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Le fantôme de l'opéra
By Gaston Leroux, Frank Milani, Paulette Collet. 1959
Avec l'art de l'intrique parfaitement nouee et l'inspiration diabolique qui ont fait le succès de Gaston Leroux, le perce de…
Rouletabille, le Fantome de l'Opera nous entraine dans une extraordinaire aventure qui nous tient en haleine de la première à la dernière ligne. Roman porte à la scène et au cinéma. 1959, c1910.Reynard the Fox: a new translation
By James Simpson. 2015
A classic trickster narrative from twelfth-century Europe, this tale features a wily and gleefully amoral fox and his many victims.…
Focuses on the benefits of being clever over being virtuous and how, in a world of ruthless competition, clever subjects might outwit both their rulers and enemies alike. 2015The sheltered life
By Ellen Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow. 1994
Virginia, 1900s. For years Eva Birdsong, a celebrated southern beauty, attempts to hide the extramarital affairs of her charming husband,…
George. But when George's affections turn to young Jenny Blair--the impetuous granddaughter of Eva's trusted friend General Archbald--tragedy follows. Includes 1994 afterword by Carol S. Manning. 1932Letters from Father Christmas
By J. R. R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien. 2004
A collection of Christmas letters penned by J.R.R. Tolkien and signed as Father Christmas that were sent to Tolkien's children…
from 1920-1943. Each recapped activities of the preceding year at the North Pole, including reindeer running amok and the North Polar Bear breaking the moon into four pieces. 2004Anthologie de la littérature française: t. 1, Des origines à la fin du dix-huitième siècle
By Robert Leggewie. 1990
The swank hotel: A Novel
By Lucy Corin. 2021
Em's days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable,…
something impossible, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed into shimmering sites of the uncanny. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong languageThe story of a goat
By N. Kalyan Raman, Perumāḷmurukan̲. 2019
One evening, a giant gives an old man a runt of a goat kid to raise. The goat is soon…
named Poonachi. She observes the world around her, finds joys, even as she is wary of dangers. Translated from the original 2016 Tamil edition. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018L'aventure: récit d'un éditeur
By Jacques Fortin. 2000
"Des commencements avec son complice privilégié, Gilbert La Rocque, jusqu'à la grande aventure internationale des dictionnaires Visuel, du Multidictionnaire et…
du multimédia, en passant par les grandes réussites éditoriales qu'ont été Le Matou d'Yves Beauchemin, les mémoires de René Lévesque, celles de Lise Payette ou Les Filles de Caleb d'Arlette Cousture, c'est tout un panorama de l'aventure éditoriale du Québec qui nous est tracé. Historique, cela va de soi, cette fresque n'en constitue pas moins une profonde réflexion sur l'ensemble de l'industrie culturelle québécoise. Jacques Fortin y prend des positions qui ne plairont pas à tous et son évaluation de l'actuelle situation du livre au Québec saura déranger et forcer à la réflexion. Bref, voici l'histoire d'un homme qui se souvient, et qui n'en pense pas moins à l'avenir." -- 4e de couvThe magnificent Ambersons
By Booth Tarkington. 2001
George Amberson Minafer is the pampered but pitiful scion of a dynasty spanning three generations. When industrialization transforms his small…
midwestern town, George finds his family's fortune threatened not only by a new breed of entrepreneur, but by his relatives' arrogance and greed. Pulitzer Prize. 1918Accidental happiness: a novel
By Jean Reynolds Page. 2005
South Carolina. Since her husband Ben unexpectedly died three months ago, thirty-three-year-old Gina Melrose has been living aboard their sailboat.…
When Reese, Ben's ex-wife, and her seven-year-old daughter Angel, who might be Ben's child, arrive on the boat, Gina confronts the possibility that Ben betrayed her. Strong language. 2005L'hiver à Cape Cod: récit (Hamac)
By Pierre Gobeil. 2011
" Je crois maintenant qu'il est temps que je présente le principal intéressé de cette histoire. Peter, de son vrai…
nom Peterson Vincent. Né le 1er août 1997. Mon fils de Port-au-Prince. Diagnostiqué dyslexique et dysorthographique avec déficit d'attention dès sa maternelle, il a toujours eu des difficultés à suivre un programme scolaire et, parti comme ça, il devra sûrement reprendre sa cinquième année. Au milieu d'une année scolaire filant tout droit à la catastrophe, un père décide de prendre le large avec son fils de dix ans pour tenter de résoudre une situation intenable. C'est l'hiver. Ils quittent Montréal. Et sans autre rêve que le désir de vivre quelque chose de neuf, pendant plusieurs mois ils arpentent la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à Hyannis, au coeur du Cape Cod... " -- 4e de couvWhen I sing, mountains dance: a novel
By Irene Solà. 2022
A spellbinding Catalan novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself. Near a…
village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain." He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he'd harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst. UnratedFoxboy
