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Commissaire Pel hasn t been promoted which is disappointing then he meets the new Chief of Police and the implications suddenly look disastrous

Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lilas mum died. Hes kind, old-fashioned and driving her absolutely nuts.Celie, Lilas eldest, hates school. Hates it so much shes stopped going. Her mothers fine with that because she doesnt know yet.Violet is nine and sings age-inappropriate rap songs, laughs at fart jokes and Lila dearly hopes shell never, ever change.And Truant the dog, who has just bitten the American actor whos suddenly landed on the Kennedys' doorstep.This is Gene Lilas estranged father, and no ones idea of a role model. He walked out on Lila and her mum years ago and wherever he goes domestic discord follows.

Ella, mère et épouse comblée, découvre un roman sur Rûmi et Shams de Tabriz qui bouleverse sa vie. Une histoire mêlant récit contemporain et historique, explorant le soufisme, l’amour et la quête spi

A humorous and heartwarming picture book about bedwetting and self-acceptance, featuring playful illustrations and a zebra pajama mystery.

Like a long winters dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful historyBeginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseons house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.There, the long-buried story of Inseons family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.

A celebration of Black hair and family, where a child admires the many beautiful ways Grandma wears her locs.

Un roman d’amour où deux inconnus se rencontrent dans un train et voient leur destin basculer.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Heated Rivalry comes a merry and bright hockey romance about finding your place, finding your people and finding your way back to the one you love the most. "Rachel Reid''s hockey heroes are sexy, hot, and passionate!" #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren BlakelyFor Landon Stackhouse, being called up from the Calgary farm team is exciting and terrifying, even if, as the backup goalie, he rarely leaves the bench. A quiet loner by nature, Landon knows he gives off strong dont talk to me vibes. The only player who doesnt seem to notice is Calgarys superstar young winger, Casey Hicks.Casey treats Landon like an old friend, even though theyve only interacted briefly in the past. Hes endlessly charming and completely laid-back in a way that Landon absolutely cant relate to. They couldnt have less in common, but Landon needs a place to live thats not a hotel room and Casey has just bought a massive houseand hates being alone.As roommates, Casey refuses to be defeated by Landons one-word answers. As friends, Landon comes to notice a few things about Casey, like his wide, easy smile and sparkling green-blue eyes. Spending the holidays together only intensifies their bromance-turned-romance. But as the new year approaches, the countdown to the end of Landons time in Calgary is on.

Italy, 1940. Lili Passigli's studies in Ferrara abruptly end when Mussolini's Racial Laws mark her as Jewish and 'inferior'. With Fascist propaganda spreading and hatred staining the city, the world around Lili darkens further with Germany's invasion of northern Italy. Stranded in Nazi-occupied territory, Lili and her best friend Esti, along with Esti's young son, must flee south with the help of the Resistance. On this trek through the war-ravaged country, they face untold challenges and devastating decisions as they fight to reach the Allies and freedom.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.'Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over...If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad's band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter's cousin Abigail in the arcane arts.And they'll need them too, because Scotland's Granite City has more than its fair share of history and mystery, myth ... and murder.When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off.

Lore has failed. She couldn't save King Bastian from the rotten god speaking voices in his mind. She couldn't save her friends from being scattered across the continent. She couldn't save her beautiful, corrupt city from the dark power beneath the catacombs. And she couldn't save herself.Banished to the Burnt Isles, Lore must use every skill she earned on the streets of Dellaire to survive the desolate prison colony and figure out a way to defeat the power that's captured everything and everyone she holds dear. But as Lore gets closer to her goal, her magic grows stronger . . . and to a woman who's always had to fight for survival, that kind of power may be hard to give up.

Una història emotiva sobre la pèrdua, la memòria i la força dels vincles familiars.

A dark and twisty crime novel where a detective uncovers a web of lies that leads to a shocking truth.

Icosaedre és el resultat d'una passió i d'una tristesa. De la passió de saber que és només gràcies a la poesia, a l'art, que podem perdurar en la memòria dels altres. De la tristesa per la pèrdua d'u

Marta Pessarrodona ret homenatge a personatges que admira i estima escriptors, actors i pintors catalans i internacionals, i a persones properes, llocs i paisatges, en un recull de poemes dividit en tres parts: Intimitats, Res publica i Dramatis personae.

