The Ghost of Frédéric Chopin - formato ePub

Les trains de nuit ont offert à Éric Faye ses premières insomnies heureuses. Moscou, Prague, Split, Sarajevo, Berlin, Pékin? autant de nuits blanches partagées avec le « petit peuple du couloir » : fumeurs,...

Fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Paris est divisée. Son histoire, c’est celle de Berlin. Saint-Sulpice à l’Ouest, Montmartre à l’Est. L’uchronie pour peindre la Ville lumière aux couleurs du totalitarisme....

Le titre est emprunté au film Casablanca : c’est en se souvenant de leur idylle dans le Paris d’avant l’occupation allemande que les deux amants réussissent à continuer à vivre, à se séparer s’il le faut...

Par un jour d'hiver, le village de Sauveterre-le-Vieux est évacué pour que soient désamorcés des obus datant de la Première Guerre mondiale. Tandis que les démineurs travaillent, un habitant, Marin Sérianne,...

Solange Brillat est une jeune femme de vingt-sept ans, célibataire, modeste employée dans un cabinet d'experts-comptables. Fille unique, elle rend régulièrement visite à ses parents dans le Massif Central....

In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets...

Quelque part, dans la touffeur de ce que l’on devine être une forêt tropicale d’Amérique latine, mille hommes s’apprêtent à prendre la route pour rejoindre à Iquita le reste de leur unité. Mais ce soir-là,...

Prague, automne 1995 : une habitante prétend " recevoir " chez elle la visite d'un compositeur illustre dont elle a le privilège de porter à l'attention du plus grand nombre les partitions qu'il lui dicte...

Ganadora del Gran Premio de la Academia Francesa, esta novela de Éric Faye se basa en un caso real para explorar el influjo que la memoria de los lugares que habitamos ejerce sobre nuestra conciencia.De...

Le mystère des Trois Frontières place dans une géographie imaginaire dominée par l’espace de la forêt la trajectoire d’un narrateur ethnologue. La disparition brutale et inexpliquée de sa compagne Andonia...

Le roman s'ouvre sur le transfert du corps d'Antoine Blin, du Panthéon… au cimetière de sa banlieue natale. Ce modeste employé des postes, un floué de la vie, un gibier pour les arnaqueurs de tout poil,...

The third book in the Walter Presents Library: a bewitching Prague-set mystery about a woman who claims to transcribe music from the ghost of Chopin Prague, 1995: journalist Ludvík Slaný is assigned to...

S’il pleut encore en 2050, ce sera une pluie chaude qui tirera de la terre et de l’atmosphère des senteurs d’Asie, celles de Nishiki-dôri ou bien du night market de Gongguan, pas loin duquel j’avais habité...

Le Japon est la planète habitée la plus proche de la Terre : pas facile, de prime abord, d'en saisir les codes, d’explorer ses facettes cachées, d’identifier ses tabous et ses obsessions. Des réalisateurs...

Croisière en mer des pluies"Trop tard, de toute façon. Tout le monde ne pense qu'à ça, ici, n'est-ce pas. On s'enivre, on se sent libre mais, au fond, on ne pense qu'à retourner là-bas. On imagine le...

« Enfant, j’étais parfois somnambule et me levais en pleine nuit pour faire quelques pas, dans un état second. Le somnambule a peur de lui-même, voilà ce dont je me souviens. Il est seul, parmi les hommes,...

A Jane Austen Association Book based on Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.  Jane Austen Association UK branch founder and member Abbie Moore receives an offer to work and live in Bath, where Jane Austen...

Embers of the FlameIn a world on the brink of war, a group of unlikely heroes is bound together by a single goal: to find and control the power of the ancient artifacts scattered across the realms. Their...

Alice and Eliot continue to keep up with their work as they get used to being married.

A scorching brother's best friend, surprise pregnancy standalone novel by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens…

He was a fling. A distraction. He wasn't supposed to be my brother's best friend.My love...

This timeline is set to expireWhen Gunn investigates a blood-soaked crime scene without a body, he stumbles into a time-torn battle for Earth's future.Now, he's caught between warring factions: a charismatic...

In a high secluded tower, hidden away from the world, Delyth has spent her life under the enchantments of the sorceress Eirlys, her golden hair bound by ancient magic, but she longs to be free. Meanwhile,...

DanteI never planned on having a baby, but priorities changed when I became a single dad overnight.I must avenge the Santinis, who killed my baby daughter's mom. But to do so, I need reliable childcare.Easier...

