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Frappé par les aléas de la vie, le petit Janet, à peine dix ans, se retrouve confié à sa tante, à la mort brutale de sa mère. Ni son père ni son demi-frère ne se soucient de lui.
C'est un bel enfant, ce Janet! On le dit un peu attardé, parce qu'il est plus lent, plus calme que les gamins de son âge. Mais il a tellement d'amour à donner: à son père indifférent, à sa mère bien-aimée, à sa chère tante Justine, à la vieille Laurentine,...
9402) Neglect: A Novel
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From the bestselling author of Rush comes a redemptive story of a young mother at war on two fronts.
From bestselling author Kim Wozencraft comes the story of a young mother at war on two fronts: first as a soldier in Afghanistan and then upon her return to rural Granite County, New York, where one terrible mistake threatens her family and her sanity.
Erin Cox enlists in the Army Reserve in an act of desperation. She and her husband have both lost...
9403) Le sang des Leca
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Cent ans d'une histoire familiale, traversant la guerre de 1870 et celle de 1914, jusqu'aux années cinquante.
À la fin du 19ème siècle, un homme quitte Evisa et ses montagnes corses pour s'engager dans les armées du second empire. Cet homme simple, voire frustre et sans éducation, participera aux batailles de son temps et se mariera à Paris. De son union naîtront huit enfants donc deux ne dépasseront pas le premier âge . L'existence des...
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Just before taking her vows, Sister Gilda, along with Lord Justin, King Louis's counselor, is given a task: investigate grounds for the annulment of a marriage between Count Cedric and Lady Mariel. Together, they discover that Mariel believes she actually married Cedric's younger half-brother Phillip-Cedric's surrogate-at the marriage ceremony, and that Cedric plans to marry Lady Emma as soon as the annulment is granted. Emma and Phillip, meanwhile,...
9405) Bar Maid: A Novel
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A sparkingly witty, poignant debut novel that is a Bright Lights Big City for a post-Reagan, pre-Y2K Philadelphia-for readers of Normal People, Sweetbitter, Modern Lovers, and Less.
It's September 1987. Charlie Green is an eighteen-year-old romantic and aspiring alcoholic, whose great wish is to fall in love with a light-eyed girl on his first day of college and never look back. Charlie believes in the magic of bars, girls, and Fate. He believes...
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A la mort de son grand-père, Pelot Gall ouvre enfin le vieux grimoire recelant les légendes et mythes de sa famille depuis le XIIe siècle...
Dans l'arrière-pays de Haute Bretagne, une famille séculaire vit depuis toujours ancrée dans ses rituels et ses vieux contes. Forme désuète de mémoire condamnée à disparaître dans la frénésie du monde moderne et le mutisme des anciens.
La découverte d'un vieux grimoire va bouleverser la jeune...
9407) My Sister's Lies
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For a decade, Hannah's life has been pretty close to perfect - she has a great job, she's married to Mark, and her child-free existence means she's free as a bird. The only sadness in her life is a fall-out with her sister Diane, who hasn't spoken to her in over ten years. But now Diane is on her doorstep - and this time, she's got her teenage daughter Mia in tow.
When Diane asks if Mia can stay with Hannah and Mark for a few days, Hannah is glad...
9408) The New Year's Eve Party
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Resolutions are made. Marriages are broken... A gripping domestic thriller set in The Cotswolds and perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Adele Parks! It started with the party... Frankie, Verity and Alice live in the idyllic Cotswolds community of White Fir Lake, but behind closed doors everyone has a secret they're desperately trying to keep... Verity and her husband Max's inability to conceive the child they long for is tearing their marriage...
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Who says you can't go home again?
Single mom Cierra Greene is determined to achieve success in real estate to support herself and her young daughter. Too bad her most lucrative property for sale is…haunted? Reluctantly, she seeks out her one-time crush, Wesley Livingston, for help. Now the cohost of a popular paranormal-investigation show, he is as appealing as ever. Cierra and Wesley try to ignore their unfinished business, but when old feelings...
