Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah - coldblooded massacre or dreadful mistake -...
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the...
Le soleil et l'acier est la seule confidence que nous ait laissée Yukio Mishima sur sa formation: comment il a découvert, tardivement, la vie du corps, et par elle une vie nouvelle de...
Michel Déon rassemble les images, les lieux et les hommes qui ont compté dans sa vie. Monaco, le Portugal et Jacques Chardonne; la Yougoslavie, Spetsai en Grèce; le lycée Janson de Sailly et...
"Ma charmante, mon inoubliable! Tant que les creux de mes bras se souviendront de toi, tant que tu seras encore sur mon épaule et sur mes lèvres, je serai avec toi. Je mettrai toutes mes larmes...
In another masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent.
Ragna und seine Partnerin Leo sind Drachenjäger. Leo ist ein echtes Wunderkind, von Ragna kann man das allerdings nicht behaupten.Doch als sie eines Tages auf einen ganz besonderen Drachen stoßen,...
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany...
"Qu'avaient vu, jusqu'en 1900, ceux dont les réflexions sur l'art demeurent pour nous révélatrices ou significatives, et dont nous supposons qu'ils parlent des mêmes oeuvres que...
The macabre, witty, "New York Times"-bestselling series--and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter"--continues as the darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic...
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from...
'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her...
Ragna und seine Partnerin Leo sind Drachenjäger. Leo ist ein echtes Wunderkind, von Ragna kann man das allerdings nicht behaupten.Doch als sie eines Tages auf einen ganz besonderen Drachen stoßen,...
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong cynic and spirituality-sceptic - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With...
An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of...
Le grand désert, ses zones vivrières, pastorales, pétrolières, nucléaires, frontalières.La guerre, le viol de vivants et de morts, un crime passionnel, des incestes, la faim.Un bordel de femmes...
From the bestselling author of "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION żeby LIONEL SHRIVER Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success...
Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes....
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.
Tombé sous le charme de Clémentine Laginska, la femme de son meilleur ami, le comte Thaddée Paz n'a pas d'autre solution que de s'inventer une maîtresse pour ne pas succomber à la...
When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of rules and punishment awaits. But so...
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be...
A revelatory work of investigative journalism, this comprehensive and unfiltered account of the war in Iraq is written by the only reporter who was embedded with the Allied land command.