It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his 'good-luck kid' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.
L'épopée du crime dans l'Amérique des années 30. L'action se passe à Bathgate, une avenue du Bronx, ce quartier de New York qui vivait dans la misère, la crasse et la violence, et fait le récit d'un jeune voyou qui se cherche un parrain. Une version cinématographique est sortie en 1992.

Jeunes, énergiques et rieurs, Marnie et Taz mènent une vie modeste et heureuse dans leur maison de Missoula, au coeur du Montana. Le couple s'apprête à relever le défi apporté par la grossesse de Marnie mais celle-ci meurt en couches. Lorsque Taz se retrouve seul avec sa fille, il affronte une vie nouvelle où la paternité lui interdit de sombrer dans le désespoir.

An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John Boyne'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer.' Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known. Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.

The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today. The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy. However, the death throes of the Empire breed hostile new enemies, and the young Foundation's fate will be threatened first
Les prévisions du psychohistorien Hari Seldon sont formelles : l'empire galactique va s'effondrer. Pour réduire au minimum la période de barbarie qui va fatalement s'abattre sur la civilisation, il met au point un plan ingénieux et crée la Fondation, une planète destinée à recueillir les savoir-faire techniques de l'humanité.

Nouveau lycée et nouvelle vie pour Mickey Bolitar, un adolescent venu s'installer chez son oncle suite à la mort de son père et en attendant que sa mère sorte de cure de désintoxication. Il se fait une nouvelle petite amie, Ashley. Mais un jour, elle disparaît sans laisser de traces. Mickey se lance à sa recherche et va se retrouver confronté à ses propres secrets familiaux.

Dix nouvelles mettent en scène hommes et femmes, jeunes et vieux, qui ne peuvent plus respirer, dans l'attente d'un bonheur rêvé ou perdu qui leur donne besoin d'air ou de vengeance.

Granted leave from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti decides to finally take a well-earned break and visit Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. The recuperative stay goes according to plan until Davide Casati, the mysterious caretaker of the villa Brunetti has been staying in, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him - not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he's been secretly visiting... Convinced that this was no accident, Brunetti feels compelled to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend.

Dans les années trente, Arturo Bandini, fils d'immigrés italiens, quitte le Colorado pour l'Eldorado, Los Angeles, avec son unique roman en poche et un rêve : devenir un écrivain reconnu. Vénérant les femmes et la littérature, il débarque dans une chambre d'hôtel miteuse , prêt à saisir la vie à bras-le-corps. Une errance sublime parmi les laissés-pour-compte du rêve américain.