«Greta’s Story»: The Schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet. A story about hope, courage and determination. You are never too young to make a difference.
It’s 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports rising temperatures, and there have been numerous fires […]
«Doctor Sleep»: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever. The Shining.
Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special 12-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester. And married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal. Living off the «steam» that children with the «shining» produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades. Desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him. And a job at a nursing home where his remnant «shining» power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying.
Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes «Doctor Sleep.»
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone. And it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons. And summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining. And it wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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«Olive, Again». How do you write a sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel? It may never have even happened before. But Elizabeth Strout takes on the challenge and is triumphant.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge. A character who has captured the imaginations of […]
«Quand nos souvenirs viendront danser». Petit bonbon plein de douceur qui fait du bien. Ce nouveau titre de Virginie Grimaldi ne fait pas défaut à ses prédécesseurs.
«Lorsque nous avons emménagé impasse des Colibris, nous avions vingt ans. Ça sentait la peinture fraîche et les projets, nous nous prêtions main-forte entre voisins en traversant les jardins non clôturés.
Soixante-trois ans […]
«Journal d’un amour perdu». Dans un livre formidablement indiscret, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt raconte son immense chagrin. Après le décès brutal de sa mère.
« Maman est morte ce matin et c’est la première fois qu’elle me fait de la peine. »
Pendant deux ans, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt tente d’apprivoiser l’inacceptable. La disparition de la femme qui l’a mis au monde. […]
«Milkman»: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018. Brilliant! Entertaining and thought-provoking and-yes, funny!
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman.
But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her […]
«Une bête au paradis»: Un roman empli d’un souffle puissant, profond, hypnotique, à l’empreinte singulière.
Dans sa ferme isolée au bout d’un chemin de terre, appelée le Paradis, Emilienne élève seule ses deux petits-enfants, Blanche et Gabriel. Devenue adolescente, Blanche rencontre Alexandre, son premier amour. Mais, arrivé à l’âge adulte, le couple se déchire lorsqu’Alexandre, dévoré par […]
«Paroles d’honneur»: un ouvrage qui expose de manière claire un sujet qui fâche. Une initiative à saluer car beaucoup de ses victimes n’ont pas forcément la possibilité ou la force de s’exprimer.
Rabat, été 2015. Suite à la parution de son livre «Dans le jardin de l’ogre», un roman cru et audacieux qui aborde la thématique de […]
«Year of the Monkey»: A beautiful meditation by Patti on the year she turned 70. A little treasure of a book.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. A profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San […]
«The Fate of Fausto»: A poingnant modern-day fable about greed and hubris.
There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.
“You are mine,” Fausto said to the flower, the sheep and the mountain, and they bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered […]
