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Oprah's Book Club Pick 2024 - New York Times Book Club Pick 2024 - Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Cillian Murphy - A New York Times Bestseller - Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction - One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." - Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers.

« La toile vibrait de beauté. Elle en avait le souffle coupé et se noyait dans l'œil bleu ciel piqueté de vert. Est-ce qu'elle était réellement le sosie de cette inconnue ? » Peint à Vienne en 1910, le tableau de Gustav Klimt Portrait d'une dame est acheté par un collectionneur anonyme en 1916, retouché par le maître un an plus tard, puis volé en 1997, avant de réapparaître en 2019 dans les jardins d'un musée d'art moderne en Italie.

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times – USA Today – Washington Post – and Los Angeles Times. From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women – at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation.

Reese's Book Club Pick – "This story left me thinking about the ways we overcome setbacks and redefine what truly matters." – Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club December '24 Pick). A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice – to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever – in this incandescent novel of redemption and love. On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career.

A gay teenager in 1990s Wyoming must contend with the violent loss of a loved one in this historical YA novel that draws from the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998. Juniper, Wyoming, high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother's death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to join the crew for a college production of Oklahoma! Ash is slowly drawn out of his shell by student reporter Jenna and the star of the show, Shane, with whom a romance slowly blooms. Shane is talented, sensitive, and magnetic, but also deeply troubled.

'Magnificent – deeply moving' – Sunday Times. – 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' – The Times. In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for everything he has known and loved.

Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains. Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, Gertrude Bell a dessiné les frontière de l'Orient, dans ce désert sauvage où tout a commencé : le pays entre deux fleuves, le Tigre et l'Euphrate. Aventurière, archéologue, espionne, parlant l'arabe et le persan, elle fut la première femme puissante de l'Empire britannique, mais aussi une héroïne tragique. Idéaliste comme son ami et frère d'âme Lawrence d'Arabie. Impérialiste et courageuse comme le jeune Winston Churchill.

A YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles's Chinatown, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl. "A captivating and crackling noir full of suspenseful twists. Readers will fall in love with the Chow sisters and their quest for the truth." – Kathleen Glasgow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and The Agathas.

A noblewoman in the scandalous French court finds herself under the dangerous and watchful eye of the Parisian royalty when she falls in love with the handsome king who is betrothed to her former lover in this bisexual The Three Musketeers by way of Bridgerton and F.T. Lukens. Paris, 1572. Seventeen-year-old Jacqueline "Jac" d'Argenson-Aunis is lady-in-waiting to her best friend and former lover, the French Princess Marguerite "Margot" de Valois, but she dreams of more.

A New York Times bestseller! In the Remixed Classics series – authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing and subverting society's patriarchal and cisheteronormative expectations. London, 1812. Oliver Bennet feels trapped.