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Qui est Heather Thorne, cette jeune femme frappée d'amnésie qui ne sait plus si elle existe réellement ou si elle n'est que le double d'une inconnue croisée par un jour d'octobre ? Et qui est Andrée A. Michaud, cette écrivaine qui se demande si elle n'a pas usurpé la place d'une morte et si son véritable nom n'est pas Heather, Heather Thorne ?

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

July Fourth: New York City. Hundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers, awaiting the nation's largest fireworks display. Soon, the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder. Then, the sky will grow dark again—but it will not be empty. The air will be filled with clouds of smoke, and specks of debris will rain down everywhere. Some will pick bits of paper from their children's hair. Some will brush away still-burning sparks or embers.

The island of Sinos. Strategically positioned between Greece and Turkey, this small Mediterranean isle is a relic of the past—an old Turkish stronghold fortified by the Nazis during World War II. Now it has become a prison for political offenders from the Greek mainland. A fortress of grim solitude and secrets, Sinos is the last place anyone would voluntarily enter—but deep sea diver Jack Savage has little choice. After losing his boat in a suspicious explosion, Savage is approached by shipping magnate Dimitri Aleko.

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land. Nelson has some serious problems. His marriage has fallen apart, and he may lose his land, cash and crop in the divorce. What's more, in need of some quick cash, he had foolishly agreed to smuggle

Franz Cimballi, héritier d'une énorme fortune, a été dépouillé de tous ses biens et expédié à l'autre bout du monde dans le dénuement le plus total. Il va, avec une fulgurante énergie, tenter de reconstruire un empire et d'abattre l'un après l'autre tous ses ennemis, ceux qui ont trahi son père.

A “superb, suspense-packed” (Detroit News) novel about one man’s attempt to combat the greed and corruption of a massive pharmaceutical company, from the #1 bestselling author “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times). “A storyteller of the most daring imagination . . . chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking.”—Associated Press When young dancer Jennifer Schonberg became pregnant by accident, her feelings were mixed.

In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are on a collision course. But in the distant future, a time travel team is preparing to intervene, snatching the passengers and leaving behind prefabricated smoking bodies for rescue teams to discover. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., air disaster investigator Smith is about to receive a phone call that will change his life—and alter the fate of the world.

Le lieutenant Dany Myers est officier de police dans une petite ville du Midwest américain. Son père y était commissaire et lorsqu'il a brutalement disparu, Dany a tout naturellement voulu prendre la relève. Mais cet « héritage » est encombrant et il est mal perçu de ses supérieurs. On lui confie plutôt les tâches subalternes et ses collègues gardent leurs distances. Sa vie sentimentale est aussi une suite d'échecs. C'est un homme seul et pessimiste.

The bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times) confronts one of the most compelling issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. When neuroscientist Edward Armstrong begins dating Kimberly Stewart, a descendant of a woman who was hanged as a witch at the time of the Salem witch trials, he takes advantage of the opportunity to delve into a pet theory: that the “devil” in Salem in 1692 had been a hallucinogenic drug inadvertently consumed with mold-tainted grain.