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Tous les récits écrits par Babel sont construits à partir d’événements vécus ou de personnages réels. Les Contes d’Odessa décrivent un milieu très particulier : celui des bas-fonds du grand port de la mer Noire où les Juifs formaient près d’un tiers de la population. Gangsters, charretiers, intermédiaires malhonnêtes du ghetto de la Moldavanka y sont évoqués avec truculence, humour et tendresse.

When Jasmine gets the call that her father has died, she immediately heads home to Stillcreek, Pennsylvania. Having been gone for years, she thought she had shed the small town and the insecure girl that she once was. However, returning home opens up all of the old wounds she thought she had mended and brings back her panic attacks and inability to deal with her overbearing sisters. The only thing that seems to pacify her anxiety is Cody Baker. Cody has a way of making her feel calm.

Keenan, a guide at Daylight Chasers, is hired to lead Isabella through a day that "nearly" never ends. As the top agent, he excels at calming the excitable and inspiring the timid, as they journey across the globe one time zone at a time. Despite his years of experience, Keenan soon realizes that he is going to need a lot more than his familiar script when it comes to Isabella's expedition.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you.... The story of the Hutchinson sisters does not begin in book one, It's Not My Favorite. It begins like a cancer - small subtle signs slowly surface in this achingly real prequel. If you want to know more about Gwenn and Rachel or if you only want a taste of their world, this novella will give you a chilling peek behind the holy curtain that cloaks their painfully sheltered lives.