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31381) Le retable: Roman
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Orphelin élevé par sa tante, François travaille dans une librairie. Tous les samedis, il se rend à la propriété familiale pour lui rendre visite. Étienne, son cousin, jaloux de cette relation depuis longtemps, envisage de le déposséder de son héritage à la mort de leur parente. Toutefois, il ignore que cette dernière détient un retable très ancien qu'elle n'expose jamais. Les dissensions familiales iront de mal en pis jusqu'au dévoilement...
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Christmas under fire
The Christmas Target by Shirlee McCoy
Security and rescue specialist Stella Silverstone returns home for the holidays to care for her grandmother-and becomes the target of a killer. Luckily rescue-team leader Chance Miller arrives to pull her from the crosshairs. Once, Stella's tragic past kept her from giving Chance her heart. Now only he can show her the joys of Christmas and the beauty of love...if he can keep her alive.
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31383) Blood for Glory
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Will the forces that seek to exploit humanity finally overpower those tasked with safeguarding it? Find out in the sequel to Lyndell Casella's No. 1 bestselling novel, The Blood Tree, in this dark fantasy trilogy.'Now is our time for glory.' Tired of being exiled from his true home, the Silver City, Lucifer Morning Star has been stealing the essence of life itself from innocents to recover his former angelic power.While the Council of Angels are oblivious...
31384) Dangerous Confessions
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The case from last month is still far from over for private investigator Serena "Rena" Manchester. Not just because she found herself in yet another life threatening situation, but because the fall-out still has not been dealt with by the authorities. Determined to see justice to the end, Rena steps up her investigation along with her young attractive associate.
During a surveillance job, Rena runs into a very unpleasant woman from her past life...
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Le capitaine François Le Duigou et le lieutenant Phil Bozzi se retrouvent cette fois face à la disparition inexpliquée du jeune Erwan, dix-sept ans, lycéen...
S'agit-il d'une fugue, d'une séquestration, d'un accident? Avec acharnement, aidés par le groupement de gendarmerie, ils vont reconstituer l'environnement du jeune homme au lycée ainsi que dans sa vie familiale et privée... Ils découvrent sa passion... la BD. Mais, il est également...
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Porteuse du don, Alice devra apprendre à s'en servir pour affronter les dangers de la forêt...
Issue de la seconde génération, Alice a un don plus précoce et plus affirmé que son père Clément. Pourtant, elle sera marquée par les caprices du destin. Alors que, petite fille, des braconniers la traquent pour s'amuser, elle devra faire face au loup des pierres qu'elle croyait être une légende pour enfants, venu prononcer la sentence des collines.
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31387) The Camera Always Lies
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Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attention-even, reportedly, from Rose's own husband-her life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is an absorbing novel of Hollywood politics and one woman's struggle to survive them.
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Que se passe-t-il donc à Belle-Île-en-Mer, en ce beau mois d'octobre 1861 ? Morts violentes, étrangers de langue allemande fouillant certains endroits de l'île, mystérieuse goélette battant pavillon vénitien ancrée au large du Palais. Les évènements prennent une tournure inquiétante dans ce petit coin de paradis d'ordinaire si tranquille. D'autant que de récentes informations laissent à penser qu'un lourd secret d'État y serait caché...
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Armand, un jeune homme abîmé par la Grande Guerre devient malgré lui, au fil des années, le héros de son village. C'est aussi est un garçon chanceux: il résiste à tous les fléaux et il hérite d'une fortune imprévue. Il est adulé par les femmes et partage des amours extraordinaires. Ses concitoyens l'ont élu maire plusieurs fois et le considèrent comme leur protecteur incontournable. Mais, surviennent la Seconde Guerre mondiale et son...
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Le tueur psychopathe de Saint-Bredan fait à nouveau parler de lui...
Chacun se souvient, à Saint-Bredan et sur les ctes environnantes, du tueur en série qui, voici quelques années, terrorisa la région et défraya la chronique.
Une journaliste s'est penchée sur cette affaire, elle en a tiré un roman paru en 1998 et intitulé Le Crabe.
Si elle avait pu imaginer un seul instant les conséquences tragiques qui découleraient de cette publication,...
