Guieu Jimmy

001 - Au-dela de l'infini

Au volant de sa Ford, Nicky Morton vit une immense lueur illuminer la route. Le moteur cala, les phares s'éteignirent. Du ciel descendit un étrange appareil discoïdal. Totalement paralysée, la jeune femme aperçut alors deux êtres de cauchemar ; des robots à l'œil cyclopéen qui se dirigeaient vers sa voiture...

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002 - Les Monstres du néant

Cela avait commencé par une scène tragi-comique : des chats épouvantés poursuivis par un rat. Un rat beaucoup plus gros qu'un Saint-bernard ! Puis, ce fut une adorable fille nue qui dansait dans la rue... pour s évaporer à l'approche des policemen. Vinrent ensuite les Monstres. La terreur s'installa à Miami...

Ismail Kadare

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.

Ismail Kadare

The Concert

Ismail Kadare once called The Palace of Dreams "the most courageous book I have written; in literary terms, it is perhaps the best". When it was first published in the author's native country, it was immediately banned, and for good reason: the novel revolves around a secret ministry whose task is not just to spy on its citizens, but to collect and interpret their dreams. An entire nation's unconscious is thus tapped and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind.The Concert is Kadare's most complete and devastating portrayal of totalitarian rule and mentality. Set in the period when the alliance between Mao's China and Hoxha's Albania was going sour, this brilliant novel depicts a world so sheltered and monotonous that political ruptures and diplomatic crises are what make life exciting.

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003 - L'Invasion de la terre

Une nuit de réveillon, faite de rires et d'embrassades, un engin mystérieux cinglait vers la Terre. Un engin pacifique qui annonçait pourtant la plus terrifiante des agressions... Jerry Barclay rallierait-il à temps un peuple ami... à plus de deux millions d'années lumière ?

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004 - Les êtres de feu

Quand des savants atomistes disparaissent de par le monde et que s'ouvrent des puits insondables engloutissant avions, bases militaires et centres atomiques, il y a tout lieu d'être inquiet, d'invoquer une attaque venue de l'espace... Et l'on peut ainsi se tromper lourdement sur l'origine de la terrible menace...

Ismail Kadare

The Fall of the Stone City

It is 1943, and the Second World War is ravaging Europe. Mussolini decides to pull out of his alliance with the Nazis, and withdraws the Italian troops occupying Albania. Soon after, Nazi forces invade Albania from occupied Greece. The first settlement in their path is the ancient stone city of Gjirokastër, an Albanian stronghold since the fourteenth century. The townsfolk have no choice but to surrender to the Nazis, but are confused when they see that one of the town’s residents, a certain Dr. Gurameto, seems to be showing the invading Nazi Colonel great hospitality. That evening, strains of Schubert from the doctor’s gramophone waft out into the cobbled streets of the city, and the sounds of a dinner party are heard. The sudden disappearance of the Nazis the next morning leaves the town wondering if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night. But as Albania moves into a period of occupation by the Nazis, and then is taken over by the communists, Dr. Gurameto is forced to answer for what happened on the evening of the Nazi’s invasion, and finally explain the events of that long, strange night.

Dealing with themes of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore and legend, shows Kadare at the height of his powers.

Ismail Kadare

Three Arched Bridge

In 1377, on the frontier between the crumbling Byzantine empire and the advancing Ottoman Turks, a mysterious work crew begins to construct a three-arched bridge, despite warnings of war. A superbly realized work of historical fiction and at once a Kafkaesque parable of the barbarism currently sweeping its author's Albanian homeland.

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005 - Hantise sur le monde

Hantise sur le monde, victime d'un agresseur invisible. D'innombrables cadavres, dont certains se mettaient à flotter dans l'air avant de se transformer en squelettes ! La base sous-marine des Galapagos détruite en plein ciel, des jets télescopant des obstacles invisibles. Jerry Barclay rallia l'escadre galactique de Bètlyor : la Terre n'avait plus que huit jours à vivre...

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.

Guieu Jimmy

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.

Guieu Jimmy

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.

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