A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick In this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of...
Manners and customs
- Auteur:Ohlin, AlixSommaire:
- Auteur:Hesse, HermannSommaire:
In ancient India a young man begins a spiritual journey that will take him into the company of the Buddha, the arms of a gorgeous courtesan and to the river that will ultimately teach him enlightenment. Hesse wrote the book to cure...
- Auteur:Brontë, CharlotteSommaire:
1812. Du fait des guerres napoléoniennes, la province du Yorkshire subit la première dépression industrielle de l'Histoire. Les temps sont durs, aussi bien pour les patrons que pour les ouvriers qui, menacés par l'...
- Auteur:Foster, CarolynSommaire:
She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada. Elizabeth Ruth, Heather Birrell, Kristen den Hartog, Kelly Watt, Dana Bath, Teresa McWhirter and others make up this brilliant new collection of emerging literary voices...
- Auteur:Grescoe, TarasSommaire:
Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a...
- Auteur:Pullman, PhilipSommaire:
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation...
- Auteur:Bushnell, CandaceSommaire:
Here is the collection of columns that inspired the addictive and multiple award-winning HBO series! Sex and the City offers a tantalizing glimpse of the openings, launch parties, and celebrity affairs that keep society amused....
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
Relegated to a small cottage by the death of their aristocratic father, passionate Marianne (sensibility) and practical Elinor (sense) are as vulnerable in love as they are in fortune. Toyed with by unscrupulous men, snubbed by wealthy...
- Auteur:Harry, LilianSommaire:
A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secrets, budding romance, cruel twists of fate and amazing friendships all play out against the backdrop of the beautiful countryside. It...
- Auteur:Lightman, Alan P.Sommaire:
From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose...
- Auteur:Heath, LorraineSommaire:
Lorraine Heath begins an exciting new series with a breathtaking romance about a young woman who must marry a titled gentleman to obtain her inheritance and the unsuitable man she begins to fall madly in love with. She is desperate to...
- Auteur:Scott, ScarlettSommaire:
Felix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife's death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
When her guardian's will commands that Lady Catriona Hennessy and Richard Cynster will marry within a week, a battle of wits ensues between the independent young lady and the arrogant rake with a scandalous reputation.
- Auteur:Williams, Megan K.Sommaire:
Far from the Tuscan Sun… is Saving Rome. Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, knows just how far. In her debut collection, Williams serves up the Eternal City as you’ve never seen it before, turning an insider’s eye...
- Auteur:Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSommaire:
De mère québécoise et de père autochtone, Martha essaie de prendre sa place dans le monde des Blancs et de cacher son ascendance métisse. Blessée par la vie, Martha fait marche arrière. Pourquoi sa mère est-elle venue au Manitoba et...
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
In the vein of Downton Abbey, Jane Austen's beloved but unfinished masterpiece-often considered her most modern and exciting novel-gets a spectacular second act in this tie-in to a major new limited television series. Written only...
- Auteur:Jacobs, AnnaSommaire:
In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's mother dies her world changes and not all for the good...
- Auteur:Burroughs, AugustenSommaire:
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten...
- Auteur:Edwards, IsabelSommaire:
Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
- Auteur:Xuetao, ShuangSommaire:
Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir...
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