Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat ends her once-passionate relationship with secret agent Max and checks into an enchanted pink hotel, where she meets an otherworldly host of fawns, angels, and mermaids.
psychological fiction
- Auteur:Block, Francesca Lia.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Feito, VirginiaSommaire:
George March's latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
«Une éblouissante saga historique…» Washington Post Hawaï, 1892. Rachel Kalama, jeune fille de sept ans à l’esprit vif et malicieux, rêve de visiter des contrées lointaines comme son père, un officier de la marine marchande. Jusqu’au...
- Auteur:PICOULT, JodiSommaire:
In the aftermath of her mother's divorce, seven-year-old Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. Her mother Mariah puts it down to Faith's imagination, but when Faith develops stigmata and performs miraculous healings...
- Auteur:Ohlin, AlixSommaire:
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book. When Grace, a highly competent and...
- Auteur:BROOKNER, AnitaSommaire:
Eighteen year old Maud is invited to spend the summer in her aunt's large country house where she meets two men, one beautiful and ruthless, the other a quiet dreamer, both of whom will profoundly affect her life.
- Auteur:Nadine GordimerSommaire:
"Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him...
- Auteur:ANDREWS, VirginiaSommaire:
The prequel to the "Flowers in the Attic" series of novels. This is the story of Malcolm and Olivia Foxworth, the children born in their home and the events which lead up to the later books.
- Auteur:LA PLANTE, LyndaSommaire:
Twins Rebekka and Ruda have not seen each other since they were separated in Auschwitz, both to suffer at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengels. Following a brutal murder, they are drawn into a startling web of coincidence and fear.
- Auteur:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSommaire:
- Auteur:DESSAIX, RobertSommaire:
In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never met, an Australian actor gradually pieces together the strange life story of the writer whose house he is living in. As he explores his surroundings and...
- Auteur:ROBERTS, NoraSommaire:
The early years of Seth's life had been a prison of fear, abuse and neglect. Now a successful artist, Seth returns to Chesapeake Bay to the only real family he has ever known.
- Auteur:Huxley, AldousSommaire:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an...
- Auteur:O'Hagan, AndrewSommaire:
"In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa; by the year...
- 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...
- Auteur:Ondaatje, MichaelSommaire:
Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, has returned to Sri Lanka, a land steeped in culture and tradition, to investigate organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. This is a story of love, family, and identity, set in a...
- Auteur:RENDELL, RuthSommaire:
Jock Lewis was supposed to have died in the Paddington rail crash - Minty had received a letter from Great Western. But, curiously, the police hadn't been in touch. Jock had gone off with all her savings.
- Auteur:Béchard, Deni EllisSommaire:
"A Song from Faraway is a collection of stories that address masculinity, identity, the impact of war, and fatherhood"--
- Auteur:Jonathan KellermanSommaire:
Psychologist Alex Delaware is unable to help a troubled teenage girl ; many years later, her dead body is found ; Alex pursues her killer by entering a demi-monde of psychological experimentation.