Résultats pour "exile" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Do not hesitate. Do not contemplate mercy. The Lorian empire took everything from Dayne. His family. His home. His people. He will carve a bloody path through Epheria. He will have his vengeance, by blade and by blood. This is his story...the story of The Exile.

Troie est tombée. Les soldats grecs ont remporté leur guerre acharnée. Ils peuvent rentrer chez eux couverts de gloire et de trophées : or, armes, femmes. Mais les dieux, offensés par ces années de sanglants combats, en ont décidé autrement. Les vents contraires se lèvent, retenant les navires dans l'ombre de la cité détruite. Pour Briséis, la reine déchue qui porte à présent l'enfant d'Achille, et pour toutes les Troyennes, une longue attente s'annonce, mais peut-être aussi la chance, au cœur de cette guerre d'hommes, de changer le cours de l'Histoire.

Hostile in ways that a surface-dweller could never know, the tunnel-mazes of the Underdark challenge all who tread there. Among these souls are Drizzt Do'Urden and his magical cat, Guenhwyvar. Exiled from his drow homeland, Drizzt must fight for a new home in the boundless labyrinth. Meanwhile, he must watch for signs of pursuit - for the dark elves are not a forgiving race.

'Richard North Patterson has outdone himself - Exile is his best novel yet.' Bill Clinton From one of America's most compelling novelists comes the mesmerising story of a lawyer who must defend the woman he loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate a prime minister. David Wolfe's life...

Un des romans emblématiques d'Ursula K. Le Guin, qui a obtenu les prix Hugo, Nebula et Locus et qui n'a rien perdu de sa virulence politique. Bien au contraire... Deux planètes se font face. Anarres est une utopie concrète fondée sur la liberté absolue et la coopération. Mais loin d'être un paradis, c'est un monde pauvre et dur. Sur Urras, le capitalisme et le culte du profit règnent en maîtres.

Drizzt a quitté Menzoberranzan, sa ville natale, pour gagner les régions sauvages de l'Outre-terre. C'est le début pour lui d'une vie d'errance et de traque. Car Drizzt doit devenir un chasseur s'il veut prendre le dessus sur les créatures qui rôdent dans les profondeurs. Il peut heureusement compter sur l'aide de Guenhwyvar, sa fidèle panthère magique.

TRUST NOBODY. SURVIVE EVERYONE. MI6 operative Joe Kane has faced dangerous missions before. Nothing like this. Dispatched to Mauritius after the attempted murder of a fellow operative, Kane uncovers a conspiracy hidden beneath the island’s luxury resorts and turquoise waters – one tied to...

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER "Stephen Shanahan portrays Aaron Falk, who is in South Australia's wine country to attend his godson's christening. The dialogue and narrative flow naturally, infused...

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William—this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up...

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983...

Experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.

Brought to you by Penguin. A swoony small-town romance that will set your heart racing. I've been running from the past for most of my life, hiding in a small town and hoping no one discovers who I truly am. Which was working just fine until my brother moved his best friend onto our property...

Stevie and Harry's wedding was meant to be the highlight of the year, a fantasy come true. So why did she jilt him at the altar? Three years later, Stevie's back. A successful journalist, on the surface she's returned to look after her sick father, but when she starts asking questions about Harry's family a suspicious light is soon cast on her. Even as Harry tries to stay away, the two are drawn to each other time and time again. Then Stevie is attacked and put in hospital. Someone is willing to go to any lengths to keep her quiet...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING NUMBER ONE AUTHOR OF THE DRY 'Addictive storytelling' ANN CLEEVES 'An avalanche of suspense' DAVID BALDACCI 'A fantastic crime writer' BELLA MACKIE ******** An outstanding novel, a brilliant mystery and a heart-pounding read from the author of The Dry, Force of...

The first book of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year's resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve.

David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole Shorr, a liberal supporter of both the Palestinian and Israeli causes. But when David receives a call from Hana Ashawi, a Palestinian woman who was David's classmate at Harvard Law School, he is rattled. Hana was more than a peer - she was his lover.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes an all new heart-pounding thriller The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest...

Brought to you by Penguin. A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion,' she announces. She is...

Fiadh's life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep the rumours from spreading, the gossip from spiralling out of control. And just as she was beginning to finally figure everything out: she was feeling positive about her move to Liverpool, she was starting to get on top of her uni work and had made some new friends. Now her life is in freefall and Fiadh is helpless to do anything about it.

They double-crossed him and left him for dead. Now they're going to wish they made sure ... Solomon Church is a ghost. An ex-SAS trooper living in self-imposed exile, his fragile existence relies on one thing: that everyone thinks he's dead. Ten years ago, a mission to take out a tyrannical warlord in the DRC went sideways and his own brothers-in-arms turned on him. Now, the past has come calling, and the events that transpired in the African town of Maroua are echoing all the way to number 10 Downing Street.