"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost." This line from "Babette's Feast" lends itself to both of the stories in this audio collection, which...
General fiction
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Author:Dinesen, IsakSummary: - Author:Baeumler, PascalSummary:
Le 19 janvier 2007, à 13 h 05, âgée de 49 ans, moi, Maria Delasalle, je décédais d'un cancer. Neuf mois de lutte contre le crabe, contre cette tumeur sournoise, pour finalement devoir jeter l'éponge comme un vulgaire...
- Author:Bolaño, RobertoSummary:
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
- Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:
Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern's life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during...
- Author:Hofmann, KarenSummary:
A Brief View from the Coastal Suite, a sequel to What is Going to Happen Next, follows the lives of the four Lund siblings who are now in their 30s and 40s, as they navigate careers, relationships, parenting, and creative work during...
- Author:Ireland, AnnSummary:
Winner of the 1985 Seal Books First Novel Award and of the Books in Canada First Novel Award To Mrs. Hopper, Yoshi Takahashi may be just another name from her daughters’ past, but for Jean and her sister, Colette, he stands for much...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every so often I need OUT... . My special place is a small brook in a green...
- Author:Brautigan, RichardSummary:
California, 1957. Lee Mellon believes he is the descendant of the only Confederate general to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker of truth in his own war against the status quo.
- Author:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:
A seemingly perfect 12-year-old girl harbors a terrible secret--one that threatens to tear her world apart. But the girl also houses a surprising inner strength, and the power to hope may just be what saves her.
- Author:Murphy, MichaelSummary:
After Morgan Wells's wife leaves him, a postcard from France arrives. It is addressed to a Morgan Wells - but not the Morgan Wells who receives it. Desperate to be led out of his despair, Morgan decides to read the postcard as a sign...
- Author:Daigle, France, Majzels, RobertSummary:
In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia -- from Baltimore to Israel, San Francisco to Denmark, Moncton to Paris -- in...
- Author:Holz, CynthiaSummary:
When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man,...
- Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A...
- Author:Lemay, GenevièveSummary:
À la manière des grands contes africains, voici l'histoire de trois destins chargés d'ambitions, qui se croiseront dans des villages isolés de la Guinée. Trois âmes perdues entre les traditions et la vie moderne. Trois adolescents qui...
- Author:Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSummary:
Grâce à sa chaussure à double semelle, Sylvia pourra enfin prendre de l’assurance et devenir une jeune fille épanouie. La belle Hélène sera toujours là pour lui rappeler son handicap, mais ne pourra miner la générosité et le courage de...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
Short-listed for the 2005 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Declan O'Malley came to the coast of British Columbia because it was as far away from Ireland as he could possibly go. Haunted by memories of his family's death at the...
- Author:DRABBLE, MargaretSummary:
Sequel to "The radiant way", this novel continues the story of Alix, Liz and Esther and focuses on the industrial city of Northam in Yorkshire, where the problems and opportunities of eighties Britain are vividly encapsulated.
- Author:Nyamnjoh, FrancisSummary:
Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospre, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for the finer things in life. The novel...
- Author:Blondel, Jean-PhilippeSummary:
Some people might think it’s odd when a teenage boy starts making movies of his classmates kissing. But in A Place to Live, the aspiring filmmaker’s project turns into a compelling protest against authoritarianism that could get him...
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