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Dans ce nouveau roman, on retrouve la sensibilité de Ga?lle Josse. Elle signe ici un texte bouleversant et lumineux sur la quête de soi. C'est aussi une déclaration d'amour aux livres, à la littérature, et à toutes les vies de papier qui nous rendent un peu plus vivants.]]> Ga?lle Josse 228303972X Lisa 3 3.50 2025
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]]> 220294731 Les failles de ces enfants sont pour Lara le miroir de ses propres addictions. Celles dont elle peut parler en riant, celles qui lui pèsent et qu'elle essaie régulièrement d'abandonner, celles plus honteuses qu'elle tait. Au fil des consultations, ses souvenirs refont surface.
Cinq ans plus t?t, Lara a eu une liaison avec son médecin. Pendant quelques semaines, elle s'est laissé prendre au piège, dans une frénésie de messages et de photos intimes. Jusqu'à perdre le contr?le.
?poque est un roman féroce et viscéral, celui d'une génération dévastée par les écrans.]]> 256 Laura Poggioli 2378804695 Lisa 5 3.37
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]]> 209971263 272 Bérénice Pichat 2383110299 Lisa 4 4.25
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Chiraz, automne 2022. Au c?ur de la révolte ? Femme, Vie, Liberté ?, une Iranienne de 16 ans escalade une benne à ordures, prête à br?ler son foulard en public. Face aux encouragements de la foule, et tandis que la peur se dissipe peu à peu, le paysage intime de l’adolescente rebelle défile en flash-back : sa naissance indésirée, son père castrateur, son smartphone rempli de tubes frondeurs, ses copines, ses premières amours, son corps assoiffé de liberté, et ce code vestimentaire, fait d’un bout de tissu sur la tête, dont elle rêve de s’affranchir. Et si dans son surnom, Badjens, choisi dès sa naissance par sa mère, se trouvait le secret de son émancipation ? De cette transformation radicale, racontée sous forme de monologue intérieur, Delphine Minoui livre un bouleversant roman d’apprentissage où les mots claquent pour tisser un nouveau langage, à la fois tendre et irrévérencieux, à l’image de cette nouvelle génération en pleine ébullition.


D’origine iranienne, lauréate du prix Albert-Londres et grand reporter au Figaro, Delphine Minoui couvre depuis vingt-cinq ans l’actualité du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Publiés au Seuil, ses récits empreints de poésie, Je vous écris de Téhéran et Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya (Grand Prix des lectrices ELLE), ont connu un immense succès et ont été traduits dans une dizaine de langues.]]> 160 Delphine Minoui 202154172X Lisa 5 4.23 2024
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]]> 220395342 240 Lola Lafon 2234097878 Lisa 4 3.84
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]]> 44423067 ? Raconter Vivian Maier, c’est raconter la vie d’une invisible, d’une effacée. Une nurse, une bonne d’enfants.

Une photographe de génie qui n’a pas vu la plupart de ses propres photos.

Une Américaine d’origine fran?aise, arpenteuse inlassable des rues de New York et de Chicago, nostalgique de ses années d’enfance heureuse dans la verte vallée des Hautes-Alpes où elle a rêvé de s’ancrer et de trouver une famille.

Son ?uvre, pleine d’humanité et d’attention envers les démunis, les perdants du rêve américain, a été retrouvée par hasard – une histoire digne des meilleurs romans – dans des cartons oubliés au fond d’un garde-meubles de la banlieue de Chicago.

Vivian Maier venait alors de décéder, à quatre-vingt-trois ans, dans le plus grand anonymat. Elle n’aura pas connu la célébrité, ni l’engouement planétaire qui accompagne aujourd’hui son travail d’artiste.

Une vie de solitude, de pauvreté, de lourds secrets familiaux et d’épreuves ; une personnalité complexe et parfois déroutante, un destin qui s’écrit entre la France et l’Amérique.

L’histoire d’une femme libre, d’une perdante magnifique, qui a choisi de vivre les yeux grands ouverts.

Je vais vous dire cette vie-là, et aussi tout ce qui me relie à elle, dans une troublante correspondance ressentie avec mon travail d’écrivain. ?
Ga?lle Josse

Dix ans après la mort de Vivian Maier, Ga?lle Josse nous livre le roman d’une vie, un portrait d’une rare empathie, d’une rare acuité sur ce destin troublant, hors norme, dont la gloire est désormais aussi éclatante que sa vie fut obscure.

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Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of…

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Lisa 3 2025 4.31 2022
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En este libro el autor regresa a cierto acontecimiento de su infancia en la Guatemala compleja y violenta de los a?os ochenta, cuyos motivos y ramificaciones sólo empezarán a dilucidar en décadas posteriores, en reencuentros fortuitos en París y en Berlín con algunos de sus enigmáticos protagonistas. Por lo tanto, nueva pieza de la novela en marcha que es la obra de Eduardo Halfon, que concibe sus diferentes obras como una gran novela.]]> 208 Eduardo Halfon Lisa 0 to-read 3.74 2024
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And he points the finger at his sister-in-law, Florence. Florence was declared insane after killing Oliver’s brother in a jealous rage and is now kept in a glass-walled apartment in Oliver’s library. And the secret to how she came to be there is found in Oliver’s tête-bêche journal, where one side tells a very different story from the other.

