One morning, slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is...
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Auteur:Mulder, MichelleSommaire:Picture a busy avenue. Now plant trees along the boulevard, paint a mural by the empty lot, and add a community garden. Set up benches along the sidewalks and make space for kids' chalk drawings, and you've set the scene for a...
- Auteur:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSommaire:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
- Auteur:Jackson, HollySommaire:
More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case. Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder...
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Auteur:Metcalf, JohnSommaire:First published in 1972, Going Down Slow is an intense and very funny novel about one mans attempt to maintain his sanity, and his sense of humour, in the face of mounting odds. Metcalf's young hero, David Appleby, a young school...
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Auteur:Bach, Tamara, Tanaka, ShelleySommaire:Miriam is fifteen and she has lived in the same little town her whole life, going to school with the same kids who know everything about her. But now she's in high school and wishing she lived in a big city where she could meet new...
- Auteur:Maupin, ArmisteadSommaire:
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Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:In this volume of fifteen tales of the town known to readers of Anne of Green Gables, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock.
- Auteur:Groff, LaurenSommaire:
The bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies."Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her...
- Auteur:Thom, Kai ChengSommaire:
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a coming-of-age story about a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a...
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Auteur:Ray BradburySommaire:"In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives...
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
Speed, Alabama is celebrating its sesquintennial, 150 years of proud existence--and its whimsical inhabitants will surely not let the event pass without a party. Eccentric resident Miss Iona is there to chronicle the events in her...
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Auteur:Schein, Bernie, Owens, JanisSommaire:Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's...
- Auteur:Holmes, LindaSommaire:
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief...
- Auteur:Sanderson, BrandonSommaire:
Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to...
- Auteur:Smiley, JaneSommaire:
A woman finds two people murdered in the apartment her best friend shared with one of the victims. The list of people with duplicate keys is two pages long . . . and includes people no one knows.
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Auteur:Joyce, JamesSommaire:The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents. Beginning with stories of the very young and moving through adulthood into the tales of the very...
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Auteur:De Lint, CharlesSommaire:Welcome to Newford, where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Meet Jilly, painting wonders in the city streets; Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street, gathering the fey and...
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
The Grace Valley gossip mill runs rampant when the town's single doctor becomes pregnant, the pastor becomes obsessed with poker, and the town's matriarch takes a lover, but everyone unites when danger threatens the town.
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Auteur:Yaccarino, DanSommaire:Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
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