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Farewell, my lovely

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

Date Published:2014

The lady in the lake

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.

A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.

Date Published:1943

The long goodbye

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to the only friend he can trust: private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

Date Published:1992

The murder of Roger Ackroyd

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

Date Published:2011

The secret pilgrim

Le Carré, John, 1931-

Ned is the Secret Pilgrim, a loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, just as retirement is within his grasp, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years and face the questions that have haunted him for thirty years.

Date Published:2008

The seven dials mystery

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys -- their isolated estate. But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in death -- indeed, in cause for alarm.

Date Published:2012

Revenge prey

Sandford, John

Leonard Summers-not his real name-is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard, his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service's Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard's family is transported to Minneapolis. The plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow. The Summers are received at their destination by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. And while nobody in the WPP has ever been attacked...Leonard might be the first victim. As shots are fired and enemies dodged, Lucas must move quickly to uncover where the leak is coming from, before the hit team can strike again.

Date Published:2026

The outrun [DVD] (2024). Directed by Nora Fingscheidt

Originally released as a motion picture in 2024. Special features: Deleted scenes; Becoming Rona; From book to screen; Bringing The Outrun to life; Filming in Orkney; Making The Outrun; Theatrical trailer. Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, The Outrun is set in the otherworldly Orkney Islands of Scotland. A brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and one day at a time Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.

Date Published:2024

More richly in earth : a poet's search for Mary MacLeod

Bowering, Marilyn,

Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. While her lyrics were honoured, she was also marginalized, denigrated as a witch, and exiled, both for being a writer and for what she wrote. Presented as a chronicle of journeys through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s legacy, preserved within landscape, memory, and identity. In an act of recovery and restoration, Canadian poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering pieces together the puzzle of radically different accounts of MacLeod’s life, returning to the places the bard once lived with the help of contemporary Scottish Gaelic poets and scholars. Through investigation and imagination, Bowering forms a connection with MacLeod despite vast differences of culture and language, time and place. Their connection deepens as Bowering twines MacLeod’s story with accounts of the people and places that shaped her own life, a connection that ultimately reveals the foundations of Bowering’s artistic vocation to herself.

Date Published:2024

Men in Black Trilogy [DVD] Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

Working for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency, Kay and Jay are the Men in Black, providers of immigration services and regulators of all things alien on Earth. . Men in black II: The scum-fighting super-agents latest mission is to save the world from a total intergalactic disaster. Men in black III: Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969 where he teams up with a younger version of Agent Kay to stop an evil alien from destroying the future.

Date Published:2015

Lady Tremaine

Hochhauser, Rachel

Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fierce and determined, Ethel clings to the respectability her deceased husband's title affords her, hoping it will secure her daughters' future through marriage. When a royal ball offers the chance to change everything, Ethel risks her pride in pursuit of an invitation for all three of her daughters--only to see her hopes fulfilled by the wrong one. As an engagement to the future king unfolds, Ethel discovers a sordid secret hidden in the depths of the royal family, forcing her to choose between the security she craves and the wellbeing of the stepdaughter who has rebuffed her at every turn. As if Bridgerton met Circe, and exhilarating to its core, Lady Tremaine reimagines the myth of the evil stepmother at the heart of the world's most famous fairy tale. It is a battle cry for a mother's love for her daughters, and a celebration of women everywhere who make their own fortunes.

Date Published:2026

Go gentle

Semple, Maria

Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcee, she lives amongst friends and culture on New York's Upper West Side, and works for the ultra-wealthy and secretive Lockwood family as a private ethics tutor for their tween boys. Her main life hack, and the key to her own enviable happiness, is to desire only what you have. Everything else life throws at you? Don't just accept it; love it. Amor Fati. Adora believes it so deeply she has it tattooed on her wrist. But when Adora meets Digby, a handsome stranger at the ballet, she finds herself loving fate indeed. But soon, she's pulled into a world of secret rendezvous, black-market art deals, and international intrigue. Driven by an unexpected and maddening desire, Adora risks reputation, job,and hard-won serenity for the feelings Digby has awoken in her.

Date Published:2026

Turn a blind eye

Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-,

William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation. Meanwhile, a notorious drug baron goes on trial, with the prosecution case led by William's father and sister. And William's wife Beth, now a mother to twins, renews an old acquaintance who appears to have turned over a new leaf, or has she? As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye.

Date Published:2021

A world appears : a journey into consciousness

Pollan, Michael

When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives -- scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic -- to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life. When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of view -- assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to "plant neurobiologists" searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness. In Pollan's dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and our deepest selves.