1930s California. Celebrated author Oliver Tooke, the son of the state governor, is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the family residence, Turnglass House. His friend Ken Kourian doesn’t believe that Oliver would take his own life. His investigations lead him to the mysterious kidnapping of Oliver’s brother when they were children, and the subsequent secret incarceration of his mother, Florence, in an asylum.

But to discover the truth, Ken must decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book, a tête-bêche novel—which is about a young doctor called Simeon Lee...

Stuart Turton meets The Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of clever crime fiction.]]> 512 Gareth Rubin 1398514497 Lisa 0 2025 3.49 2023
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And he certainly doesn’t appreciate being trapped in her house of humans. He yearns to be with the plants outside in the garden. With time, George learns to trust Brenda and think of her as his human. Then one day, tragedy strikes and George’s life will never be the same. What happens when a houseplant loses the thing he never knew he wanted?

You'll never look at houseplants the same way again.]]> 46 Jeremy Ray Lisa 5 4.46 2020
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]]> 199402011 350 Camille de Peretti 2702185177 Lisa 5 4.25 2024
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Un portrait saisissant d’une période paradoxale et méconnue, pleine de douleur, d’espérance et de secrets indicibles. Une fresque romanesque inoubliable.]]> 407 Claire Deya Lisa 5 4.06
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Mené tambour battant, ponctué de trouées de lumière, même dans les scènes les plus sombres, ce livre nous conduit sur des chemins absolument inattendus : sommée de trouver du travail, Alice, qu’entrave une timidité maladive depuis son arrivée à Paris à dix ans, après une enfance radieuse au Guatemala, et dont le CV est inexistant, n’essuie que des refus. Elle répond pourtant à une ultime petite annonce : ? L’association diocésaine de Paris recrute un(e) assistant(e) pour le promotorat des causes des saints. ? ? sa grande surprise, l’évêque responsable l’embauche, trop heureux d’avoir enfin trouvé quelqu’un pour remettre de l’ordre dans les dossiers en attente.

La voilà embarquée, et nous avec elle, dans un univers dont elle ignore tout : il s’agit, comprend-t-elle, d’instruire des candidatures à la canonisation, première étape d’une procédure qui doit s’achever à Rome, si elle n’est pas interrompue avant, tant les conditions suspensives sont nombreuses et complexes. Aidée par des collègues d’une bienveillance sans limites, elle découvre alors l’audace et la folie des vies de ces ? serviteurs de Dieu ?, ? vénérables ? ou ? bienheureux ? qu’il s’agit d’évaluer et dont Tiffany Tavernier ponctue son récit, illuminant dans le même mouvement son texte et le quotidien de sa protagoniste.

? la faveur d’extraordinaires rebondissements, la puissante romancière invite le monde extérieur dans la bulle de déni où s’est réfugiée Alice, l’autorisant à se frayer un chemin vers sa propre vérité. Ce n’est pas là la moindre surprise du formidable portrait de femme qu’elle nous offre, elle qui ne cesse d’interroger l’infinie capacité de l’être humain à rena?tre à soi et aux autres.]]> 288 Tiffany Tavernier 2848055065 Lisa 3 3.74
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]]> 25334922 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ? WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE ?

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 1447294823 Lisa 5 4.28 2015
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]]> 807968
Molly Moon is no ordinary orphan. When she finds a mysterious old book on hypnotism, she discovers she can make people do whatever she wants. But a sinister stranger is watching her every move and he'll do anything to steal her hypnotic secret...]]> 371 Georgia Byng 0060514094 Lisa 5 3.92 2002
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]]> 6443834 そして2009年、『1蚕84』は逆の方向から1984年を描いた近过去小説である。
そこに描かれているのは「こうであったかもしれない」世界なのだ。
私たちが生きている现在が、「そうではなかったかもしれない」世界であるのと、ちょうど同じように。闭闭> 554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 Lisa 5 4.02 2009
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]]> 41821074
Could a lifetime of memories...be a lifetime of lies?

All her life Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice.

Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters’ choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy calls, begging for her help. There’s been a murder - and Wendy believes she’ll be wrongfully accused.

While Wendy lies low, Ryan moves back to their hometown to care for the nieces she hardly knows. The sleuthing skills she’s refined as a true-crime podcaster quickly rise to the surface as she digs for answers with the help of an unexpected ally. Yet the trail of clues Wendy’s left behind lead to nothing but questions. Blood may be thicker than water, but what does Ryan owe a sister who, with every revelation, becomes more and more a stranger?

Is Wendy, who always seemed so perfect, just a perfect liar - or worse?
Is Wendy, who always seemed so perfect, just a perfect liar - or worse?]]> 14 Emilie Richards Lisa 0 3.99 2019
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As children, half-sisters Cassie and Julie were nearly inseparable, bonded through happy, lazy summers playing barefoot in the surf and sleeping out on the porch of their grandmother’s Hamptons beach house. Though from wildly different backgrounds, each magical summer the girls were as close as only best friends, accomplices, sisters can be. But they haven’t spoken in nearly fifteen years—not since the funeral of Cassie’s mother—and now there is only resentment and painful memories between them.

Successful and self-contained, Cassie is shocked to learn the requirements of their nana’s will—that she and Julie spend one final summer together in the Hamptons house in order to inherit. Cassie agrees reluctantly, she needs an excuse to leave Boston and give the growing rumors about her personal life a chance to die down.

And for Julie, who is discovering too late the cracks in her marriage, it is the chance to repair at least one damaged relationship. But for the two sisters to regain what they had, they will have to finally confront what happened the night Cassie lost her mother. With their Nana’s wisdom guiding the way, could this summer bring painful discoveries, and a new direction, for both sisters?

