Nous sommes en 1977. Il est possible de rêver de pays inconnus et de peuples authentiques aux mœurs radicalement différentes. L’exotisme vient avec sa part de mystère. À quarante ans, Leucid Roy, un citadin endurci qui travaille dans...
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Arbour, Marie-ChristineSummary: - Author:Golden, ChristieSummary:
The official novelization of the blockbuster movie, written and directed by visionary Luc Besson (Lucy, The Fifth Element). Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are special operatives for the government of the human...
- Author:Schwab, VictoriaSummary:
A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions--#1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious. Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale...
- Author:Schwab, VictoriaSummary:
A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates--brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a...
- Author:Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
Robert Jackson Bennett's Vigilance is a dark science fiction action parable from an America that has permanently surrendered to gun violence. The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces "Vigilance," a reality game show...
- Author:Villeneuve, GisèleSummary:
Visiting Elizabeth follows a friendship that begins and ends with a needle. Elizabeth teaches Ariane to speak her mind. So when Elizabeth is struck and killed by a car, Ariane vows to speak for two. Soon, a hybrid language rolls off her...
- Author:Walker, DanSummary:
C'est Zoya qui les remarqua la première. Des lumières brûlantes orangées dans le sombre ciel de la nuit. Au début, elle pensa que c'était peut-être des feux d'artifice ou des étoiles, peut-être des lanternes. Mais non. C'était des...
- Author:Acton, VanessaSummary:
Blair and her brothers are driving home from a disastrous road trip when their day suddenly gets a whole lot worse. After facing down a tornado, their car is barely functioning, and the same can be said for Blair's older brother. Blair...
- Author:Jacques, BrianSummary:
Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave...
- Author:Smith, S. E.Summary:
After sixteen-year-old Makayla is suddenly forced to live with a grandfather she barely remembers, she has trouble adjusting to her new home. In an act of defiance, she sets sail in her grandfather's old sailboat on a journey that will...
- Author:Nichols, PeterSummary:
Two men from opposite ends of the social spectrum - a wealthy self-indulgent industrialist and a disgraced sea captain - are brought together in a harrowing adventure: an attempt to guide a luxurious but ill-equipped yacht through the...
- Author:Andrews, BrianSummary:
The secretary of state has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists and his only hope for survival is a reconstituted Presidential Agent team in this revival of W. E. B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling series. Secretary of State Frank...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.
- Author:Mosher, Howard FrankSummary:
Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken...
- Author:Johnson, Kristin F.Summary:
When Alexandra's dad gets a new job in Hawaii, her parents promise that life there will be paradise. But what they couldn't predict is a natural disaster of epic proportions. A tsunami slams into their new island home, quickly...
- Author:Damico, GinaSummary:
Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama-and nothing about the fact that the production is fake...
- Author:Chen, MikeSummary:
Jamie woke up in an empty apartment with no memory and only a few clues to his identity, but with the ability to read and erase other people's memories--a power he uses to hold up banks to buy coffee, cat food and books. Zoe is...
- Author:Jensen, CarstenSummary:
In 1848, Danish sailors set sail to fight Germans. Not all return, and those who do will never be the same, including daredevil Laurids Madsen, who escapes again to the seas. Here also is the story of a Danish town, whose inhabitants...
- Author:Kraus, DanielSummary:
A USA Today bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR. The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically...
- Author:Wheeler, KateSummary:
An interweaving of two love stories that span generations begins in the 1940s as Althea Barnes becomes enamored of both India and a Hindu priest, and continues with her granddaughter, who has an affair with a revolutionary in...
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