Fiction & Literature - Books

Call Me A Cab

Fiction & Literature

The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster – a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab – demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed.“A book by this guy is cause for happiness.”Stephen King DONALD E. WESTLAKE GOES OFF THE BEATEN PATH In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different sort – and the results have never been published, until now. Fans of mystery fiction have often pondered whether it would be possible to write a suspense novel without any crime at all, and in CALL ME A CAB the masterful Donald E. Westlake answered the question in his inimitable style. You won’t find any crime in these pages – but what you will find is a wonderful suspense story, about a New York City taxi driver hired to drive a beautiful woman all the way across America, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life is waiting to be made. From Pennsylvania to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada on the way to California, the characters’ odyssey takes them through uncharted territory – on the map and in their lives. It’s Westlake at his witty, thought-provoking best, and it proves that a page-turner doesn’t need to have a bomb set to go off at the end of it in order to keep sparks flying every step of the way.

After You

Fiction & Literature

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . . For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

Windfallen

Fiction & Literature

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes a breathtaking drama of two women whose lives entwine through a lovely English seaside house.For Lottie Swift, Arcadia has always been magical. The breathtaking art deco house perched above the shoreline of the well-ordered village of Merham seems to stand still throughout the years. It has never changed, not really, but Lottie's fate and fortune have been inextricably linked with that of the beautiful house, and it will forever be fixed in her mind as a symbol of adventure, youth, and of loves lost and gained. Even as her life—and the house—fall into disrepair.Years later another young woman comes to Merham. A designer hired to make over the now-empty Arcadia, Daisy Parsons seeks a new beginning, as Lottie once did. Fleeing a broken relationship and now facing being a single mother, Daisy finds refuge in the house, and something more—a love she thought she would never know again and a friendship unlike any she’s experienced before.

Hardcase

Fiction & Literature

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge -- and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant -- a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found -- and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it -- hard.

The Final Solution

Fiction & Literature

Chicago is gone. In one day, a nuclear bomb levels the city and in one day, the American public demands nothing less than the toppling of every Islamic government in the Middle East. The fury of the American war machine is unleashed and one after another the Muslim countries fall. The terrorists are beaten, and they know it. Their desperation forces them to grapple at any possible way to survive. Half a world away, a New Jersey company has secretly perfected a time machine. But the secret leaks out and the terrorists begin to formulate a new plan...a plan to kill America before it ever becomes a superpower.

Shtetl Days

Fiction & Literature

Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recreated "village" of Wawolnice, where--along with dozens of colleagues--Veit and Kristi re-enact the daily life of the long-exterminated but still frightening "Jews."Veit and Kristi are true professionals, proud of their craft. They've learned all there is to know about this vanished way of life. They know the dead languages, the turns of phrase, the prayers, the manners, the food. But now they're beginning to learn what happens when you immerse yourself long enough in something real...in Harry Turtledove's Shtetl Days.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Videssos Cycle: Volume One

Fiction & Literature

Experience one of the most beloved series in fantasy—as could only be imagined by “the standard-bearer for alternate history” (USA Today). Harry Turtledove’s many New York Times bestsellers provide an intriguing take on history’s most crucial moments, but he honed his speculative talents in a different genre: fantasy. The Videssos Cycle is the perfect fusion of the two. Collected here are the first two novels of Turtledove’s one-of-a-kind saga, in which a Roman legion is transported to a strange realm where magic rules. THE MISPLACED LEGION In a duel for survival, the Roman military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus raises his sword, blessed by a Druid priest, against a Celtic chieftain, who brandishes a blade of his own. At the moment the weapons touch, Marcus and his legion find themselves under a strange night sky, full of unfamiliar stars, where Rome and Gaul are unknown. They are in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos—a world that will test their skill and courage as no soldiers have ever been tested before. AN EMPEROR FOR THE LEGION In the capital of Videssos, a coward and betrayer has seized the throne. There, behind great walls that have always made the city impregnable to storm or siege, he rules with the aid of dark sorcery. Overthrowing him seems impossible and the imperial army has already fled in panic from the savage victors. But there is no panic in the legion. Now Marcus Scaurus leads his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search of winter quarters, to regroup and do the unthinkable: take the untakeable city.

Dark Crossings

Fiction & Literature

The Covered Bridge by Karen HarperWhen Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes him with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Mysterious happenings put Abby in harm's way, forcing Ben to run to her rescue. He's vowed never to let anyone hurt her, and suddenly everything is at risk—their community, their way of life…and their future together.Fallen in Plain Sight by Marta PerryChildhood friends Sarah Weaver and Jacob Mast see each other in a different light when violence shatters their peaceful society. Now a series of accidents put their faith—and newfound love—to the ultimate test.Outside the Circle by Patricia DavidsIsaac Bowman is an outsider, but Lena Troyer makes the widower and his daughter feel like part of the community. So when a deer-poaching ring divides the town, Isaac vows to keep this gentle woman safe from harm…in spite of the danger to his heart.