An emotional and absorbing novel full of family drama and dark secrets. Perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Emily Giffin and Mary Kay Andrews.]]> 384 Cecilia Lyra 1838888012 Lisa 5 4.13 2020
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]]> 45298339
Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape.

But that was years ago and Ali hasn’t thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him ‘the one that got away’; she’d been the one to run away, after all.

Then Dan’s name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past.

For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her too-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind.

And so begins a new mix tape.

Ali and Dan exchange songs – some new, some old – across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything…

Because what if ‘what could have been’ is still to come?]]> 392 Jane Sanderson 1787631923 Lisa 0 to-read 3.74 2020
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]]> 54475865 Le temps d'un d?ner de retrouvailles – à quatre – chaque mot, chaque regard, chaque geste est scruté, pesé, interprété. Tout remonte à la surface : les non-dits, les regrets, la course du temps, mais aussi l'espérance et les fant?mes du désir.
? leurs risques et périls.]]> 155 Philippe Besson 2266307499 Lisa 0 to-read 4.05 2019
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]]> 197045997 Ces saveurs retrouvées leur permettront-elles de fermer la porte aux regrets et de prendre un nouveau départ ? Portées par une plume qui mêle nostalgie et élégance, six tranches de vie poétiques qui éveillent les papilles. Hisashi Kashiwai est né à Kyoto en 1952. Son premier roman, Le Restaurant des recettes oubliées , vendu à plus de 80 000 exemplaires au Japon, a rencontré un tel succès qu’il est devenu une série en plusieurs tomes et a été adapté en série télévisée. Véritable phénomène international, il est en cours de traduction dans le monde entier.]]> 239 Hisashi Kashiwai 2493816331 Lisa 5 3.82 2014
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]]> 60320723
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell.

Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world—and right into its glorious underbelly.

He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Your colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-soldiers, immigrants, wannabe actors, and drug dealers—are the closest thing to family that you've got.

It's physically demanding, frequently humiliating and incredibly competitive. But it doesn't matter because you're in Paris, the center of the universe, and there's nowhere else you'd rather be in the world.]]> 384 Edward Chisholm 1639362835 Lisa 0 to-read 3.97 2022
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London, 1980s. Though she has a comfortable, privileged life, Eva Martínez-Green is deeply unhappy. The only child of an emotionally absent mother and a physically absent father, Eva has grown up in a cold, unloving house. But Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years?

When her parents’ relationship crumbles, Eva begins looking for a different, better life: a proper family, a perfect mother, and, importantly, real love. Her desire to find where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning years and continents – and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be, and who will change her life forever…]]> 400 Joanna Glen Lisa 4 4.37 2021
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]]> 52649136
Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a man—Julien Sole, local police chief—who insists on depositing the ashes of his recently departed mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that the grave Julien is looking for belongs to his mother’s one-time lover, and that his mother’s story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violette’s own secret past.

With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given readers a funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness. Perrin has the rare talent of illuminating what is exceptional and poetic in what seems ordinary. A #1 best-seller in France, Fresh Water for Flowers is a delightful, atmospheric, absorbing fairy tale full of poetry, generosity, and warmth.]]> 476 Valérie Perrin 1609455959 Lisa 4 4.25 2018
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]]> 61239759
?dition adaptée facile à lire : malvoyance ; fatigue visuelle ; troubles de l’apprentissage ; troubles cognitifs ; troubles DYS ; dyslexie ; dysgraphie ; TDA/H ; alphabétisation, FLE.
"]]> 288 Valentine Goby 233016811X Lisa 0 to-read 3.94
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Connecticut, 1950: Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They’ve grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian house, mostly neglected by their distant father and troubled mother, who believes that their house is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons. The girls long to escape, and for most of them, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching consequences.

Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her family, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the family curse forever?]]> 432 Sarai Walker 0358251877 Lisa 0 to-read 3.94 2022
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"Il trahissait depuis près de vingt ans. L'Irlande qu'il aimait tant, sa lutte, ses parents, ses enfants, ses camarades, ses amis, moi. Il nous avait trahis. Chaque matin. Chaque soir..."]]> 275 Sorj Chalandon 2246726115 Lisa 0 to-read 4.11 2008
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]]> 12398221
Killybegs, le 24 decembre 2006
Tyrone Meehan]]> 334 Sorj Chalandon 2246785693 Lisa 0 to-read 4.24 2011
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]]> 49856101 A thrilling departure: A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am, about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play.

England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman: a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague.

A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest literary masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing and seductive, an impossible-to-put-down novel from one of our most gifted writers.]]> 310 Maggie O'Farrell Lisa 0 to-read 4.32 2020
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]]> 250729 9780755308446.

Maggie O’Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything.

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital - where she has been locked away for over sixty years. Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme’s face. Esme has been labeled harmless - sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But Esme’s still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit?

Maggie O’Farrell’s intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth will haunt readers long past its final page.]]> 277 Maggie O'Farrell Lisa 0 to-read 3.91 2006
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Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.]]> 128 Claire Keegan 0802158749 Lisa 0 to-read 4.13 2021
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average rating: 4.13
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On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she has been offered a job as a typist under the tutelage of the glamorous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick. But though Quick takes Odelle into her confidence, and unlocks a potential she didn't know she had, she remains a mystery - no more so than when a lost masterpiece with a secret history is delivered to the gallery.

The truth about the painting lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of a renowned art dealer, is harbouring ambitions of her own. Into this fragile paradise come artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa, who immediately insinuate themselves into the Schloss family, with explosive and devastating consequences . . .]]> 393 Jessie Burton 0062409921 Lisa 0 to-read 3.79 2016
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]]> 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro Lisa 0 to-read 4.14 1989
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]]> 52597312 The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?]]> 574 David Mitchell 0812997433 Lisa 0 to-read 3.94 2020
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]]> 65678550
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.]]> 385 James McBride 0593422945 Lisa 4 3.83 2023
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]]> 199977961 Que reste-t-il de l’humanité quand les corps et les esprits sont aliénés? Quel avenir se dessine quand les ressources sont mises sous scellés? Roman d’anticipation à l’onirisme fabuleux qui déploie un monde hostile et fragmenté, La Roche choisit de livrer combat gr?ce à une langue dont chaque mot virevolte, percute et vient nourrir la possibilité d’un renouveau.]]> 384 Martin Lichtenberg 2350879216 Lisa 3 4.00
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]]> 205334850 208 Serena Giuliano 2221272323 Lisa 5 3.94
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]]> 61771675
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?]]> 416 Ann Napolitano Lisa 0 to-read 4.14 2023
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]]> 57323853 Dans la capitale du territoire fermé, divers personnages se racontent, leurs aspirations. leurs souvenirs. comment survivre, se cacher et se faufiler dans un monde où les livres sont interdits. Une dystopie où se reflètent les crises que nous traversons aujourd'hui. Un roman choral poétique et incandescent, où l'on parle d'émancipation des corps, d'esprit de révolte et de sororité. Un hommage à la littérature et à son potentiel émancipateur et subversif.
Ce nouveau roman de Wendy Delorme vient enrichir la liste de fiction de la collection Sorcières. Dans cette dystopie, se reflètent les crises que nous traversons aujourd'hui : une société totalitaire est mise en place après la disparition soudaine d'une partie de la jeune génération mobilisée pour le climat. Les livres sont interdits, les frontières fermées et les femmes appelées à procréer pour renouveler la population.
Mais une communauté inspirée des Guérillères de Monique Wittig émerge pour résister à ce nouvel ordre imposé... Un roman choral incandescent, qui n'est pas sans rappeler 1984 de George Orwell ou La Servante écarlate de Margaret Atwood, où il est question d'émancipation des corps, d'esprit de révolte et de sororité.]]> 265 Wendy Delorme 2366245572 Lisa 0 to-read 4.31 2021
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]]> 201751325 198 Philippe Besson 2260055818 Lisa 3 3.83
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]]> 195474144 From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles. The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.]]> 451 Amor Towles 0593296370 Lisa 0 to-read 4.15 2024
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]]> 135981007 Premier roman servi par une écriture ciselée, empreint d'humour, de sensualité et de délicatesse, Ce que je sais de toi entra?ne le lecteur dans la communauté levantine d'un Caire bouillonnant, depuis le règne de Nasser jusqu'aux années 2000. Au fil de dévoilements successifs distillés avec brio par une audacieuse narration, il décrit un clan déchiré, une société en pleine transformation, et le destin émouvant d'un homme en quête de sa vérité.]]> 301 ?ric Chacour 2384820346 Lisa 5 2024 4.37 2023
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]]> 59737256
Each story stands alone as a beautifully crafted vignette, told with humour and poignancy; together they form a nuanced and tender portrait of a community.

‘Katja Oskamp knows how to capture the essence of people beautifully. They really come to life in her portraits. A powerful book.‘ – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany]]> 141 Katja Oskamp 190867069X Lisa 4 3.94 2019
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]]> 27883214 A legendary competition.
A mesmerizing romance.
An unbreakable bond
between two sisters.

Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show—are over.

But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. Nevertheless she becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. And whether Caraval is real or not, Scarlett must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over or a dangerous domino effect of consequences will be set off, and her beloved sister will disappear forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.]]> 407 Stephanie Garber 1250095255 Lisa 4 3.97 2016
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]]> 51750125
Si j’ai changé de vie et de langue maternelle, c’était pour que ma mère ne puisse pas me lire.

Si j’ai changé de vie et de langue maternelle, c’était pour pouvoir respirer alors que j’avais toujours étouffé. Je raconte, ici, l’histoire d’une femme qui a appris à respirer dans une autre langue. Qui a plongé et refait surface ailleurs.

Qui n’a pas songé un jour à changer d’identité, à se réinventer complètement ? Pour Lori Saint-Martin, ce désir de réinvention s’est imposé telle une br?lante nécessité. Dans ce récit à la fois lumineux et cruel, elle nous dit comment elle a rejeté le milieu, la culture et la langue qui l’ont vue na?tre pour devenir autre. Cette métamorphose trouve sa force dans un événement qui a tout d’une révélation : la découverte de la langue fran?aise.

Pour qui je me prends est un hommage aux langues, à la manière dont elles nous font, nous construisent, mais c’est surtout l’extraordinaire aventure d’une adolescente, d’une femme qui, telle une nouvelle Alice, ose traverser le miroir pour revenir enfin changée en elle-même.]]> 192 Lori Saint-Martin 2764626304 Lisa 5 3.88 2020
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]]> 202546703
Lorsqu’une de ses compagnes m’a contactée et que j’ai découvert l’histoire de celui que je nommerai Ricardo, elle s’est immédiatement imposée. Les hommes que j’ai aimés étaient souvent malhonnêtes et menteurs. Et dans mon travail, je me suis beaucoup intéressée aux baratineurs, bonimenteurs, vendeurs de bobards de tout acabit.

Ricardo, c’était le niveau supérieur. Il est devenu un nouvel objet à l’intérieur d’une quête personnelle sans fin ni vérité, mais dont le chemin me passionne. Quels invraisemblables stratagèmes utilise-t-il ? Pourquoi vivre sur un fil, de légende en légende? Dangereux manipulateur, grand malade, amoureux compulsif ? J’ai décidé d’enquêter, persuadée que si je n’avais pas croisé sa route, si je ne figurais pas sur la liste de ses victimes, c’était une simple co?ncidence. Il m’a fascinée, terrifiée, amusée aussi.

Ce livre raconte un imposteur extraordinaire, à travers les témoignages des femmes qui l’ont aimé, un détective privé qui l’a suivi, les policières qui l’ont attrapé. De Paris à Varsovie en passant par les favelas du Brésil, un incroyable voyage à la recherche d’un caméléon de génie. Elles cherchaient l’homme idéal, il composait l’amoureux de leurs rêves. Au risque de tout perdre, et de se trouver pris à son propre piège : le n?tre, celui du livre et de la fiction.]]> 180 Sonia Kronlund 2246831903 Lisa 0 to-read 3.56
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]]> 18619684 537 Audrey Niffenegger 1939126010 Lisa 4 4.07 2003
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]]> 28685837 Il y a un vieux remède contre les cauchemars qui hantent les nuits, c’est de les raconter à haute voix au-dessus de la cuvette des W.-C., puis de tirer la chasse.

Après le grand succès des 笔é谤é驳谤颈苍蝉, Olga Tokarczuk nous offre un roman superbe et engagé, où le règne animal laisse libre cours à sa colère. Voici l’histoire de Janina Doucheyko, une ingénieure en retraite qui enseigne l’anglais dans une petite école et s’occupe, hors saison, des résidences secondaires de son hameau. Elle se passionne pour l’astrologie et pour l’?uvre de William Blake, dont elle essaie d’appliquer les idées à la réalité contemporaine. Aussi, lorsqu’une série de meurtres étranges frappe son village et les environs, au c?ur des Sudètes, y voit-elle le juste ch?timent d’une population méchante et insatiable.

La police enquête. Règlement de comptes entre demi-mafieux?? Les victimes avaient toutes pour la chasse une passion dévorante. Quand Janina Doucheyko s’efforce d’exposer sa théorie – dans laquelle entrent la course des astres, les vieilles légendes et son amour inconditionnel de la nature –, tout le monde la prend pour une folle. Mais bient?t, les traces retrouvées sur les lieux des crimes laisseront penser que les meurtriers pourraient être… des animaux?!]]> 304 Olga Tokarczuk 2882502605 Lisa 3 2024 3.80 2009
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]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 Lisa 0 to-read, 2024 4.14 2023
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]]> 108518147 225 Hisashi Kashiwai Lisa 5 2024 3.59 2013
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]]> 40390766
Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive.

Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it.

Growing up in post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer. When her long-widowed father unexpectedly comes homes with a new fiancée, Jordan is thrilled. But there is something disconcerting about the soft-spoken German widow. Certain that danger is lurking, Jordan begins to delve into her new stepmother’s past—only to discover that there are mysteries buried deep in her family . . . secrets that may threaten all Jordan holds dear.

In this immersive, heart-wrenching story, Kate Quinn illuminates the consequences of war on individual lives, and the price we pay to seek justice and truth.]]> 549 Kate Quinn 0062884344 Lisa 0 to-read 4.24 2019
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]]> 53310061 What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family?

You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers.

But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?]]> 299 Jesse Q. Sutanto 0593336739 Lisa 3 3.67 2021
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]]> 57693171
Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets...

Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream--all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.]]> 369 Xóchitl González 1250786177 Lisa 0 to-read 3.95 2022
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]]> 156518322 Une famille a disparu, là où personne ne disparaissait jamais.
On m’a chargée de l’enquête, et ce que j’ai découvert au fil des semaines a ébranlé toutes mes certitudes. Il ne s’agissait pas d’un simple fait-divers, mais d’un drame attendu, d’un mal qui irradiait tout un quartier, toute une ville, tout un pays, l’expression soudaine d’une violence qu’on croyait endormie. ?

Hélène, ex-commissaire de police, reprend du service pour retrouver un couple et leur petit gar?on, Milo. Elle rencontre les dernières personnes à avoir été en contact avec eux. Depuis que la France a basculé dans l’ère de la Transparence, ces hommes et ces femmes vivent dans un monde harmonieux, libéré du mal, où chacun évolue sous le regard protecteur de ses voisins. Mais au cours de son enquête, Hélène va dévoiler une vérité aussi surprenante que terrifiante.
? travers cette contre-utopie, c’est le monde d’aujourd’hui que l’auteur interroge. Ce roman haletant montre des êtres en proie à leurs pulsions et à leurs fêlures derrière leur apparente perfection.]]> 240 Lilia Hassaine 2073035051 Lisa 4 3.59
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]]> 123206645 A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient.

This is a tale of murder.

Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it?

Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island.

I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder.

We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.

But who am I?

My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.]]> 298 Alex Michaelides 125075898X Lisa 0 to-read 3.34 2024
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]]> 49110165
Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. He said he didn't mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it.

