Jacek Manicki Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson finds himself stranded and injured after a car crash, struggling to stay conscious. As he drifts in and out of awareness, a familiar figure appears: his late wife, Ruth, who died nine years earlier. She encourages him to hold on by sharing stories from their life together, including their meeting, the art they cherished, and the impact of WWII on their families. Though he knows Ruth isn't truly there, Ira clings to her memories, revisiting both the joys and sorrows of their marriage. Meanwhile, at a bull-riding event, college senior Sophia Danko is navigating life after a breakup when she meets Luke, a cowboy who contrasts sharply with her privileged peers. Through Luke, Sophia is drawn into a world where survival and success are intertwined with life and death. As their romance blossoms, she begins to envision a future that diverges from her original plans—one that Luke could transform, provided his hidden secret doesn’t unravel it first. The lives of Ira and Ruth, along with Sophia and Luke, intersect in unexpected ways, illustrating that even the toughest choices can lead to extraordinary journeys, transcending despair and death to explore the depths of the human heart.

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never heard from again. A family grieves and is offered little hope--in the fog of that horrible time and place, the killer, too, has vanished. Or so it would seem. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, there are few like Cal Dexter who can settle the score. And so, years later, a worldwide chase is on and Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But this time CIA agent Paul Devereux must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks.

" Le monde des femmes est divisé en deux : il y a les mères convenables, qui se sacrifient à la pâtisserie des tartes aux pommes, vigilantes et impeccables prêtresses de la machine à laver et de l'essoreuse, et il y a les autres. A l'âge de trente-cinq ans, je sais exactement à quel groupe j'appartiens. " Kate ne sait plus où donner de la tête : elle ne voit pas grandir ses deux enfants et elle ne s'occupe plus de son mari, car son travail, qu'elle adore, l'absorbe plus que de raison. Elle travaille à la City, dans un univers de machos pressés ! Les problèmes de nounou en retard, les spectacles de l'école qui n'en finissent plus et les gâteaux d'anniversaire introuvables vont la rendre folle ! Et quand Kate rencontre l'irrésistible Jack, son équilibre familial et amoureux ne tient plus qu'à un fil...Comment gérer sa vie de femme, de mère et sa profession sans devenir hystérique et surtout sans culpabiliser ? C'est au terme d'un long périple que Kate trouvera enfin la réponse...

Castleview, an Illinois town, has a phantom castle that Will Shields sees on his first night there, an experience that involves him in murder and mysterious, life-threatening events, because the castle belongs to Morgan Le Fay

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.