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The plot is set in early-1970s England. Serena Frome ("rhymes with plume"), the daughter of an Anglican bishop, shows a talent for mathematics and is admitted to the University of Cambridge. But she struggles academically, and graduates with a third. While at Cambridge she becomes romantically involved with Tony Canning, a professor, who before abruptly ending the affair secures a position for Serena with MI5. The job is low-level, but a more exciting opportunity appears when Serena is offered a chance to take part in a new covert program codenamed "Sweet Tooth". To counter Communist propaganda during the Cold War, the agency wants to offer financial assistance to young writers, academics and journalists with an anti-Communist bent. Serena, who is an avid and quick reader of fiction, is given the task of vetting burgeoning writer Thomas Haley.

Serena is immediately taken by Haley's published short fiction. She travels to the University of Sussex, where he works, to offer him a stipend from the fictional Freedom International Foundation. Soon the two begin a romantic affair, but things gradually start to unravel. Serena discovers that Professor Canning (who, it turns out, broke off their affair only because he knew he was dying from cancer) was in fact a Soviet spy, and she was recruited because the agency wanted to keep tabs on Canning. Then, when Haley's first novel comes out, it is a great critical success, but its dystopian, anti-capitalist theme is not well received by the agency. Finally, his affair with Serena is exposed by the press, and the whole Sweet Tooth program is threatened.

Serena fears that she has lost Haley's love forever, now he knows she has deceived him. Haley, however, had known about the program for months, and instead of ending the affair, had decided to turn the story into a novel. The reader now discovers that the author of Sweet Tooth is in fact Haley, despite its being written from Serena's first-person perspective. As the novel ends, Haley asks Serena in a letter to marry him.

By day 59-year-old Fiona Maye, a high court judge, presides over family division cases; by night she sips Sancerre on the chaise longue in her Gray’s Inn flat, dines with colleagues at Middle Temple, or attends concerts at Kings Place ô(Schubert, Scriabin)ö. Her 35-year marriage with her academic husband is imploding, but this is background noise; the main event is the emergency case she’s just agreed to take on. A 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness named Adam û an impossibly beautiful, slightly unbelievable, near ethereal presence who writes poetry and plays the violin û is refusing the blood transfusion that could save his life, and Fiona has to decide whether rational or religious thought wins the day.

The heart of Book 7 is a hero's mission--not just in Harry's quest for the Horcruxes, but in his journey from boy to man--and Harry faces more danger than that found in all six books combined, from the direct threat of the Death Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle perils of losing faith in himself. Attentive readers would do well to remember Dumbledore's warning about making the choice between "what is right and what is easy," and know that Rowling applies the same difficult principle to the conclusion of her series. While fans will find the answers to hotly speculated questions about Dumbledore, Snape, and you-know-who, it is a testament to Rowling's skill as a storyteller that even the most astute and careful reader will be taken by surprise.

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.

Dans les rochers proches de Fjàllbacka, le petit port touristique suédois dont il était question dans La Princesse des glaces, on découvre le cadavre d'une femme. L'affaire se complique quand apparaissent, plus profond au même endroit, deux squelettes de femmes...
L'inspecteur Patrik Hedstrôm est chargé de l'enquête en cette période estivale où l'incident pourrait faire fuir les touristes et qui, canicule oblige, rend difficiles les dernières semaines de grossesse d'Erica Falck, sa compagne.
Lentement, le tableau se précise : les squelettes sont certainement ceux de deux jeunes femmes disparues vingt-quatre ans plus tôt. Revient ainsi en lumière la famille Hult, dont le patriarche, Ephraïm, magnétisait les foules accompagné de ses deux petits garçons, Gabriel et Johannes, dotés de pouvoirs de guérisseurs.
Depuis cette époque et un étrange suicide, la famille est divisée en deux branches qui se haïssent. Alors que Patrik assemble les morceaux du puzzle, on apprend que Jenny, une adolescente en vacances dans un camping, a disparu. La liste s'allonge...

Le soir de son treizième anniversaire, lors d'une énième dispute entre ses parents, Jane Howard annonce qu'elle ne se mariera jamais et n'aura jamais d'enfants.
Mais sommes-nous maître de notre destinée ? Une quinzaine d'années plus tard, Jane est professeur à Boston et amoureuse de Theo, un homme brillant et excentrique qui lui donne une petite Emily. A sa grande surprise, Jane s'épanouit dans la maternité. Mais la tragédie frappe et Jane, dévastée, n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : quitter le monde. Alors qu'elle a renoncé à la vie, c'est paradoxalement la disparition d'une jeune fille qui va lui donner la possibilité d'une rédemption.
Lancée dans une quête obsessionnelle, persuadée qu'elle est plus à même de résoudre cette affaire que la police, Jane va se retrouver face au plus cruel des choix : rester dans l'ombre ou mettre en lumière une effroyable vérité...

ExûBuddhist monk, former LAPD detective, and current private investigator Tenzing ôTenö Norbu knows Bill Bohannon as many things: loving husband, devoted father, police administrator, former partner, and best friend. But then an uninvited guest from Bill’s past upends the Bohannons’ Fourth of July barbecue, revealing in levelheaded Bill the most unexpected behaviorùbehavior that awkwardly drops Ten in the middle of a crumbling marriage.
Ten makes an unexpected move of his own when he agrees to pro bono work for a convicted felon. But it was dope slinger Godfrey Chambers Ten had repeatedly busted during his days on the force, not the reformed and rechristened G-Force who is now asking for Ten’s help in claiming money left to him by a kind-hearted benefactorùand contested by the benefactor’s self-serving family.
Soon Ten’s investigations lead him down the darkest corridors of the Internet and halfway around the globe to Sarajevo as he navigates the seedy worlds of human trafficking and personal regret. As his cases intertwine, Ten will rely on the wisdom of the Buddha and his own network of relationshipsùwith super hacker Mike, outrageously idiosyncratic assistant Kim, old monastery friends Yeshe and Lopsang, Serbian cabbie and former policija Petar, and, of course, feline rock Tankùto solve the puzzle ­and keep free of his own tangled past. Especially when an old flame returns.

Erica Falck, trente-cinq ans, auteure de biographies installée dans une petite ville paisible de la côte ouest suédoise, découvre le cadavre aux poignets tailladés d'une amie d'enfance, Alexandra Wijkner, nue dans une baignoire d'eau gelée.
Impliquée malgré elle dans l'enquête (à moins qu'une certaine tendance naturelle à fouiller la vie des autres ne soit ici à l'œuvre), Erica se convainc très vite qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un suicide. Sur ce point - et sur beaucoup d'autres -, l'inspecteur Patrik Hedström, amoureux transi, la rejoint.
A la conquête de la vérité, stimulée par un amour naissant, Erica, enquêtrice au foyer façon Desperate Housewives, plonge clans les strates d'une petite société provinciale qu'elle croyait bien connaître et découvre ses secrets, d'autant plus sombres que sera bientôt trouvé le corps d'un peintre clochard - autre mise en scène de suicide.

Tessa has just a few months to live.
Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex.
Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life.But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??!