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"Vêtue d'un pyjama en satin écru, la jeune femme repose dans une baignoire remplie, en position de fœtus inversé.

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life the vibrant—and violent—society of fifteenth-century Florence.

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ.

Que ce soit grâce à sa bonne étoile ou à un mauvais assassin, le juge Crowdy Lobbett de New York est toujours en vie. On ne peut pas en dire autant des quatre hommes décédés à sa place.

"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent." —Liz Smith. She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.

« Des vêtements à peine écartés, des ventres et des reins maladroitement caressés. Des intentions plus que des actes.

In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan.

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind h

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the "Next Detroit"—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century.

A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence.

A haunting, chilling, and atmospheric southern swamp tale—perfect for fans of Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver.

À l'est du mur qui sépare Berlin en deux, elles se sont promis de ne jamais se quitter.

The Louisiana bayou is haunted by strange disappearances in a YA paranormal mystery that is “American myth at its very best” (New York Times–bestselling author Kiersten White).

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia.