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L’une s’immobilise devant les fenêtres de sa maison en banlieue avec le poids de la mort au creux du ventre; l’autre cherche à traverser l’écran pour se transformer en image grâce à son avatar numérique, en quête d’absolu. L’une a donné naissance à l’autre, qui tente maintenant de renaître à travers un corps virtuel, loin de la morosité du nid familial.

At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents' master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can't bring herself to tell them the truth-that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.

From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life.

An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life - the much-anticipated new novel in more than a decade by acclaimed writer Keith Maillard.Dr. Erica Bauer - an identical twin - studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical.

Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.

Inara Erickson discovers a relic of the past in her family's estate, and with it, a shameful secret that could destroy her family. She faces a terrible choice: bring dishonor to her family, or dishonor the memory of Mei Lien, lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese from Seattle.

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. A husband, father, grandfather--he is also secretly gay. When his marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants a divorce, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?

Tells of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Alternately reverential and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece brings a new consciousness to storytelling. 

Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted. But the arrival of Benjamin Blaine awakens a sense of independence within Whitney, changing her entire world.

A newlywed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between, where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world.