de Vida. Dès lors, les deux femmes vont confronter les fantômes qui hantent leur histoire pour enfin cerner leur propre vérité…
Essai qui relate le voyage de Steinbeck en Union Soviétique, en compagnie du célèbre photographe Robert Capa.
Theo Decker a treize ans. Il vit les derniers instants de sa vie d’enfant. Survivant miraculeux d’une explosion gigantesque en plein New York, il se retrouve seul dans la ville, orphelin, et se réfugie chez les parents d’un ami pour échapper aux services sociaux. Mais cette situation ne pourra être que temporaire. Désormais Theo va comprendre très jeune, qu’il ne peut compter que sur lui-même. Tout ce qui lui reste de cette journée où il a perdu sa mère, c’est un tableau, une toile de maître minuscule, envoûtante, infiniment précieuse et qu’il n’a pas le droit de posséder. Mais il ne peut plus s’en détacher. Et elle va l’entraîner dans les mondes souterrains et mystérieux de l’art.
1805 à Moscou, en ces temps de paix fragile, les Bolkonsky, les Rostov et les Bézoukhov constituent les personnages principaux d’une chronique familiale. Une fresque sociale où l’aristocratie, de Moscou à Saint-Pétersbourg, entre grandeur et misérabilisme, se prend au jeu de l’ambition sociale, des mesquineries, des premiers émois.
Simone Veil accepte de se raconter à la première personne. Personnage au destin exceptionnel, elle est la femme politique dont la légitimité est la moins contestée en France et à l’étranger ; son autobiographie est attendue depuis longtemps. Elle s’y montre telle qu’elle est : libre, véhémente, sereine.
Cora, 16 ans, est une jeune esclave née sur une plantation de coton en Géorgie. Grâce à César, elle réussit à s’échapper. Leur première étape est la Caroline du Sud, dans une ville qui semble être le refuge idéal mais qui cache une terrible vérité. Il leur faut fuir à nouveau, d’autant plus que Ridgeway, le chasseur d’esclaves, est à leurs trousses.
La Nuit est un récit d’Elie Wiesel fondé sur son expérience lorsque, jeune juif orthodoxe, il fut déporté avec sa famille dans le camp d’extermination nazi d’Auschwitz, puis dans le camp de concentration de Buchenwald, dont il fut libéré le 11 avril 1945, à l’âge de 16 ans.
Issus de la paysannerie enrichie, les Rougon portent en eux l’avidité du pouvoir et de l’argent. Une des branches de la famille, les Macquart, sera marquée par l’hérédité de l’alcoolisme, du vice et de la folie. Le coup d’Etat du 2 décembre 1851 entraîne les Rougon dans la conquête de Plassans, la capitale provençale du roman. La haine de l’empereur pousse Silvère, petit-fils de la matriarche, et Miette, sa femme, dans l’insurrection républicaine. De ces passions et de ces fureurs naîtront cent personnages, et celui, aux mille visages anonymes, de la foule et de la collectivité qui préfigure le XXe siècle.
États-Unis, demain. Avortement interdit, adoption et PMA pour les femmes seules sur le point de l’être aussi. Non loin de Salem, Oregon, dans un petit village de pêcheurs, cinq femmes voient leur destin se lier à l’aube de cette nouvelle ère. Ro, professeure célibataire de quarante-deux ans, tente de concevoir un enfant et d’écrire la biographie d’Eivor, exploratrice islandaise du XIXème. Des enfants, Susan en a, mais elle est lasse de sa vie de mère au foyer – de son renoncement à une carrière d’avocate, des jours qui passent et se ressemblent. Mattie, la meilleure élève de Ro, n’a pas peur de l’avenir : elle sera scientifique. Par curiosité, elle se laisse déshabiller à l’arrière d’une voiture… Et Gin. Gin la guérisseuse, Gin au passé meurtri, Gin la marginale à laquelle les hommes font un procès en sorcellerie parce qu’elle a voulu aider les femmes.
Dès le début du parcours, les dispositifs de médiation numériques sont présents et ils s’enchainent rapidement. Dans chacune des salles, il peut y avoir jusqu’à deux ou trois dispositifs différents. Au début, je dois avouer que j’ai été émerveillée par leur diversité et l’envie de tout tester était présente. Je me suis prise au jeu, allant presque tout de suite vers les bornes en entrant dans la salle d’exposition et puis, au bout d’un moment, je les ai délaissées pour ne quasiment plus les regarder à partir du milieu du parcours.
Je ne regrette pas tous les dispositifs numériques mis en place par le Musée de la Romanité, bien au contraire. Je regrette juste que certains ne présentent au final qu’un intérêt limité. D’autres ont vraiment été passionnants, apportant une réelle plus-value durant la visite. Ce sont eux que je retiens, même quelques semaines après ma visite. Ils auraient presque tous dû être ainsi. J’en garde trois en mémoire.
Milk & Honey – Rupi Kaur
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Sleeping Giants – Sylvain Neuvel
Autumn & Latte 