Résultats pour "Art" dans Fiction

"Comment pouvais-je le savoir si la vie ne me le disait pas ? Comment pouvais-je savoir que le bonheur le plus grand était caché dans les années apparemment les plus sombres de mon existence ? S'abandonner à la vie sans peur, toujours... Et maintenant encore, entre sifflements de trains et portes claquées, la vie m'appelle et je dois y aller." "L'Art de la joie" est le roman d'une vie, celle de Modesta. Née le 1er janvier 1900 dans une famille miséreuse de Sicile, farouche et insoumise, la jeune femme nous entraîne sur le chemin d'une liberté.

Silence, on tue ! C'est sur un plateau de cinéma que la plus sympathique bande de loosers du 36 Quai des Orfèvres fait son come-back, avec toujours à sa tête la célèbre commissaire Anne Capestan, obligée d'interrompre son congé parental pour sauver une ex-collègue. La Capitaine Eva Rosière, qui se consacre désormais à sa carrière de scénariste, est accusée du meurtre d'un réalisateur, retrouvé un couteau entre les deux omoplates, défoncé à la kétamine ! Eva avait, il est vrai, juré de le tuer... Le Cluedo peut commencer.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author L. K. Steven, The Kindling is Fahrenheit 451 for the ChatGPT generation—a terrifying work of speculative fiction perfect for fans of Emily St. John Mandel. If art could kill, would you risk your life for it? In a near-future United States where cinemas...

Bring home the stories that have made Christmas magical for generations—in a beautiful collector’s edition designed to become part of your own holiday tradition. Featuring exquisite hand-painted cover art by artist Laci Fowler, The Nutcracker and Other Christmas Stories gathers treasured...

Enter the shadows of the Paris Opera House, where music, mystery, obsession, and forbidden love have created one of literature’s most haunting legends. Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera comes to life in this deluxe keepsake edition, created for readers who love Gothic fiction, dark...

At turns heartbreaking and wise, tender and wry, Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of the most powerful and original voices in Canadian literature. A university student on her summer abroad is offered the unusual task of arranging a friend's marriage. Secret infidelities...

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.

From New York Times bestselling author Kevin Maurer, The Dark Arts is a relentless thriller about a retired SEAL who discovers the mysterious woman who shadowed his most dangerous missions is now recruiting him on behalf of a secret organization. Navy SEAL commander Jake Lincoln built his career...

Deborah Levy revient sur sa vie. Elle fuit à Majorque pour réfléchir et se retrouver, et pense à l'Afrique du Sud, ce pays qu'elle a quitté, à son enfance, à l'apartheid, à son père – militant de l'ANC emprisonné –, aux oiseaux en cage, et à l'Angleterre, son pays d'adoption. Telle la marquise Cabrera se délectant du 'chocolat magique', elle est devenue écrivaine en lisant Marguerite Duras et Virginia Woolf.

A RADIO 2 Book Club Pick A Woman & Home Book of the Month A Prima Book of the Month 'Compelling ... searing and intimate' - New York Times 'Saoirse deserves to be on prize lists this year. Utterly beautiful with lyrical prose and storytelling, I loved this!' - Prima, Book of the Month 'An...

The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadaloupe and its diaspora. A young woman born in the suburbs of Paris—whose skin color and memories of occasional childhood visits alone connect her to her father’s native...

After her mother is sent to prison for art forgery, Edie Brown returns to Northern Vermont to rebuild her family’s fine art and antiques business. She’s certain she can do it now that her mother is gone. After all, butting heads with her mom over bad business practices was what drove Edie away three years ago, including a screw-up that landed Edie on probation for selling stolen property. When Edie scores a job appraising a waterfowl decoy collection at a hoarder’s farmhouse, she’s determined to take advantage of the situation to rebuild the business’s tarnished reputation.

From Grammy Award-winning musician and author Charlie Peacock comes a wise, witty, and intricately layered debut novel about unexpected friendships, enduring love, and a family's reckoning with its secrets. Each revelation moves the story toward its defining question: Can love survive the...

В 1890 году Антон Павлович Чехов, к тому времени уже прославленный писатель, отправился в тяжелое и рискованное путешествие на самый отдаленный край империи — на каторжный Сахалин. Проделав долгий путь через всю Сибирь, он прибыл на остров не как чиновник или журналист, а движимый желанием увидеть истинное положение дел, как живут ссыльные, каторжане и переселенцы, и донести правду до читателей. Результатом глубокого, подлинно научного и человечного исследования длиною в три месяца стал труд «Остров Сахалин», уникальное произведение, сочетающее в себе научную точность и человеческую чуткость.

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.

It’s almost Y2k, the start of a new millennium, and freshman William Sturm’s faith is withering. His eight-year-old sister has just been diagnosed with cancer, but his parents insist the best thing he can do for the family is return to his fundamentalist Christian college in the murky swamps...

"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata e Brooklyn, da Roma a Londra, dall'infanzia al futuro, il nuovo libro dell'autrice di "Cleopatra va in prigione" è un'avventura che unisce vecchie e nuove migrazioni.

»Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa«, denkt sich Kioskbesitzer Armin, als er vergeblich versucht, erfolgreich zu meditieren. Und auch im Inneren der anderen Figuren dieser literarischen Kolumnen herrscht Unordnung: Frau Wiese kann...

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realises that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would apply on the racetrack, one can successfully navigate the ordeals and travails one encounters in life. Enzo relates the story of his human family, sharing their tragedies and triumphs.

After saving the United States of America from a global Cabal, where was private investigator, Blake Moran, to go after that? How about international? Just think of it; “Blake Moran, International man of mystery”! It just works! Blake’s favorite billionaire, Mr. Triplehorn, got a call from INTERPOL asking if Blake could come to help them, and Blake was off to Europe to save the day! Instead of murder, this time he is confronting high-end art theft in Spain, Italy, France, and even the United Kingdom!