By the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn't really matter anymore. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing - if you can find something else to want.]]> 352 Meg Mason Lisa 0 to-read 4.08 2020
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]]> 124046901 283 Neige Sinno 2818058260 Lisa 3 2023 4.19 2023
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When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father’s secret, it’s a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she’s been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home.

When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.

Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency.]]> 388 K.L. Randis Lisa 4 4.42 2013
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> 61062608 La première enquête de Mara Rais et Eva Croce nous plonge dans les somptueux décors de la Sardaigne, au c?ur de ténèbres venues du fond des ?ges.]]> 560 Piergiorgio Pulixi 2351788427 Lisa 4 4.00 2019
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So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Lisa 3 3.69 2023
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 60124956 288 Frédéric Perrot 2080271059 Lisa 0 to-read 4.21
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]]> 63133205 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]> 288 Britney Spears 1668009048 Lisa 3 3.83 2023
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name: Lisa
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]]> 135982568 Ces deux-là n'auraient jamais d? se rencontrer. Au premier regard, ils se reconnaissent et se jurent de ne jamais se quitter. Viola et Mimo ne peuvent ni vivre ensemble, ni rester longtemps loin de l'autre. Liés par une attraction indéfectible, ils traversent des années de fureur quand l'Italie bascule dans le fascisme. Mimo prend sa revanche sur le sort, mais à quoi bon la gloire s'il doit perdre Viola ?
Un roman plein de fougue et d'éclats, habité par la gr?ce et la beauté.]]> 592 Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2378803753 Lisa 5 4.28 2023
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> 54860592 Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?

Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder?

When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women--a tech CEO, a neurosurgeon, an award-winning therapist, a bestselling author--with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to help with a resident's wrongful death case, she is pulled into the lives of the women there. She finds the air is different in Dynasty Ranch. The women aren't hanging on by a thread.

But as the case unravels, Nora uncovers a plot that may explain the secret to having-it-all. One that's worth killing for. Calling to mind a Stepford Wives gender-swap, The Husbands imagines a world where the burden of the "second shift" is equally shared--and what it may take to get there.]]> 346 Chandler Baker 125031951X Lisa 0 to-read 3.44 2021
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]]> 17235697 330 David Foenkinos 2070140105 Lisa 4 3.59 2013
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name: Lisa
average rating: 3.59
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rating: 4
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]]> 123199043 The New York Times bestseller from iconic Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN: Nineteen Steps is a captivating novel inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.

Love blooms in the darkest days…

It’s 1942, and air raid sirens continue to wail around London. Eighteen-year-old Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her.

After a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a broader world. Just when Nellie begins to embrace an exciting new life with Ray, a terrible incident occurs during an air raid one evening, tearing Nellie’s world is torn apart. But just when it seems all hope is lost, Nellie finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph.

Nineteen Steps is a deeply affecting, mesmerizing page-turner inspired by the author’s family history. An epic story of longing, loss, and secrets, Millie Bobby Brown’s propulsive debut introduces an unforgettable, brave young woman and boldly portrays the strength in the power of love.

“Inspired by my Nanny Ruth, this book is very personal and close to my heart. I grew up listening to stories about her time living through the war. I’m honored to keep her story alive.”—Millie Bobby Brown]]> 320 Millie Bobby Brown 0063335786 Lisa 0 to-read 3.72 2023
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]]> 42201995
Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer—handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry—and she loses her heart at once. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.

A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts—a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their country’s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart, she moves on—to college in California, to another man, to a life in New England—until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me?

A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall Street Journal as a “moving tale of lost love” and by Shelf Awareness as “a powerful, heartbreaking story”—explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate.]]> 312 Marjan Kamali 1982107480 Lisa 5 4.22 2019
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 5
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]]> 58372556 Excepté mes démangeaisons inexpliquées et ma passion dévorante pour mon mari, ma vie est parfaitement normale. Rien ne déborde. Aucune incohérence. Aucune manie.

Elle a une vie parfaite. Une belle maison, deux enfants et l'homme idéal. Après quinze ans de vie commune, elle ne se lasse pas de dire "mon mari". Et pourtant elle veut plus encore : il faut qu'ils s'aiment comme au premier jour. Alors elle note méthodiquement ses " fautes ", les peines à lui infliger, les pièges à lui tendre. Elle se veut irréprochable et prépare minutieusement chacun de leur tête-à-tête. Elle est follement amoureuse de son mari. Du lundi au dimanche, la tension monte, on rit,
on s'effraie, on flirte avec le point de rupture, on se projette dans ce thé?tre amoureux.]]> 351 Maud Ventura 2378802412 Lisa 3 3.66 2021
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> 136344695
Un soir de canicule, en ao?t à Paris, deux couples se rejoignent pour d?ner. La soirée aura lieu chez ?tienne. Claudia, sa compagne, d’une timidité maladive, a cuisiné toute la journée pour masquer son appréhension. Johar et Rémi, leurs invités, n’ont pas l’esprit tranquille non plus. Autour de la table, les uns nourrissent des intentions cachées tandis que les autres font tout pour garder leurs secrets. L’odeur épicée d’un curry, une veste qui glisse d’un fauteuil, il suffit d’un rien pour que tout bascule.
Avec ce huis-clos renversant, Cécile Tlili interroge la place des femmes dans la société et tisse, avec délicatesse, une ode à l’émancipation et à la liberté.]]> 192 Cécile Tlili 2702188400 Lisa 4 3.59
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]]> 111173406 382 Virginie Grimaldi 2080423711 Lisa 4 2023 4.27 2024
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name: Lisa
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]]> 59660319 In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France.

Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family's livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city's women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name.

It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune. . . .

Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.]]> 304 Kiran Millwood Hargrave Lisa 0 to-read 3.89 2022
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]]> 34390247 Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes. Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening.]]> 286 Jenny Erpenbeck 0811225941 Lisa 0 to-read 4.04 2015
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]]> 59381516 A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents.

Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She’s gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband gets home. With her family balanced with her professional ambitions, Yara knows that her life is infinitely more rewarding than her own mother’s. So why doesn’t it feel like enough?

After her dream of chaperoning a student trip to Europe evaporates and she responds to a colleague’s racist provocation, Yara is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counseling to keep her position. Her mother blames a family curse for the trouble she’s facing, and while Yara doesn’t really believe in old superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy with her mother’s warning and the possibility of falling victim to the same mistakes.

Shaken to the core by these indictments of her life, Yara finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To save herself, Yara must reckon with the reality that the difficulties of the childhood she thought she left behind have very real—and damaging—implications not just on her own future but that of her daughters.]]> 352 Etaf Rum 0062987909 Lisa 0 to-read 3.93 2023
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]]> 63241104 In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.]]> 309 Ann Patchett 006332752X Lisa 4 2023 3.92 2023
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]]> 61812308 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.]]> 303 Dennis Lehane 0062129481 Lisa 3 4.21 2023
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]]> 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 Lisa 3 4.09 1859
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]]> 53606826 Marguerite, quatre-vingt-sept ans, met en vente son appartement qu’elle s’est pourtant juré de ne jamais quitter.
Derrière leurs fenêtres qui se font face, dans cette rue parisienne, la vie de l’une n’appara?t à l’autre qu’en reflet. Les mensonges de Camille à son entourage et les secrets de Marguerite enfouis soigneusement depuis l’enfance se croisent et se répondent.
Comment prendre sa vie à bras-le-corps quand on a décidé d’en vivre une autre??]]> 400 Sophie Astrabie 2081512289 Lisa 4 4.02
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]]> 148437077 208 Frédéric Perrot 2080414658 Lisa 3 4.00
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]]> 61222519 Celle d'une jeune fille, qui n'aura pour tout voyage qu'un escalier à monter et à descendre, moins d'une quarantaine de mètres carrés à arpenter, sept cent soixante jours durant. La nuit, je l'imaginais semblable à un recueillement, à un silence. J'imaginais la nuit propice à accueillir l'absence d'Anne Frank. Mais je me suis trompée. La nuit s'est habitée, éclairée de reflets; au c?ur de l'Annexe, une urgence se tenait tapie encore, à retrouver.]]> 250 Lola Lafon Lisa 5 4.40 2022
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]]> 58065915
Anne loves having pretend tea parties by herself. She even decorates her room with branches and colorful leaves for the occasion. Marilla Cuthbert, who adopted Anne in the last year, wishes Anne would act a little more sensibly. One day, Marilla comes up with a plan to keep Anne out of mischief -- Anne can host her very own tea party and invite her kindred spirit, Diana Barry! Anne is thrilled, and sets out to host the most lovely and grown-uppish tea party she can muster. But when she makes Diana sick by accidentally giving her the wrong drink, Diana's mother is furious. Can Anne be forgiven? Will she ever be allowed to play with Diana again?

Lovingly adapted by Kallie George with beautiful nostalgic illustrations by Abigail Halpin, this series is perfect for fans of Anne, new and old.]]> 72 Kallie George 0735267227 Lisa 0 to-read 4.42 2022
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]]> 58724923 A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.

Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.

Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.]]> 372 Jason Rekulak 1250819342 Lisa 0 to-read 4.12 2022
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> 61468063 235 Laurent Gaudé Lisa 3 2023 3.64 2022
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average rating: 3.64
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"A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager
A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life?

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.

It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.

But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live.

From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise?

As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?

The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything.

Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is an ambitious, invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.]]> 353 Nikki Erlick 0063204207 Lisa 4 3.96 2022
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]]> 56587382 A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited -- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.

A moving, beautifully written and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet.]]> 354 Elif Shafak 0241434998 Lisa 5 2023 4.13 2021
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]]> 56678359 255 Vanessa Bamberger Lisa 4 3.89
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Injured, ill, without money or friend she is pared right back, stripped to becoming simply a raw element of the often harsh landscape. But with that immersion in her surroundings comes the possibility of rebirth and renewal. Tamsin begins the slow journey back from the brink.

Startling, raw and extremely moving, I Am An Island is a story about the incredible ability of the natural world to provide when everything else has fallen away- a stunning book about solitude, friendship, resilience and self-discovery.]]> 384 Tamsin Calidas 2492596583 Lisa 4 3.67 2020
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]]> 45047384
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.]]> 394 T.J. Klune Lisa 0 currently-reading, 2023 4.37 2020
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]]> 40411206
In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”).

In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.

Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”).

Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.]]> 224 Lauren Graham 0425285189 Lisa 4 3.92 2016
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A daughter and mother: two women miles, years, and dreams apart. One defies traditions and expectations. The other conforms to them, even in a new land. Their emotional distance grows while the daughter, now a wife and mother herself, comes to better understand the woman she’s become and why, as she ruminates on inherited trauma, the need to forgive, and the lengths she’ll go to free herself from the past.

