"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he...

Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town--a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor--until one evening when Mrs. Sofia Sparrow, a fortune-teller and proprietor of an exclusive gaming parlor, shares with him a vision she has had: a golden path that will lead him to love and connection. She lays an Octavo for him, a spread of eight...

Série « Le projet Noël » – Tome 3 & 4 /4
Pour l'équipe du Kensington Hospital, Noël sera synonyme de voyage et de passion !
L'hiver du Dr Stella, Allie Kincheloe
Stella jubile. Sélectionnée pour participer au Projet Kensington, elle séjournera au Canada jusqu'à Noël, afin d'y tourner un documentaire médical. Seule ombre au tableau : le Dr Aiden Cook, chargé de l'accueillir...

"Emelie Jansson: a newly minted lawyer at a polished law firm. Teddy: an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law as he goes about his job as the firm's fixer and special investigator. In Stockholm Delete the two are entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's many worlds, where history is never a thing of the past, and always ready to threaten those who lived it. When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called...

"As the Thirty Years' War draws to a close, Johan Sokolewski, a lute-playing soldier, flees Warsaw with the Cossacks at his heels and arrives in Stockholm, where he becomes lutenist for the Swedish queen. On his first day at court, he learns that in the early hours of that morning, a body was discovered in the royal library. When the eccentric and aging queen mother discovers that her favorite book, a priceless sixth-century codex, has disappeared...

"Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit." --

"This English-language debut from the award-winning Chinese author contains nine short stories in her trademark with and style based around everyday people facing the challenges of loneliness, emotional and physical displacement and longing"--

"Stockholm, 1936. Harry Kvist, a bisexual ex-boxer now plying his trade as a debt collector, is bitter, angry and more alone than he has ever been. When his friend, Father Gabrielsson, is found brutally murdered by the altar of Katarina Church, it doesn't look as if the police are interested in finding the culprit. So Kvist decides to do it himself. As he investigates he uncovers a trail leading all the way to Nazi Germany where fascists are plotting...