検索キーワード： 著者 "Sylvain Sylvain" すべてのカテゴリー

Charline et son amie Groseille vont passer leurs vacances au Ran du Chabrier, un camping naturiste du sud de la France. Ensemble, elles vont se livrer à de multiples orgies, des rencontres sexuelles inédites, qui leur feront découvrir bien plus que le plaisir issu de la mécanique des corps. Car Groseille, habituée des lieux, a une idée en tête. Elle souhaite initier son amie à des jouissances qui surpassent celles de la simple chair.

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?  

Devant les coups du sort il n'y a pas trente-six choix possibles. Soit on lutte, on se démène et l'on fait comme la guêpe dans un verre de vin. Soit on s'abandonne à vivre. C'est le choix des héros de ces nouvelles. Ils sont marins, amants, guerriers, artistes ou voyageurs, ils vivent à Paris, Zermatt ou Riga, en Afghanistan, en Yakoutie, au Sahara. Tous ont choisi une "résignation joyeuse, désespérée face à ce qui advient".

Raven Wood spends her days at Florence's Uffizi gallery restoring Renaissance art. But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes her life forever. When she intervenes in the senseless beating of a homeless man, his attackers turn on her, dragging her into an alley. Raven is only semiconscious when their assault is interrupted by a cacophony of growls followed by her attackers' screams.

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.

Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he's confident that they can face any challenge. And he's eager to become a father. But Julianne's graduate program threatens Gabriel's plans, as the pressures of being a student become all-consuming. When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront Julianne about the subject of her presentation - research that conflicts with his own.

Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?

Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well-respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.

Raven and her sister, Cara, are at the mercy of a small detachment of Florentine vampyres who are delivering them as a peace offering to the feared Curia in Rome. Though she's unsure William survived the coup that toppled his principality, Raven is determined to protect her sister at all costs, even if it means challenging Borek, the commander of the detachment. In an effort to keep Raven from falling into the hands of his enemies, William puts himself at the mercy of the Roman, the dangerous and mysterious vampyre king of Italy. But the Roman is not what he expects.

Assez tôt, j'ai compris que je n'allais pas pouvoir faire grand-chose pour changer le monde. Je me suis alors promis de m'installer quelque temps, seul, dans une cabane. Dans les forêts de Sibérie. J'ai acquis une isba de bois, loin de tout, sur les bords du lac Baïkal. Là, pendant six mois, à cinq jours de marche du premier village, perdu dans une nature démesurée, j'ai tâché d'être heureux. Je crois y être parvenu.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel, read by a returning cast. We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong. As the human race picks up the pieces of destruction left behind, a new world order emerges. New alliances are formed. Old divisions are strengthened. And, with a power struggle fuelled by the threat of mutually assured destruction, nothing is certain.

Acacia Santos excels at her job as concierge at the prestigious Hotel Victoire in Paris. When her superior, Marcel, is attacked in a supposed random mugging, she is tasked with serving one of the hotel's most mysterious and attractive guests. Nicholas Cassirer checks into the hotel under an assumed name every three months. Usually, he stays in the penthouse suite with a beautiful female companion but on this occasion, he arrives alone.

"Grâce à la route, je me suis mis en marche, grâce à la marche, je me maintiens en mouvement et, paradoxalement, c'est quand j'avance, devant moi, que tout s'arrête : le temps et l'obscure inquiétude de ne pas le maîtriser." Pour ralentir la fuite du temps, Sylvain Tesson parcourt le monde à pied, à cheval, à vélo ou en canot. Dans les steppes d'Asie centrale, au Tibet, dans les forêts françaises ou à Paris, il marche, chevauche, mais escalade aussi les monuments à mains nues.

As a child Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand buried deep within the earth. As an adult she's dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers - and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer now than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force.

Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child: a huge metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. The discovery set in motion a cataclysmic chain of events with geopolitical ramifications. Rose and the Earth Defense Corps raced to master the enigmatic technology, as giant robots suddenly descended on Earth's most populous cities, killing one hundred million people in the process.

"Un vrai voyage, c'est quoi -
Une folie qui nous obsède, dis-je, nous emporte dans le mythe ; une dérive, un délire quoi, traversé d'Histoire, de géographie, irrigué de vodka, une glissade à la Kerouac, un truc qui nous laissera pantelants, le soir, en larmes sur le bord d'un fossé. Dans la fièvre...
- Ah ? fit-il.
- Cette année ce sont les deux cents ans de la Retraite de Russie, dis-je.
- Pas possible ! dit Gras.
- Pourquoi ne pas faire offrande de ces quatre mille kilomètres aux soldats de Napoléon ?"

Blanche Bellemarre, Angélina Desmarais, Alice Lebrun, Marge Simpson et la Maude de Harold et Maude. Toutes ces femmes et des centaines d’autres encore, Béatrice Picard les a incarnées au théâtre et à la télévision. Elle a été des premières compagnies théâtrales, elle a joué dans de nombreux radioromans populaires des années 1940 et 1950 et participé à la naissance de la télévision publique et privée. Elle est le dernier témoin direct d’émissions légendaires comme Le Survenant, Cré Basile et Symphorien.

"J'ai retrouvé l'autostoppeur dans une petite ville du sud-est de la France, après des années sans penser à lui. Je l'ai retrouvé amoureux, installé, devenu père. Je me suis rappelé tout ce qui m'avait décidé, autrefois, à lui demander de sortir de ma vie. J'ai frappé à sa porte. J'ai rencontré Marie." Avec "Par les routes", Sylvain Prudhomme raconte la force de l'amitié et du désir, le vertige devant la multitude des existences possibles.

"'- Tesson ! Je poursuis une bête depuis six ans, dit Munier. Elle se cache sur les plateaux du Tibet. J'y retourne cet hiver, je t'emmène. - Qui est-ce ? - La panthère des neiges. Une ombre magique ! - Je pensais qu'elle avait disparu, dis-je. - C'est ce qu'elle fait croire."

Two lovers bound by their darkest desires.... Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell, and is teaching her the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics and jealous ex-lovers. Can their love survive against all odds, and will Gabriel fight to keep Julia?