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Louise Leclerc est une mordue de musique, mais elle est aussi très timide. S’il lui arrive de composer des chansons derrière la porte close de sa chambre, l’idée de chanter devant un public la terrorise. Jamais elle n’aura le courage de participer au spectacle de fin d’année de son école ! Un jour, lors d’une visite chez son grand-père, aussi mélomane qu’elle, elle découvre un mystérieux gramophone. L’envie de l’essayer est trop forte : elle y fait jouer l’album d’un célèbre duo country.

Le facteur de pianos Peter Schuller revient avec sa femme et son fils de Londres où il s’est exilé pendant la Révolution. Il rapporte en Alsace, au pays des quatre rivières, sa nouvelle invention : le piano de concert. Ce roman plonge le lecteur en pleine époque romantique, à Paris, en Allemagne, en Alsace et dans la Vienne des grands compositeurs. « Copyright Electre »

Bloomsbury presents The Village Trattoria by Annabelle Thorpe, read by Sara Alexander. Italy, 1943. The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead it is charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run it. While Sophia and Giorgio clash, the town falls under Nazi occupation.

Lucy is determined to keep working as a telegraph operator at a news agency, even though the arrival of Sir Colin Beckwith threatens her position. When she discovers Colin's shocking secret, she agrees to assist him if he helps her find her family's stolen inheritance—not realizing that the trail leads into a web of treachery, danger, and conspiracy. Page-turning romance and intrigue in an award-winning author's next historical novel. Lucy Drake's mastery of Morse code has made her a valuable asset to the American news agencies as a telegrapher.

Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life. In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis Nation begins negotiating terms for joining Confederation, each member of the Rougeau family adapts in their own way: Clément looks outward, trying to maintain his livelihood as a carter, while his wife, Marienne, looks inward, determined to hold their fracturing family together.

An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike. In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money.

If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on in this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping). In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie. In reality, Hubert's days are all the same, dragging on without him seeing a single soul.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By day's end, their lives will be changed—irrevocably.

A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family’s complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed house at the edge of a Great Lake during the present day.

Pulitzer Prize winner • New York Times bestseller • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This “brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened.