Résultats pour "Siren" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Après le succès de La Maison aux sortilèges (plus de 30 000 exemplaires vendus !), le nouveau roman d'Emilia Hart. Secrets, sirènes et sororité : un roman envoûtant avec des héroïnes inoubliables et puissantes qui s'emparent de leur destin. Lucy fuit ce qu'elle a fait. Et ce que quelqu'un lui a fait. Une seule personne au monde est capable de la comprendre : sa sœur, Jess. Mais lorsque Lucy arrive dans sa maison biscornue, perchée et isolée au sommet d'une falaise battue par les vents et les embruns, elle ne trouve personne. Où est passée Jess ?

Cornouailles, 1800. Ruinée et veuve depuis peu, Isabel retourne sur la côte sauvage où elle a été trouvée enfant, rejetée par l'océan. Elle espère entamer une nouvelle vie et enfin lever le voile sur ses mystérieuses origines. Car dans ce village battu par les vents, on murmure qu'elle serait la fille d'un esprit marin… Mais Isabel ignore que son petit cottage isolé sert parfois de refuge aux contrebandiers qui sévissent le long du littoral. Une nuit, un homme grièvement blessé frappe à sa porte.

Malibu, 27 août 1983. La fête annuelle de Nina Riva est l'évènement le plus attendu de l'année à Malibu. Star du show-biz, politique ou serveuse au drugstore du coin, tout le monde rêve d'être invité, car ce n'est pas seulement la fête la plus notoirement décadente de toute la côte Ouest, c'est aussi l'occasion d'approcher les Riva. Nina, Hud, Jay et Kit, non contents d'être les enfants du chanteur qui fait vibrer l'Amérique, sont eux-mêmes un modèle de succès. Ils sont jeunes, ils sont beaux, ils sont talentueux et ont le monde à leurs pieds.

Banished by bad decisions to spend the summer with his great-grandmother, Liam Peters thinks his life is over. After all, Marty Peters is a tough woman to be around. Maybe she wouldn't be so bad if she'd just take an interest in the modern technology he loves. Sure, she has some insight to her...but the woman is practically "pushing daisies". Not surprisingly, as tornado sirens announce a city-wide emergency, Liam discovers why that term should be avoided...well...like the plague.

Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales, hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the attack – but her sister is nowhere to be found. As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumours about Jess’s town. Tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever…

Les voiles de Saint-Malo ont pris la couleur du deuil : Jaouën Carriban, l'armateur, est mort brutalement, sans avoir eu le temps de se réconcilier avec son fils. Ce même fils qui, il y a huit ans, faillit sacrifier l'entreprise familiale à ses ambitions de navigateur. Aujourd'hui, Joël reprend la barre, au mépris de sa mauvaise réputation.

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK #1 LibraryReads Pick Indie Next Pick A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward. “Narrator Barrie Kreinik offers a first-rate...

Riley doesn’t see a storm. She sees what’s left behind. As an ER nurse, she’s held shaking hands, stitched broken bodies, and watched families fall apart in the aftermath of tornadoes. Storm chasers don’t impress her. They frustrate her. Because while they’re chasing the thrill… she’s the one dealing with the cost. Jace has built a life on the edge of destruction. With millions of followers hanging on his every move, he chases storms across Tornado Alley, living for the adrenaline, the science, and the moment the sky turns that impossible shade of green. It’s not recklessness—it’s purpose.

Amara Mutar has risen to the highest ranks of Tamar society by her wits and ambition. But it is not high enough to keep those she loves, and herself, safe from a past that will not release her. Cassian Haydar has sunk as low as it is possible to sink, but he intends to take back what is his, and crush those who took everything that mattered from him—after he’s done stealing back all the other lives they’ve robbed.

All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature - until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival court has laid claim to him, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance.

Young captain-for-hire Kitra Yilmaz has gotten her first contract: escort the mysterious Princess of Atlántida beyond the Frontier and find her a new world. It's a risky job, fraught with the threat of pirates, dangerous squatters, and rising romantic tensions. Still, Kitra and her crew are up for anything — until they find a lush world, perfect for settlement...with an enormous ghost ship already in orbit. What secret does the crippled vessel hide? And is Kitra ready to take responsibility for its precious cargo?

Samuel, sorvegliante di una vasca dove vengono allevate e nutrite le sirene destinate alla produzione della "carne di mare", si lascia tentare dal più pericoloso dei piaceri. Si unisce a una sirena femmina, sfuggendo a stento alla reazione istintiva di lei: divorare il maschio dopo il rapporto, come fanno le mantidi. Da quell'unione nasce Mia - mezza sirena e mezza umana - e da lei avrà, forse, origine una nuova specie cosciente.

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...

Siren Talbot's life is plagued with storms. Her mother's insanity was the first, though not the last. Called to the ocean, not even the shores of Edisto Island can calm the tempest inside her.

A young woman of today, Rhea Rainey, is a genetic throwback to the Sirens of ancient Greek mythology. Locked within her genetic memory is the Sirens' song. Rhea begins to rouse this genetic memory, allowing her to see her precarious place between two universes—the imperfect one we all occupy, and the perfect one that was meant to be.

With the last known bastion of The Fallen in ruins and the remaining Greater Devils isolated from civilization by thousands of miles and a monster-filled ocean, Evelyn and her crew set their course for Vigilance, hoping for rest and a chance to build a new life. But this victory has not come without a price. The memories of those she was forced to kill and the devastation she left behind weigh heavily on Evelyn's heart, casting a shadow over her every step.

In this “decadent” thriller, a Hollywood heartthrob and his ex-wife shoot a blockbuster film on an isolated island–soon finding themselves trapped with each other’s long-buried secrets and lies (Emily Henry, NYT bestselling author of Book Lovers). ​ Summer is heating up, and some of...

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire...

È il giugno del 1850, e Napoli è bella come non mai sulla spiaggia di Chiaia, con i pescatori stesi al sole insieme alle loro reti e le ragazze che ridono nell'acqua bassa. Elvira ha ventidue anni e potrebbe essere una di loro, e invece deve andare in sposa a Giuseppe Morelli, che conosce appena e sicuramente non ama. Ma la sua famiglia è caduta in disgrazia, e il matrimonio, per la società in cui vive, c'entra ben poco con l'amore e molto col sacrificio.

Evan is entranced by the alluring song of the beautiful naked woman he saw in the surf one lonely night. But this is no mere seductress. She is a siren, one of the legendary sea creatures who prey on unsuspecting men. And she has claimed Evan as her next lover.