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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. 2004Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley
By Stan Yogi. 1996
This multicultural anthology contains essays, fiction, poetry and drama showcasing seventy writers living along the length of Highway 99--the main…
artery through California's Central Valley. Explores how the agricultural opportunities of the region attract people from many walks of life: African American migrants, Oklahoma refugees, Filipino laborers, Chinese pioneers, Mexican workers, and Laotian immigrantsAnthologie 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 languageGiants in the earth: the California redwoods
By Peter Johnstone, Peter E. Palmquist. 2001
Literary anthology of stories, poems, natural history compositions, and articles selected from three hundred years of writing about the California…
redwoods. Authors Walt Whitman, John Muir, Jack London, Tom Wolfe, Armistead Maupin, and others who visited the groves felt inspired to write about their experiences and feelingsThe 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 couvThe restaurant critic's wife
By Elizabeth LaBan. 2016
Lila's husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he's determined to…
remain anonymous and that preoccupation takes over their lives. Meanwhile, Lisa craves adult conversation and relief from her homemaker role. With her husband obsessed with anonymity, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has disappeared. Adult. UnratedWhen 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. UnratedRosie colored glasses
By Brianna Wolfson. 2018
Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs…
with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another. Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie's daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow's bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie's divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie's behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same? UnratedLydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper
By Harriet Scott Chessman. 2001
Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the…
author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel's subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt's brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister.Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel
By Harriet Scott Chessman. 2001
Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the…
author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel's subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt's brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister.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.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.