Renaud: 238 books

Fin de l’été 1944… Bruxelles vit ses dernières heures sous l’occupation allemande… mais aussi sous le joug d’un redoutable tueur qui sévit dans la ville. Au coeur de l’enfer, le rouge et le noir finiront par se confondre. KATJA est une journaliste d’origine autrichienne, mais elle...

Identified as a former Chechen guerrilla fighter, Najah has been arrested by the FSB, the successor to the old KGB, and sent to a prison colony in Siberia – the infamous gulag. Isolated, hated by the Russian guards, the Insider is far from the luxury life her cover inside organised crime afforded...

Najah’s been exfiltrated from the gulag where Russian authorities had thrown her, but she’s not out of the woods yet: her benefactors turn out to be Chinese intelligence – the head of which is also one of the secret bosses of the organised crime high council! While the long arm of American justice...

« De là viennent mes larmes et ma douleur » Italienne de naissance, reine de France par mariage, Catherine de Médicis est une figure emblématique du XVIe siècle. Son nom est irrémédiablement associé aux guerres de religion opposant Catholiques et Protestants. Partisane d'une politique...

Little Rice Duck has built himself quite the reputation around the West Wood, playing his trumpet in bars with their smoky, sweaty ambience, tequila sunrises, and jazz. All he needs is that Betty character, one bitch bathing in expensive champagne. But like the champagne, he’d much prefer she just...

**Scènes de ménage à l’Élysée ** Sitôt l’euphorie de la fête du départ de Nicolas Sarkozy dissipée, les Français ont commencé à s’interroger : qui est cet homme secret et discret qui gouverne la France ?  Sarkozy le décomplexé dévoilait tout, se montrait tous les...

Véritable incarnation de l'excès, Balkany méprise toutes les conventions avec un naturel déconcertant. La proximité du moindre communiste le fait sortir de ses gonds. D'un culot sans borne, ses fins justifient tous les moyens... surtout si ce sont ceux des autres. Revivez, affaire après affaire,...

Steve Rogers non è più Capitan America! Il Chiodo di Ferro ha neutralizzato il Siero del Super Soldato nel suo organismo e Steve non è mai stato così vulnerabile. Arnim Zola porta avanti insieme al Teschio Rosso il piano per distruggere definitivamente Rogers, dichiarando guerra alla città di...

Quando Steve Rogers non è più stato in grado di essere Capitan America, ha deciso di cedere il suo scudo a uno dei suoi alleati più fidati: Sam Wilson, che fino ad allora tutti conoscevano come Falcon, membro degli Avengers. Ma Sam non è Steve e, dopo i recenti avvenimenti, è alle strette sia...

Le vase de Soissons, le « bon roi » Dagobert, le panache blanc d’Henri IV, les taxis de la Marne… Tout le monde a en tête ces épisodes de l’histoire de France, épisodes dont on ne sait plus trop bien s’ils sont réels ou mythiques, ni quelle est leur part de vérité. Que s’est-il...

A mouthwatering tale of invention.When a persnickety customer named Filbert P. Horsefeathers complains that George Crum’s fried potatoes are too thick, George makes them thinner. When Filbert insists they are still too thick, George makes them even thinner. But when the plate is sent back a third time,...

Years later, successful author Celia Cavalotti is still mourning the death of her favorite teacher, who died in a car crash in 1989. But when a car accident of her own hurtles her back in time to the week of his death, she has a chance to change the future. Finding herself in the 1980s is a...

Network science offers a powerful language to represent and study complex systems composed of interacting elements — from the Internet to social and biological systems. In its standard formulation, this framework relies on the assumption that the underlying topology is static, or changing very slowly...

"The art of the checkmate has at last been provided with a scientific foundation." — Chicago Sunday TribuneOne of the most difficult situations in chess is seeing potential mates in the near future. All players, even grandmasters and champions, have missed such mates in actual play, to their chagrin...