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Les morceaux de glace contre la paroi. Le chuintement des lèvres suçant la paille, aspirant le rhum comme l'eau d'un rince-bouche sur le fauteuil du dentiste. Ta tête inclinée au-dessus du verre, happée par l'alcool. L'odeur des feuilles de menthe par-dessus celle, tenace, de la crème solaire écran total. Le chapeau de paille glissait sur ton crâne, tu le repoussais négligemment du poing, en cow-boy désenchanté. Le geste était posé, lent, mais suscitait en moi colère et froideur, crissement de verre brisé. Ils sont en vacances au Mexique. L'alcool coule comme une source infatigable.

Darby Swank's entire life changed when her Aunt Bea was murdered in their rural Saskatchewan community. Now in college, Darby tentatively develops new friendships and connections, including her charismatic cousin Brynny, a young woman who leads an exciting and inclusive church in rural Alberta. After landing a sought-after gig with an established Toronto band, Darby begins to make a name for herself on the Canadian music scene. Yet she remains haunted by the violence in her past-especially as fame and its trappings force Darby to confront what matters most.

Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and ekes out a bare existence through the approaching winter, guided by the wisdom embodied in letters left to her by her mother. When Liza meets a wealthy gentleman, her mysterious, almost magical manner causes him to re-examine his own life. Over time, he and others around him are transformed as they begin to understand the depth of Liza's insight.

Richard searches for a deeper understanding of his miraculous healing in the sequel to Second Chance, He returns to Maui where he reunites with Johnathan and Mamma Lila. Once again, he finds their wisdom intellectually contradictory, but most intriguing. In Quest of the Pearl, like Second Chance, is a simply told, very moving story bringing the reader into a world of soft tropical beauty, where undiscovered depths of feeling are waiting to be discovered.

This program includes a multicast narration. "Aoife Hinds, Ioanna Kimbook, and Ainsleigh Barber perform this stunning debut historical novel, which follows three orphaned Vietnamese refugees." - AudioFile Magazine "A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope." - Ocean Vuong A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies - everything in between is speculation.

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood. A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, TIME, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CrimeReads, and Words Without Borders. "[NDiaye] is a master at agitating, probing, and upending expectations." - Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Times Book Review. "You won't be able to put it down." - Vogue.

New York Times Editors' Choice - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian "Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight." - Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings A best book of the year: The New Yorker, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal "Now and then, language would thrust its way in

Rose is divorced, fifty, and estranged from her daughter. At a student art opening on a rainy March evening she meets Morrison, a genial hoarder and womb-twin survivor, who leads us to Abbey, a dancer who is losing the chance to become a mother, who leads us to Iris, a bright ten-year-old doing her best to handle her family breaking apart. When her daughter vanishes completely, Rose seeks out her old friend Mab, the cheerful keeper of little bad signs.

Set in Toronto in the blistering summer of 1971, Back to the Garden is about four strangers who take a chance on a new psychological treatment: group therapy. What seems, at first, like a good idea, quickly spirals out of control as the participants connect outside of the sessions in unforeseen and catastrophic ways, each character locked into an escalating crisis.

In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature. #1 New York Times Instant Bestseller (February 2018) A People "Book of the Week" Buzzfeed's "Most Anticipated Women's Fiction Reads of 2018" Seattle Times's "Books to Look Forward to in 2018" Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man.