Etaf Rum’s Mother Country is part of Good Intentions, a riveting collection of stories about the instincts, fears, and fierce love inherent in motherhood from award-winning, bestselling authors. Read or listen to each in a single sitting.]]> 52 Etaf Rum 1662513747 Lisa 5 Normally, I am not a big fan of short stories, because not a lot of authors manage to communicate a powerful message just in couple pages. But Etaf Rum definitely knows how to do that.
Powerful story that proves mothers and daugthers are connected on all the levels. How culture, family has a huge impact on your action and it is for you to decide if you want to break a circle or not.

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What a beautiful, but heartbreaking short story.
Normally, I am not a big fan of short stories, because not a lot of authors manage to communicate a powerful message just in couple pages. But Etaf Rum definitely knows how to do that.
Powerful story that proves mothers and daugthers are connected on all the levels. How culture, family has a huge impact on your action and it is for you to decide if you want to break a circle or not.


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Bien s?r, Anna leur dit qu’ils sont fous, remercie, refuse… mais le piège affectueux est bien tendu : un jour, Anna a promis à son plus jeune fils, Michael, qui se battait contre une maladie grave, de tout faire pour réaliser ce rêve de partir dans l’espace. Anna ne peut renier son serment, et se lance à corps perdu dans l’aventure. Lors de la première sélection, elle rencontre un petit groupe de candidats qui a décidé de s’entraider.

Ils se sont baptisés ? les Extraordinaires ?. Anna sait bien que ses chances sont minces, mais épaulée par ces amoureux de l’espace aussi attachants que courageux et dr?les, elle n’y peut rien : elle se met à croire à l’impossible…]]> 300 Julien Sandrel 2702183549 Lisa 0 to-read 4.22
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]]> 62563325 320 Sabyl Ghoussoub 2234092574 Lisa 0 currently-reading 3.79
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]]> 61302773 Dans la lignée d'Annie Ernaux ou de Didier ?ribon, Anthony Passeron mêle enquête sociologique et histoire intime. Dans ce roman de filiation, il évoque la solitude des familles à une époque où la méconnaissance du virus était totale, le déni écrasant, et le malade considéré comme un paria.]]> 288 Anthony Passeron Lisa 0 to-read 4.39 2022
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]]> 58733693 Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.]]> 368 Shelby Van Pelt 0063204150 Lisa 4 4.35 2022
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.35
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]]> 60882951 Ce récit nous plonge au c?ur du pouvoir russe, où courtisans et oligarques se livrent une guerre de tous les instants. Et où Vadim, devenu le principal spin doctor du régime, transforme un pays entier en un thé?tre politique, où il n’est d’autre réalité que l’accomplissement des souhaits du Tsar. Mais Vadim n’est pas un ambitieux comme les autres : entra?né dans les arcanes de plus en plus sombres du système qu’il a contribué à construire, ce poète égaré parmi les loups fera tout pour s’en sortir.
De la guerre en Tchétchénie à la crise ukrainienne, en passant par les Jeux olympiques de Sotchi, Le mage du Kremlin est le grand roman de la Russie contemporaine. Dévoilant les dessous de l’ère Poutine, il offre une sublime méditation sur le pouvoir.]]> 288 Giuliano da Empoli 2072958164 Lisa 4 2023 4.11 2022
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average rating: 4.11
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rating: 4
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]]> 55036718 160 Laurine Roux 2373852160 Lisa 3 3.09 2020
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rating: 3
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]]> 35967101 A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror.

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...

Also titled as The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.]]> 505 Stuart Turton Lisa 0 to-read 3.87 2018
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name: Lisa
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 78870173
Lundi, dottore Di Martino. Veuf au c?ur brisé.
Mardi, signora Rizzo. La doyenne à l'esprit mal tourné.
Mercredi, les Ferrara. Culs-bénits, autoritaires.
Jeudi, signora Marino. Voyante : lit dans les cartes et les pensées.
Vendredi matin, signor et signora Landi. Aisés, bronzés, désespérés...
Vendredi après-midi, signor D'Amato. L'homme invisible !



? Salerno, les jours se suivent mais ne se ressemblent pas pour ?léonore. Entre ses ménages et ses jumeaux ados, elle n'a pas le temps de go?ter à ladolce vita.
Surtout, ?léonore ne parvient pas à oublier Marco, dont elle vient de se séparer.
Pendant qu'elle récure chez les autres, au moins, son esprit est occupé.
Mais en pénétrant dans l'intimité de ses clients, elle va s'apercevoir que les apparences sont trompeuses, et sa routine bien huilée pourrait se trouver chamboulée...
Son rêve de toujours deviendra-t-il réalité ?
Et si un hasard s'apprêtait à rebattre toutes les cartes ?]]> 219 Serena Giuliano 2221264487 Lisa 5 2023 4.18
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]]> 53288434 A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.

Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.
Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.

In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive.]]> 301 Sarah Penner 0778311015 Lisa 3 2023 3.72 2021
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name: Lisa
average rating: 3.72
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rating: 3
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So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more.

In an extraordinary story that only he could tell—and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it—Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he’s found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening—as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for.]]> 250 Matthew Perry 1250866448 Lisa 0 to-read 3.89 2022
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]]> 40495148 From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.]]> 349 José Saramago Lisa 3 en-bookclub-2023 4.17 1995
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.17
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rating: 3
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