Ce un mondo in attesa in ciascuno di noi, dove sono custoditi i nostri sogni piu veri. Romany ha da poco compiuto diciottanni ed e sul punto di muovere i primi passi nelleta adulta quando si ritrova improvvisamente sola senza sua madre, Angie, lunico genitore che abbia mai conosciuto, portata via da un male repentino. Nella sua lettera di commiato, consegnata a un avvocato, Angie ha incaricato i suoi piu cari amici di prendersi cura della figlia durante il suo ultimo anno di scuola superiore. Ognuno dei quattro tutori possiede una visione della vita che la donna vuole lasciare a Romany come eredita: ce Tiger, leterno giramondo; Leon, timido e pratico, con il suo genio musicale inesplorato; e Maggie, brillante e sicura di se, che si identifica a tutto tondo con la sua professione. Tutti loro si conoscono fin dai tempi delluniversita. Ma la quarta tutrice, Hope, e invece un mistero di cui non avevano mai sentito parlare prima È linizio di un viaggio in cui ciascuno dovra fare i conti con il dolore della perdita, con lincredulita, con fantasmi del passato da affrontare e misteri da dipanare. E mentre ognuno sfida le proprie paure, a volte vincendole, a volte scendendoci a patti, Angie, quella che vedeva piu lontano di tutti, insegna loro che ci vuole una tribu per crescere, se stessi e pure una bambina.

As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreamsand my nightmares. Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in DrowningEnthralling, weird, and brilliant. A medieval pseudo-historical horror tale that explores what happens when our prayers are answered but were not sure what has answered them, or what it will demand of us in return. Theres no other story like this, and I mean that in the best possible way. Christopher Buehlman, bestselling author of Between Two FiresFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy)

"The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel Ive read in recent memory." --Tim OBrien

A brilliant satire in the tradition of Orwell and Ray Bradbury about what happens when a small company starts aggressively marketing a new global language.

A young man and an elderly widow form a life-changing bond in a small Connecticut town, exploring grief and chosen family.

The next book in the KINGS OF SIN series by No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ana Huang She's his greatest rival . . . and his greatest weakness.

Hercule Poirot investigates a decades-old double death, uncovering secrets and memories that refuse to fade.

Book 18 in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith"It's like ice cream, Mr Flynn," Bertie continued. "When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven't got any, you should share it, if you can."When despair for the world grows, Bertie's theory of ice cream reminds us that it's the simple pleasures in life that we should hold onto. And everyone's favourite seven-year-old has a lot to put up with: at home, Irene is planning lessons on Irish Culture for Bertie; at school, he is forced to join Olive and Pansy's book group, and during a day out with his best friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson, the boys find themselves unexpectedly invited to a wedding.Meanwhile, Bruce's latest property venture goes horribly wrong after trying to move a flat's front door to give it a more prestigious address. At Nine Mile Burn, Matthew and the triplets try to adopt an unwillingly-vegan dog. And Sister Maria-Fiori dei Fiore Montagna discovers the missing part of the Stone of Scone in Drummond Place Gardens.Filled with Alexander McCall Smith's trademark warmth and humour, this latest book in the series is a must-read.

Chilling FINANCIAL TIMESUtterly mesmericGUARDIANImpressive and unsettlingNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEerie, shocking, provoking GILLIAN FLYNNRich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insightECONOMISTA spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Foxs car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.

Non, cette vie n'est pas suffisante, elle ne peut contenir la millième partie de nos rêves.

Braquage à Genève Eté 2022, à Genève. Deux malfaiteurs sont sur le point de dévaliser une bijouterie. Mais ce braquage est loin d'être un banal fait divers... Vingt jours plus tôt, dans sa luxueuse m

A romantic comedy about two strangers whose lives collide in the most unexpected way.

A literary novel examining memory, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

Dans les tribunaux, les gens disent souvent qu'ils ont parlé "de tout et de rien". Ils se voient dans des endroits qui sont nulle part, ils se disent des choses dont la substance s'étiole aussitôt. P

Som al 2041 i els habitants d’un poble vitivinícola viuen sota terra, refugiats a les caves per evitar les temperatures tòrrides, com si fossin talps. El Sadurní no pot suportar-ho més i s’escapa una

Un thriller technologique où un hacker découvre un complot menaçant l’équilibre mondial.

1365. Ancien capitaine de mercenaires, assassin et espion, Pierre Cordwain, bâtard de la maison bourguignonne de Kosigan, est un homme redouté et insaisissable. En pleine guerre de Cent Ans, alors qu

Adored by readers, the million-copy Japanese magical realist mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDIf you could meet any dead person of your choosing for one night, who would it be?When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo arranges an appointment with The Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he communicates with the dead - at least, this is what Hirase has pieced together from the Internet - offering them a chance to travel back into the real world.He quickly lays down some ground-rules: you are allowed only one meeting with the dead, for a single night; the dead person must not have been called back by anyone else before, plus they have the right to refuse. Lastly, the service is entirely free.Four more characters will enlist the Go-Between for an emotional encounter with the dead.What is the mystery behind this smart young man with the notebook and why does he insist on meeting in, of all places, a freezing cold hospital carpark?Utterly unique and soul-stirring, THE GO-BETWEEN explores the wonder of life, the magic of the ordinary and the importance of friendship and always making amends, from Japan's best-loved magical realist mystery author.

A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAHEmilia del Valle was always destined for great things.Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life's passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man's name.When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure - and new-found determination to survive in her own name - leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter.But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father - and herself.