Résultats pour "Angels" dans Littérature, romans et 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.

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.

Hugo Award Finalist: A near-future novel of artificial intelligence, human nature, and mass murder that “succeeds on virtually every level” (The New York Times Book Review). In Los Angeles in 2047, advances in the science of psychology have made crime a rare occurrence. So it’s utterly...

Erato est la fille du chef d’un des plus puissants gangs de Californie. Mais pour cette jeune femme qui a grandi à l’écart de la mafia, ce monde reste un mystère. Rien ne l’avait préparée à devenir du jour au lendemain la cible des ennemis de son père. Sa vie bascule : forcée de quitter ses proches, elle emménage dans une villa isolée. Désormais, elle est sous la surveillance constante de son garde du corps attitré, le dangereux et énigmatique Caz. Ce dernier ne comprend pas pourquoi on lui a confié cette mission.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR USA TODAY BESTSELLER The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that...

The Angel Animals Saga is the author’s vision of how God’s grace and assistance during danger or a crisis could be life-altering. The saga follows the actions and perspective of one angel, sent by God to assist and protect life, using whatever animal form suits its mission. Since the...

The Angel Animals Saga is the author’s vision of how God’s grace and assistance during danger or a crisis could be life altering. The saga follows the actions and perspective of one angel, sent by God to assist and protect life, using whatever animal form suits its mission. Since the...

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer: Pendergast’s own ancestor … and Constance’s greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken … Constance...

In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator. It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history of everything. But this God is a jealous one, and maybe paradise is not paradise.

J’ai absolument tout ce qu’un mec pourrait désirer : du pognon, des frères bikers, un cuir qui impose le respect, une gueule de BG et une quantité phénoménale de meufs se jetant à mes pieds. Il me manque juste une chose, mais je suis à deux doigts de l’obtenir : la peau de ce salopard de traître de Casey. J’ai eu cinq années de taule pour me préparer à le détruire et à tout lui prendre. M’emparer de ses réseaux criminels et l’anéantir était le plan, jusqu’à ce que je découvre cette femme mystérieuse pour laquelle il nourrit une obsession sans borne.

In the chaos of 14th-century England and France, wine is the nectar of angels - a valuable commodity buttressing kingdoms and vaulting vast fortunes. A mysterious old archer named David Arrowsmith recounts his tale to an eager French chronicler, Jean Créton, when the latter learns that his mission to Scotland seems a failure. The burden of Arrowsmith's story rests with Créton, who suddenly finds himself writing about a seemingly cursed infant that barely escapes the grip of the Black Death in rural Wales when his family dies.

À 17 ans, Seïs Amorgen est nommé pour intégrer la plus grande confrérie du royaume d'Asclépion. S'il accepte, il deviendra l'un des guerriers les plus éminents de la monarchie. S'il refuse, il restera le gamin frivole et arrogant qui fraye avec les bandits de sa ville natale. Alors que l'ombre du Renégat s'étend sur sa terre d'origine, Seïs va devoir prendre la décision qui bouleversera sa vie et, bientôt, il devra faire face à ses propres démons.

Figure lointaine et floue de la première des "Filles du Feu" publiée en 1854, Angélique entraîne l'auditeur au cœur de l'Idéal et du Romantisme (l'ouvrage est d'ailleurs dédié à Alexandre Dumas, autre grande figure du romantisme). Ce récit, entrecoupé de digressions, à la manière des contes orientaux, agace et retient comme un philtre du temps passé. On ne peut s'arrêter, s'empêcher de continuer à chercher, à la manière de Gérard de Nerval, pour entr'apercevoir finalement Angélique, cette figure d'un amour mythique.

King Henry's blue-eyed champion has been sent to quell a nation's rebellion. He vows to seal their peace by wedding Gilbert de Lontaine's beautiful daughter, but although the girl with smoky eyes holds his heart in peril, the real danger lurks in unexpected quarters. Can true love bind two hearts and bring the Wolf's bride home?

Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening. But he arrives to witness a minor scandal: Juno Proudfoot, the trumpeter of the headlining musical duo, is a woman, and a young one at that - practically unheard of in conservative academic circles. When she suffers a near-fatal fall after the close of the show, Redfyre must consider whether someone was trying to kill her.

Robert Langdon, experto en simbología, es convocado a un centro de investigación suizo para analizar un misterioso signo marcado a fuego en el pecho de un físico asesinado. Allí, Langdon descubre el resurgimiento de una antigua hermandad secreta: los illuminati, que han emergido de las...

In this romantic and comic story about class, language, and the art of reinvention, “Nebraska Jack" Rigel is about to quit his Latin studies program at the Vatican when he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the mysterious and ethereal Angelina Amadio, the famous Angel of Rome. Hired to translate the romantic feelings of the unpredictable former TV detective Ronnie Tower, Jack must navigate these two forces of nature in a Rome of late night bars and fancy villas, as he searches for his own role to play.

The first explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned...

As Fallen Angel embarks on their worldwide Corruption tour, frontman Halo is forced to deal with his newfound fame, as well as his intense feelings for his bandmate, Viper. Because now Halo has everything he ever dreamed of and one surprise he never expected: a boyfriend. And Viper has the one thing he never thought he wanted but found himself chasing down: a relationship.

There is a citywide epidemic of arson in San Francisco, and Detective Dave Peters and his partner, Danny, are on the case. But their routine investigation becomes more and more bizarre as the fires seem more and more spontaneous and impossible. An astonishing scenario emerges: The War in Heaven, which takes place outside of time, is still being fought. Sometimes a minor demon drops out of that war and into time, on Earth, to hide - masquerading as a human. Sometimes an angel is sent to Earth to destroy these evil beings. But an angel on such an errand may care nothing for human life.