Fiction Sagas

Après le succès de la trilogie "Cassandra", le premier volet de la nouvelle saga d'Anna Jacobs, qui met en scène la jeune Keara, contrainte de quitter l'Irlande et ceux qu'elle aime pour l'Australie et se faire une place au soleil. Irlande, début des années 1860. Keara Michaels ne quitterait pour rien au monde sa terre natale et ses deux sœurs. Mais le destin est parfois cruel... Enceinte et sans le sou, elle est contrainte de traverser les océans pour gagner l'Australie toute seule : le père de son futur enfant, qui est marié, ne l'accompagnera pas.

“Feist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.”—Chicago Sun-Times The Serpentwar Saga continues! The second book in master fantasist Raymond E. Feist’s New York Times bestselling classic epic fantasy adventure of war, magic, betrayal, and heroism, Rise of a Merchant...

One of the brightest stars of Hollywood’s golden age was Lily Adams, the beloved picture of all-American innocence. Why she suddenly vanished from the spotlight was a mystery even to those closest to her. Upon Lily’s death seventy years later, her granddaughter, Carolyn Prior, struggles to understand a woman she loved but never really knew. Then, sifting through the memorabilia of a once-glamorous career, Carolyn comes across a letter from her grandmother.

Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt.

Pour les membres de la famille Picard, la fin de 1945 marque les retrouvailles. Thalie rentre d’Angleterre en compagnie de sa fille Aglaé, une enfant née hors mariage. Elle retrouve sa mère Marie, esseulée depuis le décès de son époux. La veuve s’imagine déjà vivant avec sa fille et sa petite-fille, mais à quarante-cinq ans, Thalie entend conserver farouchement son indépendance. De son côté, Thomas, grièvement blessé lors du raid de Dieppe, a été rapatrié. Le retour à la vie civile lui est ardu.

Dans la vallée des Eaux-Claires, la jolie Claire, au tempérament rebelle, mène une jeunesse insouciante dans les ateliers du moulin où son père fabrique du papier et la campagne environnante où elle se promène avec le loup qu'elle a recueilli. Bientôt, tout s'effondre : accablé de dettes, son père la promet en mariage au fils d'un riche propriétaire, à qui elle voue une haine farouche. Or, un soir, Claire rencontre Jean, jeune bagnard en cavale.

Kingsbridge, 1327. Quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Leurs quatre destinées s’en trouveront changées.

L’histoire que je vais vous raconter se déroule dans Bellechasse, ma terre natale. On est en 1931. Eva et Hormidas, mariés depuis vingt ans, sont toujours aussi amoureux. Mais pour la première fois, un frette à faire péter les clous dans les murs s’installe entre eux. L’origine de cette chicane aux proportions bibliques ? Les agissements de leur fille Aline, maladivement jalouse de sa jumelle Alice à la jambe de bois.

The scent of flowers and change is in the air for the Wingate sisters. With her husband gone for weeks at a stretch, Rose's unwavering enthusiasm is tested, forcing her to remove her famous rose-colored glasses and face a family crisis. While Susannah plans an anniversary surprise for Rex, Chloe finds the courage to try one more career path, with help coming from the one constant in her life, her precious furbaby, Lady Bug.

Long ago, the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south, the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar, the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land. The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man. But after a thousand years, it has begun to quicken again.

Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander—a novel of the enduring power of love and commitment against the devastating forces of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace. A sweeping, intensely compelling romantic historical saga, Tatiana and Alexander is a Russian Thorn Birds and a truly unforgettable listening experience.

In this second book, the team having to hold up their travel to allow the wounded to heal. Jack continues to second guess all of Cole’s decisions. They continue to fight off criminals and FEMA as they save some good people. FEMA plans to start a new country under their control. They need slaves to work in the factories, mines, and farms. Cole has a personal tragedy caused by the death of someone close to him. The group suffers more wounds and deaths as they struggle on their trip to Oregon.

A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, the first book of the masterful Cairo Trilogy introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

Après trois saisons, lady Sarah Pleinsworth se morfond d'être toujours célibataire. Le mariage de sa cousine pourrait être l'occasion de dénicher un époux mais, décidément, elle joue de malchance car son voisin de table n'est autre que Hugh Prentice, l'homme qui a causé l'exil de son cousin Daniel et semé la zizanie dans sa famille. De son côté, Hugh ne peut pas souffrir Sarah, qu'il juge exaltée et outrancière. La noce promet d'être gaie... Pourtant, il suffira de quelques baisers pour faire voler en éclats tous les a priori et éveiller une passion dont ils seront les premiers surpris.

Ulric’s quiet life of exile has been turned upside down. Dellioph is unable to play his music or keep his secrets. Gali, having lost everything, teeters on the brink of despair. And they’re all being chased by dragons, which are nothing like the old stories.

En esta tercera parte del diario del mayor USA que "viajó" a la Palestina de Cristo, el audiolector, entre otras fascinantes sorpresas, encontrará la respuesta a una de las grandes incógnitas de la vida del Hijo del Hombre: su infancia. "Algo" que los evangelistas silenciaron, privándonos de una perspectiva más auténtica sobre la más grande figura de la Historia. Nadie, hasta hoy, había tenido la audacia suficiente para atreverse a narrar, paso a paso, cómo fueron esos primeros años de la encarnación humana del Hijo de Dios.

A discarded child fated to become a powerful Jarl - here is the story of Sidroc. Fate guides the path of his father, Hrald, to his meeting with the woman whose son would help change the face of ninth-century Angle-land. An ever-growing rivalry between Sidroc and his cousin Toki defines the boys' early years. Their young uncle, Yrling, knows success as a raider in far-off Angle-land, and trains his nephews in the ways of the warrior. Ahead of them is the perilous crossing of the North Sea, which stands between them and the plunder they seek.

Body & Soul is the story of a young man whose life is transformed by a gift. The gift is not without price - the work is relentless, the teachers exacting - but the reward is a journey that takes him to the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful, private schools, a gilt-edged marriage, and Carnegie Hall. Claude moves through this life as if he were playing a difficult composition, swept up in its drama and tension, surprised by its grace notes. Music, here, becomes a character in its own right, equaled in strength only by the music of Frank Conroy's own unmistakable, true voice.

Des générations de person­nages, coincés par les normes sociales, testent tour à tour les limites de la décence. Mais entre le tabou et l’acceptable, la frontière n’est pas aussi claire qu’on aimerait le croire.

Best-selling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, a 19-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing 49, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty 19-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard.