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Atwood, Margaret«Old Babes in the Wood»
Stories
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New ...
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Jollien-Fardel, Sarah«Sa préférée»
Dans ce village haut perché des montagnes valaisannes, tout se sait, et personne ne dit rien. Jeanne, la narratrice, apprend tôt à esquiver la brutalité perverse de son père. Si ...
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Mendelson, Charlotte«The Exhibitionist»
The Exhibitionist is the extraordinary fifth novel from Charlotte Mendelson, a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, queer desire and personal freedom.'Mendelson is a master at ...
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Catton, Eleanor«Birnam Wood»
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable ...
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Rushdie, Salman«Victory City»
A Novel
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After ...
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Stokes-Chapman, Susan«Pandora»
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Weaves together Ancient Greek myth with suspenseful mystery and beguiling romance...utterly irresistible' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Perfect for fans of THE LEVIATHAN and THE SONG OF ...
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George, Elizabeth«Something to Hide»
A Lynley Novel
When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working ...
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Nothomb, Amélie«Le livre des soeurs»
"Les mots ont le pouvoir qu'on leur donne." Amélie Nothomb
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Giraud, Brigitte«Vivre vite»
Prix Goncourt 2022 « J’ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes cachées. C’était inespéré et je n’ai pas flairé l’engrenage qui allait faire basculer ...
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Callender, Kacen«Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution»
Lark tries their best to be perfect at all costs, but nothing seems good enough for the anonymous hordes - or for Kasim, who is growing closer to Lark, just ...
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DeGrasse Tyson, Neil«Starry Messenger»
Cosmic perspective on civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our ...
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Hazelwood, Ali«Love on the Brain»
When forced to work on a project with your nemesis it's best to stick to the science: observe the sparks and secretly hypothesize with the heart. Further research could trigger ...
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Sands, Philippe«The Last Colony »
A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. But ...
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Ball, Matthew«The Metaverse»
And how it will revolutionize everything
The term "metaverse" is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of The New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who proclaimed in June 2021 that ...
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«Murder by the Seaside»
Hrsg. von Gayford, Cecily
It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice cream melts onto sticky fingers, tempers begin to rise and old grudges surface. From ...
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Frazier, Jean Kyoung «Pizza Girl»
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She’s grieving the death of her ...
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Gurnah, Abdulrazak «By the Sea »
On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which ...
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Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar«La plus secrète mémoire des hommes»
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur menée par un jeune écrivain africain à Paris En 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, jeune écrivain sénégalais, découvre ...
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Smith, Sydney / Scott, Jordan«I Talk Like a River»
After a day of being unable to speak when asked, and of being stared at, a boy and his father go to the river for some quiet time. "It's just ...
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Ventura, Maud«Mon mari»
C’est une femme toujours amoureuse de son mari après quinze ans de vie commune. Ils forment un parfait couple de quadragénaires : deux enfants, une grande maison, la réussite sociale. ...
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Pourchet, Maria«Feu»
Laure, prof d’université, est mariée, mère de deux filles et propriétaire d’un pavillon. À 40 ans, il lui semble être la somme, non pas de ses désirs, mais de l’effort ...
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Whitaker, Chris «We Begin at the End »
Crime Novel of the Year Award Winner 2021
For some people, trouble just finds them. Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. Now, he's been released from prison and is back in his hometown of ...
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Jedrowski, Tomasz«Swimming in the Dark »
Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and ...
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Miyashita, Natsu«The Forest of Wool and Steel»
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that ...
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McCann, Colum«Apeirogon»
Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin are two men. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami ...
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Atwood, Margaret«Dearly»
Poems
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many ...
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Ford, Richard«Sorry For Your Trouble »
Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York ...
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Petry, Ann«The Street »
New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eight-year-old boy, Bub - a life that ...
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Jestin, Victor «La chaleur»
« Oscar est mort parce que je l’ai regardé mourir, sans bouger. Il est mort étranglé par les cordes d’une balançoire. » Ainsi commence ce court et intense roman qui ...
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Messina, Marion«Faux départ»
Entre Aurélie, qui crève d’ennui dans une fac, et Alejandro, le Colombien expatrié, l’amour fou et inimitable, le frisson nouveau sont toujours à portée de corps mais jamais atteints. La ...
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Ernaux, Annie«Une femme»
Annie Ernaux s'efforce ici de retrouver les différents visages et la vie de sa mère, morte le 7 avril 1986, au terme d'une maladie qui avait détruit sa mémoire et ...
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McEwan, Ian«Machines Like Me»
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible ...
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Roupenian, Kristen «You Know You Want This»
From the creator of Cat Person – the first short story to go viral – comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive collection about sex, dating and modern life. ...
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Dicker, Joël«La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer»
30 juillet 1994. Orphea, petite station balnéaire tranquille des Hamptons dans l’État de New York, est bouleversée par un effroyable fait divers: le maire de la ville et sa famille ...
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Barnes, Julian«The Only Story»
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. You may point out ...
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Baldwin, James«If Beale Street could talk»
In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. ...
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Vigan, Delphine de «Les loyautés »
Chacun de nous abrite-t-il quelque chose d'innommable susceptible de se révéler un jour, comme une encre sale, antipathique, se révelerait sous la chaleur de la flamme ? Chacun de nous ...
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Dusapin, Elisa Shua; Becquelin, Hélène«Le colibri»
Sur le toit de son immeuble, Célestin fuit le silence de ses parents. Il a parfois la visite de son grand frère, Célin, qui est devenu explorateur du ciel. Depuis ...
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Smith, Ali«Companion piece»
One day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call from university acquaintance Martina Pelf. Martina is calling Sandy to ask for help with a mysterious ...
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Wright, Richard«The Man Who Lived Underground»
***AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4's OPEN BOOK***The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on ...
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Wright, Richard«The Man Who Lived Underground»
Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local precinct, he is tortured -- until ...
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Penny, Laurie«Sexual Revolution»
Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and ...
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Erdrich, Louise«The Sentence»
A wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.Tookie works as a bookseller in a small independent bookstore ...
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Robert-Diard, Pascale«La petite menteuse»
"Je veux être défendue par une femme", a dit Lisa en se présentant à Alice Keridreux. Une face-à-face commence. Ni l'une, ni l'autre ne savent jusqu'où il va les mener. Pascale ...
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O'Farrell, Maggie«The Marriage Portrait»
'I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.' Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, ...
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Irving, John«The Last Chairlift»
One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years — a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
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Katouh, Zoulfa«As long as the lemon trees grow»
Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student ...
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Despentes, Virginie«Cher connard»
Roman épistolaire entre Rebecca, une actrice quinquagénaire séduisante, Oscar, un écrivain trentenaire peu connu victime du syndrome de la page blanche et Zoé, une jeune féministe accro aux réseaux sociaux. ...
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Gee, Henry«A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth»
4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping. Dr Henry Gee was born in 1962. He was educated at the universities ...
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Ryan, Donald«The Queen of Dirt Island»
From the award-winning, Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the love and stories that bind them. 'One ...
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Towles, Amor«The Lincoln Highway»
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They are getting ready to ...
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da Empoli, Guiliano«Le mage du kremlin»
On l'appelait le "mage du Kremlin" . L'énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis producteur d'émissions de télé-réalité avant de devenir l'éminence grise de Poutine, dit le Tsar. Après ...
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O'Nan, Stewart«Ocean State»
When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl. From the striking opening line of Ocean State, the reader is thrust into the world of the murderer, Angel, ...
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Lafon, Marie-Hélène «Histoire du fils»
André grandit heureux dans la famille de sa tante, auprès de ses cousines. Mais au fond de lui reste tapie la douleur d’être le fils d’un père inconnu et d’une ...
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Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts ...
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Strout, Elizabeth«Oh William!»
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and ...
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Banville, John«April in Spain»
Don't disturb the dead. On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax - despite the beaches, the cafes and the company of his ...
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Daas, Fatima«La petite dernière »
Fatima Daas vit dans une famille musulmane pratiquante originaire d'Algérie. Habitant à Clichy-sous-Bois, elle est une élève instable puis une adulte inadaptée. Etouffée par un environnement où l'amour ...
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Stuart, Douglas«Shuggie Bain»
Booker Prize 2020
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its ...
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Louis, Edouard«Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme »
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l’écart de tout, écrasée et parfois même humiliée par la violence masculine. ...
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Evaristo, Bernardine«Girl, Woman, Other»
An energetic, polyphonic novel comprised of the intermingled experiences of twelve characters, most of whom are black British women. Presents a sense of the changing nature of London, comparable to ...
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Cho, Nam-Joo«Born 1982»
A South Korean publishing sensation arrives in this original and uncompromising portrait of the endemic misogyny contended with by late-twentieth-century everywoman Kim Jiyoung, from family life to thwarted ambitions. Kim Jiyoung ...
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Enard, Mathias«Le Banquet annuel de la Confrérie des fossoyeurs»
Pour les besoins d’une thèse consacrée à “la vie à la campagne au XXIe siècle”, l’apprenti ethnologue David Mazon a quitté Paris et pris ses quartiers dans un modeste village ...
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Abe, Naoko«The Sakura Obsession»
The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry ...
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Swift, Graham«Here We Are »
It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling ...
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Owens, Delia«Where the Crawdads Sing»
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, ...
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McEwan, Ian«The Cockroach»
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature
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Slimani, Leïla «Dans le jardin de l'ogre»
«Cette nuit, elle en a rêvé et n'a pas pu se rendormir. Un rêve moite, interminable, qui s'est introduit en elle comme un souffle d'air chaud. Adèle ne peut plus ...
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Louis, Edouard «Qui a tué mon père »
Édouard Louis a publié deux romans, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule et Histoire de la violence, qui ont été traduits dans une trentaine de langues.
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Cander, Chris«Weight of a Piano»
A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old ...
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Ernaux, Annie«La place»
«Enfant, quand je m'efforçais de m'exprimer dans un langage châtié, j'avais l'impression de me jeter dans le vide. Une de mes frayeurs imaginaires, avoir un père instituteur qui ...
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Herron, Mick«Slow Horses»
You don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game.Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs ...
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Swift, Graham«Mothering Sunday»
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday.How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events ...
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Dabos, Christelle «La passe-miroir »
Les fiancés de l'hiver
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur ...
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