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Découvrir qu'elle est enceinte et que son père, qu'elle n'a pas connu, était iranien, c'est l'occasion parfaite pour Lila, jeune Parisienne à la vie tourbillonnante, de partir pour Téhéran à la recherche de ses origines. Elle y calmera peut-être ses ardeurs en matière de sorties et de séduction... ou pas. Car, au fil de son enquête, Lila va goûter, en même temps qu'aux joies de la grossesse, à une multitude de saveurs et de plaisirs inattendus. Elle va aussi faire la connaissance de son grand-père et d'une partie de son histoire, entre blessures de l'exil et souvenirs enterrés.

Plongez dans les nouvelles aventures de notre chat magique amoureux des livres ! Nanami Kosaki, treize ans, ne partage pas le même quotidien que ses camarades. Contrainte par son asthme à limiter ses mouvements et ses sorties, elle trouve refuge dans la bibliothèque de son village et se réconforte dans les livres, devenus ses meilleurs amis... jusqu'au jour où son quotidien se bouleverse complètement.

Однажды на закате солнца в месяц Новой Травы мимо вигвамов проходил Одинокий Человек. За спиной он нес большого орла. Мужчины и женщины громко хвалили его, говоря, что само солнце покровительствует Одинокому Человеку - ловцу орлов. Молодой индеец Маленькая Выдра из племени черноногих тоже захотел стать таким же ловким охотником, как Одинокий Человек. Но на пути к заветной мечте его ждет немало трудностей и опасностей.

Драматург и прозаик Юдзо Ямамото окончил отделение немецкой литературы Токийского Императорского университета. Во время обучения в университете совместно с Кикути Кан и Рюноскэ Акутагава издавал литературный журнал «Синситё». После окончания университета сотрудничал с театральной группой Симпа. Затем в течение семи лет преподавал в университете Васэда, а с 1923 года полностью посвятил себя литературной деятельности. Его перу принадлежит несколько переводов пьес Стринберга. Многие из собственных пьес Ямамото до сих пор ставятся в японских театрах.

Молодой князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин возвращается в Россию из Швейцарии, где он проходил лечение от тяжелой болезни. После нескольких лет проведенных в изоляции Мышкин попадает в петербургское общество, пропитанное ненавистью, завистью и злобой. Князь жалеет этих людей, видит, что они гибнут, пытается спасти их, но, несмотря на все усилия, ничего не может изменить. Лев Николаевич наделен христианской любовью и добротой, он искренне хочет принести мир, однако бездуховность и неверие современного общества становятся непреодолимым препятствием для достижения этой цели.

Six years ago, one fight ended it all . . . And now Tracey Walker has bittersweet memories and a secret that she keeps close to her heart. A fresh start in a new town is just what she and her five-year-old son need to move on from the past. But when she discovers her old flame lives a few doors down from her, she's confronted with the urge to tell him everything.

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple—handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her.

Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own.

Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River . . . inspired, lyrical short stories.

Claudia Lin—mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major—has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately, along the way, she and her colleagues—tech savant Squirrel, and the elegant and intimidating Becks—have uncovered a far-reaching AI conspiracy. And the corporate matchmakers may be resorting to murder to protect their secrets.

The Greenspan family are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts. Scott Greenspan is a successful cardiologist. His wife is a pillar of the community, his daughter works at a distinguished New York publishing house and his son is at medical school, preparing to follow in his footsteps. They are an exceptional family, living in exceptional times. But when Scott is caught faking blood test results, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threatens to shatter his family.

In 1940, best friends Lili and Esti reside in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Their bond deepens as Esti becomes a mother to her son, Theo. However, the onset of war and the enforcement of Mussolini’s Racial Laws, which label them as part of an 'inferior' Jewish race, shatter their peaceful existence. When Germany invades northern Italy, the friends find themselves in occupied territory. Faced with escalating dangers, Lili embarks on a perilous journey southward toward Allied territory, traversing Nazi-occupied villages and bombed-out cities, all while striving to protect young Theo.

Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home.

Held deep in a mountain refuge, Sylvia has been captured by the Urabi, who believe the Jasad Heir can return their homeland to its former power. But after years of denying her legacy and a forbidden alliance with Jasad’s greatest enemy, Sylvia must win the Urabi’s trust while struggling to hide the dangerous side effects her magic is having on her mind. In a rival kingdom, Arin must maneuver carefully between his father's desire to put down the brewing rebellion and the sacred edicts Arin is sworn to uphold.

In a small town where gossip flows, bedridden Mary Ruth McCready reigns supreme, doling out wisdom and meddling in everyone's business with a fervor that would make a matchmaker blush. When her best friend has her world rocked by a scandalous revelation from her dying husband, Mary Ruth kicks into high gear, commandeering the help of her favorite granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth, in tracking down the truth. Finding clues in funeral condolence cards and decades-old gossip dredged up at the Blue Moon Beauty Emporium, the two stir up trouble faster than you can say "pecan pie."

Born from a popular long-running series on her Instagram page, the latest poetic offering from pop star and bestselling author Jessie Reyez is a collection of in-the-moment poems written in response to fan-supplied prompts. Whether being asked to write about a dead leaf on the ground, gaslighting, being ghosted by a date, abandonment, addiction, or a sunset over still waters, Jessie responds with a heartfelt original poem that turns a seed of an idea into a garden of encouragement, vulnerability, honesty, and love.

In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom. Ten years later, when forensic psychiatrist Dr. Vincent Blackburn discovers he and the Cajun Cannibal are more closely connected than he realized, he begins a case study into the sociopathy behind the killer’s grisly deeds.

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died.

Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new energy, Edith has made a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. Then her best friend Maebh receives a shocking phone call from an American man.