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Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines.

Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad.

Préface de Jean-Luc Brassard May O’Leary, fille d’un millionnaire de Vancouver, Patrick Murphy de la Baie James et Simon Latour un écorché vif de Montréal sont trois adolescents décrochés de la fam

San Martín (Mexique), décembre 2010. L’explosion gigantesque d’un pipeline secoue toute la ville et une marée de pétrole en feu se déverse dans les rues, emportant tout sur son passage.

In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement.

Sharp-eyed, stubborn, and passionate, Jindan was known for her beauty.

This novel tells the story of Jennie Jerome Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill, a New York born heiress who always lived life on her own terms.

1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met.

Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce.

Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The B

Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to Fr

In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook.

High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, Hiapo Opukahaia, an irrepressibly curious native boy, dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary a

Fully authorized by and written in cooperation with the Muhammad Ali estate, this biographical novel captures the budding charisma and youthful personality of one of the greatest sports heroes of a

In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Ter