Oh Happy Day

Fiction & Literature

Par les auteurs de Et je danse aussi .Après quatre ans de silence et ce qu'il appelle son " grand malheur ", Pierre-Marie Sotto décide d'écrire à Adeline Parmelan au sujet d'un certain carnet qu'il aurait laissé chez elle. Est-ce un prétexte pour reprendre contact avec celle qu'il n'a jamais oubliée depuis leur rupture ? En ce cas, le moment paraît très mal choisi. Occupée par son prochain déménagement vers le Canada avec l'homme qui partage désormais sa vie, Adeline a bien d'autres projets en tête que de renouer avec lui.Seulement, c'est sans compter sur le lien indéfectible qui les attache l'un à l'autre. De surprises en confidences, leur correspondance va les entraîner dans un tourbillon inattendu d'émotions.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition

Fiction & Literature

The book begins with a biographical note and appreciation of Stevenson's work by Andrew Lang, who knew Stevenson well. The rest of the book consists of what can be best described as travel writing. The first of the three pieces is an account of a journey with one companion in two canoes from Antwerp across Belgium and into northern France by canal and river. The second describes travels with a donkey for company and portage in central France. Both deal in a sympathetic way with the places and people he met, together with philosophical reflections. The third item is a description of the Edinburgh of his time and previously, and would be of interest to people intending to visit the city today, as much of what he describes still remains. .

Sackett

Fiction & Literature

William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett’s destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he’d wanted was enough to buy a ranch, but he soon learned that gold had ways of its own with men.

Extraits - Lectures d'été Gallimard 2015

Fiction & Literature

Retrouvez dans ce dossier les premiers chapitres de 21 titres incontournables pour vos lectures d'été, dans les collections Blanche et Du monde entier : Americanah (de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), La vie des elfes (de Muriel Barbery), Trois fois dès l'aube (de Alessandro Baricco), Les Producteurs (de Antoine Bello), Miniaturiste (de Jessie Burton), Ça aussi, ça passera (de Milena Busquets), Évariste (de François-Henri Désérable), Quinquennat (de Marc Dugain), Charlotte (de David Foenkinos), Le voyant (de Jérôme Garcin), Éden Utopie (de Fabrice Humbert), Victor et Macha (de Alona Kimhi), Les prophètes du fjord de l'Éternité (de Kim Leine), Histoire d'Irène (de Erri De Luca), Plus haut que la mer (de Francesca Melandri), Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (de Patrick Modiano), Deux amantes au caméléon (de Francine Prose), L'amour et les forêts (de Éric Reinhardt), Check-Point (de Jean-Christophe Rufin), Le héros discret (de Mario Vargas Llosa) et Un an après (de Anne Wiazemsky). Vous pouvez accéder directement à chaque extrait par la table des matières de ce dossier ou lire les extraits à la suite. Retrouvez aussi photographie et biographie des auteurs. Tous ces livres numériques sont en vente chez votre libraire.

The Center Cannot Hold (American Empire, Book Two)

Fiction & Literature

In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own—but with dramatic differences. It is 1924—a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington’s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new generation faces new uncertainties. The Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession and in the Second Mexican War but at last tasting defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and natural calamity. The Freedom Party promises new strength and pride. But if its chief seizes the reins of power, he may prove a dangerous enemy for the hated U.S.A. Yet the United States take little note. Sharing world domination with Germany, they consider events in the Confederacy of little consequence. As the 1920s end, calamity casts a pall across the continent. With civil war raging in Mexico, terrorist uprisings threatening U.S. control in Canada, and an explosion of violence in Utah, the United States are rocked by uncertainty. In a world of occupiers and the occupied, of simmering hatreds, shattered lives, and pent-up violence, the center can no longer hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock will come when a fleet of foreign aircraft rain death and destruction upon one of the great cities of the United States. . . .

Return Engagement

Fiction & Literature

“[Harry Turtledove] handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty.”—Publishers Weekly It’s 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world—but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. Behind this façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to explode. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse. Opposite him is Al Smith, a Socialist U.S. president in the Philadelphia White House. Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the hell of war and depression. Featherston and his Freedom Party are determined to conquer their Northern neighbor at any cost. After crushing a Negro rebellion in his own nation, Featherston sends Confederate army planes to attack Philadelphia. In the aftermath of the CSA blitzkrieg, the war machine spins a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one—not even Jake Featherston himself—can control. “Turtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. [Return Engagement features] strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background.”—Kirkus Reviews “Another absorbing installment of [Turtledove’s] character-centered alternate-history saga.”—Booklist

Limitations

Fiction & Literature

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material.Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge?In Limitations, Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding itself.

