After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. David believes his life is in free fall, and he...
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Auteur:Barclay, LinwoodSommaire: - Auteur:Esperanza, C. G.Sommaire:
Author-illustrator C.G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfect for fans of Crown: An Ode to the...
- Auteur:Robinson, EdenSommaire:
Tom has been caught up over the years in Jeremy's world of drugs, extortion, and prostitutes, while Jeremy, vindictive and vicious, either protects Tom or uses him, but always controls him. Added to the mix is Paulie, a junkie two...
- Auteur:Smith, Michael F.Sommaire:
The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself. When confronted by a...
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Auteur:De Bernir̈es, LouisSommaire:During the finals days of the Ottoman Empire, the young men of the village are instructed to battle the invading forces during the Great War and destroy the peace.
- Auteur:De Vries, MaggieSommaire:
When Sophie and Matthew plant pumpkins, their grandfather explains to them why they need bees to make their pumpkins grow, but how will the bees find their garden?
- Auteur:Trigiani, AdrianaSommaire:
Au cœur de la chaîne des Blue Mountains, en Virginie, la petite ville de Big Stone Gap abrite les personnages excentriques les plus charmants de l’État. Ave Maria Mulligan, une pharmacienne de trente-cinq ans au physique de «fille des...
- Auteur:Gist, Deeanne, Bertrand, J. MarkSommaire:
Dogwalker Rylee Monroe believes she's being stalked by a serial thief who is targeting a wealthy Charleston community. Reporter Logan Woods covers the break-ins, hoping to pen a true-crime blockbuster. But as danger draws closer, will...
- Auteur:DiCamillo, KateSommaire:
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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Auteur:Haigh, JenniferSommaire:Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and...
- Auteur:Neuhaus, NeleSommaire:
After the brutal murder of a sixteen-year-old girl no one will identify, a popular television reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her car, perhaps because of her investigations into a potential child pornography ring...
- Auteur:Barclay, LinwoodSommaire:
Fans of the crime caper will rejoice that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his riotously funny and irreverent debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids...
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Auteur:Gaitskill, MarySommaire:These powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.
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Auteur:Lewis, SinclairSommaire:George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t...
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Auteur:Dubé, PauletteSommaire:“If heaven is full of angels like me, hell must be empty.” So begins Autant, a tale woven over the course of four days and fifty-four years, based on the relationship between bees and one Franco-Albertan family, the Morasses, of Autant...
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Auteur:Hyde, Katherine BolgerSommaire:When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart thirty-five years before, and nearly lose her own...
- Auteur:Whitehead, ColsonSommaire:
A small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis--should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in a professional naming consultant, famous...
- Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:
Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.
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Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:Brian Nowak went for a walk fifteen years ago and was never seen again. When a police dog discovers human remains, Sergeant John Winters reopens the investigation and finds a shattered family and townsfolk desperate to keep their...
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Auteur:Moore, LisaSommaire:From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he...
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