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"Quand on couche pas, même si on est convaincu que ça avance à rien, animal triste et tout, eh bien on est angoissé, assez connement je dois dire mais voilà.

Her power was rivaled only by her beauty. Her face has become one of the most recognizable images in the world. She was an independent woman and thinker centuries before her time.

Bran’s taking the recycling down to the basement when the lights go out and the elevator stalls. Bran’s phone’s dead, he can hear screaming, but he can’t get out.

In the early hours of a cold February morning in 1891, the murdered body of Frances Coles was discovered beneath a railway arch in London’s Swallow Gardens.

A genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, Valid shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution. This is a mutiny.

The ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy has generated a flurry of interest in how medical professionals really make it through one of the most rigorous educational programs around, but how much of the

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"Tu as vingt-cinq ans et vingt-neuf dents, trois chemises et huit chaussettes, quelques livres que tu ne lis plus, quelques disques que tu n'écoutes plus.

Ha Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War.

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes.

The marriage of Dexter and Rosalie Fairchild-a relationship reflecting the security and privilege of their upper-class New York City lives-is disrupted by personal and political tensions arising fr

"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency." —Michael Porter, *The New York Times*.

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint.

“[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer).

'Being in charge of your own life, and making decisions based on what you want to do rather than what you have to do, gives you a rare kind of contentment and shows you that every ordinary day