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46 books  

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Le Secret du janissaire [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Delcourt 1995 - 11
À bord d'un vaisseau turc, un coffre. Dans le coffre, un Ă©crin, dans l'Ă©crin, une bouteille, dans la bouteille, une carte, et sur cette carte... l'emplacement du fabuleux trĂ©sor des Ăźles Tangerines !...<br /><br />Il n'en faut pas plus Ă  deux fiers gentilshommes, fins bretteurs et rimailleurs, pour se jeter dans une aventure qui, de geĂŽles en galĂšres, les mĂšnera jusqu'aux confins du monde.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014 - 7
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.<br /><br />Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.<br /><br />Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
Authority [Book] Douban Goodreads
6.8 (10 ratings) author: Jeff VanderMeer publishing house: FSG Originals 2014 - 5
<b>The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy</b><br /><br />After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in <i>Annihilation</i>, the agency is in complete disarray.<br /><br />John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.<br /><br />In <i>Authority</i>, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.
The Castle of Argol [Book] Douban Goodreads
author: Julien Gracq / Louise Varese publishing house: Lapis Press 1989 - 6
THE GOTHIC SETTING of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired chateau. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.
The Lathe of Heaven [Book] Goodreads
The Lathe of Heaven
author: ćŽ„äŒ‘æ‹‰ ć‹’ć€æ© publishing house: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2003 - 8
A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity.
In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.
is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.
La Guerre et la Paix [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Points 2010 - 9
Sur le fond des grands événements du début du XIXe siÚcle, s'inscrivent les chroniques de deux familles appartenant à la noblesse russe, les Bolkonski et les Rostov. Cette traduction se fonde sur la version de 1873. Edition publiée à l'occasion de l'année de la Russie en France et du centenaire de la mort de l'écrivain.
The Sparrow [Book] Douban Goodreads
author: Mary Doria Russell / Mary Doria Russell publishing house: Ballantine Books 1997 - 9
"A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense."
--USA Today
"AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MISSED . . . If you have to send a group of people to a newly discovered planet to contact a totally unknown species, whom would you choose? How about four Jesuit priests, a young astronomer, a physician, her engineer husband, and a child prostitute-turned-computer-expert? That's who Mary Doria Russell sends in her new novel, The Sparrow. This motley combination of agnostics, true believers, and misfits becomes the first to explore the Alpha Centuri world of Rakhat with both enlightening and disastrous results. . . . Vivid and engaging . . . An incredible novel."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"POWERFUL . . . Father Emilio Sandoz [is] the only survivor of a Jesuit mission to the planet Rakhat, 'a soul . . . looking for God.' We first meet him in Italy . . . sullen and bitter. . . . But he was not always this way, as we learn through flashbacks that tell the story of the ill-fated trip. . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"SMOOTH STORYTELLING AND GORGEOUS CHARACTERIZATION . . . Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them."
--Entertainment Weekly
Invisible Cities [Book] Douban Goodreads Goodreads Goodreads
Le CittĂ  Invisibili
9.6 (21 ratings) author: äŒŠćĄ”æŽ›Â·ćĄć°”ç»ŽèŻș translator: William Weaver publishing house: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1978 - 5
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
One of the world's best storytellers, Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) pinpoints for future generations the universal values for literature. Here are his works, methods, intentions, and hopes.
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: MCD x FSG Originals 2017 - 8
<p>
<b><i>The Strange Bird</i>—from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, <i>Borne</i>.</b>
</p><p>The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.</p><p>But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology—satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans—all of them now simply scrambling to survive—who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home.</p><p>With <i>The Strange Bird, </i>Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel <i>Borne</i>. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne—a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world.</p>
La peste [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Folio 1972 - 2
" - Naturellement, vous savez ce que c'est, Rieux ?<br />- J'attends le résultat des analyses.<br />- Moi, je le sais. Et je n'ai pas besoin d'analyses. J'ai fait une partie de ma carriÚre en Chine, et j'ai vu quelques cas à Paris, il y a une vingtaine d'années. Seulement, on n'a pas osé leur donner un nom, sur le moment... Et puis, comme disait un confrÚre : "C'est impossible, tout le monde sait qu'elle a disparu de l'Occident." Oui, tout le monde le savait, sauf les morts. Allons, Rieux, vous savez aussi bien que moi ce que c'est...<br />- Oui, Castel, dit-il, c'est à peine croyable. Mais il semble bien que ce soit la peste. "
Omale [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: J'ai Lu 2004 - 2
Dans un lointain futur... trois espĂšces cohabitent sur Omale : les humains, les Chiles et les Hodgqins. Six individus se retrouvent en possession d'un bris d'Ɠuf et dĂ©cident d'en dĂ©crypter l'inscription. Ils s'embarquent sur une nef aĂ©rienne afin d'accomplir la quĂȘte pour laquelle ils ont Ă©tĂ© Ă©lus. C'est au cours d'un vol mouvementĂ© qu'ils apprendront progressivement Ă  se connaĂźtre grĂące au fejij, le jeu des relations chile — subtil rĂ©vĂ©lateur des caractĂšres, des personnalitĂ©s et des leçons du passĂ©. Bravant les attaques de pirates, Ă©chappant de justesse au naufrage de leur dirigeable, le petit groupe se dĂ©couvre dans un pĂ©riple aux mille dangers. Et l'aventure les rapproche chaque jour davantage des secrets d'Omale...
La découverte du Japon par les Européens [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Editions Chandeigne 2013 - 5
En 1543, les Portugais sont les premiers EuropĂ©ens Ă  dĂ©barquer au Japon. Cet archipel lointain et mystĂ©rieux, plus ou moins localisĂ© depuis 1515, est trĂšs vite identifiĂ© Ă  la Cipango du rĂ©cit de Marco Polo (c. 1300), reprĂ©sentĂ© sur le globe de Behaim (1492). AussitĂŽt les Portugais y introduisent les armes Ă  feu et nouent de fructueux liens commerciaux. En 1549, François Xavier et quelques jĂ©suites dĂ©barquent Ă  leur tour et fondent la mission chrĂ©tienne du Japon, pays dont ils seront deux ans durant les premiers explorateurs.<br /><br />Un riche cahier cartographique retrace l’historique de la reprĂ©sentation de l’archipel, d’abord sous la forme de la mythique Cipango, de 1459 Ă  1571, puis du Japon nouvellement dĂ©couvert, de sa premiĂšre apparition en 1550 jusqu’à sa forme presque dĂ©finitive au dĂ©but du XVIIe siĂšcle, en passant par ses multiples avatars.<br /><br />Le livre rassemble ensuite les Ă©vocations de Cipango dans les sources historiques occidentales depuis 1300, puis du Japon dans les rĂ©cits narrant la rencontre entre les<br />EuropĂ©ens et Japonais de 1543 Ă  1552 :<br /><br /><br />1. Cipango dans les livres de Marco Polo (c. 1298).<br />2. La quĂȘte de Cipango (1474-1526).<br />3. Le rĂ©cit d’Escalante de Alvarado (1548).<br />4. L’Information des choses du Japon de Jorge Álvares (1548).<br />5. Trois lettres de François Xavier et NiccolĂČ Lancillotto (1548).<br />6. L’arrivĂ©e des Portugais au Japon en 1543 dĂ©crite par les Japonais dans le TeppĂŽki.<br />7. L’arrivĂ©e des Portugais au Japon dans la PĂ©rĂ©grination de FernĂŁo Mendes Pinto.<br />8. Le voyage de Jorge Álvares selon FernĂŁo Mendes Pinto.<br />9. PremiĂšres lettres de François Xavier au Japon (1 549).<br />10. François Xavier, l’apĂŽtre du Japon (1549-1551),<br />d’aprĂšs LuĂ­s FrĂłis et FernĂŁo Mendes Pinto.<br />11. La grande lettre de François Xavier sur le Japon (1552)<br /><br />Ces textes, Ă©crits par des navigateurs, des aventuriers ou des jĂ©suites tĂ©moignent de la fascination des EuropĂ©ens – non sans incomprĂ©hension – devant cette nouvelle civilisation, qu’ils jugent aussitĂŽt supĂ©rieure Ă  toutes celles qu’ils ont dĂ©couvertes jusqu’alors. En miroir, un texte japonais, jamais traduit en français, raconte l’arrivĂ©e de ces hommes blancs, avec de longs nez et aux maniĂšres rustres, qu’ils appellent pĂ©jorativement les nanban-jin, les «barbares du Sud».
Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Héliotrope 2017 - 3
Le grand-pĂšre du jeune Faldistoire se prend pour un fantĂŽme, la mĂšre de Sylvie pratique la sorcellerie et lit l’avenir dans les tarots tandis que, sous le vernis de la normalitĂ©, le pĂšre de SĂ©bastien cache de sombres desseins. Faldistoire, Sylvie et SĂ©bastien frĂ©quentent la mĂȘme Ă©cole primaire, puis, au secondaire, le mĂȘme collĂšge privĂ©. OĂč Almanach les rejoint pour devenir, un jour, l’amant de Faldistoire.<br /><br />Non loin de lĂ , dans le cimetiĂšre, sous le regard inexpressif des crapauds, de nouveaux trous sont sans arrĂȘt creusĂ©s. Car il ne fait pas bon vivre pour les enfants de Chicoutimi : viols, accidents tragiques, meurtres insensĂ©s. Heureusement, la plupart d’entre eux reviennent aprĂšs le trĂ©pas. Ils s’apprĂȘtent Ă  prendre leur revanche.<br /><br />Un roman rageur et foisonnant, menĂ© au pas de charge.
The Fifth Season [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Orbit 2015 - 8
This is the way the world ends. Again.<br /><br />Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.<br /><br />Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.<br /><br /><br /><i>original cover of ISBN <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=0316229296" title="0316229296">0316229296</a>/<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=9780316229296" title="9780316229296">9780316229296</a></i>
Seven Surrenders [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Tor Books 2017 - 3
The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.<br /><br />In which automation now provides for everybody’s basic needs.<br />In which nobody living can remember an actual war.<br />In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion—but ecumenical “sensayers” minister in private, one-on-one.<br />In which gendered language is archaic, and to dress as strongly male or female is, if not exactly illegal, deeply taboo.<br />In which nationality is a fading memory, and most people identify instead with their choice of the seven global Hives, distinguished from one another by their different approaches to the big questions of life.<br /><br />And it is a world in which, unknown to most, the entire social order is teetering on the edge of collapse.<br /><br />Because even in utopia, humans will conspire. And also because something new has arisen: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to conscious life.
L'étranger [Book] Douban Goodreads
9.4 (16 ratings) author: ALBERT CAMUS publishing house: ㊠㈩ç‘Șć‡ș版瀟 1971 - 3
L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values. For this new edition Ray Davison makes use of recent critical analysis of L'Etranger to give a full and concise description of Camus's early philosophy of the Absurd and the ideas and preoccupations from which the novel emerges. Davison also discusses the developing pattern of Camus's notion of the art of the novel, his views on 'classicism', simplicity and ambiguity, his fondness for paradox, and his love of everyday situations which yield to mythical interpretation.
Latium : Tome II [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Denoël 2016 - 11
Dans un futur lointain, l’espĂšce humaine a succombĂ© Ă  l’HĂ©catombe. Reste, aprĂšs l’extinction, un peuple d’automates intelligents, mĂ©tamorphosĂ©s en immenses nefs stellaires. Orphelins de leurs crĂ©ateurs et dieux, esseulĂ©s et nĂ©vrosĂ©s, ces princes et princesses de l'espace attendent, repliĂ©s dans l’Urbs, une inĂ©luctable invasion extraterrestre, Ă  laquelle leur programmation les empĂȘche de s’opposer.<br /><br />Plautine est l’une d’eux. DerniĂšre Ă  adhĂ©rer Ă  l’espoir mystique du retour de l’Homme, elle dĂ©rive depuis des siĂšcles aux confins du Latium, lorsqu’un mystĂ©rieux signal l’amĂšne Ă  reprendre sa quĂȘte. Elle ignore alors Ă  quel point son destin est liĂ© Ă  la guerre que s’apprĂȘte Ă  mener son ancien alliĂ©, le proconsul Othon.<br /><br />PĂ©tri de la philosophie de Leibniz et du théùtre de Corneille, Latium est un space opera aux batailles spatiales flamboyantes et aux intrigues tortueuses. Un spectacle de science-fiction vertigineux, dans la veine d’un Dan Simmons ou d’un Iain M. Banks.
La Nouvelle Gestion de soi : Ce qu'il faut faire pour vivre mieux [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: Mardaga 2014 - 6
<b>Conseils pratiques et exercices pour apprendre Ă  gĂ©rer et rĂ©guler vos Ă©motions.</b><br /><br />Notre bonheur et notre contribution Ă  celui des autres dĂ©pendent, pour une large part, de notre aptitude Ă  gĂ©rer efficacement nos Ă©motions, nos impulsions et nos actions. Cette aptitude n’est pas une entitĂ© mystĂ©rieuse, la volontĂ©, que certains possĂ©deraient et d’autres pas. Elle rĂ©sulte d’un ensemble de comportements que chacun apprend dĂšs l’enfance et qu’il peut continuer Ă  dĂ©velopper Ă  l’ñge adulte. <br /><br />Pour apprendre Ă  bien se gĂ©rer, il n’est pas nĂ©cessaire de faire de longues Ă©tudes de psychologie, mais il est trĂšs utile, voire indispensable, de comprendre certains processus psychologiques. L’ouvrage prĂ©sente les informations qui facilitent la modification d’habitudes nĂ©fastes, le changement de schĂ©mas de pensĂ©e, le contrĂŽle d’impulsions dangereuses, la confrontation avec des situations stressantes, le dĂ©veloppement d’activitĂ©s Ă©panouissantes. Il fournit un cadre thĂ©orique qui permet d’articuler, de façon cohĂ©rente, les diverses façons d’agir sur soi-mĂȘme. La perspective est celle de la psychologie scientifique. Les recommandations pratiques sont basĂ©es sur de nombreuses observations cliniques et sur l’état actuel de recherches fondamentales.<br /><br /><b>Cet ouvrage de dĂ©veloppement personnel vous permettra d'atteindre le bonheur grĂące Ă  la gestion de soi.<br /></b><br />CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE<br /><br />L’ouvrage fournit un cadre thĂ©orique qui permet d’articuler, de façon cohĂ©rente, les diverses façons d’agir sur soi-mĂȘme.<b> – </b><b>
<i>Sciences &amp; pseudo-sciences, n°315</i>
</b><br /><br />RĂ©solument basĂ©es sur les principes de la psychologie scientifique, les stratĂ©gies de gestion de soi proposĂ©es par J. Van Rillaer sont pourtant parfaitement accessibles Ă  tout un chacun, sans prĂ©requis aucun quant aux connaissances dans le domaine. C’est, au sens noble du terme, de la trĂšs bonne vulgarisation. <b>
<i>– Science et pseudo-sciences<br /></i>
</b><br />Comme le souligne Christophe AndrĂ© dans sa prĂ©face : un ouvrage de rĂ©fĂ©rence !<b> – <i>Psychologies Magazine</i></b><br /><br />Cet ouvrage - Ă  la fois universel et trĂšs personnel - ravira les thĂ©rapeutes novices par ses qualitĂ©s pĂ©dagogiques et comblera les lacunes thĂ©oriques des plus anciens. <b>– François Nef, <i>Revue francophone de clinique comportementale et cognitive</i></b><br /><br />À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR<br /><br /><b>Jacques Van Rillaer </b>est Professeur Ă©mĂ©rite de psychologie Ă  l’universitĂ© de Louvain-la-Neuve et aux facultĂ©s universitaires Saint-Louis (Belgique). Il est l’auteur de nombreux articles et ouvrages de psychologie et, en particulier aux Ă©ditions Mardaga, de <i>L’agressivitĂ© humaine</i> (1975), <i>Les illusions de la psychanalyse</i> (1981) et <i>La gestion de soi</i> (1992). Il est Ă©galement co-auteur du <i>Livre noir de la psychanalyse</i> (Les ArĂšnes, 2005).
Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur [Book] Goodreads
publishing house: é—šæ§›ć‡ș版瀟 1995 - 5
Vous, lecteur, vous, lectrice, vous ĂȘtes le principal personnage de ce roman, et rĂ©jouissez-vous: c'est non seulement un des plus brillants mais aussi un des plus humoristiques qui aient Ă©tĂ© Ă©crits dans ce quart de siĂšcle. Vous allez vous retrouver dans ce petit monde de libraires, de professeurs, de traducteurs, de censeurs et d'ordinateurs qui s'agitent autour d'un livre. Vous allez surtout vous engager dans des aventures qui vous conduiront chaque fois au point oĂč vous ne pourrez plus retenir votre envie d'en savoir davantage, et lĂ , ce sera Ă  vous de continuer, d'inventer. Bon voyage.<br /><br />-<br /><br />Dans ce roman, Italo Calvino se rĂ©vĂšle ĂȘtre un professeur de roman et un conteur efficace. ComposĂ© de onze fragments, l'auteur offre (non sans humour) une remise en question du genre traditionnel du roman. Les dix premiers ressemblent Ă  une sorte d'encyclopĂ©die des formes romanesques et le dernier les englobe toutes. L'auteur veut ainsi mettre en avant les mĂ©canismes du rapport entre le lecteur et le roman.
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