Rose Emma Levèrs, très jolie jeune fille de dix-huit ans, fille aînée de Adrien et Cécile, des cultivateurs heureux de leur sort, épouse Yvan, fils cadet de Léone Valois Mayer, une veuve aigrie, anoblie par l’héritage de son mari. En...
War
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Author:Mayrand, GisèleSummary: - Author:Magini, RogerSummary:
Ce roman au ton intimiste propose une réflexion sur l’oubli et la banalisation de l’horreur. Assis à la terrasse d’un café de Cholula, l’antique Cité Sacrée du Mexique, un journaliste écrit un article sur « Hiroshima, soixante ans plus...
- Author:Palmer, Ada.Summary:
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series. World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of...
- Author:Ness, PatrickSummary:
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
- Author:Olson, LynneSummary:
The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the best-selling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope IslandIn 1941 a 31-year-old...
- Author:Sharif, SolmazSummary:
Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards...
- Author:Kazbek, KatyaSummary:
An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a powerful portrait of a family--Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch. When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother's sewing needle....
- Author:Kelly, Martha HallSummary:
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has...
- Author:Bilodeau, Stéphane, St-Martin, GillesSummary:
À Shap, le brouillard maléfique n’est plus qu’un mauvais souvenir. Mais Marfaz, le terrible et insaisissable démon, sévit toujours. Son armée est sur le point d’attaquer la baronnie de Wello. Le seul espoir des baronnies du Sud est de...
- Author:Lo, MalindaSummary:
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. "That book. It was about two women, and they...
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Author:Anderson, Mark CronlundSummary:Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack...
- Author:Dubé, Jean-PierreSummary:
Kali s'insurge contre la guerre. Son frère Alex, caporal de l'armée canadienne en mission en Afghanistan, aurait voulu être Casque bleu. Ses proches l'attendent pour les Fêtes, mais les nouvelles du front sont de plus en plus...
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Author:Flanagan, JohnSummary:On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
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Author:Regehr, ErnieSummary:Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that led to the war still unresolved. In...
- Author:Reintgen, ScottSummary:
Three cultures clash in all out war--against each other and against the gods--in the second book of this fantasy duology that's sure to capture fans of The Hunger Games and An Ember in the Ashes.
The Races are over. War has begun...
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Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:Published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, this is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.
- Author:Salazar, NoelleSummary:
"Angels of the Resistance brings to life a deadly-effective and deeply moving sisterhood." --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose CodeFrom the bestselling author of The Flight Girls comes a story inspired...
- Author:Gratz, AlanSummary:
D-Day, June 6, 1944: the most expansive military endeavor in history. No less than world cooperation would bring down Hitler and the Axis powers. And so people--and kids--across the globe lent their part. From the young US soldiers in...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
Since Marcie Sullivan's Iraq War-veteran husband died, she's been unable to move forward. She decides to seek out Ian Buchanan--the man who disappeared after saving her husband's life four years earlier. Then when Marcie nearly dies and...
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Author:Essif, LesSummary:Part memoir of the author's early life--including his experience as a New York City cop and a US Border Patrol agent before he became a college professor--and part polemical discussions of a host of diverse topics, from aging,...
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