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2024.
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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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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"The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again."--
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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...
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2022.
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Español
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Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta. Todo puede suceder durante un verano. January Andrews es escritora de novelas románticas y una soñadora empedernida. August Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es sólo un cuento chino. Pero January y Gus tienen mucho más en común de lo que creen: Los dos están arruinados. Los dos están bloqueados. Y los dos necesitan escribir un bestseller antes de que termine el verano.
Augustus...
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2024.
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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...
10) The last word
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Harbinder Kaur ; 4
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2024.
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English
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"Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as...
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Mémoire d'encrier
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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....
13) El Ultimo Adios
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Bballe
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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A collection of poems about loss, grief, heartbreak, betrayal, and faith. These poems relate different emotional moments from contemplating one's own future, experiencing anxiety and living their faith. After my mother's passing, walking through grief, betrayals, and contemplating my faith challenged me in a way I had never been challenged before. I walked through many new and unknown experiences. In these poems, I share with you that journey.
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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,...
15) Main-d'œuvre
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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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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"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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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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2024.
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"Shining on a light on the remarkable--and in her time scandalous--17th century writer who pioneered the science fiction novel, this biography of the brilliant, courageous proto-feminist largely forgotten by history chronicles her complex and controversial life."--
19) Oye: a novel
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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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