By Catherine J. Allen. 2011
Once there was a Quechua folktale. It begins with a trickster fox’s penis with a will of its own and…
ends with a daughter returning to parents who cannot recognize her until she recounts the uncanny adventures that have befallen her since she ran away from home. Following the strange twists and turnings of this tale, Catherine J. Allen weaves a narrative of Quechua storytelling and story listening that links these arts to others—fabric weaving, in particular—and thereby illuminates enduring Andean strategies for communicating deeply felt cultural values. In this masterful work of literary nonfiction, Allen draws out the connections between two prominent markers of ethnic identity in Andean nations—indigenous language and woven cloth—and makes a convincing case that the connection between language and cloth affects virtually all aspects of expressive culture, including the performing arts. As she explores how a skilled storyteller interweaves traditional tales and stock characters into new stories, just as a skilled weaver combines traditional motifs and colors into new patterns, she demonstrates how Andean storytelling and weaving both embody the same kinds of relationships, the same ideas about how opposites should meet up with each other. By identifying these pervasive patterns, Allen opens up the Quechua cultural world that unites story tellers and listeners, as listeners hear echoes and traces of other stories, layering over each other in a kind of aural palimpsest.Laced
By Amélie Hope. 2013
In Laced by Amélie Hope, Joanne Anderson is a jaded wedding planner who no longer believes in love. Will a…
long-lost friend soften her heart and finally give her what she needs?L. A. Armoire
By B. Z. Vukovina. 2013
L. A. Armoire by B. Z. R. Vukovina is set in the grime and heat of 1920's Los Angeles, where…
Edith dreams of having her own detective agency. A surreal journey through L. A.'s debauched underbelly will determine whether she is made for the job.Un Ménage di Natale per Rachel (Il Key Club #7)
By Jan Springer, Magali S.. 2016
Rachel ha un segreto molto osé ed è troppo imbarazzata per condividerlo con chiunque. Quando il Key Club organizza una…
Serata Ménage Babbo Natale, pensa che sia quasi troppo bello per essere vero. Deve trovare un modo per partecipare senza che nessuno la scopra! I baristi del Key Club Rob e Ron Simpson hanno perso la testa, con tutto il cappuccio da Babbo Natale, per la dolce, bella Rachel. Ma lei non immagina neanche lontanamente quello che provano per lei. Presto però lo saprà, perché sta tornando da un viaggio in Europa e i gemelli le faranno trovare il miglior Ménage di Bentornata a Casa che possa mai aspettarsi. Lo faranno con l'aiuto di qualche toy bollente, la Stanza Rossa, una parola di sicurezza e... Babbo Natale.Charlie Chan Is Dead 2
By Jessica Hagedorn, Elaine Kim. 2004
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source…
for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating voices in Asian American writing--from classics by Jose Garcia Villa and Wakako Yamauchi to exciting new fiction from Akhil Sharma, Ruth Ozeki, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Monique Truong. Sweeping in background and literary style, from pioneering writers to newly emerging voices from the Hmong and Korean communities, these exceptional works celebrate the full spectrum of Asian American experience and identities, transcending stereotypes and revealing the strength and vitality of Asian America today.Gardening Days
By Esmeralda Greene. 2013
Bit Rot
By Douglas Coupland. 2016
Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being…
shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix... you can't stop with just one."Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones." Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, and his phrase-making. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight.From the Hardcover edition.The Innocent Party
By Aimee Parkison. 2012
"Aimee Parkison most often begins softly, slowly stripping away each layer of social interaction to get at what is numinous…
and frightening and necessary about living in the real world. These are stories both about the difficulty and the intense suddenness of human connection, about the profound link that exists between being in love and being alone."-Brian EvensonFrom "The Glass Girl":On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath. Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips left inside. They began sucking the air out of the glass that grew warm in the wrong places because of heat radiating off their hands. The men's breath along with white feathers fell over autumn winds drifting through open windows.In this collection, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize-winner Aimee Parkison's characters struggle to understand what happens when the innocent party becomes the guilty party. With magical realist flair, secrets are aired with dirty laundry, but the stains never come clean. Carol Anshaw writes, "Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography."Aimee Parkison has an MFA from Cornell University. She is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches creative writing.