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Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, this novel reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghost-like lionesses begin hunting the women who live there.

« Le journal d’une blanche » est un roman moderne et franchement atypique qui se construit sur une série de mise en abyme mettant en scène le récit d’une femme actuelle et bourgeoise. Dans un décor planté à Paris, le récit débute à Londres dans le quartier d’Hampstead et au fil des chapitres, on se voit entraîné sur les places historiques de Paris, dans une ville de banlieue, ou encore à Venise. Blanche Enblac’h l’héroïne du livre se raconte au travers de son journal intime qu’elle publie sous un pseudonyme.

Suzanne El Farrah El Kenz relate dans ce récit émouvant, mené dans une langue alerte et sobre, l’histoire de son exil et, notamment, le retour avec son fils vers une certaine maison du Néguev située aux proches limites de Ghazza. C’est la maison natale de sa mère défunte à laquelle sont attachés tant de souvenirs rendus douloureux par la spoliation.

Laura Marello writes, through the voice of Eduard Steichen, that “… all these powerful artists are so invulnerably weak.” Rodin, his lover Camille Claudel, Picasso, Rousseau, Nijinski, Matisse, Rilke and others, all tenants of Hôtel Biron, and all brilliantly and excitedly human, presented by manuscripts fictionally collected. The result is an appropriately cubist look at each, because we see each from several subjective vantages. This is a brilliantly conceived work of reflective and self-reflective parts.

A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius, age fourteen, limps and schemes her way towards adulthood. Trapped at the March family's cottage, she spends her days memorizing Top 40 lists, avoiding her adoptive cousins, catching frogs and plotting to save Yogi, the bullied, buttertart-eating bear caged at the top of March Road.

A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and nonviolent community can survive when civilization falls apart. When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first.

Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.

Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor receives a diary for her birthday and uses it to record the arrival of the Spanish Flu epidemic in Toronto in 1918 and the impact it has on her family. Includes factual historical information about the Spanish Flu in Canada.

"“Its an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.” The town is Horizon, the setting of Sinclair Ross brilliant classic study of life in the Depression era. Hailed by critics as one of Canadas great novels, As For Me and My House takes the form of a journal.