Magnus - formato ePub

« Penser, vivre, être présent au monde, c'est essayer d'écouter-voir ce qui monte du fond des temps, se laisser troubler par des songes venus d'ailleurs, d'infiniment plus loin que soi, et cependant nous...

La narratrice, abandonnée à sa naissance à la porte d'un couvent, vagabondera au fil des ans d'une place à l'autre, à travers la France. C'est comme si elle n'avait pas de vie propre, mais elle participe...

« L'amour, ce mot ne finit pas de bégayer en elle, violent et incertain. Sa profondeur, sa vérité ne cessent de lui échapper, depuis l'enfance, depuis toujours, reculant chaque fois qu'elle croit l'approcher...

Autour de Prokop Poupa, professeur de littérature réduit à l'état de balayeur dans les rues de Prague, évoluent quelques hommes et femmes marginalisés par la dissidence. Chacun, par dérision, imagine...

Ludvík M. avait quitté Prague quand son pays souffrait d'une "cécité de l'âme". À l'Ouest, il avait connu un grand amour avec Esther. Puis Esther l'avait trahi et il s'était ensuivi un exil à rebours....

« Un reflet murmure que le visible est toujours ourlé d’absence, d’échos insoupçonnés, de mouvantes lueurs ; qu’il est creusé, hanté de profonds lointains. » Les tableaux de Vermeer multiplient les reflets...

"Les fulgurances de l'écrivaine et son acuité font le charme de cette valse mélancolique. "--L'Obs Des passants se croisent dans un square, s'observent, se jaugent furtivement. Quelques jours plus tard,...

One hundred years of French history seen through the eyes of the Peniel family

Days of Anger won the Prix Femina when it was first published in France in 1989. "A murdered woman, lying buried in the forests of the Morvan, is the still beating heart of Days of Anger. A rich, eventful...

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Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. It has been Sylvie Germain's most commercially successful novel in France.Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, who pieces...

"Sylvie Germain's The Medusa Child beautifully translated from the French by Liz Nash, tells a heartbreaking and violent story about sin and redemption in fantastical language; a myth from la France profonde."...

En une semaine, Aurélien, un homme ordinaire, va progressivement disparaître. Il est de plus en plus hors champ, perdant jusqu'à sa voix, son odeur et son ombre. Au fur et à mesure de cette genèse à rebours,...

« Chacun recèle dans son imaginaire un atlas amoureux qu'il compulse selon sa fantaisie. Un atlas amoureux est forcément extravagant, illustré de cartes et de planches qui ne respectent pas toujours...

Le premier mort de l'après-guerre est un enfant. Petit-Tambour, tué dans la forêt au cours d'un accident de chasse. Et cette enfance qui a perdu son corps se fera don, - un don obscur de douleur et d'espoir,...

Un petit enfant en ciré jaune roule sur son tricycle sous l'orage. On dirait un soleil miniature. On lui a crié : "Va au diable !", et il y file, chassé par le vent du malheur. Ainsi commence ce roman...

In the high-stakes world of political campaigns, where ambition runs as deep as the divides between party lines, love is the most dangerous game of all.Olivia Harrington, a sharp and ambitious journalist,...

We have at times been accused of putting so many people into our books that no one can remember who they are, in which stricture we entirely concur, as we often cannot remember who they are ourself (or...

Can a runaway bride find a second chance at happiness with the one that got away, her first love? When a blizzard strands recently-branded 'runaway bride' Rose Keating on the side of the road with the...

Animals are speaking. Who is Listening? When Quinby Clark has a conversation with a bird, she thinks she's going crazy. But when a dog invites her to attend a mysterious Australian boarding school for...

Every campfire story has an origin; a shadow on the water, a sound in the dark, a tragedy with no explanation. The legend of Camp Alkali is no different. Stories have been woven over the years about a...

After learning about her otherworldly ancestry, a young woman is swept up in a war that started long before she was born— the war that killed her father, a Seelie Gatekeeper. Hoping to understand her...

"Unlock the Secrets of Paradise" In a world where myth and reality blur, a young girl discovers the hidden gateway into the Garden of Eden. With the guidance of a spirit soul from within the Garden. She...

