National Network for Equitable Library Service

Inspired by a true story, a young woman is swept up in the glamour and excitement of chasing the title of Miss America 1950-only to vanish the night she wins.

Alex Pheby's 'Playthings' is a visceral and darkly comic portrait of severe mental illness based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge and patient of Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber.

Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains.

Si, comme elle l'écrit, l'eau s'apprend par la soif et l'oiseau par la neige, alors Emily Dickinson, elle, s'apprend par la mer et par les villes.

« Une réflexion enivrante sur un personnage intemporel, mais aussi sur ces lieux qui nous façonnent et qui peuvent influencer notre destinée. » L'actualité Comment mesure-t-on une vie ?

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller The Winter Palace—perfect for readers of Hilary Mantel and Alison Weir.

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudo

As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists have been selected to live in a prototype of a possible off-earth colony.

En 1944, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, s'éprend d'Amine Belhaj, un Marocain combattant dans l'armée française.

A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life.

In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians.

Writer Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s.

When Gabriel Rivages recounts the life of Olympic gold medallist and silver-screen heart-throb Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), he brings to life a vibrant patchwork of America's 20th-century, from

Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a captivating new novel about a woman who change