Jack Kilborn

Endurance

The bed and breakfast was hidden in the hills of West Virginia. Wary guests wondered how it could stay in business at such a creepy, remote location, especially with its bizarre, presidential decor and eccentric proprietor.With the event hotel for the national Iron Woman triathlon accidentally overbooked, competitor Maria was forced to stay at the Rushmore. But after checking into her room, she quickly realized she wasn't alone. First her suitcase wasn't where she put it. Then her cell phone was moved. Finally, she heard an odd creaking under the bed. Confusion quickly turned to fear, and fear to hysteria when she discovered the front door was barred and the windows were bricked over. There was no way out.One year later, four new female athletes have become guests of the Inn. Will they escape the horrors within its walls? Or will they join the many others who have died there, in ways too terrible to imagine?

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006 - Convulsions Solaires

L'astronome Daniel Burke aurait voulu se tromper, mais cette « brume » qui altérait l'observation télescopique l'inquiétait. Quand l'atmosphère devint rougeâtre et le soleil violacé, il comprit le terrible danger qui menaçait la Terre : un nuage de poussière cosmique délétère allait envelopper la planète et déclencher d'effroyables catastrophes. ;.

Lily King

Father of the Rain

Prize-winning author Lily King’s masterful new novel spans three decades of a volatile relationship between a charismatic, alcoholic father and the daughter who loves him.

Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who's beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when they divorce, and Gardiner’s basest impulses are unleashed, the chasm quickly widens and Daley is stretched thinly across it.

As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her father’s fears and prejudices, and embarks on her own separate life — until he hits rock bottom. Lured home by the dream of getting her father sober, Daley risks everything she's found beyond him, including her new love, Jonathan, in an attempt to repair a trust broken years ago.

A provocative story of one woman's lifelong loyalty to her father, is a spellbinding journey into the emotional complexities and magnetic pull of family.

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007 - L'univers Vivant

Des galaxies en collision ; des milliards de mondes volatilisés ; un chaos à l'échelle cosmique progressant vers notre Voie Lactée... et l'escadre spatiale de Jerry Barclay lancée vers l'Infini pour tenter de juguler ces cataclysmes... et découvrir alors le fantastique secret de l'univers.

Lily King

The English Teacher

Chosen by the and as one of the Best Novels of 2005, Lily King's new novel is a story about an independent woman and her fifteen-year-old son, and the truth she has long concealed from him. Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. She has since become a fixture and one of the best teachers Fayer has ever had. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida has constructed is swiftly dismantled.

This is a passionate tale of a mother and son's vital bond and a provocative look at our notions of intimacy, honesty, loyalty, and the real meaning of home. A triumphant and masterful follow-up to her multi-award-winning debut, confirms Lily King as one of the most accomplished and vibrant young voices of today.

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008 - Réseau Dinosaure

Fouiller le sol à la recherche des dinosaures fossiles et découvrir l'un d'eux tué par balle, 75 millions d'années plus tôt, cela peut entraîner de paisibles paléontologues fort loin de leur musée... et les plonger subitement au cœur d'une lutte sans merci à travers le Temps !

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009 - La Dimension X

 Jean Kariven et ses compagnons ont trouvé, au coeur du Tibet, la cité perdue, Bakrahna : ville fabuleuse où règnent sept vieillards sanguinaires, gardiens d'un secret terrible, le Cercle Vertical Extra-Dimensionnel.
     Pour le Français, le choix est douloureux : sauver sa peau en franchissant le cercle « magique » et disparaître à jamais dans la Dimension X ou affronter les sept sages avec leur puissante armée de Yétis qui s'apprêtent à asservir les nations ?

Andrew Krivak

The Sojourn

A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author’s own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the unfolding tragedy in Europe.

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010 - Chasseurs d'hommes

 Un constructeur d'avions se suicide dans Centra ! Park pour échapper aux sinistres « hommes en noir ». Un clochard défenestré, un troisième traqué sans pitié... Les chasseurs d'hommes répandent la terreur chez tous ceux qui en savent trop sur les OVNI.

Richard A Knaak

Scales of the Serpent

The Sin War trilogy

Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in an eternal conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary—the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War—the conflict that would change the destiny of man.

Bent on destroying the evil cult of the Triune, Uldyssian does not yet suspect that Inarius—secret Prophet of the Cathedral of Light—has been subtly aiding his quest. Obsessed with restoring Sanctuary to its former glory, Inarius has been playing Uldyssian against the two great religions in a reckless attempt to topple them both. But another player has slipped back into the equation. The demon Lilith, once Inarius’s lover, seeks to use Uldyssian as her own pawn in a scheme to turn humans into an army of —godlike beings, more powerful than any angel or demon, who could overturn all Creation and elevate Lilith to supreme being.

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011 - La Spirale du temps

  Le Chrononef emportait Jean Kariven et ses amis le long de la Spirale du Temps, à la recherche de nos orgines. Ils allaient devoir affronter les terrifiants cyclopes de Lémurie, combattre le tyran Siomak aux côtés des géants bimkamiens, vivre d'extraordinaires aventures cependant que Jean Kariven succombant (sans effort !) aux charmes de l'adorable Leyla, se verrait contraint de la tuer... afin de la sauver !

