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The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoff

« Chère Véronique, Ton coup de téléphone m’a enchantée. Figure-toi que je rentrais juste à 5h30 du matin, sur la pointe des pieds lorsque le téléphone a sonné.

Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful… a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.

"Louisa rapporte ce qu'elle a retenu d'un tutoriel : les dépressifs d'aujourd'hui sont les gagnants de demain. Je suis pas dépressif.

La pâle et touchante Marie-Louise finit ses jours en marge du monde des gens dits « normaux ».

Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim.

I'm your protagonist-Reshma Kapoor-and if you have the free time to read this book, then you're probably nothing like me. Reshma is a college counselor's dream.

Ne rien dire, ne pas s'envoler dans le commentaire, rester à la confluence du savoir et de l'ignorance, au pied du mur.

Facing the Music, Larry Brown's first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St.

A renowned doctor’s quest to find the source of—and a cure for—his daughter’s sudden illness leads him into the heart of a lethal mystery in this “brilliant” (Associated Press) novel from the #1 be

“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie's choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River. Bad things happen in the heat, they say.

Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of *Fireflies* and *The Chip-Chip Gatherers*.

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers. It's the summer of 1981.

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller.