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Pâques 1919, alors que les flots menaçant Perdido submergent cette petite ville du nord de l'Alabama, un clan de riches propriétaires terriens, les Caskey, doivent faire face aux avaries de leurs scieries, à la perte de leur bois et aux incalculables dégâts provoqués par l'implacable crue de la rivière Blackwater.

La saga historique best-seller en Allemagne enfin publiée en France. Allemagne, 1888. À la mort subite de leur père, Robert, Karl et Georg, ses trois fils, héritent de l'entreprise familiale d'importation de café. Mais l'entreprise est au bord de la faillite. Pour sauver leur fortune et ses proches, Robert, le fils cadet, accepte de quitter l'Allemagne et de s'installer au Cameroun dans une plantation de cacao, le nouveau produit à la mode qu'il compte bien exporter, tandis que ses deux frères s'installent à Hambourg et Vienne.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley et du roman gothique ! (Re)Plongez dans cette saga familiale pour une expérience d'écoute inédite et addictive. Le timbre nuancé de Ninon Moreau nous offre une Cathy Dollanganger délicate et magnétique à la fois. À la mort de son mari, Corinne retourne dans la demeure parentale en compagnie de ses quatre enfants, deux garçons et deux filles. Pour des histoires d'héritage, la jeune veuve doit cacher leur existence à son père, avec lequel elle est brouillée.

Lancashire, 1857. Liza, 17 ans, est employée au service des Pringle, un jeune couple qui la traite bien. Mais son père exige soudain qu'elle revienne vivre parmi les siens pour s'occuper de sa mère malade et de ses jeunes frère et sœur. Liza déchante, mais sa déception n'est rien comparée à la décision qu'a prise pour elle son père : elle épousera un veuf bien plus âgé qu'elle. Pour échapper aux avances pressantes de cet homme qui lui répugne, Liza s'enfuit.

There's only one thing harder than sharing office space with Finn Anderson: keeping my mind off him. Weeks ago, he kissed me senseless and walked away. But my best friend's cousin is back—and worse? He's one of the only people I know in Edinburgh. With his seductive Scottish accent and alluring blue eyes, one look from Finn sets my heart racing. Exchanging playful quips at office happy hours and smoldering glances through conference room doors proves that our chemistry is undeniable. Our connection, irrefutable.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan. Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan’s largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company’s corrupt financiers.

Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper. But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any they have ever encountered, he is also...

DIE FESSELNDE GESCHICHTE EINER CAFEHAUSDYNASTIE IM WANDEL DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. CAFÉ ENGEL - EINE NEUE ZEIT Wiesbaden, 1945. Die junge Hilde kann ihr Glück kaum fassen: Der Krieg ist zu Ende, und das Café Engel blieb wie durch ein Wunder verschont. Gegen alle Widerstände will sie den Familienbetrieb wieder zu jenem glanzvollen Treffpunkt schillernder Persönlichkeiten machen, als der er einst berühmt war. Doch schon bald trüben erste Konflikte den jungen Frieden: Als eine schöne junge Frau das Café betritt und sich als ihre Cousine Luisa vorstellt, ist Hildes Misstrauen geweckt.

The very moment that Raina Wingate learns her husband of sixteen years wants to separate, she gets a call that her father has suffered a stroke. Racing to her family’s home on Amelia Island, Florida, Raina hopes the time apart will heal her cracked marriage and that she can step into her father’s real estate business and keep it running. Her sister, Tori, a divorcee who owns a catering business in Boston, also flies in to join the others at the hospital. But an unexpected run-in with their father’s rather attractive neurologist adds a new dimension to the days and weeks ahead.

John Galsworthy's magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family's material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling status of the affluent middle-classes.

Sevilla, 1902. Una joven británica llega sola a la ciudad. Lleva consigo un antiguo plato exquisitamente pintado a mano. Podría ser la clave para resolver un misterio familiar ligado a La Cartuja, la prestigiosa fábrica donde se producen, desde hace décadas, las delicadas vajillas que adornan las mesas más elegantes del continente.

Justine is the first volume in the Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy businessman Nessim, a Mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly charged atmosphere.

Davenport: I thought I found where I belonged with my husband and wife. Everything was perfect until we lost her on the same day our son came into this world. Together, we tried to stay strong and focused on bringing her dream to life, but maybe it's finally time for us to follow our own dreams.

And now, her uncle wants to marry her off to the fallen son of her arch-enemy. But Jael is a battle-hardened warrior, trained to kill since she was 10-years-old. She doesn’t plan on being anyone’s wife. Eadmund Skalleson is drunk. His father is threatening him with a wife again. And this time he’s given him an ultimatum. Marry Jael Furyck or your brother returns from exile. But if Eadmund was ever going to choose a wife, it wouldn’t be Jael Furyck. Not her. Not ever.

Premier volet de la saga Les espérances inachevées, L’indomptable ouvre un récit où l’espoir persiste face à ce qui ne cède pas. Christian Beaudry y déploie une tension feutrée et une énergie farouche, portée par des trajectoires en quête d’accomplissement. Entre élans interrompus et volonté de tenir, ce premier tome pose les jalons d’une histoire sensible et tenace, qui laisse planer l’attente et donne envie de poursuivre. Une écoute immersive, habitée par la force de l’indomptable et la beauté des espérances encore à accomplir.

In the cold of a blizzard a long time ago, seven clans chose to set aside the hatred of ages and forge a new world. Respect turned to rebellion, brotherhood turned to bloodshed. And now, in the modern world, the seven clans stand together in an alliance of power and promise. But in a cyclical world, the old enmity arises as the young seek power, and the Northland army wants destruction. The lie of the land will shift, and the lie of the land will be told...

Mandy, Emma and Jill O'Toole are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up together on Nantucket, but have scattered around the country. When their beloved grandmother passes peacefully in her sleep a week before her ninety-ninth birthday she leaves them quite a surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learn that they've inherited Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular year-round restaurants. They had no idea that she was the silent owner of a restaurant, and no idea how they're going to handle this kind of inheritance.

Prim and proper Oakley Waldo seemed just fine riding solo at work and in her personal life. But when I walk in on her and discover we're neighbors, she'll have to work double time to keep the tension between us at a low simmer. My mission? To bring out the wild woman I know is hiding underneath that tightly wound bun and perfectly unruffled uniform. Only problem is, she seems dead set on discovering the past I vowed to keep hidden away.

From the glittering mansions of the Astors and the Vanderbilts to the gas-lit streets of New York, this passionate novel by award-winning author Meagan McKinney brings together a desperate woman and a handsome stranger who could expose her scandalous secret....