La taille d’Édouard Beaupré impressionne. Un véritable géant! Conscient de l’extraordinaire de sa condition, Édouard s’engage dans différents cirques. Une histoire aussi géante que son héros, qui retrace la vie et la carrière du célèbre métis de Willow Bunch, décédé prématurément en 1904 à l’âge de 23 ans.
Dans ce roman, Salah Benlabed visite à sa façon une page méconnue de l’histoire en faisant se côtoyer des personnages aussi bien fictifs que réels. Nous sommes au milieu du XIXe siècle, les armées françaises envahissent l’Algérie et se heurtent à la résistance de l’émir Abdelkader qui sera finalement vaincu et exilé, mais deviendra l’ami de Napoléon III, et son nom sera même donné à une ville des États-Unis...
It’s 1919, and Frank Huddleston has survived the battlefields of the Great War. A serious head injury has left him with amnesia so profound he must re-learn his name every morning from a note posted on the privy door. Gerald “Jersey" Rohn, joined the Army because he wanted to feel like a man, but he returned from the trenches minus a leg and with no goal for his life. He’s plagued by the nightmare of his best friend’s death and has nervous fits, but refuses to associate those things with battle fatigue.
In 1717, Tess Willoughby's privileged life is shattered when she is forced to accept a mysterious Spinner ring from a dying stranger. Worse yet, she finds herself forced onto a merchant ship bound for the pirate-infested West indies and betrothed to the stranger's murder - a man desperately covets the ring's supposed power of prophesy.
Growing up in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, nine-year-old Felicity is a spunky girl dealing with everyday life as the Revolutionary War looms on the horizon. But while she wades through her childhood, the American colonies and England are growing further apart. As war approaches, and loyalties change, Felicity finds herself facing numerous crises within her circle of friends and her very own family.
Meet Addy Walker, a courageous nine-year-old girl growing up during the Civil War. When her poppa dna brother are sold to another plantation, Addy and her mother take the terrible risk of escaping to freedom in the North. To get away safely, they must leave Addy's baby sister behind in the slave quarters--her cries could cost them their freedom. As Addy and Momma slowly build a new life in Philadelphia and struggle to bring their family together again, Addy comes to realize a powerful truth--freedom has great costs.
A retelling of the Old Testament tale of Rahab the harlot that takes place in Nazi-occupied France. After American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down and harbored by the French Resistance, he figures prominently in a plan to infiltrate a Germans-only brothel. With the fates of multitudes hanging in the balance, Tom's life--and the life of a prostitute named Brigitte--take on an importance that will reverberate through history.
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter
