From the #1 international bestselling author: a woman wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of how she got there in this “unpredictable and moving psychological thriller that keeps you holding your breath” (Métro) Alice, a fierce and respected Parisian cop, wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of the night before, handcuffed to a complete stranger—a musician named Gabriel. Disoriented, dazed, and with someone else’s blood on her shirt, Alice works furiously to reconnect the dots. She remembers clubbing with her friends the night before on the Champs-Élysées. Gabriel claims he was playing a gig in Dublin. Was she drugged? Kidnapped? Why is the gun in her jacket pocket missing a bullet? And whose blood is on her clothes? Over the next twenty-four hours, Alice and Gabriel race across New York in search of answers, stumbling upon a startling set of clues that point to a terrible adversary from the past. Alice must finally confront her memories of hunting the serial killer who took everything from her—a man she thought was dead, until now. From France's #1 bestselling author, Central Park is a taut and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers riveted until its final shocking twist.
EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case. Her mother, a former ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, died last year after falling from her balcony, and Louise has a hunch she was pushed. Though hesitant at first, Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events. And at the centre of it all, a woman named Angélique, whose angelic intentions may not be all they seem . . . Feverous, surprising and uplifting, Musso's newest novel is a labyrinth of emotions where nothing is certain from one page to the next. PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC BESTSELLER GUILLAUME MUSSO: 'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES 'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS 'THE KING OF EUROPEAN NOIR' LA REPUBBLICA, ITALY 'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST LOVED, BESTSELLING AUTHORS' HARLAN COBEN
#1 French Bestselling author of The Reunion 'It's no wonder that Guillaume Musso is one of France's most loved, bestselling authors' Harlan Coben Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere ... Parisian cop Martin Beaumont has never really got over his first love, Gabrielle. Their brief, intense affair in San Francisco and the pain of her rejection still haunt him years later. Now, however, he's a successful detective - and tonight he's going to arrest the legendary art thief, Archibald Maclean, when he raids the Musee d'Orsay for a priceless Van Gogh. But the enigmatic Archibald has other plans. Martin's pursuit of the master criminal across Paris is the first step in an adventure that will take him back to San Francisco, and to the edge of love and life itself.
If you could go back in time what would you do differently? What mistakes would you correct? For Eliott there is no doubt in his mind. To all appearances, his life has been a success. At sixty, he is an esteemed surgeon with a daughter he adores. The only thing missing is Ilena - a beautiful, generous-hearted girl who died thirty years ago. But then he is given an extraordinary opportunity to revisit his past: to go back to San Francisco when the seventies were in full swing and find the passionate young doctor who has yet to lose the love of his life... What ensues is a story full of intelligence, hope and humour about making the right and wrong choices and trying to deserve what we most desire.
From an international bestselling author: one foggy Paris night, a young woman is fished out of the Seine with no memory of who she is —but the quest to identify her leads to a woman who is already dead. On a winter night in Paris, a young woman is pulled naked out of the Seine. She has amnesia and bears no identifying marks apart from two peculiar tattoos. She is rushed to the infirmary of Paris police headquarters, but only a few hours later, she disappears. DNA analysis reveals her identity. She is the famous pianist Milena Bergman. But that’s impossible, because Milena died in a plane crash more than a year ago. Raphael, Milena’s former fiancé desperate for answers, and Roxane, a cop hell-bent on proving herself after a recent fall from grace, spearhead the investigation. Their quest to uncover the truth quickly reveals secrets long buried, a web of impostors, and danger lurking in plain sight. Nevertheless, they are determined to get to the center of this mystery: How can a person be both dead and alive at the same time?
A glamorous prep school girl goes missing after a love affair with a teacher in this "immensely satisfying" thriller from France's #1 bestselling novelist (Harlan Coben). Twenty-five years ago, on a campus paralyzed by a snowstorm, beautiful 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell ran away with her philosophy teacher after they began a secret affair. For Vinca, "love is everything or nothing." She is never seen again. The once inseparable Manon, Thomas and Maxime -- Vinca's best friends -- have not spoken since graduation. Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, the three of them committed a murder and buried the body in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for an ultramodern new building. Now, the three friends are about to meet again at their reunion. Will decades of lies unravel to reveal what really happened on that deadly winter night? Taut, suspenseful, and addictive, The Reunion will grip you until its haunting final page.
From an international bestselling author: one foggy Paris night, a young woman is fished out of the Seine with no memory of who she is —but the quest to identify her leads to a woman who is already dead. On a winter night in Paris, a young woman is pulled naked out of the Seine. She has amnesia and bears no identifying marks apart from two peculiar tattoos. She is rushed to the infirmary of Paris police headquarters, but only a few hours later, she disappears. DNA analysis reveals her identity. She is the famous pianist Milena Bergman. But that’s impossible, because Milena died in a plane crash more than a year ago. Raphael, Milena’s former fiancé desperate for answers, and Roxane, a cop hell-bent on proving herself after a recent fall from grace, spearhead the investigation. Their quest to uncover the truth quickly reveals secrets long buried, a web of impostors, and danger lurking in plain sight. Nevertheless, they are determined to get to the center of this mystery: How can a person be both dead and alive at the same time?