9410) In the Shadow of Blue Mountain, Volume III: LIVES AND LETTERS OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY - 1962-2022
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IN THE SHADOW OF BLUE MOUNTAIN: LIVES AND LETTERS OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY - Volume III, 1962-2022 chronicles the personal histories of three members of the Hollingshead family: the father, Charles Anton, the daughter, Elma Kathleen (known throughout her adult life by her nickname Bim), and the youngest son, Roger Howerth. The author's life (indicated throughout as Ronnie) is inevitably included, as it became intimately intertwined with theirs. All...
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Un père, marqué par une vie conjugale complexe, a choisi de s'exiler pour sauver sa fille aînée d'une menace invisible. Cette décision l'amène à revisiter son passé, à se reconnecter à la tradition Nagot et à affronter des réalités mystérieuses en Afrique profonde. Entre pratiques d'envoûtement, sorcellerie, spiritualité, vodou et mythes africains, il cherche désespérément une solution pour sauver sa fille des griffes d'un ennemi...
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In his second collection of short stories, James Leo Herlihy explores a landscape at the fringes of society. Drawn with his signature humor and deft dialogue, Herlihy's characters search for the fragments of meaning that have gone missing from their lives. In the titular story, Mary Ellen McClure's unfulfilled, trailer park life is driven to the breaking point when she suspects her husband of having an affair. But when a Ouija board gives her the...
9413) All Our Yesterdays
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This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg's novels, terrible things happen-suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings....
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Deux jeunes filles perdent leur bébé à la naissance et quittent ensemble l'Espagne pour la France.
Pilar et Inma font connaissance dans un couvent en Catalogne. Filles-mères abandonnées et pauvres, elles vont accoucher dans des conditions épouvantables pendant le rigoureux hiver de 1955-1956. Aucun de leurs deux bébés ne survivra. Plus rien ne retient alors les deux jeunes filles en Espagne: ni famille, ni emploi, ni argent, ni amour. En...
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La route de l'espoir, tome II de la saga intitulée Le voyageur, est le récit de l'exode des habitants de Tourville. Ces derniers sont expulsés de leur comté, soumis à l'influence d'un magicien, pour avoir prononcé publiquement les mots «espoir» ou «espérer». Le voyageur se voit alors confier la lourde tâche de les ramener dans leur ville, ainsi naît «la route de l'espoir». Toutefois, face aux pouvoirs du magicien, quelle sera l'issue...
9416) Waltz with the Stars
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Publisher's note: WALTZ WITH THE STARS has been previously published in earlier editions as STAR LIGHT STAR BRIGHT. When Chyenna Dupres and her young daughter move from Portland, Oregon, to the small town of Prairie Valley, Chyenna leases a historic inn there. She plans to turn the inn into an upscale eatery, despite strong resistance from some of the locals. Her most vocal objector is cattle rancher Blair Westerman, who has relocated from L. A. to...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture du Mali.
Deuxième édition : mai 2012. Un homme, refusant de se plier au conformisme ambiant, subit l'hostilité de son épouse et de ses enfants. Excédé, il débarque un jour d'aïd avec un troupeau de moutons... Dans le Mali des années 1960, une bande d'écoliers de province échafaude les hypothèses les plus folles quant à l'origine du sucre blanc... Le rejeton d'une famille et son chat entretiennent...
9418) Secrets: A Novel
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Set against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction of the Year Selection. In Mogadiscio, the dictator is preparing to flee and clans are moving into the city, which rattles with machine gun fire. Society is collapsing under the weight of its own perversities. Unexpectedly, Kalaman, a businessman who owns a computer store, receives a visit from his childhood crush,...
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La maman d'Élise est souffrante. Pour échapper à l'atmosphère pesante de sa maison elle se rend dans une forêt et y découvre une plume qui la transporte dans le royaume du mage Alphonsius. Aidée par Ondine, une fée du royaume, elle part à la rencontre du mage pour découvrir le secret de cette plume.
9420) Mother's Day
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Can not having a child can change your life as much as having one?
Grace has returned to London after twenty years abroad to manage her dying mother's affairs. When she receives a blank Mother's Day card in the post, she is confused and unsettled. Who could have sent it to her and why? She isn't a mother.
Another Mother's Day card arrives. Then come the silent phone calls. Haunted by disturbing flashbacks, Grace starts to unravel. Someone is out...
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