Riccardo Valla Livres

Deux mondes se font face : Anarres, peuplé deux siècles plus tôt par des dissidents soucieux de créer enfin une société utopique vraiment libre, même si le prix à payer est la pauvreté. Et Urras qui a, pour les habitants d'Anarres, conservé la réputation d'un enfer, en proie à la tyrannie, à la corruption et à la violence. Shevek, physicien hors normes, a conscience que l'isolement d'Anarres condamne son monde à la sclérose. Et, fort de son invention, l'ansible, qui permettra une communication instantanée entre tous les peuples de l'Ekumène, il choisit de s'exiler sur Urras en espérant y trouver une solution. Ce roman, qui a obtenu les prix Hugo, Nebula et Locus, n'a rien perdu aujourd'hui de sa virulence politique ni de sa charge d'aventures. Avec La Main gauche de la nuit, précédemment paru dans la même collection, c'est un des chefs-d'oeuvre d'Ursula Le Guin.

The political intrigue, secret treachery, and sinister deeds that have haunted Druid history for generations continue to thrive. Despite Grianne's devotion to the greater good, she still has bitter enemies who covet her seat of power.

La quatrième de couverture indique : "Kay Scarpetta, bien déterminée à découvrir les raisons du meurtre de son assistant Jack Fielding, se rend au pénitencier de femmes de Géorgie, où une prisonnière affirme détenir des informations sur ce dernier. Elle évoque aussi d'autres assassinats sans relations apparentes : une famille d'Atlanta décimée des années auparavant et une jeune femme dans le couloir de la mort. Peu après, Jaime Berger, ancienne procureur de New York, convoque Kay Scarpetta à un dîner, mais dans quel but? Kay comprend que le meurtre de Fielding et celui auquel elle a échappé autrefois constituent le début d'un plan destructeur. Face à un adversaire malade et dangereux, elle traverse enfin le voile rouge qui l'empêchait de comprendre."

A group of friends' leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

The title story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long, soon to be a major film directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android, a cunning construct of artificial intelligence - as is his one ally, his teddy bear. It was a story that hugely affected Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) and Steven Spielberg (who perhaps saw in his forthcoming movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) a complement to his ET!). This collection contains three SUPERTOYS stories, and they are the fabric of Spielberg's movie. The other stories in the collection, whether SF, utopian fantasy or dark fable show a master writer at the peak of his considerable powers.

Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the contemporaneous evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. These include state-of-the-art DNA testing on various materials, computer enhancement of watermarks and expert examinations of hand-writing, paper, inks and other relics. She has also used her knowledge of profiling on the possible suspects, as well as consulting experts in the field. On presenting her conclusions to a very senior Metropolitan Police officer she learned that had the investigators of the time been presented with the facts she has unearthed her suspect would definitely have been arrested and would probably have faced trial. In the first edition of this book Patricia Cornwell named the killer as the artist, Walter Sickert. This paperback includes even more evidence for her compelling and credible conclusion. Visit the author's website on www.patricia-cornwell.com

Il romanzo narra la storia di Chris Nielsen, un uomo che non si rassegna, neanche davanti alla morte, a perdere l'amata moglie Ann.

Al tramonto dell'Età dei Cento Regni, un antico conflitto tra i clan di Hammerfell e di Storn insanguina ancora la Terra di Darkover...

Un vero regno magico, con tanto di fate e maghi, in vendita a prezzo di liquidazione. A Ben Holiday sembra un'occasione da non perdere ma, una volta effettuato l'acquisto, il povero Ben scoprirà fin troppo presto che sarebbe stato meglio pensarci due volte. Il regno è in rovina, i baroni sono in rivolta ed un terribile drago distrugge ogni cosa. Cosa potrà fare l'improvvisato eroe?