Novel / Adventure

All books of classical or modern literature. Novels, biographies, poetry, plays, narratives, short stories, memoirs, correspondence, anthologies, etc.

Ballad for Leroy

Ballad for Leroy

The first thing Leroy sees when he wakes up from his coma is a picture of a pin-up girl in a bikini, her face painted in the colors of the American flag. The image is as vivid as the seven years that separate his departure for Iraq from the precise moment he awakens in a specialized facility. Having forgotten even his own name, will he ever be able to become the man he once was? As he makes a terrible decision, his fate will change the lives of those around him forever: Freddie

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Jade, daughter of the water

Jade, daughter of the water

Jade lives in a city ruled with an iron fist by the formidable Lady Mar. The ruler, who seems terrified of water, has declared war on the Echoes, aquatic creatures with strange powers. Jade, who hides the fact that she is half-Echo, forgets the danger when a newcomer arrives in town: Faune, who irresistibly draws her in. But Faune is an Echo hunter who grew up hating this unknown people. Now Jade is in love with the very man who could kill her.

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Crime in Amsterdam

Crime in Amsterdam

A serial killer is on the loose in the Transvaal district. Is it one of the residents? A man? A woman? What if there are several? People are panicking.
One morning, Sarah's body was discovered along the canal, her skin lacerated with swastikas. A few days later, Carl's body was found tied to the memorial. His feet were bare, the soles of his feet raw. He, too, had swastikas drawn on his body.

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Everything for him

Everything for him

Neighbor, boss, best friend, Matthew Hathaway holds first place in Suzanne's life. Yet, she wants more. She wants to tear off his clothes and caress the tattoos that crisscross his chest, she wants to kiss his full lips and lie next to him every night. She wants him to be hers, and hers alone, not all the girls he takes home after closing time at the bar where they both work.

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Like an open book

Like an open book

Ashleigh Walker is in love. In the most intense and overwhelming sense of the word. An unconditional love that consumes her. Enough to make her forget about her poor grades. Enough to make her forget her parents' crumbling marriage. There's just one thing that troubles her... Why isn't it Dylan, her boyfriend, who makes her feel this way, but rather Miss Murray, her English teacher?

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A perfect mother

A perfect mother

Jennifer Lewis receives a phone call informing her daughter, Emma, a student in Spain, that she is accused of murder. She begins her own investigation to prove her daughter's innocence, but gradually uncovers details that shake her convictions.

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The discreet virtues of corruption

The discreet virtues of corruption

No one escapes corruption. It permeates eras and societies, bringing with it a constant stream of scandals and outrage. Journalists find a new example every day, and history books bear its mark everywhere. As a philosopher, Gaspard Koenig sets out to trace its origins. Exploring fields as diverse as literature, history, film, and contemporary art, he encounters those who practice it.

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The violinist

The violinist

Moscow, 1948. As the virtuoso violinist Ilya Grenko leaves the concert hall to thunderous applause, his Stradivarius in hand, he is arrested and taken to the terrifying Lubyanka, the KGB headquarters, without understanding what he is accused of. After days of deprivation, humiliation, and interrogation, Ilya signs an absurd confession that condemns him to twenty years in the Gulag, after he is promised that his wife Galina and their two very young children will not be harmed.

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Don't forget to breathe

Don't forget to breathe

Alex Thompson's life follows the script. A law student at Columbia University, she's focused on her grades, her career, her future. The last thing she needs is to reconnect with the man who broke her heart.

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What we need is a dead man

What we need is a dead man

Three promising young boys are driving along the side of a cliff.
It's the night of July 12, 1998, the night of "I Will Survive." What the song doesn't say is at what price.
The Cybelle workshops employ almost all the women of Vrainville, Normandy. They have been the economic heart of the region for nearly a century, synonymous with excellence in women's underwear, a legend.

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