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Est-ce une très bonne idée de réunir, à l’occasion des fêtes de fin d’année, des enfants qui ont tous de bonnes raisons de vous haïr ? Surtout quand il s’agit de leur annoncer que vous modifiez votre testament ?

Toujours est-il que, le 24 décembre, Simeon Lee, vieillard aussi riche que cynique, est sauvagement assassiné dans sa chambre. Et voici Hercule Poirot s’interrogeant sur Alfred et sa femme, tyrannisés depuis longtemps par leur père et beau-père ; sur Harry, qui ne lui pardonne pas les humiliations que sa mère a subies ; sur Pilar, la petite-fille espagnole, devant qui le vieil homme a peut-être imprudemment étalé ses diamants…

Beaucoup de monde. Et pour finir, un coupable présent dès le début, mais bien difficile à soupçonner…

Clarissa Field

Beautiful, spirited love child of a nobleman's dalliance with a tempestuous lady, Clarissa is only twelve when she first encounters the dashing officer, Lance Clavering. But she is not too young to fall in love, nor to become the pawn in a deadly game of power and passion which are both her heritage and her destiny. The time is 1715, the place an England rife with civil discontent threatening to explode into revolution. Clarissa is caught up in events which will alter England's history - and lure her into a strange, shadow box future.

Is the dashing Lance what he pretends - a heroic, charming lover - or is he the agent of an evil cabal sworn to strip Clarissa of her fortune, her dignity ... perhaps even her life?

Is the mysterious young rebel, Dickon Frenshaw - first her jailer, then her salvation - watching over her out of devotion ... or spying on her for those who would see her destroyed?

As her dreams of romance and peace first seem to be realized in marriage, then ever more gravely thratened by that same marriage, with only herself to trust, Clarissa must penetrate the long-buried mysteries of her own legacy - and risk a heartbreak more painful than betrayal.

The year 2032 A.D. , a star ship built and manned by the new United States of Europe, touches down on the planet, Alatair Five. Disaster strikes, leaving only one apparent survivor — an Englishman named Paul Marlow, whose adventures in the lair of a strange primeval race knowan as the Bayani leads him firstly to their God, the omnipotent and omniscient Oruri, and eventually to an unlimited power that is so great that it must include a built-in death sentence. The forces that have remained static for centuries overcome both the forces of the future and the quest for unlimited knowledge.<

On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don’t disturb the Ilmataran habitat, they’re free to conduct their missions in peace.

But when Henri Kerlerec, media personality and reckless adventurer, ends up sliced open by curious Ilmatarans, tensions between Terran and Sholen erupt, leading to a diplomatic disaster that threatens to escalate to war.

Against the backdrop of deep-sea guerrilla conflict, a new age of human exploration begins as alien cultures collide. Both sides seek the aid of the newly enlightened Ilmatarans. But what this struggle means for the natives—and the future of human exploration—is anything but certain, in *A Darkling Sea *by James Cambias.

Zipporah Clavering

When Zipporah Ransome set out for Eversleigh Court, her family's ancestral home, she was a sensible, predictable person. Married to a man she had known since childhood, Zipporah was satisfied with her quiet life, happy to put behind her the legacy of scandal that had long stained her heritage. Only in answer to an old man's desperate plea did she journey to a house rife with memories, with malice - even, perhaps, with danger.

But when she departed Eversleigh, Zipporah was a different woman. Caught in a widening web of menace and manipulation, she was forced to rise to the challenge of those working against her. And something more had changed for Zipporah: she had fallen in love with a handsome stranger she might never see again, but whose presence would dominate her future and her fortunes more powerfully than she could ever have imagined.

After fleeing his dying parents and the drudgery of work in Dublin for the Manhattan of his imagination — a place of romance and opulence, dark old concert halls and mellow front parlours quieted by the hiss of the phonograph cylinder — Rickard Velily hopes to be reborn as an Irish tenor, and to one day be reunited with the love of his life.

At the very peculiar Cha Bum Kun Club, a masonic-style refuge for immigrants who can’t quite cut it in New York City, he meets Denny Kennedy-Logan and Clive Sullis, and a plan is enacted: to revive the art songs and ballads of another time for a hip young city in thrall to technology and money.

