Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the...
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Auteur: Picoult, JodiSommaire: -
Auteur: Lester, JuliusSommaire:Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Alvarez, JuliaSommaire:
In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Foer, Jonathan SafranSommaire:Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in...
Genre: Bildungsromans -
Auteur: Vonnegut, KurtSommaire:
A collection of 14 of Kurt Vonnegut's previously unpublished short stories sheds light on the writer's early development, displaying the wit and poignant observations that have made him such an...
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Angleberger, TomSommaire:Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
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Collects over thirty of the best entries in the Akashic noir series, including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T. Jefferson Parker.
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Auteur: Dumas, AlexandreSommaire:The most beautiful and sought-after courtesan in all of Paris, Marguerite Guatier's life is filled with expensive parties and rich, powerful men. Then she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome,...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Grimes, NikkiSommaire:Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays...
Genre: Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Haslett, AdamSommaire:
In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once...
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Taylor, CraigSommaire:
A collection of interviews with contemporary Londoners from all parts of the city and all walks of life.
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Auteur: Li, YiyunSommaire:
The author offers a collection of short stories that offer a vision of the human fate.
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Marcus, BenSommaire:
A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a...
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Diamond, Michael, Horovitz, AdamSommaire:A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, an audiobook as unique as the band itself. Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music -
Auteur: Korman, GordonSommaire:The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher with a worse attitude than theirs. Then they met Mr...
Genre: Juvenile fiction