Résultats pour "The Outsider" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Quand un garçon de onze ans est retrouvé violé et assassiné dans un parc municipal de la petite ville de Fint City, des témoins désignent le coach Terry Maitland comme coupable. Bientôt, ADN et empreintes confirment la culpabilité de ce père de famille aimé de tous. Horrifié par ce meurtre brutal, le détective Ralph Anderson, dont le fils a été entraîné par Maitland, ordonne une arrestation rapide et publique. L'enquête s'accélère et il s'avère que Maitland a un alibi : des preuves indiquent qu'il était en dehors de la ville ce jour-là.

The Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs from the opposite sides of town. The Socs’ idea of a good time is cruising around in their flash cars and beating up long-haired Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and that he can count on his older brothers and other friends—until one night when someone takes things too far. Ponyboy may seem tough, but on the inside he is running scared.

Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—also an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one...

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers...

A psychologically twisted story of the escape of a lifelong prisoner.

What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless.... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jake's life.

Brought to you by Penguin. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising...

The Sunday Times bestseller is now a New Original Series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan, coming soon to Prime Video. Carrie is Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as a global icon. In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power...

The galaxy is burning. The Emperor's loyal primarchs prepare to do battle with Warmaster Horus and his turncoat Legions on the black sand of Isstvan. Such dark times herald new and yet more terrible things still to come, and when Astropath Kai Zulane unwittingly learns a secret that threatens to tip the balance of the war, he is forced to flee for his life. Alongside a mysterious band of renegades, he plunges into the deadly underworld of Terra itself, hunted like a criminal by those he once trusted.

Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it...

From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect...

‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious...

OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE is a spectacular, propulsive fantasy adventure from the bestselling collaboration between 'master craftsmen' (Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub. It is the story of Jack Sawyer who first travelled between America and the Territories to save his mother's life...

You'll lose a lot of sleep . . . Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. OVERCOMING is the powerful and deeply human conclusion to Henrik Kruse's acclaimed trilogy about the team - a group of Danish men brought together by illness, unlikely friendship, and the stubborn desire to live with dignity, courage, and humor. In...

For the first time in unabridged audio download comes the perennial classic from Stephen King - timeless and topical. The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The...

Regan Sommers spent her life fighting - fighting foster parents, kids in the group home, and classmates. But the night she has to fight for her life changes everything. Now she's fighting for money in the ring, and from the first punch she's addicted. Every addiction has a price, though, and this one is the gym's star boxer, Gage Lawson. He may come in an enticing tattooed package, but his demands are more than she can handle.

Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its...

Joyce Doyle has spent her whole life being invisible… She struggles to be noticed by her successful family and, at work, she’s the one people forget in meetings. Quiet. Polite. Easily overlooked. So when her handsome colleague Ben takes an interest in her, she’s flattered, charmed…...

Don't miss King's #1 chilling classic, now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures. Available in cinemas (UK and Germany) or stream on MAX from October 2024. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets and solid church steeples. Of course...