When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory?a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election.
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.
Que cache le mystérieux comportement du maître d'hôtel d'une des plus vieilles familles du royaume-uni, dans un manoir du sussex ? un document étrange permettra-t-il de résoudre l'énigme ?
• the final problem : le problème final. l'affrontement final de sherlock holmes avec son mortel ennemi, le professeur moriarty, et sa disparition (souhaitée par conan doyle. ) au fond d'un précipice alpin. sous la pression de l'opinion publique indignée, il devra consentir à le ressusciter, et holmes réapparaîtra dans la nouvelle qui suit.
• the adventure of the empty house : l'aventure de la maison vide.
Le mystère de la mort d'un jeune aristocrate londonien, dont le corps a été découvert dans une pièce fermée à clé de l'intérieur, défraie la chronique mondaine. le piège monté par sherlock holmes se refermera-t-il sur le coupable ?.
Returns fans to the characters and territory of The Shining in the story of a middle-aged Dan Torrance, who after decades as an itinerant alcoholic uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a 12-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals. By the award-winning author of 11/22/63 . 1,500,000 first printing.
When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic church.
In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican.
But, with each revelation comes another twist, another turn in the plot, which leaves Langdom and Vetra reeling and at the mercy of a seemingly invisible enemyÂ…
Two blockbusters by the New York Times bestselling author featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan are now available in these specially priced paperback editions. Reissue.
- silver blaze/flamme d'argent : mystérieuse disparition d'un pur-sang à la veille d'un grand prix...
- the three garridebs/les trois garrideb : trois homonymes pour un seul testament...
- his last bow/son dernier coup d'archet : sherlock holmes face aux services secrets allemands du kaiser.
La série bilingue propose :
- une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes ;
- une méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers.
Thousands of miles away from the small township of "Salem's Lot", two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to "Salem's Lot" for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.
Stranded in the Sahara Desert, Dirk Pitt and his friends uncover the truth about the fate of 1930s aviator Kitty Mannock and the secret behind Lincoln's assassination
A student obsessed with her English professor is accused of his murder, but cannot remember how her fingerprints could possibly have been found at the scene of the crime
In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.
After an invisible force field seals off Chester's Mill, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry.
"Deux nouvelles fantastiques :
Rip Van Winkle de Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle est apprécié dans son village des Catskill et on ne le voit jamais sans une horde d'enfants sur les talons. Pourtant, tout change le jour où Rip s'aventure dans les collines, rencontre un groupe de personnages curieux et tombe dans un sommeil profond. Rappaccini's Daughter - La fille de Rappaccini de Nathaniel Hawthorne A Padoue, il y a fort longtemps, le professeur Rappaccini est un ""savant fou"" ; il cultive un magnifique jardin, dans lequel il retient prisonnière sa fille, Béatrice, et où il se livre à des expériences sur les plantes et les poisons. Lorsque Giovanni, jeune étudiant en droit, tombe amoureux de Béatrice, il est prêt à prendre tous les riques pour rejoindre sa belle..."
A young journalist who returns to her home town after hearing that the man who murdered her sister is being paroled. As she investigates the facts surrounding the murder, each new discovery brings her closer to a confrontration with a desperate killer.
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux finds his peaceful life shattered by the appearance of a woman who is passing stolen money and the suicide of another woman who may be the daughter of Dave's long-time friend.
At last! LUCIFER BOX, His Majesty's most daring - and depraved - secret agent returns in a mystery set some twenty years after the scandalous events of the bestselling THE VESUVIUS CLUB. This time he faces treachery within his own service and a fascist messiah with a peculiarly Satanic design...