Family secrets hold the key to buried magic. Her legacy awaits. Katelyn Grey is a gardener in Southern California. She's content with pruning shrubs and looking after her step-mom, the only family she...

It will not, we hope, surprise our readers to hear that Lady Cora Waring, formerly Lady Cora Palliser, only daughter of the Duke of Omnium, wife of Sir Cecil Waring of Beliers Priory, was expecting what...

After being Ms. Zi Wei and being on the planet that a mysterious race of people cannot breath on, the enemy calls her the soul swallower. Archibald von Kitari, the wizard, and Tartu von Greenbird, the...

The first lesson Eilean MacAlistair learned in blacksmithing: First, you harden, and then you temper.Otherwise, your metal will break.The same is true with life. A few years back, Eilean didn't temper...

For millennia, Tol has known peace, but now ancient fears resurface as the northern empire of Nordinium invades the Southlands. Amidst the chaos, two young orphans, Perrin and Bren, are thrust into a...

Being dead never felt so good...Silver's memories are gone, but that's the way death usually goes. You wake up by the Styx, you realize you're dead, you pick a name, and you pay Charon for a ride across...

The Memoirs of Emily Windsor Engr Dr Naila Hina  An intense, mystery adventure with higher stakes. 2. Romantic, focusing on Emily and Alexander's relationship3. Intriguing, with hidden plot twists4. Dark,...

"I'll Let You Vent...: A Hilarious Prompt Book for Unleashing Your Daily Frustrations!" is the perfect escape from life's little annoyances. This laugh-out-loud, self-directed ebook gives you a series...

When Ella discovers a magical pair of shoes in her grandmother's attic, her life takes an unexpected turn. The shoes can talk, offering advice and helping her solve everyday problems—from school challenges...

Glendola Burnet trained for years to become a member of the Elite, but after suffering a personal tragedy she fled from her homeland and left her future behind. Now, five years later, at the onset of...

Jonathan Jukes is accustomed to working alongside the police within his role as close protection officer at Morgan and Fairchild. But when Detective Sergeant Charles Macavoy requests the team's help,...

Sinful Devotion is the first release in the Vampire Mafia series.Each book will be a standalone but connected to the next book.BLURB ⬇️"When a vampire meets a mafia heir, desire and danger ignite."TulsiI've...

Four years ago, Andrew Butcher dropped off the grid. Now he is back, and determined to reconnect with his family. But Andrew is playing a dangerous game. In accepting the position as head of security...

As a former Royal Marine Commando, Brad Morgan is among the best of the best. Now heading up his own unit in the private security world, he lives by the mottos he served by.When Alicia Gladstone, a star...

Tamaya White is no ordinary witch. As a child she absorbed so much power, it had to be locked down tight. After surviving a massacre that stole her entire family, Tamaya is consumed by the need for revenge....

Karmen Adamson is young, but she's already experienced adversity in her life. Kicked out of her parent's house at the age of eighteen, she moved in with her best friend, and now at twenty-one is learning...

There I was, walking down the street, minding my own business when WHAM, I was catapulted headlong into the strange, slightly scary, and utterly intoxicating world of fashion and male supermodels. With...

For years, Donovan Grant has tried to overcome the nightmares of his past. Sentenced to the Hympe Trials on his eighteenth birthday, his contract was sold to demons who excelled at inflicting pain. They...

At the moment of Audrey Montgomery's birth a new world came into existence. It is a barren place, a catalyst for the darkness spreading through the multidimensional system. The shift in power makes Audrey...

Kristen Baracas has survived a great many things in her life. The death of her parents, being turned into a slave by the clan who took their lives, dealing with her brother's blood addiction problems,...

In the heartwarming holiday romance The Christmas Secrets of Hollybrook, Emma Hartley returns to her charming hometown of Hollybrook for the festive season, only to find herself entangled in a mystery...

"A heartwarming second-chance romance where two lovers, torn apart by distance, reunite years later only to face new challenges. Will their love survive the interference of a powerful stepmother and the...

Sometimes even in the middle of nowhere, trouble finds you. When you're a librarian working the night shift, it's even more likely, but Ava has a few tricks up her sleeve for dealing with the shifters,...