Five years after a near-fatal explosion at a chemical plant, Tim Lowry is back—this time, in a courtroom, fighting for the justice he deserves. Grievously injured and abandoned for dead, Tim now faces...

When Ben's regular coke dealer doesn't show up at the usual time and place one night, he tries not to freak out and decides to go looking for him. But what he didn't plan on finding were aliens landing...

I didn't mean for this hot billionaire stranger to suddenly become my bodyguard; it just kind of happened…I first met Jonathan Black on my weekly florist visit. His tousled dark hair, black suit, and...

The conspiracy deepens. Wyvern bonds weaken. The shadows close in. As ravenglass corruption spreads across the Kingdom, the three princesses race against time to prevent total collapse.   Irmin hunts...

The silence of a spiritual community is shattered by the murder of one of their own.Jordan and Rahman Gaffney-Bruce, newly married men, move into the eccentric Washington neighborhood known as Slope to...

In the world of romance, Aria Montgomery knows two things for sure:She's not in love with the man everyone thinks she is.And she refuses to let herself love Crew McTavish.Her former best friend is spiraling,...

Do you know how it feels to never have anyone in your corner?Embark on an emotional journey with Rachel, a closeted lesbian in a world plagued by hate and cruelty, where same-sex romance is forbidden.Adopted...

Chris Shafer moved to Miami to help his best friend Wes run the construction company. Chris had been Wes's foreman since Wes started the company. After Wes and Sylvia had gotten married, Wes picked up...

The Isle of Spheres is dying and Ikoseer the Sage is trying to save it.At the start of the civil war the central stone of power, the Lightenstone, along with four outer stones, were removed from the Pentark...

Treasure is hard to find. Dead bodies aren't.A search for treasure turns deadly when wine consultant Sarah McKee is asked to help locate a hidden vault, where the legendary treasure of Belle Vue Winery...

PenelopeI've been shanghied into a trip to Vera Cruz, Mexico by my best friend, Sarah. She's having some Botox done, and I've promised her I'll have a little nose job done. But really, I'm going to make...

I wanted to escape my problems by playing a video game. I didn't expect it to become my new reality.Hi, my name is Lauren and my life gets more depressing by the day. My job stresses me out. My car's...

DimitriI am a demon, the bastard son of Lucifer. I take everything I want; I make sure no one goes unpunished for their crimes here in hell. I rule, I judge, I punish, and execute.  Everyone here in hell...

Chapter 1: The First VictimTuesday, 7:42 AMThe first sign that something was wrong came in the form of a headline. Eleanor Graves wasn't a morning person. Her process required darkness—midnight lamplight,...

I heard it again, whistling through the wind–the Devil's hymn. Death's sweet serenade beckoned me to spill innocent blood. I obliged, thinking my sacrifice would deafen its pleas.If you listen close enough...

The thrilling sequel to War Heart (Book 1 of The Five Furies)!Rejoin Kilek and his friends as they continue their quest to awaken long-lost dragons, learn to use their gifts and come to terms with being...

From writer Jason Peat comes an emotionally intricate tale of love and deception. This bold portrayal of a doomed sexual dalliance asks the question – what would you do and what would you be willing to...

When searching for a relic, be sure there isn't a ghost attached to it…Reluctance has got nothin' on Allira Maplestaff. She has no interest in participating in the Festival of the Relic, the annual assault...

   The '93 school year began like any other: in the same town, at the same school, and with the same friends. I was seventeen and a senior at Janestown High School, which is located in Janestown, Arizona,...

Private investigator Dana Evans never expected to break into a mountain lion shifter's home—or to end up sharing his bed.  When a grieving aunt hires Dana to find her niece's father, the trail leads to...

Pater Browns Weisheit ist eine Sammlung faszinierender Kriminalgeschichten, die sich um den scharfsinnigen, bescheidenen und tiefgläubigen Pater Brown drehen. Auf den ersten Blick wirkt er wie ein unscheinbarer,...

This collection of epic fantasy stories will transport you into another realm!This collection of stories has it all; demon queens, mermaids, seers, wyverns, clashes over thrones, denial of royal bloodlines,...

I thought surviving Whispering Ivy was the hardest part. I was wrong.The men who try to break me are the only ones standing between me and the truth. They're cruel, possessive, and inhumanly irresistible.But...