Dominique Rinaudo Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Saint George. Une île au large des côtes du Maine, un lieu préservé où l'on vient chercher la paix, où l'homme vit en harmonie avec une nature à la fois généreuse et redoutable. Un fragile équilibre, rompu par un coup de feu dans la nuit et la mystérieuse disparition d'un marin pêcheur. Derrière le doute et la suspicion qui peu à peu rongent la petite communauté, se cache un terrible secret, partagé par deux femmes et un homme bien décidé à élucider le mystère. Tandis que la tension monte et que s'exacerbent les passions, les thons bleus qui sont la richesse de l'île reviennent dans le golfe, suivis de leurs prédateurs naturels : les orques. Après son best-seller, Le Faucon des neiges, Stuart Harrison célèbre dans ce roman, à la fois intimiste et grandiose, la beauté d'une nature sauvage dont la seule arme contre la domination que tente de lui imposer l'homme demeure sa force indomptable.

It is such an all-American story. A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feisty, single parent who sacrifices for her son, who becomes one of our country's greatest athletes. Given that background, it is understandable why Armstrong was able to channel his boundless energy toward athletic endeavors. By his senior year in high school, he was already a professional triathlete and was training with the U.S. Olympic cycling developmental team. In 1993, Armstrong secured a position in the ranks of world-class cyclists by winning the World Championship and a Tour de France stage, but in 1996, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Armstrong entered an unknown battlefield and challenged it as if climbing through the Alps: aggressive yet tactical. He beat the cancer and proceeded to stun all the pundits by winning the 1999 Tour de France. In this memoir, Armstrong covers his early years swiftly with a blunt matter-of-factness, but the main focus is on his battle with cancer. Readers will respond to the inspirational recovery story, and they will appreciate the behind-the-scenes cycling information. After he won the Tour, his mother was quoted as saying that her son's whole life has been a fight against the odds; we see here that she was not exaggerating. Brenda Barrera