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Literary fiction
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Author:Allende, IsabelSummary: - Author:Scott, WalterSummary:
Upon returning from the Crusades, where he served with King Richard I, Wilfred of Ivanhoe is met with his father's disapproval, having fallen in love with Rowena, his father's ward. When his father disinherits him, Ivanhoe...
- Author:Everett, PercivalSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view - From the "literary icon" ( Oprah...
- Author:Coelho, PauloSummary:
Santiago, un jeune berger andalou, part à la recherche d'un trésor enfoui au pied des Pyramides. Lorsqu'il rencontre l'Alchimiste dans le désert, celui-ci lui apprend à écouter son coeur, à lire les signes du destin...
- Author:Camus, AlbertSummary:
"Je suis certain qu'on ne peut être heureux sans argent. Voilà tout. Je n'aime ni la facilité ni le romantisme. J'aime à me rendre compte. Eh bien, j'ai remarqué que chez certains êtres d'élite il y a une...
- Author:Camus, AlbertSummary:
Suite à une épidémie de peste, les autorités décident de fermer la ville d'Oran. Les habitants s'organisent pour survivre au siège de cette maladie mortelle et en particulier le docteur Rieux. Il est l'un des...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize...
- Author:de la Borbolla, ÓscarSummary:
"Las vocales malditas es el libro más sorprendente de la Lengua Española. Un libro de culto." Vox PopuliLas vocales malditas es un verdadero tour de force: cada relato está escrito con palabras que sólo tienen la misma...
- Author:Hveberg, KlaraSummary:
Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. Attending university, she strikes a relationship with her older teacher Jakob. As her academic career soars, her health declines.
- Author:Sénéchal, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
Depuis la naissance de son fils, Chris espère plus que jamais le retour de sa mère, partie le jour de ses dix-huit ans. Pourra-t-elle enfin accepter son handicap intellectuel ? Le petit Joseph saura-t-il la rendre heureuse ? Car les...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
Au début du XIXe siècle, dans une anse isolée de la côte nord de Terre-Neuve, Ada et son frère Evered ne sont encore que des enfants lorsqu'ils se retrouvent brusquement orphelins et laissés à eux-mêmes. Leur existence, régie par l'...
- Author:Greer, Andrew SeanSummary:
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" ( The New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE...
- Author:Faulkner, WilliamSummary:
Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe...
- Author:Nabokov, VladimirSummary:
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant...
- Author:Pagé, LucieSummary:
Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives. A university English sessional...
- Author:Goudreault, DavidSummary:
At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me.
Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic... - Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
Kim Thúy nous livre son nouveau roman puissant et raffiné, à la hauteur de son talent. Mãn est une histoire d'amour entre une femme et celles qui l'ont, tour à tour, fait naître, allaitée, élevée. Elle a été...
- Author:Straight, SusanSummary:
A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them.
- Author:Harrison, Charles Yale, Vautour, Bart, Robins Sharpe, EmilySummary:
Meet Me on the Barricades is Harrison’s most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was published a...
- Author:Washington, BryanSummary:
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus...
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