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Nouveautés de la rentrée ROMANS ETRANGERS Anglais Jane AUSTEN. Pride and Prejudice. Reading + Training. Text adaptation and activities by Jennifer Gascoigne; Illustred by Giorgio Baroni. Black Cat, 2013. (+ 1 CD audio). – L.ANGL. AUS Julian BARNES. Levels of Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. – L.ANGL. BAR Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May be Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Emily BRONTË. Wuthering Heights. Reading + Training. Retold by Maud Jackson; Activities by Justin Rainey; Illustred by Duilio Lopez. Black Cat, 2008. (+ 1 CD audio). – L.ANGL. BRO Agatha CHRISTIE. Dumb Witness: Poirot. London: Harper, 2002. – L.ANGL. CHR An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home...Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June 28th...by which time Emily was already dead... Agatha CHRISTIE. The Body in the Library: Miss Marple. London: Harper, 2002. – L.ANGL. CHR It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery, before tongues start to wag. Harlan COBEN. Seconds Away. London: Orion, 2012. – L.ANGL. COB A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and eight months pregnant ... Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own... Harlan COBEN. Shelter. London: Orion, 2011. – L.ANGL. COB When tragic events tear him away from his parents, 15-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron. For a while, it seems his train wreck of a life is finally improving - until his girlfriend, Ashley, goes missing without a trace. Unwilling to let another person he cares about walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld, revealing a conspiracy so shocking it will leave him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew. Michael CONNELLY. The Black Box: Harry Bosch. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012. – L.ANGL. CON In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box," the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. Riveting and relentlessly paced, the black box leads Harry Bosch, "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News), into one of his most fraught and perilous cases. Patrick DEWITT. The Sisters Brothers. Granta Books, 2012. – L.ANGL. DEW It is 1851, and a lust for gold has swept the American frontier. Two brothers the notorious Eli and Charlie Sisters - are on the road to California, following the trail of an elusive prospector, Hermann Kermit Warm. On this odyssey Eli and his brother cross paths with a remarkable cast of characters - losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and Eli begins to question what he does for a living, and whom he does it for. Roddy DOYLE. Paddy clarke ha ha ha. Random house, 1998. – L.ANGL. DOY The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less. Jeffrey EUGENIDES. The Marriage Plot. Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2012. – L.ANGL. EUG Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end. Gillian FLYNN. Gone Girl. London: Phoenix, 2012. – L.ANGL.FLY Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? Michael FRAYN. Spies. Faber and Faber, 2003 – L.ANGL. FRA John GRISHAM. Theodore Boone : The Accused. Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. – L.ANGL.GRI Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only suspect. What if he is found guilty? What about his dreams of becoming a lawyer? In a race against time, aided by his renegade uncle, Ike, Theo must find the real felon and reveal the true motivation behind the crimes of which he stands accused. Nick HORNBY. How to Be Good. Penguin books, 2002 – L.ANGL. HOR Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared 'good person'), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David: angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good, actually - 'a liberal's worst nightmare', he starts to put theory into practice, giving away their kids toys, reaching out to the hopeless and homeless in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move. Nick HORNBY. A long way down. Adult pbs, 2006 – L.ANGL. HOR This is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Marin