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36 000 ans avant Jésus-Christ. Une famille résiste au froid au fond d'une grotte de la péninsule Ibérique quand des hommes font irruption et massacrent les parents. Fascinés par la peau claire et les yeux bleutés du fils, les assaillants l'épargnent et l'enlèvent. 14 février 2020, Corse. Vannina Aquaviva, capitaine de gendarmerie à la section de recherche d'Ajaccio, découvre un charnier dans une grotte de Bonifacio. De son côté, la police retrouve un cœur en décomposition au pied d'un olivier millénaire du site préhistorique de Filitosa.

Londres 1942 : profitant du couvre-feu, un tueur hante les rues de la ville. En quelques jours, il assassine et mutile quatre femmes. Son modus operandi interpelle Scotland Yard et la presse, qui le surnomme aussitôt le Blackout Ripper. Les messages qu'il laisse sur les scènes de crime, conçus comme des indices codés, imposent bientôt aux enquêteurs une piste inquiétante : le criminel semble s'inspirer des leçons du mage noir Aleister Crowley et de son manuscrit démoniaque, "Le Livre de la Loi".

Le 24 septembre 1941, pendant le Blitz qui écrase Londres sous des tonnes de bombes, Amelia Pritlowe, infirmière du London Hospital, apprend la mort de son père. Celui-ci lui a laissé une lettre posthume lui révélant que sa mère n'est pas morte d'une maladie pulmonaire, comme l'histoire familiale le prétend ; Mary Jane Kelly a été la dernière victime de Jack L'Éventreur. Amelia Pritlowe avait 2 ans.

Par un flic-écrivain lauréat du Prix du Quai des Orfèvres. Manon est strip-teaseuse et escort girl dans le quartier du Triangle d'or à Paris. Elle vit avec sa sœur, étudiante en philo, et le bébé qu'elle a eu avec Bison, incarcéré en préventive pour un braquage raté. Manon ne mène qu'une bataille, celle de son avenir. Le plan : racheter une boutique sur les Champs-Élysées et par la même occasion, sa respectabilité. Mais ça, c'était avant qu'on pirate sa vie. Pôle judiciaire des Batignolles.

When I met Tyler Cook, it was the end of a past I didn’t want to look back on and the beginning of a future I couldn’t wait to start. One lick of Tyler, and that’s all it took. I was addicted. To him, to his wild, raucous life as a rock star on the road with the band Trouble, and eventually, to most of the drugs I discovered he was taking to make that life - and the secrets he was being forced to keep - a little more bearable. But I couldn’t quit him, no matter how much it hurt. If you met Tyler, you’d understand why I think he’s so worth it.

Avec son art consommé de la psychologie, Rachel Abbott tisse un suspense familial riche en émotions et hautement addictif, dans la lignée de P. D. James et de Lisa Gardner. Une route de campagne verglacée. Une voiture qui perd le contrôle : la conductrice est tuée sur le coup ; Natasha, sa fille de six ans assise à l'arrière, se volatilise sans explication. Quelques années plus tard, David fait de son mieux pour se reconstruire après le drame qui a emporté sa femme et sa fille. Il forme désormais un couple heureux avec la douce Emma et le petit Ollie, adorable bambin de dix-huit mois.

Yeah, okay, I admit it. I’ve got a thing for Trouble’s lead singer, Rob Burns. Can’t a girl have wicked fantasies about a rock star in the privacy of her own head? My best friend, Katie, has gotten us front-row seats, but we’re late for the concert, and just my luck, I run right into my favorite rock star, literally - bam! - just outside the venue. Rob’s so sweet about it, though; he even invites us backstage! That’s when things get interesting.

From Britain's leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women's lives since 1940, told with examples from her own life. The book provides an intimate, brilliant account of feminism over the last six decades. 'A young woman wearing a navy-blue duffle coat stood shivering in the vaulted Victorian booking hall of Temple Meads station in Bristol looking uncertainly around her. It was 1st January 1960, and the woman was me. I was 16 years old, and I had run away from home.'

