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By Mitch Albom. 2013
People in the town of Coldwater, Michigan, begin receiving phone calls from loved ones in heaven. As the news spreads…
worldwide, disgraced pilot Sully Harding, who has just been released from jail, wants to investigate the phenomenon. But Sully's young son wants a call from his late mother. Bestseller. 2013By Jonathan Lethem. 2013
Queens, New York. The Zimmers--headed by matriarch Rose--are a family of revolutionary radicals. Rose leads Communist cells from her kitchen…
until the party expels her in 1955. Her daughter Miriam explores communes. Grandson Sergius participates in the Occupy movement. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013By J. M. Coetzee. 2013
Sailing to a new land, five-year-old David is separated from his mother. Simón, a fellow passenger, takes custody of David,…
and together they navigate a new culture and language--and a world that seems set against them. 2013By Paulo Coelho. 2013
Jerusalén, 1099. Antes del asalto final de los cruzados en la capital, un joven registra las enseñanzas de un enigmático…
sabio conocido sólo como Copta. A partir de las diferentes tradiciones de la antigüedad, incluyendo los de los árabes, Judios, y los cristianos de Oriente a su alrededor en la ciudad santa, Copta comunica una sabiduría consoladora para tiempos catastróficos. Traducido del portuguésBy Mario Vargas Llosa. 2013
En Piura, Perú, Felícito Yanaqué, propietario de una pequeña empresa, es víctima de un complot de extorsión. Al mismo tiempo,…
en Lima, el empresario Ismael Carrera teme por su vida - y planea vengarse de sus dos hijos, que quieren verlo muerto. Algunas descripciones de violencia y de lenguaje injuriosoBy Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa. 2013
Jerusalem, 1099. A young man records the teachings of an enigmatic Greek sage known only as the Copt. Drawing from…
different traditions--including those of the city's Arabs, Jews, and Eastern Christians--the Copt imparts consoling wisdom for catastrophic times. Translated from Portuguese. 2012By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Heather Glen, Elizabeth Gaskell. 2010
Five Victorian short stories and the title novella by English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). In Cousin Phillis seventeen-year-old Paul Manning…
meets his mother's distant relatives. Includes "Lizzie Leigh," "Morton Hall," "My French Master," "Half a Life-Time Ago," and "Manchester Marriage" and 2010 introduction and notes by Heather Glen. 1865By James Salter. 2013
World War II veteran Philip Bowman becomes an editor at a small New York publishing house. He marries a wealthy…
Virginian, divorces, and has affairs with both a married Englishwoman and a divorcée. But true love eludes him. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013By Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire. 2021
La vie de Michelle s'amorce dès la jeune enfance par des abus inqualifiables qui la hanteront encore à l'âge adulte.…
Dans cette autofiction sans compromis, Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire livre un témoignage incisif et lucide sur la maladie mentale, les violences sexuelles et familiales, les relations amoureuses et la misogynie. Le premier livre de Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire dérange par sa franchise désarmante. Rare incursion dans la psyché borderline, Y avait--il des limites... est un kaléidoscope de scènes à la limite du supportable et de réflexions lumineuses narrées par une écriture d'une beauté à couper le souffleBy Jean-Baptiste Andrea. 2020
By David Turgeon. 2021
Deux ans avant la guerre, Carel Ender vit à Privine. Petit fonctionnaire de l’administration impériale, il est consciencieux et apprécié.…
Les amis qu’il fréquente proviennent d’horizons divers: Isabelle Van Duyck, fondatrice d’une utopie artistique; Jean Faber, militant politique; Nina Fischer, journaliste de renom; et Ilya Rehberg, dramaturge intéressé par la «question kadienne». Carel Ender sera le lien entre ces divers personnages, jusqu’au moment où la grande histoire prendra le pas sur la petite. Les traces laissées par Carel Ender ne seront redécouvertes que de nombreuses années plus tard, par une historienne, Sabine Oloron, à qui il appartiendra de dire la morale de cette fable.By Roxanne Bouchard. 2012
Samedi dernier, au Cirque Flagada Circus, quelque chose a déraillé dans le tir de l'Homme Canon. Éjecté de travers, ce…
dernier a tué le Cracheur de Feu et envoyé la Contorsionniste aux soins intensifs. Le Clown, en apprenant la nouvelle, a fait une crise cardiaque. Lundi amène donc le directeur du cirque auPhénix crématorium(quatrième étage de l'Orphéon), afin de préparer une fabuleuse cérémonie crématoire. Fabuleuse, oui! Car si vous croyez queLe Phénixdonne dans le sobre, le discret et le recueilli, c'est que vous n'avez rien lu, lecteurBy Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa. 2012
Pentonville Prison, London; 1916. Former British consul Roger Casement awaits punishment for treason. Casement's service to the crown exposing abuses…
in the Congo and the Amazon is overshadowed by his support of a free Ireland. Translated from Spanish. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2012By Jóanes Nielsen. 2021
Djalli mourut le premier dune méningite, Ingimar fut emporté au fond de leau par un filet de pêche, on retrouva…
le corps de Staffan dans la commune libre de Christiania à Copenhague, Fríðrikur fut lâchement assassiné, Olaf mourut dune maladie interdite et Kári fit leur éloge funèbreBy Candice Carty-Williams. 2021
Anglaise d'origine jamaïcaine, Queenie habite à Londres avec Tom, son petit ami, et débute une carrière prometteuse. Lorsque ce dernier…
la quitte, elle sombre dans une spirale infernale et enchaîne les mauvaises expériences malgré le soutien de ses amies Darcy, Kyazike et Cassandra. En tant que jeune immigrée noire, Queenie doit se battre et relever la tête coûte que coûte. Premier roman.By Boris Pasternak, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. 2010
Poet/physician Yuri Andreevich Zhivago takes his family from Moscow to the Ural Mountains for safety during the Russian Revolution but…
he is forcibly conscripted. He also falls in love with Lara, a revolutionary's wife. Translation of Boris Pasternak's acclaimed 1955 novel by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2010By Leo Tolstoy, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear. 2009
Eleven stories by the acclaimed Russian writer (1828-1910). The title piece examines death and the possibilities of redemption. Includes "The…
Prisoner of the Caucasus," inspired by Tolstoy's experiences in the Chechen War, and "Hadji Murat," featuring a Chechen rebel who defects. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2009By Hans Fallada, Susan Bennett. 2009
Germany, early 1930s. In the last days of the Weimar Republic, twenty-three-year-old salesman Johannes Pinneberg marries his pregnant, blue-collar girlfriend…
Emma, the daughter of a Communist union worker. Johannes loses his job and returns to Berlin where, like millions of others, his family is soon destitute. Translated from German. 1932By Christopher Priest. 2011
Presented as a guide to the Dream Archipelago of an alternate world, each chapter of this novel describes an island.…
Some are described by their geographic features and others by tales of their inhabitants. Some descriptions of sex. 2011By Geoffrey Household. 2007
A British hunter penetrates the compound of a foreign dictator. He has the leader in his sights, gun ready, when…
security closes in on him. After escaping a tortuous imprisonment, the hunter returns to England, pursued by his former captors. Includes 2007 introduction by Victoria Nelson. Some violence. 1939