1940, dans un village de la région lyonnaise. Gaëlle de Barbet assiste horrifiée à l'arrestation de sa meilleure amie par la police française et voit le commandant allemand réquisitionner la demeure familiale. Son père est tué par l'occupant et sa mère sombre peu à peu dans la folie. Gaëlle s'engage alors corps et âme dans la Résistance et sauve de nombreux enfants juifs des griffes des nazis. A la fin de la guerre, accusée à tort d'avoir collaboré, elle part tenter sa chance à Paris. Des années plus tard, sa petite-fille livre son propre combat pour que Gaëlle soit reconnue comme l'héroïne de guerre qu'elle fut dans sa jeunesse...

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De retour d'une mission humanitaire, Ginny erre dans New York en s'interrogeant sur le sens de sa vie. Une fois encore, elle s'apprête à fêter seule Noël et ressent âprement le vide laissé par ceux qu'elle a perdus trop tôt. Elle croise alors le regard bleu perçant d'un jeune garçon, transi de froid et manifestement sans abri. Ginny lui propose de s'installer chez elle le temps de lui trouver un centre d'accueil.
C'est le début d'une relation unique qui changera à jamais la jeune femme. Ginny a dès lors une raison de se battre, mais aussi une raison de vivre. Et elle n'abandonnera pas avant d'avoir obtenu justice.

L'enfant aux yeux bleus

Depuis la disparition de son mari, Fernanda Barnes vit un cauchemar : désormais seule pour élever ses trois enfants, elle n'arrive plus à faire face aux factures qui s'accumulent. En effet, même si aux yeux de tous Allan Barnes était à la tête d'une immense fortune, personne ne sait qu'il est mort ruiné, ne laissant pour tout héritage que des dettes. Fernanda est loin de s'imaginer que le secret trop bien gardé de cette faillite va avoir de terribles conséquences sur sa famille, qu'elle va devoir affronter des gangsters aguerris et sans scrupules. Et malgré l'aide du FBI, le drame va se produire : le rapt odieux de son petit garçon... Seule la présence de Ted Lee, de la police de San Francisco, va lui apporter réconfort et amitié dans cette situation critique.

Rançon - Occasion

Four cassettes, 6 hoursLife was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland.  In 18 years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street.  Then, in an instant, it all fell apart.  It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter.  But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy.  And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss.How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend?  How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own?  Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and 'daddy', coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics.  And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4th...Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital-and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life.  Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son.And as long as the days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left.  Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change-and ahead to the beginning of a new life.

Rue De L'espoir

The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door...Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is.A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history–to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France...and to a history she never knew she had.Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah’s passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home’s every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man’s last gift...about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation...and about a future she’s only just beginning to imagine.<In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman’s courageous choice to pour herself into a dream–and receive its gifts in return.From the Hardcover edition.

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Après la mort de son fils Nick et son divorce, Danielle Steel est anéantie par le chagrin. Sa vie lui semble dénuée de sens. C'est alors que lui vient l'envie de s'engager auprès des plus démunis ? une initiative difficile pour cette femme qui a toujours éprouvé de la crainte envers les SDF. Une nuit de décembre passée à distribuer duvets et vêtements chauds aux sans-abri de San Francisco la convainc de s'engager sur le terrain. Accompagnée de quelques amis et employés, pendant onze ans, elle se rend une fois par mois dans la rue afin d'apporter aux sans-logis non seulement des produits de première nécessité, mais aussi du réconfort et de l'espoir. Au fil de ce récit remarquable d'humilité, Danielle Steel évoque les rencontres qui l'ont marquée, bouleversée, parfois effrayée. Elle s'interroge sur les causes de ce problème croissant qu'est la précarité, dressant au passage un constat affligeant de l'approche des pouvoirs publics : municipalités, institutions psychiatriques, etc. Et, surtout, elle invite chacun d'entre nous à offrir l'espoir.

Offrir l'espoir ; onze ans auprès des sans-abri

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine.   For eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked anonymously, visiting the “cribs” of the city’s most vulnerable citizens under cover of darkness, distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries. She sought no publicity for her efforts and remained anonymous throughout. Now she is speaking to bring attention to their plight.   In this unflinchingly honest and deeply moving memoir, the famously private author speaks out publicly for the first time about her work among the most desperate members of our society. She offers achingly acute portraits of the people she met along the way—and issues a heartfelt call for more effective action to aid this vast, deprived population. Determined to supply the homeless with the basic necessities to keep them alive, she ends up giving them something far more powerful: a voice.   By turns candid and inspirational, Danielle Steel’s A Gift of Hope is a true act of advocacy and love.

Offrir l'espoir

?À visage découvert.

Brillant agent secret, Marshall Everett a sillonné la terre entière pour exécuter les missions les plus périlleuses, jusqu'à infiltrer un cartel de drogue en Amérique du Sud. Quand son identité est révélée, on le rapatrie de force aux États-Unis. Sa compagne, quant à elle, y laissera la vie. Il se voit alors confier la garde rapprochée du Président américain.
Ariana Gregory renonce à la frénésie new-yorkaise pour accompagner son père diplomate en Argentine. Kidnappée peu de temps après son arrivée, elle est libérée dans des conditions traumatisantes et se retrouve vite, elle aussi, seule au monde.
Le hasard les réunit à Paris, la Ville lumière, où chacun tente de se reconstruire. Attiré par la jeune femme, Marshall remarque qu'elle est suivie. Aussitôt, ses réflexes d'agent secret prennent le dessus. Ensemble, ils s'engagent dans une course effrénée pour leur survie.

Agent secret

Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel—at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the city’s toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter.But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trial...until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters—and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of all—and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak...her ex-husband’s world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston.Now, while Alexa’s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows—from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again—strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled.In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattan’s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughter—and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, Southern Lights is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best.

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