Date Published:2026

Temps Mou : Un roman fantastique urbain

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

Qu'arriverait-il si tous vos désirs étaient satisfaits ? Que deviendraient vos rêves ? Vos motivations ? Notre existence n'a un sens que dans la mesure où nous produisons un effet sur le monde qui nous entoure. C'est ce qu'Antoine va découvrir tout au long de ce roman grâce à une machine conçue pour modifier son environnement et le cours de sa vie selon ses désirs. «Le toit faisait le dos rond et exhibait l'harmonieux arrangement de ses tuiles, ajustées comme des écailles d'armadillo, et qui s'efforçaient de s'adapter à la forme si contraire à leur géométrie rigide. Dans les murs renflés vers l'extérieur, des ouvertures ovales rappelant les fenêtres s'ouvraient comme des yeux opaques derrière lesquels on sentait somnoler des douceurs tranquilles et envoûtantes. Aucune dureté dans cette silhouette qui esquissait l'allure familière et complète d'un œuf.» «Il se sentait voluptueusement bien. Son regard se fixa sur le vide; il se mit à contempler l'obscurité. Entre lui et l'extérieur, un espace capitonné s'était installé, une distance souple qui absorbait tout. La maison se referma sur lui avec un petit bruit de succion comme une substance molle.».

Date Published:2015

Krillion

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

Au vingt deuxième siècle, une partie de l'humanité est devenue amphibienne et vit dans des villes sous-marines. La pression démographique venant des continents dévastés pousse le reste de l'humanité à rechercher de nouveaux espaces où la vie est possible. Les villes sous-marines deviennent des territoires à conquérir. Les amphibiens sont déportés vers des îles ne convenant pas à la vie humaine où ils doivent s'adapter pour survivre. Ils s'organisent pour reconquérir leurs villes. Il ouvrit les yeux. Penché sur lui, un homme l’examinait méticuleusement. Finn, surpris, se redressa d’un coup, l’homme tenait à la main un rameau et en voyant Finn s’éveiller, il sourit. «Moi, c’est Vizou. Je nage vizou vizou. Toi, ça va bien ? dit-il aimablement. -Je vais bien, merci, répondit Finn. Je nage pas mal non plus.» Il constata qu’il était sur une plage; derrière l’homme, à quelque distance, s’élevait une lignée de cocotiers. Il se mit debout et se tourna vers l’homme qui disait s’appeler Vizou. «Je m’appelle Finn. Où sommes-nous ? -Finn, répéta Vizou en tendant la main vers le vêtement collant qui recouvrait le corps de Finn. Toi viens de la ville sur la côte ? -Oui, répondit Finn en se demandant à quelle ville il faisait référence. Ici, ce n’est pas la côte ? -Ici, c’est ici. Ça a un nom : Hispalion.».

Date Published:2018

Aqua Sum : The advent of a new human species

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

In the twenty-second century, a portion of humanity has become amphibious and lives rejected from the continents on the seas of the globe. While searching the Pacific Ocean for habitable islands, a couple of Aquas, Finn and Shelly, find a little girl on an islet; they rescue her and call her Crest. She gives off a strange impression, she doesn't seem quite human. The coasts of the continents are patrolled by the Coast Guard, which has become a formidable navy, some of whose members suspect Crest's existence and try to find her. To protect Crest, Finn and Shelly flee, which leads them to crisscross the Pacific Ocean from the coast of North America to the Phoenix Islands and Fiji. They encounter an alien race, whose ship is waiting in orbit for first contact to be established so they can settle on Earth. These beings are quickly confronted by the Coast Guard. What is the connection between their arrival and Crest? How will they influence the development of humanity?

Date Published:2026

Ville de chien

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

Si la ville est le lieu de rencontre des hommes, elle est aussi l'objet de leur convoitise. Ainsi, un promoteur ambitieux et sans scrupules tente de se l'approprier en achetant des immeubles dans tous les quartiers, sauf dans le plus vieux où les habitants s'organisent pour contrecarrer ses plans. De cette lutte pour l'espace et le pouvoir, la ville et ses habitants resteront marqués car, tels des organismes vivant en symbiose, ils se développent et se façonnent mutuellement en partageant la même histoire. Ils se détachèrent du groupe de gens près d'eux qui s'affairait à déblayer une façade effondrée. Ils longèrent le mur en ruine et se coulèrent dans la brèche pour disparaître dans l'ombre à l'intérieur du bâtiment éventré. Des hommes en costumes sombres, postés çà et là, surveillaient le site. Ils promenaient leurs regards acérés sur la population besogneuse, debout comme des sentinelles au-dessus des ruines. Gardiens ou prédateurs, ils observaient le troupeau résigné, absorbé dans une inutile agitation.

Date Published:2017

La tour : Un roman fantastique urbain

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

Un roman fantastique. Un thriller urbain captivant. Ce roman est à la fois poétique, drôle, absurde, terrifiant. Tout autour de la tour tournent des hommes et des femmes. Fascinés, obsédés par ce lieu mythique, hors du temps, incapables de savoir s'ils sont chasseurs ou proies. La tour est-elle la révélation de la mort de la ville ou l'annonce de sa résurrection. Cet étonnant roman de Joseph Bunkoczy, à la limite du fantastique, ne peut laisser indifférent tant il se prête à des lectures multiples, à de significations infinies.

Date Published:2015

Des nouvelles de l'univers

Bunkoczy, Joseph, 1949-

Dans ce recueil, sept nouvelles évoquent des facettes de l'aventure humaine menant le lecteur de la vie souterraine des usagers du métro, en passant par les voyages interplanétaires, jusqu'à une Terre où les civilisations humaines disparues ont été remplacées par des civilisations de fourmis.

Date Published:2015