„O poveste în care cele mai nebunești visuri prind viață."- Paris - Match Pentru el, totul este scris dinainte Pentru ea, totul urmează să fie scris „Într-o zi de aprilie, fetița mea de trei ani, Carrie, a dispărut în timp ce ne jucam amândouă de-a v-ați ascunselea în apartamentul meu din Brooklyn." Așa începe povestea Florei Conway, romancieră renumită pentru talentul și discreția ei. Carrie, fetița sa, a dispărut într-un mod inexplicabil. Ușa și ferestrele apartamentului erau închise, iar camerele de supraveghere ale imobilului newyorkez n-au înregistrat niciun intrus. Ancheta poliției n-a scos nimic la iveală. În același timp, de partea cealaltă a Atlanticului, un scriitor cu inima frântă se izo¬lează într-o casă dărăpănată. Numai el deține cheia misterului. Iar Flora îl va scoate din vizuina sa, ceea ce va avea consecințe nebănuite pentru destinul fiecăruia în parte. În trei acte și două lovituri de teatru, Guillaume Musso ne poartă într-o poveste tulburătoare a cărei forță stă în puterea cărților și în dragostea pentru viață a personajelor ei. "Un amplu exercițiu de iluzionism despre interacțiunile dintre autor și creațiile sale." – L’Express „Musso semnează unul dintre cele mai personale romane ale sale. Și, totodată, unul dintre cele mai bune." – Le Parisien „Autorul francez ne invită într-o aventură plină de răsturnări de situație și de piste false, culminând cu o lovitură de teatru în urma căreia înțelegem că s-a jucat cu noi de la început și până la sfârșit." – Le Matin Dimanche „Musso plasează cititorul de cealaltă parte a oglinzii. Iar efectul este surprinzător." – Cosmopolitan „Guillaume Musso este un vrăjitor care face să apară imposibilul în viața personajelor sale atunci când nu te aștepți. Presărat cu nenumărate referințe literare, acest roman al său aduce un omagiu meseriei de scriitor." – Version Femina
Cel mai citit autor francez al ultimului deceniu Chiar și îngerii au demonii lor… Paris, Crăciunul anului 2021 După un atac de cord, Mathias Taillefer se trezește într-un salon de spital. O fată necunoscută stă la căpătâiul lui. Este Louise Collange, o studentă venită voluntar să le cânte la violoncel pacienților. Din vorbă în vorbă, ea află că Mathias este polițist și îi cere să redeschidă un caz mai ciudat. La început reticent, el acceptă în cele din urmă să o ajute. Din acest moment, amândoi sunt prinși într-un angrenaj mortal. Intens, neașteptat, captivant, un labirint de emoții în care certitudinile de pe o pagină nu sunt niciodată și cele de pe pagina următoare. „Maestrul suspansului." - The New York Times „Un romancier ieșit din comun." - France Info „Regele romanului negru european." - La Reppublica „Un fenomen." - El Mundo
This prize-winning study examines the nightmarish effects of the so-called “wonder drug” in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa. After the Second World War, French colonial health services set out to eradicate sleeping sickness in Africa. The newly discovered drug Lomidine (also known as Pentamidine) promised to protect against infection, and mass campaigns of “preventive lomidinization” were launched across Africa. But the drug proved to be both inefficient and dangerous. In numerous cases, it led to fatality. In The Lomidine Files, Guillaume Lachenal traces the medicine’s trajectory from experimental trials during the Second World War to its abandonment in the late 1950s. He explores colonial doctors’ dangerous obsession with an Africa freed from disease and describes the terrible reactions caused by the drug, the resulting panic of colonial authorities, and the decades-long cover-up that followed. A fascinating material history that touches on the drug’s manufacture and distribution, as well as the tragedies that followed in its path, The Lomidine Files resurrects a nearly forgotten scandal. Ultimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control but also as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity. Winner of the George Rosen Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine
The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs can conduct electricity better than copper and transmit heat better than diamonds. Therefore, they are bound to find a wide, and possibly revolutionary use in all fields of engineering. The interest in CNTs and their potential use in a wide range of commercial applications; such as nanoelectronics, quantum wire interconnects, field emission devices, composites, chemical sensors, biosensors, detectors, etc.; have rapidly increased in the last two decades. However, the performance of any CNT-based nanostructure is dependent on the mechanical properties of constituent CNTs. Therefore, it is crucial to know the mechanical behavior of individual CNTs such as their vibration frequencies, buckling loads, and deformations under different loadings. This title is dedicated to the vibration, buckling and impact behavior of CNTs, along with theory for carbon nanosensors, like the Bubnov-Galerkin and the Petrov-Galerkin methods, the Bresse-Timoshenko and the Donnell shell theory.
Bien sûr que je voulais faire du cinéma. Je n’entendais pas rester stagiaire. J’avais un plan. J’allais inopinément apparaître dans la nudité de mon être exceptionnel. J’allais me faire repérer. Ainsi, quand la cinéaste arriverait, je me lèverais, elle tournerait la tête vers moi, marquerait un temps d’arrêt (stupeur oblige), je ferais semblant de ne rien noter, exagérant mon naturel, elle me regarderait comme on contemple un phénomène, m’imaginerait instantanément dans son cadre et, sans plus de détour, me proposerait un rôle.
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