and JJ, a low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common except where they end up that New Year's Eve night. "Extremely funny.cunning and wise. Hornby remains one of our most gifted comic writers" Sunday Times. John IRVING. In One Person. London: Black Swan, 2012. – L.ANGL. IRV A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 - in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases', "The World According to Garp". His most political novel since "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany", John Irving's "In One Person" is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, "In One Person" is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. John IRVING. The Fourth Hand. Black swan, 2001. – L.ANGL. IRV E L JAMES. Fifty Shades. London: Arrow, 2011. – L.ANGL. JAM fift Fifty Shades of Grey, T.1 Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Fifty Shades Darker, T.2 Fifty Shades Freed, T.3 Douglas KENNEDY. Five Days. London: Hutchinson Benham, 2013. – L.ANGL. KEN How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She's stopped thinking about all the places she'd like to go and all the books she'd like to talk about. She's not unhappy, exactly. She's not that self-indulgent. As anyone would tell you, Laura is wonderfully constant, caring, selfless. She's certainly an expert at putting on a brave face. But a chance meeting in a hotel lobby and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be - and the woman she could have become. Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness? From 'the absolute master of love stories with heart-stopping twists' (The Times), Five Days is a compelling novel about how life can change with one brief encounter. Stephen KING. 11/22/63. New York: Gallery Books, 2012. – L.ANGL. KIN Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime -or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father's sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away… but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake's friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession--to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner's storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke… Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten… and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful. In Stephen King's "most ambitious and accomplished" (NPR) novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. Joe R. LANSDALE. Freezer Burn. Orion, 1999. – L.ANGL. LAN Bill is a loser. When his mother dies, rather than forge her welfare cheques, he decides to rob a nearby business. The robbery goes wrong & he flees to join an itinerant freak show. Could it be that his loser days are over? They certainly aren't. Dennis LEHANE. Moonlight Mile. – London: Abacus, 2011. – L.ANGL. LEH Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and outmanoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets - and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro. Henning MANKELL. One Step Behind. London: Vintage, 2012. – L.ANGL. MAN It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be? Herman MELVILLE. Moby Dick. Reading + Training. Retold by Gina D.B Clemen; Activities by Bruce Hodges; Illustred by Gianni de Conno. Black Cat, 2007. (+ 1 CD audio). – L.ANGL. MEL Philip ROTH. Nemesis. London: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. – L.ANGL. ROT At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest. J.K. ROWLING. The Casual Vacancy. London: Little, Brown, 2012. – L.ANGL. ROW Lionel SHRIVER. Double Fault. London: Serpents Tail, 1997. – L.ANGL. SHR What price do you pay for prizing success over love? 'Love me, love my game' says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at the age of eighteen. Lowranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. But, as Eric's ranking climbs, rivalry turns to resentment and Willy risks losing everything. Nicholas SPARKS. Safe Haven. London: Sphere, 2010. – L.ANGL. SPA Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her... Sue TOWSEND. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. Methuen, 1984. – L.ANGL. TOW Anne TYLER. The Accidental Tourist. Vintage, 1985. – L.ANGL. TYL Anne TYLER. Back When We Were Grownups. Vintage, 2001. – L.ANGL. TYL One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the putupon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind? S.J WATSON. Before I go to sleep. London: Black swan, 2011. – L.ANGL. WAT Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. Lauren WEISBERGER. Revenge Wears Prada: the Devil Returns. London: Harper, 2013. – L.ANGL. WEI Allemand Sebastian FITZEK. Das Kind. München: Knaur, 2009. – L.ALL. FIT »Als Robert Stern diesem ungewöhnlichen Treffen zugestimmt hatte, wusste er nicht, dass er damit eine Verabredung mit dem Tod einging. Noch weniger ahnte er, dass der Tod etwa 1, 43 m messen, Turnschuhe tragen und lächelnd auf einem gottverlassenen Industriegelände in sein Leben treten würde. « Strafverteidiger Robert Stern ist wie vor den Kopf geschlagen, als er sieht, wer der geheimnisvolle Mandant ist, mit dem er sich auf einem abgelegenen und heruntergekommenen Industriegelände treffen soll: Simon, ein zehnjähriger Junge, zerbrechlich, todkrank – und fest überzeugt, in einem früheren Leben ein Mörder gewesen zu sein. Doch Robert Sterns Verblüffung wandelt sich in Entsetzen und Verwirrung, als er in jenem Keller, den Simon beschrieben hat, tatsächlich menschliche Überreste findet: ein Skelett, der Schädel mit einer Axt gespalten. Und dies ist erst der Anfang. Denn nicht nur berichtet Simon von weiteren, vor Jahren hingerichteten Opfern, schon bald wird auch die Gegenwart mörderisch …. Tommy JAUD. Hummeldumm. Scherz, 2011. – L.ALL. JAU »Sitzreihe 12 war die letzte, die zwischen Tortellini und Hühnchen wählen durfte. Ich saß in Reihe 13. Schon auf dem Hinflug hätte mir klar sein können, dass der Jahresurlaub zum Albtraum wird.« Wer an allem schuld ist, ist für Matze sowieso klar: seine Freundin Sina. Während er in endlosen Verhandlungen die neue Eigentumswohnung klargemacht hat, sollte sie einfach nur »irgendwas« buchen. Hat sie auch. Doch musste dieses »irgendwas« ausgerechnet eine zweiwöchige Gruppenreise durch Namibia sein, ein Land, in dem jede hüftkranke Schildkröte schneller ist als das Internet? Was hat er denn verbrochen, dass man ihn nun täglich in einen Kleinbus voller Bekloppter sperrt, um ihn dann zu österreichischen Schlagern über afrikanische Schotterpisten zu rütteln? Und warum stolpert er bei minus zwei Grad in einem albernen Wanderhut über die Dünen der Kalahari, statt auf Mallorca ein Bierchen zu schlürfen? Charlotte LINK. Der Beobachter. München: Blanvalet, 2012. – L.ALL. LIN Er beobachtet das Leben wildfremder Frauen. Träumt sich an ihre Seite, in ihren Alltag. Identifiziert sich mit ihnen und will alles von ihnen wissen. Als Beobachter. Auf der Flucht vor seinem eigenen Dasein, das aus Misserfolgen besteht. Nur aus der Ferne liebt er die schöne Gillian Ward. Die beruflich erfolgreiche Frau, glücklich verheiratet, Mutter einer reizenden Tochter, wird von ihm über die Maßen idealisiert. Bis er zu seinem Entsetzen erkennt, dass er auf eine Fassade hereingefallen ist. Denn nichts ist so, wie es scheint. Gleichzeitig schreckt eine Mordserie die Menschen in London auf. Die Opfer: allein stehende Frauen. Auf eine rachsüchtige, sadistische Weise umgebracht. Die Polizei sucht einen Psychopathen. Einen Mann, der Frauen hasst. David SAFIER. Mieses Karma. Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2011. – L.ALL. SAF Wiedergeburt gefällig? Nichts hat sich Moderatorin Kim Lange mehr gewünscht als den deutschen Fernsehpreis. Nun hält sie ihn triumphierend in den Händen. Schade eigentlich, dass sie noch am selben Abend von den Trümmern einer russischen Raumstation erschlagen wird. Im Jenseits erfährt Kim, dass sie in ihrem Leben sehr viel mieses Karma gesammelt hat. Die Rechnung folgt prompt. Kim findet sich in einem Erdloch wieder, mit sechs Beinen, Fühlern und einem wirklich dicken Po: Sie ist eine Ameise! Aber Kim hat wenig Lust, fortan Kuchenkrümel durch die Gegend zu schleppen. Außerdem kann sie nicht zulassen, dass ihr Mann sich mit einer Neuen tröstet. Was tun? Es gibt nur einen Ausweg: Gutes Karma muss her, damit es auf der Reinkarnationsleiter wieder aufwärts