Janet McAlpin Livres

Le client, c'est Mark Sway, un jeune garçon de onze ans, audacieux, plein de ressources, un peu voyou, qui a bien besoin d'être protégé. Depuis qu'il a malencontreusement recueilli les confidences d'un avocat qui, avant de se suicider, lui a dit où se trouvait le corps du sénateur assassiné par la Mafia, la police et le FBI s'acharnent sur lui pour le faire parler. Mais Mark refuse de dire quoi que ce soit. Il a vu le film Le parrain. Il sait que "la Mafia n'oublie jamais" et qu'elle l'exécutera si elle le soupçonne d'être un peu trop bavard. Alors, pour se défendre, il engage une avocate au caractère fort et au cœur d'or qui, pour un dollar - toute sa fortune! -, accepte de le représenter et de le suivre dans cette affaire terrifiante.

In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases are in this book.(back cover)

"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

"Six years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed and Jurassic Park was closed. But now people are finding dead animals again - are they dinosaurs? Dr. Levine is going to find out. On Isla Sorna, off the coast of Costa Rica, he and his friends find themselves in a lost world."--Cover.