Résultats pour "Max" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

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Psychologue spécialisée dans les violences faites aux femmes, Siri, elle-même victime d’un trauma dans le passé, est entièrement dévouée à son travail. Elle vit seule sur un archipel isolé près de Stockholm, dans ce qui devait être, avant la disparition brutale de son mari un an plus tôt, la maison de leurs rêves. Lorsque le corps sans vie de Sara, l’une de ses patientes, est découvert sur la plage à côté de chez elle et que la police trouve une lettre d’adieu la mettant en cause, son monde s’effondre.

Après l'immense succès de Louis XIV, Max Gallo dresse le portrait d'un roi d'exception qui a marqué le destin de la France : François Ier, sacré à Reims en 1515. S'alliant avec Soliman le Magnifique, il fait entrer l'Orient au sein de l'Europe. De l'Italie, il rapporte une passion pour les arts, permet à la Renaissance de s'épanouir dans son royaume et commande des œuvres aux plus grands peintres italiens.

World War Z: The Complete Edition is a new recording of Max Brooks’ best-selling novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, featuring 21 additional Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not included in the original edition. New narrators include Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderman star Alfred Molina, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg, and members of the casts of Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes and more!

Emily a vu sa mère se faire tuer par un groupe de cinq intellectuels, il y a quinze ans. Aujourd'hui, alors qu'ils occupent tous des postes importants, elle est bien décidée à se venger et à les éliminer un à un...

A commander who bled to defend her people, Ahnna is haunted by two beliefs. The first is that she failed to protect Ithicana from invasion. And the second is that saving her homeland means leaving it behind forever. The Maridrinians left Ithicana in ruins and its people impoverished. So when the wealthy kingdom of Harendell claims her as a bride for its crown prince, Ahnna is prepared to do whatever it takes to gain influence as the future queen. And to control the gold that comes with the throne.

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.

In September 2019, Max Morgan boarded a vintage Twin Beech aircraft with his five co-workers and was pulled back in time to northern Germany 1,700 years earlier. Max’s family found acceptance from the local villagers, and Max trained them in tactics to turn them into a cohesive fighting force that made the Romans nervous. His introduction of black powder grenades and the use of his firearms were significant force multipliers, but that did not stop the Romans from visiting tragedy on his tribe and his family.

La chronique bouleversante d'un amour fou qui finit mal. Adapté au cinéma par Gilles Lellouche, avec Adèle Exarchopoulos et François Civil, le 16 octobre 2024. Ils appartiennent à la même bande d'adolescents, élevés dans une cité où " les choses ne changent jamais ". Amoureux, ils voulaient s'en sortir. Ensemble. Et ça leur semblait parti pour la vie. Jusqu'au jour où l'allumeuse du quartier entre en scène et où la réalité les rattrape : les obligations sociales, la délinquance, la prison autant d'obstacles qui finissent par les séparent et font voler l'espoir en éclat.

The inspiring story of Max Britsky, who grew up in the slums of New York and became one of the most powerful men in the American movie industry. Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry’s beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max's father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed his business instincts and love of the theater to become one of the first film moguls in the history of American moviemaking.

Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads...until now. Imprisoned gang boss Davie Hardie wants to talk in exchange for his freedom. He knows exactly where Beata is buried, and he’s prepared to take the police to her grave. But when the mission to locate Beata’s body is hijacked, DS Max Craigie is drafted on to the case. Someone is selling secrets. Max will stop at nothing to expose police corruption and uncover Beata’s murderer.

In partnership with Warner Bros. and DC, this scripted audio original, Gotham City comes to lurid life in the theater of your mind…with a sensational pageant of technicolor villainy unlike any other on Earth. Mafioso Penguins. Thieving Catwomen. Terrorist Riddlers. Killing Jokers…a city where some problems can only be solved by a billionaire in a bat costume. Starring Jeffrey Wright as Batman, Rosario Dawson as Catwoman, John Leguizamo as the Riddler, and a who’s who of incredible “Saturday Night Live” alums, the series draws inspiration from the vintage noir atmosphere of the ...

Don't miss Neil Lancaster's brand-new espionage thriller series! No Mercy available to buy now. 'Non-stop action, breakneck pace, deliciously suspenseful… When Shadows Fall was my first DS Max Craigie book and won’t be my last – I loved it.' Andrea Mara A TRAGIC DEATH When the body of...

I've got my looks, my charm, and well, a smile that melts panties. My charm only gets me so far though. I don't even care when the courts finally give me a punishment for vandalizing the church property; in my defense, I didn't know it was a church. They've got me serving community service working at the local church's Salvation shelter. They think three months here will change me; that I will change my delinquent ways. If only they knew...nothing could ever tame me.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?)...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion). As the ash and chaos from Mount...

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Max kämpft. Max flieht. Max sucht. Er kämpft gegen die Verrücktheit einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät. Er flieht vor den Menschen, die ihn nicht verstehen. Er sucht die eine Frau, die er wirklich lieben kann. Dies ist die Geschichte eines großen Künstlers des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: Max Ernst. Im Spiegel von sechs Frauenleben erzählt dieser Roman vom 20. Jahrhundert und entwirft das Panorama einer wahnwitzigen Zeit.

Zane Holden hasn't had the easiest go of things. The only good thing in his life would be Stonewall Investigations, an investigative company he found to work primarily with the LGBTQ community. Lorenzo De Luca is a cocky defense attorney dripping in Italian charm. He's well known as one of the best lawyers in New York City, a title he worked hard to achieve. When he picks up a difficult case, he finds that he needs extra help. This leads him to Stonewall, where he meets Zane for the first time and instantly feels himself falling for the mysterious and stone-cut detective.