Américain(langue)

Le romancier Paul Sheldon vient de mettre la dernière main à son nouveau roman, celui qui va le lancer dans la vraie littérature, loin de sa série de bestsellers à l'eau de rose et de leur lady de pacotille, Misery Chastain. Deux bouteilles de Champagne et un accident de voiture plus tard, il reprend connaissance. Une femme lui fait du bouche-à-bouche pour le sauver d'une insuffisance respiratoire. C'est l'hiver, à Sidewinder, dans le Colorado.

It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist.

A Permanent Member of the Family is a stunning addition to the canon of a writer 'whose great works resonate with such heart and soul'

No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years...

Piscine Molitor Patel, dit Pi, 17 ans, est le fils du directeur du zoo de Pondichéry. Lorsque son père décide de quitter l'Inde pour le Canada, la famille liquide ses affaires et embarque, accompagnée d'une étonnante ménagerie, sur un cargo japonais… qui fait naufrage. Pi se retrouve seul survivant à bord d'un canot de sauvetage. Seul, ou presque...

At fifty,Alice is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family

Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.

Derrière le rêve américain, les pires cauchemars sommeillent... A la sortie d'un club de strip-tease, un homme et une femme disparaissent. Dix-sept ans plus tard, alors qu'un inspecteur tente toujours de percer le mystère, des secrets qu'on croyait soigneusement enterrés remontent doucement à la surface.

In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab, the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security.