Dans le dernier livre de la série sur le chat du dalaï-lama, les lecteurs s'évadent dans le monde enchanteur et exotique du monastère du dalaï-lama dans l'Himalaya. Le chat de Sa Sainteté (CDSS) a une mission : celle de...
Biographical fiction
-
Author:Michie, DavidSummary: - Author:Monénembo, TiernoSummary:
Le Terroriste noir est une fiction construite autour de la véritable histoire, aussi méconnue qu’extraordinaire, d’Addi Bâ, jeune Guinéen né vers 1916, adopté en France à l’âge de treize ans et affecté dans le 12e régiment des...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Finalist for the...
- Author:Hooper, EliseSummary:
Learning to See is a gripping account of the Dorothea Lange, the woman behind the camera who risked everything for art, activism, and love. . In 1918, a fearless twenty-two-year old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast,...
- Author:Corriveau, HuguesSummary:
Ce roman, proche du roman policier ou d'enquête, est inspiré du meurtre du petit James Bulger, âgé de deux ans et demi, le 12 février 1993 à Liverpool. Il avait été kidnappé dans un centre commercial par Robert Thompson et...
- Author:Tangvald, VirginiaSummary:
Virginia a vu le jour à bord du bateau construit par son père, Peter Tangvald, célèbre aventurier ayant fait plusieurs fois le tour du monde. De lui, elle n'a aucun souvenir : sa mère s'est enfuie avec elle bébé, avant...
- Author:Mayer, H. JackSummary:
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like...
- Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical...
- Author:Matthiessen, PeterSummary:
Murder suspect E.J. Watson is gunned down by an enraged mob, each claiming self-defense. Over four decades later, his son returns to the Florida Everglades in order to discover the truth.
- Author:Horan, NancySummary:
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank...
- Author:Powell, Patricia HrubySummary:
From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers...
- Author:Scurati, AntonioSummary:
Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this novel explores the...
- Author:Evelina, NicoleSummary:
Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books.Rising from the shame of an abusive childhood,...
- Author:Iggulden, ConnSummary:
A master of historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden 'makes real those grand characters who live in the collective memory' (Kirkus Reviews). In this follow-up to Stormbird, Henry VI has been struck down by...
- Author:George, MargaretSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Splendor Before the Dark reveals the untold story of Mary Magdalene—a disciple of Jesus Christ and the most mysterious woman in the Bible. Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity...
- Author:Plamondon, ÉricSummary:
Writer Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s. In Mayonnaise, the second novel of Éric Plamondon's 1984 Trilogy, narrator Gabriel Rivages pieces together Brautigan's life starting in Oregon, where he was born, to...
- Author:Abbs, AnnabelSummary:
In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook. They break class boundaries while creating new ways of writing recipes.
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
A young widow and candlemaker, Varina Westcott, agrees to travel to Wales to investigate the suspicious death of the newly married Prince Arthur as a secret request of Queen Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII. But with each clue,...
- Author:Roberts, Ann VictoriaSummary:
One long hot summer in the 1880s, Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for in the life of the future author of Dracula, and round them Ann Roberts has woven a...
- Author:Law, JaniceSummary:
Artist Francis Bacon gets tangled up in murder while visiting the English countryside in the final mystery of this Lambda Award-winning series. Francis Bacon awakes in a four-poster bed with a punishing hangover and a naked footman...
Pages