geht! Superwitzig und schräg! (Bild) Eine irre Idee, gespickt mit kuriosen Einfällen (Brigitte). Italien Andrea CAMILLERI. La rivoluzione della luna. Palermo : Sellerio, 2013. – L.ITAL. CAM « Racconto veritiero di una storia solo in parte supposta, il romanzo cresce e concresce scortato dalla luna. Tutto era lecito allora, nel Seicento, a Palermo, fuorché ciò che era lecito. (...) Tra le pompe di un dovizioso apparato, con maggiordomi, paggi, maestri di casa e scacazzacarte, e in mezzo a uno strisciar di riverenze, di ludi e di motteggi, era tutto un rigirar di scale e porte: un far complotti, ordire attentati, muover coltelli e insanguinar le mani; violar le leggi, collezionar prebende, metter tangenti, dispensar favori e accudir parentele; abusare, predare e ladroneggiare, intorbidar le acque; industriarsi nel vizio, puttaneggiare e finger compassione e trepida carità per il sesso più giovane, e derelitto, mentre un'enfasi scenica e profanatoria provvedeva ai corrotti desideri con burlesques di tonache coi fessi aperti dietro e dinanzi. L'illegalità lavorava a pieno servizio. Era il predicato forte della politica del Sacro Regio Consiglio, e delle sue mosse proditorie, dapprima alle spalle di un Viceré che la malattia aveva reso tardo e lento, grave di carne tremolosa, dirupato e assopito sul suo carcassone; e poi contro la sua vedova, donna Eleonora di Mora, senza paragone diversa, lucidamente ferma e decisa nella difesa delle leggi e della giustizia sociale, da lui designata a sostituirlo in caso di morte improvvisa. Fu così che, nel 1677, la Sicilia ebbe un Viceré « anomalo ». Un governatore donna ». (Salvatore Silvano Nigro). Erri DE LUCA. Il giorno prima della felicità. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2013. – L.ITAL. DEL Don Gaetano è uomo tuttofare in un grande caseggiato della Napoli popolosa e selvaggia degli anni cinquanta: elettricista, muratore, portiere dei quotidiani inferni del vivere. Da lui impara il giovane chiamato "Smilzo", un orfano formicolante di passioni silenziose. Don Gaetano sa leggere nel pensiero della gente e lo Smilzo lo sa, sa che nel buio o nel fuoco dei suoi sentimenti ci sono idee ed emozioni che arrivano nette alla mente del suo maestro e compagno. Scimmia dalle zampe magre, ha imparato a sfidare i compagni, le altezze dei muri, le grondaie, le finestre - a una finestra in particolare ha continuato a guardare, quella in cui, donna-bambina, è apparso un giorno il fantasma femminile. Un fantasma che torna più tardi a sfidare la memoria dei sensi, a postulare un amore impossibile. Lo Smilzo cresce attraverso i racconti di don Gaetano, cresce nella memoria di una Napoli (offesa dalla guerra e dall'occupazione) che si ribella - con una straordinaria capacità di riscatto - alla sua stessa indolenza morale. Lo Smilzo impara che l'esistenza è rito, carne, sfida, sangue. È così che l'uomo maturo e l'uomo giovane si dividono in silenzio il desiderio sessuale di una vedova, è così che l'uomo passa al giovane la lama che lo dovrà difendere un giorno dall'onore offeso, è così che la prova del sangue apre la strada a una nuova migranza che durerà il tempo necessario a essere uomo. Espagnol Lucia ETXEBARRIA. El contenido del silencio. Barcelona : Planeta, 2012. – L.ESP. ETX En Londres, ultimando los preparativos de su boda, Gabriel recibe una llamada. Su hermana Cordelia, de la que no sabe nada desde hace años, ha desaparecido en Canarias en lo que parece ser un suicidio ritual. Acompañado por Helena, la que fuera la mejor amiga de su hermana — y por la que se siente, a su pesar, irremediablemente atraído — Gabriel inicia un viaje por Tenerife y Fuerteventura siguiendo la pista de su hermana, y uno hacia sí mismo, hacia la verdadera historia de su madre, las razones de la huida de Cordelia y las conexiones de una secta con los nazis refugiados en Canarias tras la segunda guerra mundial. Gracias a la maestría narrativa de Lucía Etxebarria, El contenido del silencio es una indagación sagaz sobre el abandono y la pérdida a través del amor. CC by Geralt (Pixabay) Bibliothèque municipale 7 rue Honoré-de-Balzac 92330 Sceaux Tél. : 01 46 61 66 10 [email protected] http://bibliotheque.sceaux.fr