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Le 14 juillet 1962, la famille Mercier s’agrandit avec la naissance de jumeaux : Jérémy et Olivier qui, au-delà de leur ressemblance, sont liés par une étrange tache brune. Olivier est kidnappé à la maternité. Bruno, le père, commissaire de police, se lance sur la piste de la ravisseuse. Quel impact ce drame aura-t-il sur la famille Mercier ? Jérémy, qui suit les traces de son père, est confronté tout le long de sa carrière à ce mystérieux personnage qui se fait appeler « Le justicier de la confrérie du valet de pique ». Il déjouera de nombreux attentats au détriment de sa vie privée. Arrivera-t-il à venger la mort de son père qui a été une des victimes de ce terroriste ? À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURE Outre l’énigme policière, Monique Barouche évoque dans Je ne savais pas... l’exil forcé de ses parents en décembre 1956. L’écriture a fait partie de son apprentissage théâtral pour devenir comédienne professionnelle. C’est un partage et une façon de faire vivre des personnages. Pour diverses raisons, elle abandonne ses deux passions qu’elle retrouvera à la retraite.
Can a link remain between a daughter and the mother she never knew? Monique Dubois, born a child of privilege and affluence, witnesses the destruction of her entire family as Hitler's armies invade France in 1940. In the years that follow, both her innocence and her material possessions are lost. Her passion for freedom carries her into the dark and dangerous world of espionage, working alongside her friend, Zoe, a gifted movie star, who finds a useful outlet for her talent in the sinister corners of Paris working as an agent for the French resistance. As time passes, the gentle, compassionate girl she was becomes buried behind the walls of a resistance fighter. Then a handsome American airm...
When Cäleste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman but also an exceedingly rare inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of nineteenth-century France. ø Writing to conciliate judges and creditors, Mogador (born Cäleste Venard in 1824) explains how with tenacity, wit, and audacity, she managed to escape a difficult childhood and subsequent life of prostitution to become, s...
The Crosses -- renowned Professor of the Occult Simon and irrepressible Elizabeth -- set off on their latest time traveling adventure. Leaving Jack behind to nurse his broken heart, the couple travels to 1852 Natchez, Mississippi to help the next person on grandfather Sebastian's list, Mary Stewart. There's just one problem. Little Mary Stewart, just 8 years old, died two days ago. Mary's spirit cannot rest until Simon and Elizabeth solve the mystery of both her life and death. But Mary cannot speak, and there are those who are willing to kill to keep the past buried. Simon and Elizabeth discover first-hand that dark secrets in the Antebellum South hide pasts murkier than the river bottom and twice as dangerous. Books in the Out of Time Series: Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery (Book #1) When the Walls Fell (Book #2) Fragments (Book #3) The Devil's Due (Book #4) Thursday's Child (Book #5) Sands of Time (Book #6) A Rip in Time (Book #7) A Time of Shadows (Book #8) Voyage in Time: Titanic (Book #9) Revolution in Time (Book #10) Time travel romance, fantasy, mystery, civil war, ghost, historical fantasy, Mississippi river
This box set contains 3 complete novels: Books 4-6 of the Out of Time Series. The Devil's Due (Book #4) Time travelers Simon and Elizabeth return in book four of the Out of Time series. Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon's grandfather's journal. Picking up where Grandfather Sebastian left off, Simon and Elizabeth, along with Jack Wells, travel to glamorous 1933 Hollywood to save the life of movie star Alan Grant. But the Golden Age of Hollywood is more than parties and premieres. Behind the bright lights and bigger-than-life contracts, shadows lurk and no one is what they seem. It's a place where pe...
The Crosses are back in book 7 of the Out of Time Series. An old enemy returns threatening to destroy not just Simon and Elizabeth but the timeline itself. To keep that from happening, they travel back to 1888 London to find Jack the Ripper…and save his life. If he dies, the timeline changes, everything they know and their lives together, will be lost. But they soon discover the only thing harder than saving a monster is finding him. Other Books in the Out of Time Series Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery (Book #1) When the Walls Fell (Book #2) Fragments (Book #3) The Devil's Due (Book #4) Thursday's Child (Book #5) Sands of Time (Book #6) A Rip in Time (Book #7) A Time of Shadows (Book #8) Voyage in Time: Titanic (Book #9) Revolution in Time (Book #10) Time travel romance, mystery, fantasy, Jack the Ripper, victorian, historical fantasy
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A collection of articles that appeared in the journal "film quarterly" that appeared over the last 40 years.