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The Night gate / Peter May

Livre | May, Peter. Auteur | 2021

In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy year...

Cote(s) : 820 MAY ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Mothers / Brit Bennett

Livre | Bennett, Brit. Auteur | 2020

Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community. Texte en anglais.

Cote(s) : 820 BEN ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Cage of souls / Adrian Tchaikovsky

Livre | Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Auteur | 2020

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dea...

Cote(s) : 820 TCH ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Daughters of Sparta / Claire Heywood

Livre | Heywood, Claire. Auteur | 2021

A vivid and illuminating retelling of the Siege of Troy that tells the story of mythology’s most vilified women. Texte en anglais.

Cote(s) : 820 HEY ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Dottie / Abdulrazak Gurnah

Livre | Gurnah, Abdulrazak (1948-....). Auteur | 2021

Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse h...

Cote(s) : 820 GUR ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Signature of All Things / Elizabeth Gilbe...

Livre | Gilbert, Elizabeth. Auteur | 2020

The story follows Alma Whittaker, daughter of a botanical explorer, as she comes into her own within the world of plants and science. As Alma’s careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she starts a ...

Cote(s) : 820 GIL ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Windsor Knot / S.J. Bennett

Livre | Bennett, S.J. (1966-....). Auteur | 2021

On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea,carry out her royal duties... and solve a murder.

Cote(s) : 820 BEN ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens

Livre | Owens, Delia. Auteur | 2019

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh G...

Cote(s) : 820 OWE ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep / H.G. Parr...

Livre | Parry, H G. Auteur | 2020

For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed an unusual ability he can't quite control : he can bring characters from books into the real world. But when literary characters start causing trouble throughout the city and t...

Cote(s) : 820 PAR ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Silverview / John Lecarré

Livre | Le Carré, John. Auteur | 2022

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his ...

Cote(s) : 820 LEC ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

A Truth to lie for / Anne Perry

Livre | Perry, Anne. Auteur | 2022

When Britain's MI6 gets word that a German scientist has made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish on a dangerous mission to get him out of Germany before he's forced to share his knowledge and its devastating ...

Cote(s) : 820 PER ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Dark Hours / Michael Connelly

Livre | Connelly, Michael. Auteur | 2022

A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest. Texte en anglais.

Cote(s) : 820 CON ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Paper Palace / Miranda Cowley Heller

Livre | Heller, Miranda Cowley. Auteur | 2022

A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she navigates the unravelling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle. Texte en anglais.

Cote(s) : 820 HEL ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Guide / Peter Heller

Livre | Heller, Peter (1959-....). Auteur | 2022

A heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace.

Cote(s) : 820 HEL ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Appeal / Janice Hallett

Livre | Hallett, Janice. Auteur | 2021

There is a mystery to solve in the small town of Lockwood. It starts with the arrival of two secretive newcomers, and ends with a tragic death. Roderick Tanner QC has assigned law students Charlotte and Femi to the case. Someone h...

Cote(s) : 820 HAL ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

My heart is a chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones

Livre | Jones, Stephen Graham | 2021

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: ho...

Cote(s) : 820 JON ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Wave / Morton Rhue

Livre | Rhue, Morton. Auteur | 2020

retold by Kieran McGovern

Laurie isn't sure what to make of 'The Wave'. It had begun as a simple history experiment to liven up their World War II studies. 'The Wave' was sweeping through the school - and it was out of control. Laurie's friends scoff at he...

Cote(s) : 820 A2 ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Zorrie / Laird Hunt

Livre | Hunt, Laird. Auteur | 2022

A poignant novel about a woman searching for her place in the world and finding it in the daily rhythms of life in rural Indiana. Texte en anglais.

Cote(s) : 820 HUN ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Promise / Damon Galgut

Livre | Galgut, Damon (1963-....). Auteur | 2021

The “promise” of the title is a literal one, made by Rachel before she dies: to give a house on the farm to their black servant, Salome. It’s also a metaphorical one. Over the years, as members of the family find reasons to deny o...

Cote(s) : 820 GAL ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Ariadne / Jennifer Saint

Livre | Saint, Jennifer. Auteur | 2021

A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. ''Ariadne" gives voice to the misused Princess of Crete who betrayed her father to save Theseus from the Minotaur. Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a n...

Cote(s) : 820 SAI ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

The Paris secret / Karen Swan

Livre | Swan, Karen | 2016

An apartment has been opened in Paris that was locked up and abandoned during World War II… That much of this book is true; it’s the basis of this intriguing novel. But what’s inside? When the apartment is opened after seventy-thr...

Cote(s) : 820 SWA ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage

Midnight blue / Simone van der Vlugt

Livre | Vlugt, Simone van der | 2017

1654. Following the death of her young husband, Catrin Barentsdochter takes a job as a housekeeper in Amsterdam. But when the past catches her, she must leave for the smaller city of Delft. there she is introduced to Evert van Nul...

Cote(s) : 820 VLU ang

Emplacement : Adultes 5e étage