C'est un chef-d'oeuvre de l'architecture contemporaine, une maison de rêve. Pourtant, tous ceux qui vont y vivre, comme ceux qui vont se laisser séduire par elle, seront frappés par le malheur, la folie, la mort.Pour les voisins d'à côté, témoins privilégiés mais impuissants de ces drames successifs, il n'y a pas de doute : cette demeure maléfique est vivante. Pire : avec chaque « accident » son pouvoir ne fait que croître.Et ils savent qu'ils risquent bien d'en être les prochaines victimes...

La maison d'à côté

The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same .

Downtown

Au début des années soixante, dans le cadre oppressant d'une bourgade du sud des États-Unis, Peyton, douze ans, s'efforce de trouver sa place entre un père trop distant et une tante étouffante. Se sentant profondément différente de ses camarades, elle ne trouve de réconfort qu'auprès de ses compagnons du club des Losers, qui compte trois membres en tout, dont elle-même... Survient alors Nora, une lointaine cousine. Belle, pétillante, exubérante à souhait, elle fume des cigarettes et conduit une Thunderbird rose fuchsia. D'abord méfiante, Peyton se laisse rapidement séduire. De son côté, Nora se prend d'affection pour cette rebelle en herbe et entreprend de l'aider à passer le cap délicat de l'adolescence. Elle décide également de secouer l'immobilisme de la petite ville en jouant de son arme favorite : la provocation...

Nora, Nora - Occasion

Hill Towns is a classic novel of remarkable emotional power, insight, and sensitivity from Anne Rivers Siddons, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list and in the hearts of millions of her adoring fans. One of the acknowledged masters of contemporary Southern fiction-the author of such phenomenally popular works as Nora, Nora; Outer Banks, Islands; and Sweetwater Creek-Siddons carries the reader from the mountains of Tennessee to the breathtaking Tuscany countryside as she brilliantly chronicles the unraveling of a marriage. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says, "She ranks among the best of us, " and Hill Towns is the proof.

Hill Towns - Novel, A

Après des années de souffrance muette, Andy a décidé de réagir : elle quitte son mari, honorable chirurgien qui la battait, et abandonne sans regret Atlanta.C'est dans la petite ville de Pemberton qu'elle a décidé d'emmener sa fille pour recommencer une nouvelle vie. C'est là qu'elle va tomber amoureuse de Tom Dabney, un poète fantasque qui a élu domicile dans une superbe forêt.Mais des déchets radioactifs menacent ce lieu vierge et protégé. Andy le suivra-t-elle dans cette aventure plus périlleuse qu'il n'y paraît ?Une magnifique histoire d'amour et un étonnant hymne aux terres sauvages du sud des États-Unis.

La Plantation

From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in-but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.

Sweetwater Creek

La lumière du fleuve

Up Island

"Anne Rivers Siddons's novels are women's stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters' lives and holding you there." - PeopleA poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive us apart, Islands is New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons at her lyrical best-a glorious evocation of the people and the place she knows so well. Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family-not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate family. They are called the Scrubs, and they all, in some way, have the common cord of family. Instantly upon meeting them at the old beach house on Sullivan's Island, which they co-own, Anny knows that she has found home and family. They vow that, when the time comes, they will find a place where they can live together by the sea. Bad things begin to happen-a hurricane, a fire, deaths-but still the remaining Scrubs cling together. They are watched over and bolstered by Camilla Curry, the heart and core of their group, always the healer. Anny herself allows Camilla to enfold and to care for her. It is the first time she has felt this kind of love and support.

La maison d'à côté

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