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Un couple qui dure serait-il la plus grande aventure des temps modernes ? Alice et Jules vivent ensemble depuis soixante ans.

Léa est institutrice. Tous les mois de septembre, elle accueille la vingtaine d’enfants qu’elle accompagnera pour la prochaine année.

Mary-Margaret has always planned to join the church as a religious sister, but falls in love with her childhood friend, Jude Keller, a ne'er-do-well with a soul needing saving.

A music teacher befriends a young girl who lost her mother to illness, and through a crisis, the girl's father must become involved.

"The most beautiful book that Genet has written." - Jean-Paul Sartre.

An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent

A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset.

Finalist for the World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award, and winner of the Aurora Award. Waters of Versailles is a historical fantasy about sex, magic, and plumbing.

In the same world as Everfair, a brutal king plagued by visions of the Black people he slaughtered in Congo attempts to destroy the spirits haunting him using an inventor's powerful but unprov

With an introduction by Stephen Medcalf.

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive.

Printemps 1960. Antoine est appelé pour l'Algérie au moment où Lila, sa toute jeune femme, est enceinte.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) est l’un des auteurs américains qui ont exercé la plus profonde influence non seulement sur la littérature, mais sur la pensée contemporaine.

J’ai voulu savoir comment les choses s’étaient passées dans cette vie où je n’ai cessé de bouger, souvent malgré moi.

Au printemps de 1832, Flora, fille d’émigrés, née, élevée, mariée et devenue brutalement orpheline et veuve en Angleterre, arrive un beau jour à Jarnac pour y rouvrir Margelasse, le château de sa f