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À Japantown, quartier nippon de San Francisco, une famille japonaise est abattue dans une mise en scène macabre. Unique indice : un kanji dessiné sur la scène du crime... Le soir même, la police fait appel à Jim Brodie, un expert spécialisé dans la culture et l'art asiatiques. Surtout, le kanji est le même que celui trouvé sur les lieux du meurtre de sa femme, quatre ans plus tôt. Prêt à tout pour rendre sa propre justice, Brodie se lance alors dans une enquête mortelle sur les traces d'une organisation de yakuza insaisissables, œuvrant à l'ombre des plus hautes sphères du pouvoir, de San Francisco à Tokyo.

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

When smart-aleck, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig. The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his bills aren’t going to pay themselves. As it turns out, he probably should've been more selective. When he tracks down Cameron Kovak, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn finds himself face to face with a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare - a baby Cthulhu, wearing his target's skin like a onesie. And that's just the start of it.

Auf spektakuläre Weise kommen zwei Tänzerinnen einer internationalen Bauchtanz-Show ums Leben. Schnell wird klar: es war Mord! Das ruft Chefermittler Zeki Demirbilek alias "Kommissar Pascha" auf den Plan: warum mussten die beiden jungen Frauen sterben? Handelt es sich um ein Beziehungsdrama oder steckt noch mehr dahinter? Zeki und das Team der Sonderkommission Migra schauen hinter die glamouröse Kulisse der Show und stoßen dabei auf jede Menge Lügen und Skandale.

Speed: the most demonized - and misunderstood - drug in the land. Deprived of the ingrained romantic mysticism of the opiate or the cosmopolitan chic of cocaine or the mundane tolerance of marijuana, there is no sympathy for this devil. Yet speed - crystal meth, amphetamines, Dexedrine, Benzedrine, Adderall; crank, spizz, chickenscratch, oblivious marching powder, the go-fast - is the most American of drugs: twice the productivity at half the cost, and equal opportunity for all.

The Dowager Duchess has decided to sell off the less important family possessions. Blotto and Twinks are dispatched to help the valuer. He spies some Egyptian artifacts and in some excitement rushes back to London, leaving Blotto and Twinks alone in the attic, where they are drawn to a sarchophagus decorated with hieroglyphs. Twinks starts to translate: "Anyone who desecrates this shrine will be visited by the Pharoah's curse..." - just as Blotto prises the lid off.

An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review). In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on...