Paul Verlaine : Œuvres complètes

Fiction & Literature

Découvrez les œuvres complètes de Paul Verlaine, dans une édition originale de référence augmentée de notes explicatives, de gravures d'époque et d'annexes. L'ouvrage a été conçu pour un confort de lecture et de navigation optimal sur votre liseuse. Il contient 50 titres. CONTENU DÉTAILLÉ : — ŒUVRES POÉTIQUES — Vers de jeunesse (1861-1864) Poèmes saturniens (1866) Fêtes galantes (1869) La bonne chanson (1872) Romances sans paroles (1874) Sagesse (1880) Jadis et naguère (1884) Amour (1888) Dédicaces (1890) Dédicaces : ajouts (posthume) Bonheur (1891) Parallèlement (1889) Parallèlement : ajouts (posthume) Chansons pour elle (1891) Liturgies intimes (1892) Odes en son honneur (1893) Elégies (1893) Le livre posthume (1893) Dans les limbes (1894) Epigrammes (1894) Biblio-sonnets (1895) Chair (1896) Invectives (1896) Varia (posthume) Quelques vers inédits (posthume) Vive le Roy ! (1913) Qui veut des merveilles... (1913) — ŒUVRES POÉTIQUES : POÈMES LIBRES — Femmes (1890) Hombres (1891) Contribution a l'« Album Zutique » — PROSE : OEUVRES D'IMAGINATION — Louise Leclercq (1886) Le poteau (1886) Madame Aubin (1886) Pierre Duchatelet (1886) Les mémoires d’un veuf (1886) Histoires comme ça (1888-1890) — PROSE : OEUVRES AUTOBIOGRAPHIQUES — Souvenirs (1891) Mes hôpitaux (1891) Mes prisons (1893) Quinze jours en Hollande (1893) Confessions (1895) — PROSE : OEUVRES CRITIQUES — Les poètes maudits (1884) Critiques et conférences (1890-1895) Poètes et littérateurs (1905) Charles Baudelaire (1913) — PROSE : OEUVRES POLÉMIQUES, VOYAGES — Voyage en France par un Français (1881) Souvenirs et promenades (1903) — CORRESPONDANCE (Sélection) — — DESSINS — — ANNEXE — Biographie : Paul Verlaine par Alphonse Séché et Jules Bertaud (1909) A PROPOS DE L’ÉDITEUR : Les éditions Arvensa sont les leaders de la littérature classique numérique. Leur objectif est de vous faire connaître les œuvres des grands auteurs de la littérature classique en langue française à un prix abordable tout en vous fournissant la meilleure expérience de lecture sur votre liseuse. Tous les titres sont produits avec le plus grand soin. Chaque édition contient un système de navigation intuitif et ergonomique : • Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. • Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. Vous disposez également d’un service qualité qui s’engage à vous répondre dans les 48h. Retrouvez tous les titres des éditions Arvensa sur : www.arvensa.com

One Night, Second Chance

Fiction & Literature

It was a mind-blowing night of passion between complete strangers. Or so it seems… Then publishing mogul Wynn Hunter discovers that the ravishing temptress who'd shared his bed was none other than his childhood nemesis, Grace Munroe. No wonder he didn't recognize her—the scrawny, pigtailed brat has blossomed into a dazzling beauty. Disastrous romances have made them both wary of entanglements. So when Wynn lures Grace to Australia for a family wedding, they're determined to keep things light. But when life-threatening chaos erupts in Wynn's family, can these childhood adversaries find the courage to fall in love?

A Wolff at Heart

Fiction & Literature

Just when you thought you knew all The Men of Wolff Mountain, USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard has a surprise! Realizing his entire life is a lie, Pierce Avery hires Nicola Parrish to find answers. Learning his father is not his biological parent is mind-blowing; discovering the desirable woman behind his new lawyer's professional facade puts him over the edge. But his growing passion for Nicola could be blinding him to her motives for getting him to embrace the truth of his past. His heart may be ready for more, but can he really trust her?

A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond

Fiction & Literature

“A truly funny sendup of the corrupt politics of academe, the publishing industry and politics, as well as a subtle but biting critique of racial ideology.” —Publishers WeeklyThis “hilarious high-concept satire” (Publishers Weekly), by the PEN/Faulkner finalist and acclaimed author of Telephone and Erasure, is a fictitious and satirical chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s desire to pen a history of African-Americans—his and his aides’ belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, The History follows the letters of loose cannon Congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history.“Outrageously funny . . . it could become a cult classic.” —Library Journal“I think Percival Everett is a genius. I’ve been a fan since his first novel . . . He’s a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him.” —Terry McMillan, New York Times-bestselling author of It’s Not All Downhill from Here“God bless Percival Everett, whose dozens of idiosyncratic books demonstrate a majestic indifference to literary trends, the market or his critics.”?The Wall Street Journal

Panny

Fiction & Literature

Nový strhujúci triler od autora bestsellera Tichá pacientka, v ktorom sa vražda a posadnutosť spájajú s gréckou mytológiou. Edward Fosca je vrah. Tým si je Mariana istá. No charizmatický profesor Cambridgeskej univerzity sa zdá byť nedotknuteľný. Je totiž obľúbený medzi kolegami aj študentmi – a najmä medzi členkami tajnej spoločnosti známej ako Panny. Psychoterapeutka Mariana Androsová sa o Panny začne zaujímať, keď jednu ich členku nájdu zavraždenú. Rýchlo nadobudne podozrenie, že je za to zodpovedný Fosca. A keď sa objaví ďalšie telo, Mariana sa rozhodne – vraha zastaví, aj keby ju to malo stáť vlastný život…

Fiction & Literature Books