Michel Lederer Book order (chronological)

This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, revealing his wry perception of the world around him, and the innermost secrets of his heart.

A New York Times bestseller: from a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large. “Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow humans.”—San Francisco Chronicle Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.

Après la disparition de Greta dans l'incendie de sa maison, les soupçons de la police se portent très vite sur son mari, Alec, au grand désarroi de leur fille, Zoé. Emue par le désespoir de sa nièce, et inconsciente du danger qui la guette, Britt, la sœur de Greta, décide de mener son enquête. La vérité passera par la découverte d'un douloureux secret familial... L'auteur d'Un coupable trop parfait et de Dernier refuge distille l'angoisse comme nul autre. Avec cette histoire rigoureusement construite, hantée par des personnages doubles, la reine du thriller psychologique nous entraîne une fois encore, de fausses pistes en rebondissements, jusqu'au plus surprenant des dénouements. Un formidable suspense qui fascine le lecteur jusqu'à la dernière page. Une réussite !

Set against the backdrop of the American West and the wilds of Africa, The Smoke Jumper is an epic story of friendship, passion and honour that charts three people's quest for happiness and self-discovery. Evans is also the author of The Horse Whisperer.

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow , a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

Udalls turbulente Geschichten sind im kargen Südwesten der USA angesiedelt. Sie zeigen das Leben der Menschen dort, wo Touristenmassen durch Indianerreservate und Westernstädte geschleust werden. Udall erzählt mit Humor und einem feinen Gespür für die Besonderheit der Menschen dort. Udalls Figuren sind allesamt Antihelden, vom Leben nicht gerade begünstigt, deren Lebensstil und Sprache sich kaum von ihrer unwirtlichen Umgebung unterscheiden. Sie schuften und trinken, fluchen und pflegen Freundschaften zu Truthahngeiern und anderen Kreaturen. Es sind einfache, skurrile Typen, die oft bissig von den Abgründen ihres Lebens im tiefen Westen berichten. Die Geschichten bilden auf ganz eigene Art das Leben fernab der schillernden Metropolen des American Way of Life ab. Dieser Band versammelt elf der schönsten und besten Erzählungen, die in Amerika in verschiedenen Zeitschriften erschienen und mit Begeisterung aufgenommen wurden.

In 391 a fanatical Christian emperor orders the destruction of the great library and museum at Alexandria. Secretly the most precious items are removed and hidden until 1991 when a UN plane is brought down in Greenland by a terrorist conspiracy and Dirk Pitt is caught up in a web of intrigue.

A dangerous Soviet plot looming behind the evil plans of a great Asian shipping family, challenges Dirk Pitt to action.