Maria Teresa Marenco Livres

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED." --New York Daily News "FAST AND GRIPPING." --The Washington Post Book World "A VERY SCARY READ." --Entertainment Weekly "AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE." --St. Petersburg Times

Que s'est-il donc passé sur Isla Nublar, durant ces deux jours d'août 1989, pour obliger l'armée à venir "faire le ménage" ? Le programme dont cette île est le théâtre avait pourtant tout du paradis scientifique: un immense complexe naturel où s'ébattent, aux yeux de tous, les plus féroces sauriens du Jurassique, génétiquement ramenés à la vie... Quelques jours avant le chaos, le paléontologue Alan Grant et Ian Malcolm, mathématicien de renom, chargés de délivrer une caution universitaire au projet, embarquent pour ce bout de terre perdu au large du Pacifique. Bientôt, le petit groupe invité par le créateur du parc doit se rendre à l'évidence: au cœur d'une jungle primitive et farouchement hostile, l'être humain n'est plus l'espèce dominante, mais la proie... Et la science se révèle vite impuissante face à la sauvagerie d'un écosystème disparu, un monde oublié qui cherche à reprendre ses droits. Dès lors, l'évolution impose sa loi, unique, éternelle, terrifiante ; survivre...

A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, who they deem to be the perfect victim. Moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadences of New Orleans' French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a serial killer in this riveting, unforgettable masterpiece of horror.

Pourquoi Meredith Johnson, s'est-elle juré d'avoir la peau de Tom Sanders dès que celui-ci est entré dans la société d'informatique où elle occupe un poste important ? Son cynisme, sa férocité professionnelle, sa secrète nymphomanie et même ses tractations avec un groupe concurrent n'expliquent pas tout. Dans un passé récent, Tom a été son amant : elle ne le lui pardonne pas. De plus, il est intelligent et droit : une menace pour ses ambitions personnelles. Elle doit donc le détruire. Dans la guerre ouverte des sexes et la jungle des relations sociales américaines d'aujourd'hui, le harcèlement sexuel est devenu l'arme fatale. Meredith prépare une machination érotique d'une audace et d'une impudeur absolue dont l'homme sera la victime.

"ER has become the most succesful television series in the world since CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Michael Crichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms, operating rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. FIVE PATIENTS is Michael Crichton's true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse- a middle-aged despatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease."

684+ pages. BOOK IS IN FRENCH.

Alla fine degli anni Ottanta, Gerald Durrell intraprende una spedizione in Madagascar per catturare alcuni aye-aye, un lemure unico della zona, per garantirne la riproduzione. Durrell considera inaccettabile l'estinzione di una creatura così straordinaria, paragonandola a bruciare un Rembrandt. Giunto sull'isola, che gli appare come un'omelette mal rivoltata, inizia la sua ricerca. Dopo una visita al mercato locale, dove polli simili a piumini sono appesi sotto ombrelloni bianchi, riesce a salvare il primo esemplare, destinato a essere cucinato da una massaia indigena. Con il suo caratteristico umorismo, Durrell trasforma l'indagine scientifica in un'avventura avvincente, anche nello studio del linguaggio dei lemuri, che include suoni come "pop", miagolii e ringhi. Gli animali sono i veri protagonisti, osservati con ironia e ammirazione: oche egiziane in completo di tweed, pappagalli sfavillanti e felini che sembrano la versione malgascia della Pantera Rosa. Anche gli umani sono descritti con uno sguardo divertito, impegnati in un compulsivo shopping natalizio tra bancarelle di scimmie e maialini colorati. Il libro è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1992.