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Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, Yoshie si trasferisce dalla sua casa di Meguro a un minuscolo e vecchio appartamento a Shimokitazawa, un quartiere di Tokyo famoso per le sue stradine chiuse al traffico, i ristoranti, i negozietti, nonché meta degli alternativi della capitale. Qui Yoshie spera, aiutata dall'atmosfera vivace, di superare il dolore e dare una nuova direzione alla sua vita. Un giorno, però, sua madre le si presenta a casa all'improvviso con una borsa Birkin di Hermès e qualche sacchetto.

Que contient l'armoire allemande qui trône en bonne place au cœur de la demeure corrézienne des Delalande ? C'est la question qui hante Alexandrine depuis son enfance. Jusqu'à ce jour de l'été 1979 où elle hérite de la fameuse armoire et surtout des secrets qu'elle recèle. Les carnets d'Hélène, sa mère, projettent Alexandrine aux heures fiévreuses de la Libération, après que cette femme singulière, volage et insouciante, s'est trouvée emportée par une passion scandaleuse. La découverte de cette part d'ombre, soudain révélée, va à jamais bouleverser son existence.

La Seconde Guerre mondiale touche à sa fin. À bord d'un porte-avions au large du Japon, Philip Bowman rentre aux États-Unis. Il a deux obsessions, qui l'accompagneront tout au long de sa vie : la littérature et la quête de l'amour. Embauché par un éditeur, il découvre ce milieu très fermé, fait de maisons indépendantes, et encore dirigées par ceux qui les ont fondées. Bowman s'y sent comme un poisson dans l'eau, et sa réussite s'avère aussi rapide qu'indiscutable.

Se croire seule pour traverser une épreuve, et découvrir qu'on ne l'est pas... Aujourd'hui, on guérit du cancer du sein s'il est pris à temps. C'est ce qu'on dit à Lucie, et c'est vrai. Sauf que, si on est maman célibataire d'une petite Léa de onze ans qu'on tient à protéger, et si on se retrouve seule dans une nouvelle ville ou on ne connaît personne... ou trouve-t-on le soutien pour traverser vaillante l'espace incertain qui sépare le diagnostic de la fin du traitement ?

Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer's life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she's swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all.

1969 : les Américains marchent sur la Lune. Mehdi, 10 ans, débarque au lycée Lyautey de Casablanca où son instituteur, impressionné par son intelligence et sa boulimie de lecture, lui a obtenu une bourse. Loin de son village de l'Atlas, Mehdi pense être un membre de l'équipage d'Apollo découvrant une planète inconnue : qui sont ces Français qui vivent dans le luxe, adorent les choses immangeables, parlent sans pudeur et lui manifestent un tel intérêt ? Durant une année scolaire animée par une galerie de personnages surprenants, l'histoire émouvante d'un enfant propulsé dans un univers aux antipodes de celui de sa famille.

Naomi Alderman's The Lessons reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late. Hidden away in an Oxford backstreet is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess keys to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous.

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy comes Paul Auster's luminous, tour de force novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. "Auster fans and newcomers will find in Sunset Park his usual beautifully nuanced prose.... [and] a tremendous crash bang of an ending.” —...

Au cœur de la tempête qui dévaste la Nouvelle-Orléans, dans un saisissant décor d'apocalypse, quelques personnages affrontent la fureur des éléments, mais aussi leur propre nuit intérieure. Un saisissant choral romanesque qui résonne comme le cri de la ville abandonnée à son sort, la plainte des sacrifiés, le chant des rescapés.

Anna Karenina fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1877. Era già stato pubblicato a puntate dal 1875, ma non fu mai pubblicata l'ottava parte perché la rivista non tollerò le prese d posizione antinazionaliste di Tolstoj, che fu quindi costretto a pubblicare l'opera completa a sue spese.Tolstoj vedeva in questo libro, considerato un capolavoro del realismo, il suo primo vero romanzo.

The brand new release from the Sunday Times bestselling author that bought you Fairytale of New York and It Started With A Kiss. What happens when your happy ever after is suddenly and painfully taken away from you? Elsie Maynard has a whole new life she never expected to have. From...

"One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself. Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and...

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A...

From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins and award-winning suspense novelist Rebecca Cantrell comes a disturbing story of vengeance, bloodshed, and creatures that prowl the night. In the haunted, war-torn highlands of Afghanistan, amid the ruins of Shahr-e-Gholghol, an archaeology...

In Australian bestselling author Charlotte Nash's U.S. debut, a young woman attends her ex-boyfriend's Paris wedding and discovers more than she ever dreamed in the ultimate city of love. Imagine you are invited to Paris, the City of Love, to witness the wedding of your first love to a woman...

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey...

What is French for falling in love? When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It’s an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for Del and her twin sister is nearly in her grasp. If...

A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is...

From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it. For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes Loving, a tender, faith-filled conclusion to the beloved Bailey Flanigan series that explores love, trust, and the courage to follow God's plan. Bailey Flanigan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of performing on Broadway, but...