31391) Deliver Us From Evil
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Dark, gritty supernatural suspense at its finest, fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz will devour this briskly paced, heart-pounding puzzle mystery that will leave you breathless-a haunting tale highlighting the fantastical side to life waged by the dark, powerful forces of the Unseen Realm.
31392) The Hundredth Floor
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Kyle Toombs, seventeen, is about to walk the race of his life. Suffering from the mental and physical aftereffects of a terrible accident that almost took his life, bullied at school, he enters a contest in order to show that he's capable of doing the impossible. The contest is at a local hotel, and the rules are simple-walk up to the fifty-ninth floor and then down again. Rule number two is that he must have a partner, and his partner comes in the...
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Two novels of suspense and danger by author Lenora Worth.
Assignment: Bodyguard
When Kit Atkins is threatened, her protective father calls in Agent Shane Warwick for help. Despite Kit's protests, Shane refuses to leave her side. And soon a powerful bond grows between them-even as danger rises. When connections to the mysterious death of Kit's late husband reveal old betrayals, suddenly Kit's bodyguard is the only person she can trust.
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31394) Two Way Toll
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Matt Jacob is one of the most original and compelling characters in crime fiction, and he returns In Two Way Toll, Zachary Klein's follow up to Still Among the Living, a New York Times Notable book. Before Matt Jacob became a private detective, he was a social worker in The End--home to Boston's hopeless and helpless. When a ragged figure from his past shows up, Matt winds up back in the Combat Zone--but this time, his chances of getting out again...
31395) La prisonnière du Créac'h
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Soupçonnée d'avoir empoisonné le voyou Nino Braghanti, alors qu'il était hospitalisé à Nantes, Léanne Vallauri, la tumultueuse cheffe de la Police judiciaire de Brest, se retrouve victime d'une machination diabolique. Relevée de ses fonctions et mise en examen, la suspecte échappe de justesse à la prison en étant assignée à résidence dans le sémaphore du Créac'h de l'île d'Ouessant. Alors que tout accuse Léanne, ses amis se mobilisent...
31396) Charred
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It's the hottest summer on record. The streets are shimmering, walking outside is like walking into a furnace, and yet, someone is still setting fires. Milwaukee homicide detective Ellie MacIntosh is called to an arson scene and finds bewildered homeowners, an unidentified corpse, and cryptic clues. Is it a random killing? The ritualistic nature of the crime points to no, and Ellie fears that the already-oppressive summer is just starting to heat...
31397) The Orphanage
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Penelope Black has lost her parents and is being unceremoniously dumped into the cold, grey and forbidding old Kingsmere Orphanage.
As if losing her parents wasn't bad enough, she now has school lessons for eight hours a day, lives with five other girls in the one room, shares a bathroom with twenty-five more, and the one thing that worries her most is living with boys across the hallway. But those things are the least of Penny's problems.
For the...
31398) Her Secret Amish Past
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Stolen from the Amish…
with no memory of her past.
When her mother is shot as they flee an unknown threat, Josslyn Graham discovers her entire life is a lie. Not only is she adopted but she's the target of armed assailants-and she doesn't know why. With an old doll the only clue to her true identity, Joss needs Sergeant Steve Beck's help to find the truth…before a deadly criminal ring buries the remaining evidence: her.
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31399) Fraude: Thriller médical
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« Je ne sais pas par quel sang raconter cette histoire. Beaucoup de ceux qui l'ont approchée de près ou de loin ont fini dans leur propre hémoglobine ».
Quand une scientifique coréenne est retrouvée assassinée dans des conditions étranges au cœur de l'animalerie du Centre de Recherche BioStratégique, alors le biologiste Romain Maldone reprend du service, sollicité par l'inspecteur Bussière pour son expertise scientifique. Parallèlement,...
31400) Moon over the Mediterranean
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Shady dealings in sunny places...In 1961, young schoolteacher Robin Fletcher is delighted to accompany her widowed aunt on a cruise from Barcelona to Venice-a voyage whose ports of call include some of the great cities of Europe. On her first night at sea, Robin is awakened by the moonlight flooding through her stateroom window. When she goes up on deck to admire the view, she witnesses one of her fellow passengers throwing something off the stern...
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