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Le bac en poche, les années lycée et leur lot de terribles souvenirs derrière elle, Violette se réjouit de pouvoir enfin tourner la page. C'est par un déménagement et l'intégration d'une école de graphisme de renom que débute sa nouvelle vie. Artiste dans l'âme, Violette espère se révéler et s'épanouir au sein de Arte-Sup. Or son bonheur a un prix : Adam, le fils de son nouveau beau-père. Car le jeune homme, aussi ombrageux qu'insaisissable, avec lequel elle va devoir désormais partager un couloir, semble la haïr par-dessous tout.

Gin Fielding is counting the days until she escapes the small-town life of Roper, Missouri, for college at NYU. She prefers to blend in, though she’s far from invisible. But when she protects a younger student from a bully, the spotlight turns on her. Chase Matthews enjoys the small-town celebrity being the star quarterback brings. When Gin defends his little sister against a bully, he decides to change her senior year in ways she never imagined. When Gin declines Chase’s invitation to be part of the elite Sweet 16, the repercussions turn both their lives upside down.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing. In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

En los años cincuenta, Antonio Padín abandona Galicia rumbo a Argentina en busca de una vida mejor para su familia. Treinta años antes ya lo hizo su abuelo Antonio quien nunca volvió, pero él le hace una promesa a Maruxa: “Volveré a buscarte.”Lo que no sabe es que esa aventura le descubrirá, entre otras cosas, la verdadera historia de su abuelo, un mundo de salones elegantes y un amor apasionado que hará resquebrajarse su promesa y le obligará a elegir entre el deber o la pasión.

Un jeune guitariste passionné d'instruments, qui travaille occasionnellement chez un vendeur réputé, est chargé de livrer une guitare ancienne chez un excentrique collectionneur anglais. Là, dans un manoir sur les rives du Loch Ness, il accepte une incroyable mission : retrouver le prototype d'une guitare mythique, mystérieuse et maudite, la Moderne. Si toutefois elle a véritablement existé... Cinq années de documentation et une érudition époustouflante transformées en un roman aux allures vintage lorgnant du côté du "Fantôme de l'Opéra", mais aussi en une incroyable rêverie, au rythme des road trips américains.

In 1633 Holland, a woman’s ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to become the first woman admitted to the prestigious Haarlem artist’s guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a lost saint’s relic. Both women’s destinies will be shaped by their ambitions, running counter to the city’s most powerful men, whose own plans spell disaster. A vivid portrait of a remarkable artist, A Light of Her Own is a richly-woven story of grit against the backdrop of Rembrandts and repressive religious rule.

It’s the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random’s best friend John has been called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch’s biological father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind. James Leo Herlihy’s third novel captures the mood and grooves of late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the counterculture revolution.

Most people in town think 16-year-old Clinton Williams’ family is strange. Wishing he could contact his wayward brother, Clinton yearns for a day when he, too, can escape the neighborhood and travel the country. After following a clue to Berry-berry’s whereabouts, Clinton ventures to Coastal Florida hoping to find him, but instead gets a firsthand view of his brother’s callous destructiveness that will leave permanent marks on the young man.

From James Leo Herlihy (author of Midnight Cowboy) comes a series of grim yet insightful short stories in his first collection, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson. Both an examination of the darker themes of alienation and isolation and an elevation of the oddities and quirks that make up human nature, Herlihy’s seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders.

In einer milden Sommernacht kommt Lauren mit ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden am Seeufer zusammen, um das Leben mit all seinen Höhen und Tiefen zu feiern. Um all die besonderen Momente im flackernden Licht des Lagerfeuers noch einmal zu erwecken. Um die Liebe zu spüren und gemeinsam stark zu sein, wenn der neue Morgen anbricht und der Abschied naht... In dieser gefühlvollen Geschichte lädt Emily Bold ihre Leser ein, eine lichtblaue Sommernacht mit Lauren, ihrem Mann Tim, ihrer Familie und Freunden zu erleben.

La guerra ha lasciato la piccola città sulla collina, il frastuono è passato e anche se le notizie dal fronte ormai lontano ne portano ancora l'eco, l'insopprimibile soffio della vita riemerge dalla terra, torna a percorrere con le sue antiche superstizioni e leggende i borghi, le chiese, le grandi stanze in penombra delle vecchie ville. Nascono nuovi amori, tornano rancori mai dimenticati.

Charlie Matthews’ love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called "Lucky Star"....

Everything in Libby's life was falling into place...or she thought it was. After a night of sin in New Orleans, she thought she might just be sick from exhaustion, but a trip to the doctor proved otherwise. Now, instead of moving forward, her and commit-a-phobic boyfriend Blaine Crabtree have to go in a completely new direction. Every road block has gotten in their way. Everything has tried to tear them apart. Now they have to figure out if they are strong enough to move forward or if this is the end of their paper trail.

After a summer spent with her aunt Dee in tiny Elsbury, Louisiana, former Chicago princess Libby Gentry traded in her old life for a new one with the Southern Casanova Blaine Crabtree. But just when she thinks things are changing for the better, old girlfriends of Blaine's start coming back into the picture, and not a single one of them are friendly or bad on the eyes. Combine the worry of passing her first semester at St. Joseph Community College and sponsoring her tomboy cousin in cotillion and Libby can barely keep up.

Nevada. Sembra il nome di un deserto, e invece è il luogo in cui vive la famiglia De Boer, in alta val Brenta. Una terra circondata da boschi aspri, dove le case si inerpicano su pendii vertiginosi. Sono gli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento e i De Boer, che lavorano nei campi di tabacco, il pregiatissimo Nostrano del Brenta, vivono consapevoli che solo nella muta e rispettosa alleanza tra uomini e natura selvaggia esiste una possibilità di sopravvivenza.

Mimì, dodici anni, occhiali, parlantina da sapientone e la fissa per i fumetti, gli astronauti e Karate Kid, abita in uno stabile del Vomero, dove suo padre lavora come portiere. Passa le giornate sul marciapiede insieme al suo migliore amico Sasà o nel bilocale che condivide con i genitori, la sorella adolescente e i nonni. Nel 1985, l'anno in cui tutto cambia, Mimì si sta esercitando nella trasmissione del pensiero, architetta piani per riuscire a comprarsi un costume da Spiderman e cerca il modo di attaccare bottone con Viola. Ma, soprattutto, conosce Giancarlo, il suo supereroe.

Le jeune prince Marcus est encore un enfant lorsqu'il assiste impuissant au massacre de toute sa famille. Seul rescapé de cette boucherie fomentée par Ojsternig, ennemi héréditaire de la famille de Marcus qui va s'asseoir sur le trône, Marcus ne doit son salut qu'à la jeune Héloïse, fille d'Agnès, la lavandière du village qui l'accueillera sous son toit pour l'élever comme s'il était son fils. Luca Di Fulvio retrace l'ascension paradoxale d'un petit prince, un demi-dieu qui va devoir apprendre dans la douleur comment devenir un homme.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Avant de se jalouser et s'empoisonner. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Pour le meilleur, ou pour le pire ? Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun. Un point de départ identique pour deux histoires distinctes qui peuvent se lire indépendamment l'une de l'autre.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Jusqu'à un soir de feu d'artifice où l'une d'elles se volatilise brutalement. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'en reste plus qu'une. Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun.

Lulu is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with Lulu as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, SC, into a coed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring, and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great Southern writers, one of America's best-selling nonfiction authors, Nancy Friday, has in Lulu created a fascinating first work of fiction.