We see it every season: a hurricane, a tornado, or a forest fire wipes out a community. Just like clockwork, the community comes back. What prompts people to come back after disasters? Many, of course, have to rebuild. They have nowhere else to go. But for those who have a choice, what prompts them to return and to stay? Producer Eve Troeh followed the community that was destroyed by the disastrous Los Angeles County Station Fire in 2009.

In this story, you will get to meet Balloon, the special cat that believed he could do just about anything. Through his journey, Balloon realizes that he can be, do, or have anything he puts his mind to, as long as he truly believes it in his heart.

In historic York, Ella seems to have the perfect life. She's a published author, her bookshop is thriving, she's married to the man of her dreams and they've started a family of their own. But Ella is struggling. Motherhood isn't quite everything she imagined it to be, and she's worried that there may be cracks in her marriage. On the other side of the Atlantic, despite endless blue skies and a stream of eager customers in her vintage dress shop, Ella's mother Fabia finds that life in San Diego is not enough for her....

From the best-selling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes' Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her father loves Mussolini. Ideals and convictions are not always so clear in the murky years between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the second.

The Adventures to Date of Mysterious Mr. Blot includes "Mysterious Mr. Blot", in which we discover him, "Never Distrust an Asparagus", "The Fog Line", and "Chants of the Hokapot Clan".

Creakie Hall is falling down but there is no money in the bank so Aunt Gardenia Bogey-Mandeville needs to come up with a money making scheme pretty quickly or she and her niece and nephew will be out on the streets. It seems unlikely that opening the Hall as a hotel will be very successful, especially when the first guests through the door are two stuffy, fussy hotel inspectors, but with the 'help' of a pair of ancient ghosts who float down from the attic, all is not lost.

Sun. Desire. Obsession. An explosive, intelligent novel from the prize-winning author of Brass.One hot summer. One week in a villa on the outskirts of Deia, a village nestling in the rugged, mountainous west coast of the island of Mallorca. One family where the carefully laid jigsaw of life is about to be broken. Jenn and her husband Greg holiday each year in Deia, enjoying languorous afternoons by the pool. But this year the equilibrium is upset by the arrival of Emma, Jenn's stepdaughter, and her boyfriend Nathan.

Bennett may not be the best school in the world - but it's theirs. And Barny, Spag and Clipper certainly don't want to get sent off to snobby King's Road School instead. So when Bennett School is threatened with demolition, the three friends draw up a plan of campaign to save it. But everything they do seems to go disastrously and hilariously wrong...

Peg always felt a little blurred, a little lacking in definition. Her mother died when she was six, her father simply disappeared, and she was brought up by her grandparents and her obese, bedridden aunt. But, despite all this, she never developed the habit of asking questions. At least, not until she met Loz, her straight-talking, psychotherapeutically literate girlfriend, who urges her to confront her demons. But Peg starts to wonder whether her youthful lack of curiousity might not have been a good thing. A very good thing indeed....

Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment. The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left her boyfriend and her job, is cause for gossip in itself. Then, the bikini-clad body of a young girl is found washed up on the beach...a year after another teenage girl went missing.

The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the factories and laundry houses of industrial Glasgow. Divided by class, wealth and religion, two families could not live more different lives. However, as the Great War fades from memory and discontent seeps in, both the Seatons and the Flynns grow restless and allow temptation to gain hold...

When most of Maggie Jordan’s family are killed in a freak flood in the small coastal village of Heymouth, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgow’s carpet mills. She becomes engaged to Nevil Sanderson, who suddenly decides he must go to Spain and join the Republicans in their fight against Franco. Although she struggles on without him, Maggie eventually realises her place is by his side and journeys to Spain to join him. But the newly promoted Nevil has become distant and ruthless, and is fiercely jealous of her new friendship with American journalist Howard Taft.