A paranormal investigation
On May 17, Fred Vargas unveiled his new novel entitled On the slab. After 6 years of absence, the writer returns with her favorite character, Commissioner Adamsberg, for new adventures in Brittany, land of dolmens and René de Chateaubriand.
With his very specific methods of investigation and his mediation sessions, the commissioner’s mission is to stop a serial killer, a lover of mysterious ghosts and other local legends around Combourg, the town of the writer of Memories from beyond the grave.
How will this twelfth investigation end?
On the slabFred Vargas, Flammarion, 23€
Globetrotter at heart
In this graphic novel, Mariam (@maywest_) shares her best solo travel stories. Courageous, the adventurer traveled around sixty countries before her 30th birthday. A good opportunity to discover globe-trotting tricks through magnificent illustrations. So, ready for a trip to the other side of the world?
Traveling solo? Not even afraid !Mariam N’Diaya, Hikari Eds, €19.50
Choose between two lives
Lily Blossom is a young flower shop owner in Boston. In her childhood, Lily lived through scenes of violence, caused by a brutal father and a mother whom she finds submissive. Despite this, she manages in life.
She even met a handsome neurosurgeon, Ryle. However, Lily doubts: by embarking on this new love story, she draws a line under her past and Atlas, her first love of adolescence.
His future seemed totally mapped out. However, Lily will turn everything upside down.
never againColleen Hoover, Hugo Pocket, €7.60
The intriguing hut
Charlie Reade is a trouble-free 17-year-old high school student who loves sports and gets good grades in school. However, what he experienced when he was barely 10 years old left scars in him: his mother was killed in a car accident, the person who caused the accident having fled. His father, ravaged by grief, comforts himself in alcohol. Since childhood, Charlie has had to take care of the family home.
One day, Charlie meets Howard Bowditch, an old man who lives reclusively in a big, strange house on top of a hill. In the garden of this house is a locked shed in the garden, from which mysterious sounds escape…
Fairy taleStephen King, Albin Michel, €24.90
The secrets of the Spanish painter
Living with Picasso recounts the daily life of Pablo Picasso as seen by Françoise Gilot, the artist’s companion from 1944 and 1953 and the mother of two of his children Claude and Paloma. Looking back on the years spent together, the French painter paints an intimate portrait, with her eccentricities and misfortunes, always with humor and kindness.
Living with PicassoFrancoise Gilot, 10/18, €10.10
dystopian society
In a post-apocalyptic world, thousands of survivors live in a 144-story underground silo. To guarantee peace in the silo, binding rules govern life in society. Those who do not respect them are expelled outside the silo, where the air is unbreathable according to the creators of the silo.
The locals have never seen the exterior. Some of them are even starting to doubt the leaders… Who is really out there? Is this whole universe created from scratch to contain men and experiment on them?
Silo (Volume I), Hugh Howey, LGF, €10.20
Know how to love
The famous singer of My freedom of thought evokes his best, as well as his worst, memories of his professional and personal life. From his discovery of singing at the age of 11 to his fifteen million records sold, through his childhood loves and his disappointments, Florent Pagny reveals himself like never before. Vanessa Paradis, Coluche, Johnny, but also the woman of his life Azucena… All will be part of this magnificent retrospective!
Pagny by FlorentFlorent Pagny and Emmanuelle Cosso, Fayard, €24.50
Intergenerational collocation
An enigmatic 33-year-old carer, a mocking 18-year-old apprentice pastry chef and a nostalgic 74-year-old widow form an intergenerational roommate. A cohabitation full of surprises, where these three solitary beings meet, exchange and evolve. A magnificent three-voice novel full of emotions and tenderness.
We will have thisVirginie Grimaldi, LGF,€8.90
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