But that is without reckoning on meddlesome sprites, the phantoms of the past — and more malign forces who plot to subjugate the human race.

Gavin Corbett's new novel Green Glowing Skull is a half-crazed brain-shunt of a trip around the dream world, the spirit world, the cyber world and a woozily recognisable real world. A darkly comic tale of mythologies, machines and the metaphysical swirl, it’s a decent third effort from Corbett that, with a fair wind and a bit of mercy shown towards it, and all other things being equal, will pick up some good reviews and find some kindly readers. Sure, all you can do is hope.

Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin: he fears he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family. Twenty-first-century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past. When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him-and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is.

In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern spirit has somehow persisted into contemporary life, brooding and overlooked. Funny, terrible, unsettling, fiercely unsentimental, is haunted by some of Ireland's greatest writers even as it breaks new ground and asks afresh why the imagination is so necessary to survival.

Only a handful of people in the world know that mankinds magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up herein the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Powers hiding place has been discovered by a killer.

It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next.

Former private eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly anyone believes him. The worlds most capable Active, Faye Vierra, could back him up,but she is hiding from the forces that think she is too dangerous to let live.So Jake has put together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights,and set out on a suicide mission to stop the predator before it is too late.

Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for.

Echoes of John Berger sound throughout the evocative prose of this great Argentian writer. A twentieth-century classic, is a central work in Haroldo Conti’s oeuvre.

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the , here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions.

Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.

A bravura performance by a groundbreaking new writer — a novel set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.

Lucas Giraut inherits the family company from a father who never really cared enough to get to know him. This inheritance comes with a lot of unanswered questions and one archenemy: Lucas's mother, Fanny, an ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur who believes Lucas is as useless as his father, Lorenzo, an enigmatic man whose recent death — under mysterious circumstances — delights her.

Valentina Parini is a precocious and troubled seventh-grader, and the self-proclaimed Top European Expert on the Work of Stephen King. Lucas Giraut is her upstairs neighbor and her only friend. He indulges Valentina as she reveals her dark fantasies of retribution on her classmates and teachers. As Valentina struggles with growing up, Lucas endeavors to understand what he's been bequeathed by his father. Following clues found in a windowless secret apartment and in his dreams, he ends up deep in Barcelona's underworld, far from the comforts of his home, a former ducal palace in the Gothic Quarter.

In , Javier Calvo brings together a huge cast of unforgettable characters in a haunting, masterful tale filled with scandalous behavior and dangerous crimes. A dazzling novel in which reality and fantasy entwine, it hails the arrival of a powerful and original voice.

Peu nombreux sont ceux qui connaissent la source des pouvoirs magiques dévolus aux «actifs», torches, brutes, engrenages, bestiaux, estompeurs et autres lourds. Rares aussi ceux qui savent que l’entité vivante à leur origine, réfugiée dans les profondeurs de la Terre, est menacée par un prédateur galactique qui ne laisse dans son sillage que des mondes dévastés. 1933. Les jours de l’humanité sont comptés car l’éclaireur qui précède le fléau est là. C’est pourquoi Jake Sullivan et les chevaliers du Grimnoir, à bord du dirigeable la Voyageuse, avec un équipage de pirates de l’air, entreprennent une mission suicide pour affronter l’ennemi. Mais leurs pouvoirs combinés ne sont-ils pas dérisoires devant pareil adversaire? Seule peut-être la jeune Faye Vierra serait à la hauteur… C’est dans la cité libre de Shangai que se tiendra la bataille décisive. Faisant suite à Magie brute et Malédiction, Foudre de guerre conclut la trilogie du Grimnoir. «C’est un condensé du meilleur de la littérature populaire, au sens noble du terme, et de la créativité et l’inventivité contemporaines. Le résultat est détonant, étonnant et totalement réussi!»<

Raised in the grand chateau of Tourville, lovely young Claudine, with her widowed mother, had fled the solitude of the French countryside as revolution torched it, sparking flames that would forever alter the landscape, their destiny, and the face of history itself.

Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of danger; turning ripe and sensuous overnight, she is torn between the love of her new stepbrothers - David, steady, scholarly, the perfect husband ... if not the lover of her dreams; and Jonathon, so passionate, so willing to dare, far from the perfect husband, but as her first and foremost love, unsurpassed. Theirs is an amorous triangle that will burn bright through the years when England and all Europe struggle in a tyrant's grasp, till a moment on a rocky beach when one of the two men Claudine adores falls victim to a power beyond destiny.

Chi non ricorda il pianeta Mesklin e i suoi straordinari abitanti, costretti a vivere in condizioni di gravità proibitive per gli esseri umani? Gli eroi meskliniti di Hal Clement tornano in questo romanzo, in sé pefettamente autonomo, che è di fatto il secondo capitolo della saga iniziata con (), tenuto a battesimo in Italia proprio sulle pagine di URANIA. Ancora una volta la pazienza, il coraggio e le straordinarie caratteristiche fisiche dei meskliniti permetteranno loro di avere ragione di un mondo in cui la forza di gravità è così schiacciante da rappresentare da sola il più terribile e immediato dei pericoli. Senza contare le numerose incognite di questa nuova e inedita missione nello spazio, scritta da un maestro della tecnologica…<

Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as “study”), our hero Teymour — in the opening line of —is feeling “as unlucky as a flea on a bald man’s head.” Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial café, a far cry from his beloved Paris. Two old friends, however, rescue him. They applaud his phony diploma as perfect in “a world where everything is false” and they draw him into their hedonistic rounds as gentlemen of leisure. Life, they explain, “while essentially pointless is extremely interesting.”  The small city may seem tedious, but there are women to seduce, powerful men to tease, and also strange events: rich notables are disappearing.

Eyeing the machinations of our three pleasure seekers and nervous about the missing rich men, the authorities soon see — in complex schemes to bed young girls — signs of political conspiracies. The three young men, although mistaken for terrorists, enjoy freedom, wit, and romance. After all, though “not every man is capable of appreciating what is around him,” the conspirators in pleasure certainly do.

Sepuluh orang diundang ke sebuah rumah mewah dan modern di Pulau Negro, di seberang pantai Devon. Walaupun mereka masing-masing menyimpan suatu rahasia, mereka tiba di pulau itu dengan penuh harapan, pada suatu sore musim panas yang indah.

Tetapi tiba-tiba saja terjadi serentetan kejadian misterius. Pulau itu berubah menjadi pulau maut yang mengerikan. Panik mencekam orang-orang itu ketika mereka satu demi satu meninggal… satu demi satu.

Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again — and play patsy to a sexy girl friend’s murder scheme.<

Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine occupying Dodge's apartment. Soon enough, the young women's lives are consumed by absurd legal complications, as well as their own mounting boredom and squalor. Not to mention their trip across Sydney Harbour carrying an antique bookcase in a shopping trolley.

"The most exciting new fiction by a young Australian in years."

Au fil des années et des scandales alimentaires, la confiance s’effrite. Vous vous interrogez, vous vous méfiez, vous doutez, vous vous indignez un peu, beaucoup, passionnément… Puis un scandale chasse l’autre et les vieilles habitudes reprennent le dessus. Aujourd’hui, on ne mange pas, on bouffe, on ingurgite. On ne sait plus trop quoi, des produits standardisés, insipides tout au long de l’année…

Comment est-ce possible ? Comment en est-on arrivé là ? Où sont passées les saveurs, le respect des produits, des producteurs ? Comment est-il possible que du porc fermier d’Auvergne vienne de Bretagne ? Que l’on gave les poules de batterie de colorant et d’antibiotiques ?

Que l’on trouve de l’agneau toute l’année et qu’il vienne du bout du monde ? Que nos porcs partent se faire tuer en Allemagne pour revenir transformés en barquettes ? Que l’on soit obligé d’ajouter des vitamines au lait ? Ou encore que la couleur du fromage soit travaillée artificiellement ?

Pour vous aider à mieux manger et à vous nourrir sainement, ce livre vous propose un vaste décryptage sur le monde alimentaire.