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1) Oye: a novel
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English
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"When Miami residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, everyone in Luciana's family complies, except for her beloved yet batty grandmother, Abue. But it turns out the storm isn't the real crisis: Abue, normally glamorous and full of energy, is given a devastating medical diagnosis once danger passes. Luciana, and the rest of the family, are heartbroken, but Abue is about as interested in getting treatment as she was in evacuating. She'd...
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Bergman brothers ; 7
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of pets--just maybe, he's overcommitted himself?--Viggo's chaotic life has made finding his forever love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, chilly cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's...
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ÉDitions Tnt
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Première publication de la slameuse Berekyah: Des rivières et des rêves, un livre de poésie urbaine.
Armée de ses rimes et de ses mots, ce que BerekYah dévoile à travers ce recueil, c'est, d'abord et avant tout, la poésie de ses maux. L'amour et ses maux, mais également ce profond amour pour les mots. Des rivières et des rêves s'est dessiné au fil du temps grâce à l'empreinte de ses pas à travers courants et marées. Ce sont les lieux...
4) Fi: a memoir
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Culbuter le malheur suivi d'Après le progrès, livre-phare marquant la commémoration des 30 ans du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda (1994-2024). Un million de morts en trois mois. Des silences et des silences. Adolescente à l'époque, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse a échappé au géno-cide. Elle offre dans ce double recueil les mots justes pour faire mémoire par une énonciation radicale de ce qui est un désir puissant de vivre à présent, au présent....
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Sur un air de Leonard Cohen, la poète Laure Morali marche dans la ville de Montréal. Elle s'arrête, médite et écrit d'une rue à l'autre. D'un rêve à l'autre. Entre en résonance avec les mots et les lettres. Engage le dialogue avec l'ange. Les mots se détachent et dans leur miroir, tout s'éclaire ou s'efface. Personne seulement est une méditation sur l'ombre et la lumière, sur les paradoxes et les forces opposées qui nous fondent,...
7) Main-d'œuvre
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Series
Publisher
Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Hommage aux travailleurs essentiels, à la main qui travaille et façonne le jour. Respect à ces corps de femmes et d'hommes broyés par le système, mais qui y échappent par le rêve et l'amour. D'une fulgurance à l'autre, la poésie de Lorrie Jean-Louis nous tient par les tripes. On ne sort pas indemne de cette traversée. Après le succès de La femme cent couleurs, Lorrie Jean-Louis revient avec Main-d'œuvre, livre d'une rare...
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Les Herbes Rouges
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Vladimir Maïakovski aime Lili Brik. Célèbre poète de l'avant-garde russe, il écrit, voyage, se lie à d'autres, mais ne cesse jamais d'adorer Lili. À trente-six ans, il se tire une balle dans le coeur. « Lili, aime-moi », l'invoque-t-il jusque dans sa lettre de suicide.
C'est une histoire d'amour comme il y en a tant. Celle d'un jeune homme en feu, d'un amour démesuré, insupportable. Celle du jour où le poète vise le coeur et tire. Ce...
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Sylvie Chenard
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
Description
Texte poétique inspiré du moment du deuil entre les générations et les peuples en guerre. Il s'agit d'un seuil de transformation, soudain, inéluctable qui est symbolisé par la libellule. Ce récit imaginaire voyage à travers les éléments, les émotions pour honorer le vivant tellement précieux qui a existé et que nous souhaitons préserver par la création d'espaces de bienveillance.
Sylvie Chenard, artiste multidisciplinaire, a
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English
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"A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Shizuko's Daughter (a New York Times Notable Book) and Yarn, comes a fascinating new memoir about animals, loss, and finding a home in the world. Cat and Bird, a "memoir in animals," is anchored around Kyoko Mori's relationship with the six house cats who defined the major eras of her life as a writer: Dorian, Oscar, Ernest, Algernon, Miles, and Jackson. As she details the rhythms and routines of their days...
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English
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"Signing on to record a podcast sharing relationship advice, best-selling romance novelist Truly Livingston finds herself bickering with a cynical divorce lawyer and walks out, but when he tracks her down, asking for a fresh start, they go from enemies to something else entirely."--
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. "Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."--Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan series. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series--is...
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FELIPE CHAVARRO POLANIA INC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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The light of a January day was beginning to fade. Anne Stepney had watched the sun set behind the roofs of the houses opposite, leaving a dull yellow glow on the chimneys. She was tired of sitting in the silent room, listening to the crackle of the fire, for more than half an hour her grandfather had been sleeping in his old armchair, and Ana had sat motionless by the window. There was not much to see on the street, although it was in the middle of...
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Publisher
Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Par l'autrice de Le K ne se prononce pas, Prix Giller 2020.
Dans La maison de ma mère, Souvankham Thammavongsa médite sur le sens que l'on donne aux moments et souvenirs d'enfance et aux marques laissées par le temps et la distance. Les animaux, la culture pop dans laquelle elle a grandi, l'histoire tragique du Laos, son pays natal, la guerre et les bombes, les vacances en famille et les vieilles photos sont autant de lieux et d'objets de...
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English
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In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each...Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of...
19) Quand je vis
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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23h52, un homme gît sur le sol, entre la vie et la mort. Sa fille est auprès de lui. Elle attend les secours. Son petit-fils dort. Des voix traversent la nuit : la fille, le père, le pompier, l'agente de sécurité, la médecin accompagnent cette vie qui bascule. Elles racontent ce cœur qui s'épuise. Elles cherchent leur propre souffle à travers le combat de cet homme, père, grand-père, humain. Quand je vis est un théâtre de la...
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English
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"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
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