Résultats pour "Angelique" dans Fiction

"Chacun n'a-t-il pas, au moins une fois dans sa vie, souhaité tuer quelqu'un ?" Alfred Hitchcock. Paris, Noël 2021. Après un accident cardiaque, Mathias Taillefer se réveille dans une chambre d'hôpital. Une jeune fille inconnue se tient à son chevet. C'est Louise Collange, une étudiante venue jouer bénévolement du violoncelle aux patients. Lorsqu'elle apprend que Mathias est flic, elle lui demande de reprendre une affaire un peu particulière. D'abord réticent, Mathias accepte finalement de l'aider, les plongeant dès lors, tous les deux, dans un engrenage mortel.

Je m'appelle Mégane Crawfords, en 1991, j'avais 16 ans et menais une vie parfaite, réussissant dans mes études et sortant enfin avec le seul garçon dont je pensais être amoureuse depuis toujours : le beau et populaire Chad. Mais ma destinée n'était pas là. Je le compris en croisant le regard de Jessy, un nouvel élève du lycée. Il me fallut du temps pour parvenir à m'approcher de lui tant il semblait fuir le monde entier alors que mon cœur battait de plus en plus fort pour lui.

A desert scorched feminist eco-novel, Yellow Pine is about a self-determined pioneer woman romping into her forties and recovering from her rugged individualism. Rose is a divorced, disillusioned Sierra Club staffer residing in Tecopa, a tiny town in the Mojave Desert wilderness, near Death...

Une tache rouge sur l'oreiller, juste sous les cheveux de sa maman, morte sous les coups de son mari. Voilà ce que le petit garçon a vu, à cinq ans... Pour survivre, Kyle se jette à cœur perdu dans la musique, que sa mère aimait tant. Vingt ans après, devenu leader d'un groupe de rock, il est célèbre dans le monde entier. Mais inapte au bonheur.

They were built in darkness. Raised for war. Trained to obey. The A.N.G.E.Ls—Advanced Next Generation Engineered Legends—were never meant to survive their creators. But when the kill-switch fails and the lies collapse, five engineered sisters escape the black-ops program that made them and turn their firepower on the ones who betrayed them. Led by Roxanne, the team carves a bloody path through traffickers, scientists, and corporate warlords, uncovering the horrifying reach of the Project. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize they’re not alone.

¿Es posible ser bueno cuando todo alrededor te empuja a dejar de serlo? En Villa Paso del Hombre, un pueblo marcado por la pobreza extrema, Fernando hace lo necesario para sostener a su familia. A los catorce años aprende que sobrevivir no siempre va de la mano con hacer lo correcto. En ese lugar, hay gente que ve en la necesidad ajena una oportunidad. Benito, el tabernero, usa el miedo para conseguir lo que quiere y convierte cada encuentro en un recordatorio de lo vulnerables que son quienes viven con poco.

Sophie Ramos is not a girl anymore. But she still sees angels. These days, she's more certain about the differences between the good and the bad ones. Her newfound faith has infused her with confidence in her gift and in herself. But she still needs the wise counselors and fellow warriors she has met along the way. Navigating relationships and her work, Sophie continues to encounter spirits in her daily life. But she is not just pushing past them anymore. She has joined with saints from a variety of churches in bringing relief to the suffering and oppressed.

Raised in a conservative Christian home in the East Coast of Canada, Mag is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Desperate to secure her place in heaven, she rejects the hyper-sexual youth culture of her small town—until she falls for a magnetic, sophisticated girl while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work. Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of sex for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin—the antithesis of who she was raised to be.

In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going. Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn't have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she's going to need it.

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing - that is until the day she leaves her husband and takes refuge with her friend Emily, a screenwriter in Los Angeles - a city where even the palm trees are skinny.

Lorsqu'un étranger, prétendant être un artiste, arrive sur l'île, les rêves d'Emma de devenir peintre reprennent vie, compliquant encore plus les choix qu'elle a à faire. Et alors qu'Emma passe le plus clair de son temps avec ce visiteur énigmatique, sa famille est de plus en plus inquiète quant aux véritables intentions de l'inconnu. Pour Emma Vik, la vie dans la ferme familiale sur l'île d'Averøya est plutôt simple. Mais des événements mystérieux la plongent dans les eaux inexplorées de l'amour, de la loyauté et de l'âge adulte.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This novel leaves you breathless.” —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author “A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of the...

SOPHIE RAMOS has always had visions—perceptions of beings others don’t see. Even her mother doubted her as a child. Psychiatrists doubted her too. Psychics tried to recruit her to enrich and empower themselves. Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, and sharing her secret only with her mother and a few friends. A threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake. She follows a friend’s recommendation to visit Detta Washington, a church lady who believes that Sophie does see angels and demons.

From the author of the Seven Sisters series, The Angel Tree is Lucinda Riley's compelling mystery of family secrets and forgotten pasts on the sweeping pastures of south-east Wales. Read by the award-winning actor Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) 'Sweeping, absorbing, beautifully written...

La luz se va en Barcelona todo un día, la solar y la artificial. Las Barcelonas que han existido convergen y se superponen en el mismo lugar: reaparecen edificios desaparecidos y surgen otros del futuro. El suceso provocará que un puñado de escritores y artistas vuelvan a la vida y se crucen en encuentros improbables. En medio de esta ruptura del tiempo, un fotógrafo capaz de revelar con su cámara lo que aún no ha ocurrido y muchos otros personajes unirán sus artes para intentar comprender qué ha pasado y cómo recuperar la luz perdida.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its...

The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism 'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times 'A work of genius' Telegraph Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's classes in particle...

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

January 1901: The day after Queen Victoria's death, two families visit neighouring graves in a London cemetery. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste, however, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. And worse...

The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe - until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since. Millennia later, new angel Leda, a soldier in the gods' army, is recuperating from her transformation. Her recovery is cut short, however, when a curse strikes New York City, a spell targeted directly at the Legion of Angels. Even as the Legion's soldiers succumb to wrath, jealousy, and fear, the beasts on the plains of monsters are growing in numbers and power.