75 Document (s)

The Murderer / L'assassin : Pour tenter d'échapper à la civilisation du bruit - téléphone, radio, intercom, etc. - un seul refuge, la prison. A sound of thunder / Un coup de tonnerre : Un fabuleux aller-retour dans le temps et ses conséquences incalculables. August 1999 : The Earth men / Août 1999 : Les hommes de la Terre : Sur Mars où les gens peuvent matérialiser leurs fantasmes les plus fous, des Terriens sont pris pour des malades mentaux incurables. December 2005 : The silent towns / Décembre 2005 : Les villes muettes : Seuls survivants d'une planète à la population anéantie, un homme et une femme vont-ils se rencontrer ? The long rain / La pluie : Sur Vénus, un groupe de Terriens lutte contre l'eau devenue une implacable ennemie.

The monkey/ Le singe : Ce n'est qu'un jouet fabriqué à Hong-Kong, un petit singe qui joue des cymbales. Mais si on le jette au fond d'un puits, il réapparaît dans un grenier. Et quand son mécanisme se déclenche... la mort frappe ! Mrs Todd's shortcut / Le raccourci de Mrs Todd : Mrs Todd a la passion des raccourcis. Mais par où passe-t-elle, avec sa voiture, pour aller d'un point à un autre en moins de kilomètres qu'il n'en faudrait à viol d'oiseau , Et quelles sont ces étranges créatures écrabouillées sur la carrosserie de son petit bolide... ?

In the opening story, 'Taste', the stakes of a dinner-party bet reach distasteful heights, and a wife serves up a new dish in 'Lamb to the Slaughter' which goes down well with the boys in blue. Layers of deceit are stripped away in 'Nunc Dimittis', but what is revealed is far from honest. Meanwhile the 'Man from the South' questions whether you really do need the little finger on your left hand...?

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but now finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo. Broome is a detective who can't let go of a cold case. Three people living lives they never wanted are hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect. And as each confronts the dark side of the American dream--the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades--they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat

The Chinago / Le Chinois : Ah Cho, l'ouvrier chinois condamné pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis, ne peut croire qu'il sera exécuté. Mais la brutalité du système colonial ne lui laissera aucune chance. The house of Mapuhi / La maison de Mapuhi : La vie des îles du Sud, si elle peut être idyllique, recèle quelques dangers mortels. Les plongeurs de perles s'exposent à des risques inouïs, mais quand ils trouvent LA perle; comme un grand profit. Les magouilles des intermédiaires réduiront les espoirs de Mapuhi quasiment à néant. Toutefois, un cyclone énorme, cet autre danger des îles, rétablira à son avantage une situation désespérée.

Agua Fría tiene doce años cuando es obligada a comenzar su aprendizaje para ser sacerdotisa del culto del Cristal. En un mundo desolado y en plena decadencia, deberá vivir su propia iniciación a la madurez, seguir su frágil intuición y transgredir la ley para iniciar un viaje desesperado en busca de su destino, que no es otro que sanar su mundo. Cada vez que alguien muere, sus recuerdos desaparecen con él y, con ellos, la realidad que alguna vez los sustentó. El mundo se desvanece en jirones de niebla, está cambiando, a pesar de lo que sostienen los poderosos sacerdotes del culto del Cristal. De enigma en enigma y de éste a un nuevo reto mortal, Agua Fría deberá conocer el origen de su civilización, para evitar que se extinga.

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. On the way, Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has started an apiary and is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all, they must journey to find each other again.

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Partner with rookie Detective Lucia Soto, Bosch must solve what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case- a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is simply not an option. And when the investigation takes a shocking and unexpected turn, Harry Bosch finds himself directly in the line of fire.

Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is working as a security officer for a local landowner. While investigating illegal activity on the estate, Fin encounters his former childhood friend and bandmate, the elusive poacher Whistler Macaskill. When Fin catches up with Whistler among the windswept hills of the estate, the two witness a freak natural phenomenon--a bog burst--which drains a loch of all its water in a flash, revealing a mud-encased light aircraft with a sickeningly familiar moniker on its side. Both men immediately know what they will find inside: the body of Roddy Mackenzie, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years before. But when Whistler's face appears to register something other than shock, an icy chill of apprehension overtakes Fin. What secret has Whistler been hiding from him, and everyone else on the island?

It is 1918 and the world is at war. But this feels a million miles away for Laurel Shelton. In the house where her parents toiled and died, in the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains. Laurel aches for her life to begin. And then one day a stranger is discovered in the cove near her house. What follows is an unforgettable story of love, fate and divided loyalties.

The diamond as big as the Ritz : Short stories / Un diamant gros comme le Ritz : Nouvelles : Un descendant de Washington découvre une montagne constituée d'un seul diamant qui va assure sa fortune. Il y crée un domaine secret que son fils gère en utilisant des esclaves noirs. Un jeune homme y séjourne en tant qu'invité-prisonnier et tombe amoureux de la fille du tyrannique maître des lieux, qui est en fait dément... The ice palace / Le palais de glace : Une jeune femme du Sud profond des Etats-unis suit son mari dans le nord de l'Amérique, mais ne parvient pas à s'adapter à la froideur du climat et de la vie sociale symbolisés par le Palais de glace.

Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So, when her father left when she was twelve years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she's working at a job she hates and is tired of the life that playing by the rules has dealt her. It's time to make a change. Breen makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland - her father's homeland. Little does she know how much of a leap until a walk in the woods leads her through a portal into another world - Talamh - where Breen will find magic, family and a destiny she could never have dreamed of.

Based on the bestselling books and tying into the hit television series, The expanse: Origins reveals the untold origins of the crew members of the Rocinante. As interplanetary tensions reach an all-time high, the crew of the Rocinante finds themselves at the center of a conflict that threatens to destroy all of human civilization. But before they were heroes, each member of the crew faced moments that would come to define them and brought them one step closer to the ship they now call home.

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter might not be as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too. The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will these two fathers choose to protect?

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...

The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban.

In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by the time - stalked by the specters of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exists. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again...

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attemps to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again—for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board. . . .

It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures -with their razor sharp teeth and taste for human blood - began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years, man and rat had been natural enemies. But now for the first time – suddenly, shockingly, horribly – the balance of power has shifted…