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  • The sentence : a novel
    Auteur:
    Erdrich, Louise
    Sommaire:

    A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed...
  • The searcher : a novel
    Auteur:
    French, Tana
    Sommaire:

    A New York Times Bestseller "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." -Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post A "taut, chiseled and propulsive...
  • The sacrifice : a novel
    Auteur:
    Oates, Joyce Carol
    Sommaire:

    When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
  • The Rib King
    Auteur:
    Hubbard, Ladee
    Sommaire:

    This historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century Chicago, centers around the black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white family, who are exploited in the family's desperate business venture.
  • The removed : a novel
    Auteur:
    Hobson, Brandon
    Sommaire:

    For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son. As the family's annual bonfire approaches, each of them feels a blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.
  • The Reckoning of Boston Jim
    Auteur:
    Mulligan, Claire
    Sommaire:

    The colony of British Columbia, 1863. Boston Jim Milroy, a lone trapper and trader with an eidetic memory and a tragic unreckoned past, has become obsessed with reciprocating a seemingly minor kindness from the loquacious Dora Hume, a...
  • The rain watcher
    Auteur:
    de Rosnay, Tatiana
    Sommaire:

    The first new audiobook in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and...
  • The queen's gambit
    Auteur:
    Tevis, Walter
    Sommaire:

    When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she...
  • The printed letter bookshop
    Auteur:
    Reay, Katherine
    Sommaire:

    Amid literature and lattes, three women come together and find that sharing one's journey with best friends makes life richer.
  • The place of dead roads
    Auteur:
    Burroughs, William S.
    Sommaire:

    A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers fight for galactic freedom.
  • The people's train
    Auteur:
    Keneally, Thomas
    Sommaire:

    Artem Samsurov, an ardent follower of Lenin and a hero of the rebellion, flees his Siberian labor camp for the sanctuary of Brisbane, Australia in 1911. Failing to find the worker's paradise and brotherhood he imagined, Artem quickly...
  • The orphan mother : a novel
    Auteur:
    Hicks, Robert
    Sommaire:

    In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son,...
  • The novel habits of happiness
    Auteur:
    McCall Smith, Alexander
    Sommaire:

    The ever-delightful, insatiably curious Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth returns to take on a case unlike any she's had before-this one with paranormal implications-in the tenth installment of this beloved author's consistently...
  • The night always comes
    Auteur:
    Vlautin, Willy
    Sommaire:

    Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted juggling multiple jobs but still wants to provide a stable home for her family. As her desperation builds, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral.
  • The news from the end of the world
    Auteur:
    Miller, Emily Jeanne
    Sommaire:

    Meet the lovable but dysfunctional Lake family over the four days that will make or break them When Vance Lake-broke, jobless, and recently dumped-takes refuge with twin brother Craig back home on Cape Cod, he unwittingly finds himself...
  • The Neil Gaiman reader : selected fiction
    Auteur:
    Gaiman, Neil
    Sommaire:

    This collection spans Gaiman's career to date. 
  • The most fun we ever had
    Auteur:
    Lombardo, Claire
    Sommaire:

    "A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory." -Madeline Miller A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple-still madly in love after forty years-...
  • The ministry for the future
    Auteur:
    Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Sommaire:

    Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and...
  • The mercies
    Auteur:
    Hargrave, Kiran Millwood
    Sommaire:

    Absalom Cornet comes to the tiny Arctic town of Vardø from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But...
  • The man who lived underground
    Auteur:
    Wright, Richard
    Sommaire:

    Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer...

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