Elias Khoury

Little Mountain

Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury's language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity.

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012 - Nous les martiens

 Venue des profondeurs de l'espace, Yahoum, la comète à noyau solide, fonce sur Nergal dont elle va ravager la surface avant de s'abattre sur la planète Isthar, vouée elle aussi à la désolation. Seule la planète Geona a une chance d'être épargnée par l'astre d'épouvante. Les habitants des deux mondes n'ont qu'un refuge, Geona. Réussiront-ils à l'atteindre avant le cataclysme ? Ces émigrés de l'espace, poussées par le désespoir, vont-ils enfin trouver un havre pour leur race ?

Christian Kiefer

The Infinite Tides

Keith Corcoran has spent his entire life preparing to be an astronaut. At the moment of his greatness, finally aboard the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above the earth’s swirling blue surface, he receives word that his sixteen-year-old daughter has died in a car accident, and that his wife has left him. Returning to earth, and to his now empty suburban home, he is alone with the ghosts, the memories and feelings he can barely acknowledge, let alone process. He is a mathematical genius, a brilliant engineer, a famous astronaut, but nothing in his life has readied him for this.

With its endless interlocking culs-de-sac, big box stores, and vast parking lots, contemporary suburbia is not a promising place to recover from such trauma. But healing begins through new relationships, never Keith’s strength, first as a torrid affair with one neighbor, and then as an unlikely friendship with another, a Ukrainian immigrant who every evening lugs his battered telescope to the weed-choked vacant lot at the end of the street. Gazing up at the heavens together, drinking beer and smoking pot, the two men share their vastly different experiences and slowly reveal themselves to each other, until Keith can begin to confront his loss and begin to forgive himself for decades of only half-living. is a deeply moving, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss, and resilience. It is also an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life that renders both our strengths and weaknesses with great and tender beauty.

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013 - Le Monde oublié

 Une formidable augmentation du volume des glaces au Pôle Sud menace de faire basculer la Terre sur son axe. Tornades, cyclones et ouragans ne tarderont pas à faire leur apparition dans les contrées tempérées des Etats-Unis d'Europe.
     À la tête d'une expédition de reconnaissance, Jean Kariven met au point le dispositif destructeur de la banquise afin de sauver la Terre. Dans cet enfer blanc, il échoue dans un havre de paix : la Vallée Heureuse. Monde clos, peuplé par les descendants directs des Atlantes, voué lui aussi à l'anéantissement.
     Le compte à rebours est commencé... Parviendront-ils à échapper au cataclysme ?

Christian Kiefer

The Animals

Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal youth, Bill battles fiercely to preserve the shelter that protects these wounded animals and to keep hidden his turbulent, even dangerous, history. Alternating between past and present, Christian Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill s crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future. In finely sculpted prose imaginatively at odds with the harsh, volatile world Kiefer evokes, The Animals builds powerfully toward the revelation of Bill s defining betrayal and the drastic lengths Bill goes to in order to escape the consequences."

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014 - Mission T

 Daniel Keller, ingénieur-électronicien, travaille à un satellite artificiel. La ravissante Péruvienne, Juana Murcia, très attirée par les savants les plus éminents, vient « l'assister » dans sa tâche. Leur rencontre provoque un chasse-croisé d'événements étranges. Daniel Keller se trouve à Tlahuanaco, dont les ruines cachent un fantastique secret venu des étoiles...

Mary Beth Keane

Fever

Mary Mallon was a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant woman who bravely came to America alone, fought hard to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic service ladder, and discovered in herself an uncanny, and coveted, talent for cooking. Working in the kitchens of the upper class, she left a trail of disease in her wake, until one enterprising and ruthless “medical engineer” proposed the inconceivable notion of the “asymptomatic carrier”—and from then on Mary Mallon was a hunted woman.

In order to keep New York’s citizens safe from Mallon, the Department of Health sent her to North Brother Island where she was kept in isolation from 1907–1910. She was released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary — spoiled by her status and income and genuinely passionate about cooking — most domestic and factory jobs were heinous. She defied the edict.

Bringing early twentieth-century New York alive — the neighborhoods, the bars, the park being carved out of upper Manhattan, the emerging skyscrapers, the boat traffic — Fever is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself, an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the hands of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes an extraordinarily dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable character.

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015 - L'Homme de l'espace

Un bal masqué : des danseurs déguisés en extra-terrestres... et des Extra-Terrestres déguisés en danseurs ? Difficile à croire malgré les dires de cet homme étrange rencontré sur une route déserte de Californie. La Terre, menacée par un conflit interstellaire ? Jean Kariven hésitait à l'admettre, mais il changea d'avis lorsque l'inconnu mystérieux, près de lui, se concentra ; peu après, trois danseurs s'écroulaient, foudroyés par ses terrifiants pouvoirs Psi...

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