Harlan Coben

Lire en Poche, c'est une partie "salon littéraire", bien sûr, avec une centaine d'auteurs en dédicace, mais également de nombreuses propositions festivalières : rencontres d'auteurs, spectacles, lectures, expositions, animations autour de collections, jeux, musique...
Le tout articulé autour de la thématique "Pouvoirs de l'imagination".

Un parrain événement : Harlan Coben

Ils sont en tout une centaine, représentant l'édition de poche en France aujourd'hui, à être invités sur cette 13e édition de Lire en Poche.

Harlan Coben, parrain de cette 13e édition, est notamment l’auteur de Ne le dis à personne… (2002, prix des Lectrices de Elle), adapté au cinéma par G. Canet. Il a publié plus d’une vingtaine d’ouvrages dont récemment Six ans déjà (2014), Tu me manques (2015), Intimidation (2016) et Double Piège (2017), parus chez Belfond et en poche chez Pocket. Il est traduit dans plus de 40 langues.
Dès le jeudi soir, en avant-première, le film Ne le dis à personne sera diffusé à l'Auditorium de la Médiathèque. Sur le salon, en tant que parrain, vous pourrez le voir en Grand entretien, ou accompagnant Lee Child sur la "Carte blanche à Harlan Coben". Il sera également présent à un Petit-déjeuner littéraire, et bien sûr aussi en dédicace

pierre bordage
olivier bourdeaut
paul cleave
j. r. dos santos
Pete Fromm
gaËl faye
claudie gallay
peter f. hamilton
catherine poulain
andreï Kourkov
anne B. Ragde
carole martinez
josé carlos somoza
philippe torreton
emily st john mandel
aurélie valognes
kim thuy (Jonic)… (més)

Harlan Coben (Back Spin, Darkest Fear, Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Gone for good, One False Move, Tell no one, Tell no one/Gone for good, The Final Detail, Caught, The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle)

Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-seven languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, and Long Lost), he is also the author of Tell no one, Gone for good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, and Hold Tight. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Harlan Coben (Back Spin, Darkest Fear, Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Gone for good, One False Move, Tell no one, Tell no one/Gone for good, The Final Detail, Caught, The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle)

Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-seven languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, and Long Lost), he is also the author of Tell no one, Gone for good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, and Hold Tight. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Thursday, March 26 at 7PM

Bestselling Author Harlan Coben speaking & signing The Stranger

MysteryPeople is thrilled to welcome Harlan Coben back to BookPeople, this time to share his new thriller, The Stranger. With seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, Coben is one of the biggest names in the mystery/thriller genre. We're honored to welcome him! In The Stranger, married parents Adam and Corrine confront the shocking secret on which their marriage is built--leaving Adam wondering whether he ever truly knew Corrine at all.

ABOUT Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Missing You, Six Years, Stay Close, Live Wire, Caught, Long Lost, and Hold Tight as well as the Myron Bolitar series and, more recently, a series aimed at young adults, featuring Myron's nephew, Mickey Bolitar. The winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, he lives in New Jersey. Can't make it to the event? You can order a signed, personalized copy of this book. We ship worldwide. Simply write "SIGNED COPY" and the name for the personalizations in the Comments field during checkout. Thank you for supproting Harlan Coben and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Harlan Coben (Back Spin, Darkest Fear, Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Gone for good, One False Move, Tell no one, Tell no one/Gone for good, The Final Detail, Caught, The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle)

Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-seven languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, and Long Lost), he is also the author of Tell no one, Gone for good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, and Hold Tight. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Harlan Coben (Back Spin, Darkest Fear, Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Gone for good, One False Move, Tell no one, Tell no one/Gone for good, The Final Detail, Caught, The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle)

Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-seven languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, and Long Lost), he is also the author of Tell no one, Gone for good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, and Hold Tight. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Writers Dionne Brand, Frances Itani, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer and Kate Pullinger read from their latest works. Ania Szado hosts.

Dionne Brand is a poet and novelist and was Toronto’s third Poet Laureate from 2009–2012. Her most recent book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and her literary honours include the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award and the 2006 Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing. She presents her latest novel, Love Enough, about the love between lovers, friends and for the places we live in. It is a profoundly modern work that speaks to the most fundamental questions of how we live now.

Frances Itani is the author of 16 books, including Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is a three-time winner of the CBC Literary Award and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Itani presents her 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted novel, Tell, an extraordinary tour-de-force about secrets withheld and secrets revealed in the aftermath of the First Great War.

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the author of the novels Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner, as well as the story collection Way Up, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She is also an award-winning instructor with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, The Walrus, Numéro Cinq, Joyland and Storyville. Kuitenbrouwer presents All the Broken Things, a spellbinding novel of exceptional heart and imagination about the ties that bind us to each other.

Kate Pullinger is the author of 10 novels, including The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. Born in Cranbrook, BC, she is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University. Pullinger presents Landing Gear, a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections. Inspired by real-life accounts of airplane stowaways, the novel chronicles the complex texture of modern life.

In 2014, CBC called Ania Szado one of "Ten Canadian Women You Need to Read." Her short fiction has been nominated for the Journey Prize and the National Magazine Awards, and her bestselling novel Studio Saint-Ex has received international acclaim. Szado's debut novel, Beginning of Was, was regionally shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 3:00 PM
Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8

Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (més)

Four talented authors discuss writing about WWI from a female perspective. Charlotte Gray will moderate.

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s preeminent biographers and historians. She is the recipient of many awards and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Gray presents her latest work of non-fiction, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country, which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. The book tells the sensational true story of Carrie Davies, the maid who shot a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families in 1915.

Anna Hope studied English at Oxford, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and then received an MA in creative writing at Birkbeck. She lives in London. Hope presents her debut novel, Wake, which tells the story of three very different women who try to find ways to live again after devastating losses endured during WWI.

Frances Itani is the author of 16 books, including Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is a three-time winner of the CBC Literary Award and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Itani presents her 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted novel, Tell, an extraordinary tour-de-force about secrets withheld and secrets revealed in the aftermath of the First Great War.

Kate Pullinger is the author of 10 novels, including The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. Born in Cranbrook, BC, she is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University. Pullinger presents Landing Gear, a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections. Inspired by real-life accounts of airplane stowaways, the novel chronicles the complex texture of modern life.

Johanna Skibsrud is the award-winning author of two collections of poetry and one short story collection, This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. Her debut novel, The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Skibsrud presents her latest novel, Quartet for the End of Time. Set in 1932, it is a profound mediation on human nature that follows embittered WWI veterans who march on Washington to demand their wartime bonus.

Friday, October 31, 2014 - 7:30 PM
Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8

Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (més)

PRADAS (A Group for Adults Reading Teen Novels) Open to the Community Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:30-7:30 p.m. Books & Company Lisa N. will lead a discussion on Shelter by Harlan Coben. (October 15~ Forgive Me Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick) Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools. Fortunately, he's met a great girl, Ashley, and it seems like things might finally be improving. But then Ashley vanishes. Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that Ashley isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.

Location: Street: 1039 Summit Ave City: Oconomowoc, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53066-4457 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)