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    Sleeping beauties
    The Winter House
    Les blessures invisibles
    The Blood of Flowers
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    Le soleil ne se couche jamais
    • Le soleil ne se couche jamais

      • 430pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Dans l'ouest du Montana, le Ranch Bodine, foyer des Longbow depuis quatre générations, est une entreprise familiale florissante. Son hôtel, une destination idyllique courue par les touristes, est aujourd'hui dirigé par Bodine Longbow, jeune femme talentueuse qui a pris la relève et jongle habilement avec les humeurs changeantes de sa grande tribu. Ce décor de carte postale vole en éclats quand le cadavre d'une barmaid est retrouvé sur les terres du ranch. Cette macabre découverte est suivie peu après par celle d'une deuxième victime. Bodine doit alors faire preuve de sang-froid, car la police soupçonne l'un de ses employés, Cal. Pourtant la jeune femme refuse d'y croire. Cal, l'ami de ses frères, qu'elle connaît depuis des années, l'homme séduisant et sensible, par qui elle est secrètement attirée, ne peut pas être le tueur. Au cœur de la tourmente, un autre évènement bouleverse l'exploitation : Alice, la tante de Bodine, disparue mystérieusement dans les années 1990, réapparaît soudainement. Alors que tous la croyaient enfuie, l'histoire étrange qu'elle raconte sur son passé – et les implications de son retour – va mettre à rude épreuve les liens de confiance tissés entre les membres de la famille... et plonger Bodine dans des ténèbres d'une noirceur qu'elle n'aurait jamais soupçonnée.

      Le soleil ne se couche jamais
      4,2
    • Ne le dis à personne...

      • 430pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      David Beck croyait sa femme Elizabeth morte, assassinée au bord du lac Charmaine, Pennsylvanie. Huit ans après l'affaire, d'autres meurtres ont lieu au même endroit. I l est supsecté. A la suite de mails écrits dans un code conneu d'eux seuls, il la retrouve. En même temps il est impliqué dans l'enlèvement du fils hémphile de Tyrese, un dealer noir, et qu'il soigne.

      Ne le dis à personne...
      4,1
    • The Blood of Flowers

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      "In rural Iran, a spirited village girl approaches the age of marriage, only to find her destiny shattered after a fiery comet blazes ominously across the desert sky. On the death of her beloved father, the young woman and her distraught mother are forced into a difficult new life in the fabled city of Isfahan. Taken in as house servants by her uncle Gostaham, a well-to-do carpet designer, and his demanding wife, the two women confront an unforgiving world." "When the heroine blossoms as a brilliant maker of carpets under her uncle's tutelage, the future brightens. But disaster strikes again when an impetuous act results in the heroine's disgrace, forcing her into a secret marriage. If she is to thrive, she must risk the family's reputation and rely on her artistic genius, and her extraordinary will, to save herself and her mother." "Seventeenth-century Iran comes alive in all its splendour and cultural nuance in this luminous novel. The bustle of bazaars overflowing with rosewater and saffron; the breathtakingly beautiful silk and gold rugs of the Shah's carpet workshop; and Isfahan's incomparable bridges, gardens, teahouses, and hammams: all are captured here."--BOOK JACKET.

      The Blood of Flowers
      4,0
    • À treize ans, Tom vient dire adieu à sa mère, qui va être exécutée. Quel crime a pu commettre cette femme si attachante et pleine de vie ? Quarante ans plus tard, le destin joue à Tom le plus cruel des tours : son fils risque la peine capitale. Ce nouveau drame le replonge dans son terrible passé...

      Les blessures invisibles
      3,9
    • When Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back into a past from which she has fled but never escaped. Ralph, Marnie and Oliver once knew each other well and are still inextricably bound by ties of love and betrayal. Now they meet again in Ralph�s secluded cottage in the Scottish highlands, to spend the precious days that Ralph has left with each other. As they reminisce, Marnie is taken back to the summer years ago when everything changed between them and heartbreak and desire broke up their little group. Will Ralph have the chance to say what needs to be said before it�s too late? And can they put the devastating events of twenty years ago to rest and rekindle the intimacy they once shared?

      The Winter House
      3,7
    • In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep - and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...

      Sleeping beauties
      3,7
    • Un plan infaillible

      • 318pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?

      Un plan infaillible
      3,7
    • Playing with Boys

      • 370pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Set against the vibrant backdrop of Latina culture, this novel explores the complexities of friendship and love through a humorous and heartfelt lens. With engaging characters navigating their relationships, it combines elements of fun and soulfulness, offering readers a relatable and entertaining journey into the lives of its protagonists.

      Playing with Boys
      3,7
    • School of Fear

      • 339pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      For the first time--maybe ever--Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, and Garrison are not looking forward to the start of summer, and three little words are to blame: School of Fear. In what they're sure will be the longest and most terrifying six weeks of their lives, the foursome must face their phobias head-on as students of the exclusive and elusive school. There's no homework or exams. But if they don't conquer their fears by the end of the summer, they'll find out just how frightening failing can be.

      School of Fear
      3,7
    • Solace

      • 370pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Irene has a husband, Adrian, three small children and - though she doesn't know it - a marriage that is going wrong. When she discovers that Adrian is having an affair, the family is blown apart. Solace is a story of contrasts. While Adrian finds new love and excitement, Irene spirals into exhaustion, self-destruction and a kind of madness. With their marriage in shreds and Adrian whisking their daughters on a trip of a lifetime ti Australia with his new lover, Irene finally reaches rock bottom. She decides to leave the unbearable silence of her home for a trip by herself to visit her brother Jem in France. And as Irene soon realises, being along can mean discovering freedom, elation and even in the darkest of times, finding your solace.

      Solace
      3,5