Résultats pour "Illusion" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Bienvenue à Val Quarios, petite station de ski familiale qui ferme ses portes l'été. Ne reste alors qu'une douzaine de saisonniers au milieu de bâtiments déserts. Hugo vient à peine d'arriver, mais, déjà, quelque chose l'inquiète. Ce sentiment d'être épié, ces "visions" qui le hantent et cette disparition soudaine... Quels secrets terrifiants se cachent derrière ces murs ? Hugo va devoir affronter ses peurs et ses cauchemars jusqu'à douter de sa raison.

Dans le champ où il vient d’atterrir pour offrir des baptêmes de l’air à trois dollars les dix minutes, Richard aperçoit un autre zinc tout semblable au sien. Adossé à sa carlingue, un personnage sympathique et mystérieux cherche à fuir le rôle de maître à penser à qui les foules demandent toujours plus. Il lui apprendra que chaque être humain peut se libérer des barrières qu’il a lui-même construites comme autant d’illusions sur sa propre existence. Il lui suffit pour cela de suivre une idée simple...

Inspiré à Balzac par son expérience dans l'imprimerie, Illusions perdues raconte l'échec de Lucien de Rubempré, jeune provincial épris de gloire littéraire. En contrepoint au parcours malheureux de ce grand homme de province, alternativement héros et antihéros plein de faiblesses...

Pour devenir le plus grand magicien du monde, il a dû disparaître : aujourd'hui, William Ellsworth Robinson est Chung Ling Soo, « le merveilleux magicien chinois ». Sur scène, il fascine. En coulisses, il ment. Car pour incarner son personnage, il a tout sacrifié : ses origines, son nom, sa vie... Quand une riche famille viennoise l'engage pour une représentation privée et que le spectacle vire au drame, tous les regards se tournent vers lui et l'accusent.

Venise, 1907. D'étranges incidents viennent perturber les répétitions de Chung Ling Soo, le légendaire magicien chinois. Dans les coulisses du Teatro Rossini, des ombres sans visage rôdent, les murs semblent respirer, murmurer et la scène réclamer le sang des intrus. Pour Paolo, le vieux gardien, il n'y a aucun doute : le Fantôme de l'Opéra est de retour !

1892, New York. Après un tour de pyrotechnie qui dérape, Jenny Marton, jeune magicienne, voit le théâtre où elle se produisait partir en fumée et toutes ses économies avec. Son seul moyen de s’en sortir ? Résoudre l’enquête que lui a confiée Pinkerton, célèbre agence de...

Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he is not a creature of the Shing.

UN THRILLER HALETANT CONSTRUIT COMME UNE MÉCANIQUE DE PRÉCISION. À la mort de son protecteur de toujours, Atanasio se rend à Genève pour la lecture du testament. Pour toucher l'héritage, le jeune homme doit consentir à une mission machiavélique : accomplir la vengeance de Don Carlo en assassinant les ennemis de ce dernier selon un protocole précis. À commencer par l'ensorcelante Alba Malcessati, l'épouse de Don Carlo.

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking...

Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for 40 years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the19-year-old she was in 1970.

I'd spent most of my life running. My past right on my heels. But when you take down society's most dark and twisted elite, there isn't a place on earth you can hide. I'd shattered their secrets, and they wanted revenge. Only, to get to me, they would have to go through him. Huntsman wasn't just the president of The Exiled Eight MC. He was dangerous. He was arrogant. And he was pure alpha. Yet, I'd never felt safer than I did in his arms. He was willing to kill for me. And they were coming to take my life. Only one of us was going to come out of this alive.

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their own destiny . . . Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the young assistant to an ageing con artist, Cecily Marsden's life is turned upside down when her master suddenly dies. Believing herself...

A hybrid born of an Angel-Fallen union, Riley Shepard is an anomaly coveted by both sides of an ancient war. But he doesn’t want to fight their war; he has his own battles to face. As his family fractures, bonds are tested, and forbidden feelings threaten to tear his heart into bloody thirds. When the next attack comes, is he strong enough to separate truth from lies, allies from enemies, reality from fantasy? How can Riley know what’s true, when he doesn’t even know what’s real? Life isn’t simple, love is complicated, and reality is terrifyingly blurry.

2024 Indie Ink Award Winner From award-winning author Sarah Marie Page comes a stunning enemies-to-lovers romantasy featuring a simmering slow-burn romance between a vengeful spy and an enemy general's alluring second-in-command on opposite sides of a pending war. SHE'S STEALING MORE THAN...

Ian and Erika have a great friendship; one where status does not matter. When Erika is pursued by a high-status male, however, Ian's protective instincts flare and a gauntlet is thrown that he is not prepared to accept; but accept he must or lose the female he loves forever. Erika likes her new suitor. He is strong, confident, and carries the qualities of a leader. If he were Ian, he would be perfect. Does Ian have what it takes to win the female he loves, or will he relinquish his love to a man who comes from better blood?

Step into a dark and magical world where fairytales hold all the answers. After yet another rejection from a publishing house, and with her dreams of becoming a children's book author shattered for good, Yeon-seo decides to go for a hike in the mountains to clear her head and relax. Lost in her...

The Palace of Illusions brings readers to a Paris breathless with excitement at the dawn of the twentieth century, where for a select few there is a second, secret Paris where the magic of the City of Light is very real in this enchanting and atmospheric fantasy from the author of The Fairy...

A scientist, a philosopher, and a theologian walk into a bar… JR Norman buys the first round, and they become lifelong friends. JR Norman is an unconventional man on an extraordinary journey to uncover the forces shaping our world. The story begins with JR Norman—who he is, what shaped him, and why he became obsessed with understanding the world. As he tries to make sense of his experience, he discovers a pattern: there are two forces at work in the world: THE REAL is everything that is good, true, and right. It is reality as it actually is—not merely as we perceive it.

Victoria Pershing and Jewel Stone are childhood friends that grew up together on the Westside of Detroit. As life evolved into adulthood, their lives took on different paths. Victoria is a news reporter for a local new station, while Jewel is a popular hairstylist. Both women are widely known throughout the city, but for different reasons. What will the women do when their separate troubles almost crash and burn with one another? Will the women be able to maintain their childhood friendship?

Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she’s seeking. But can Ransom King’s handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve’s night terrors?