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"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel.

Au chant des marées, c'est l'histoire de Marjolaine et de Philippe, qui héritent d'une maison sur l'Île Verte au printemps 1980. Soucieux de fuir certains événements douloureux du passé, le jeune couple déménage sur ce territoire isolé en compagnie de Paul, le père de Marjolaine maintenant à la retraite. Dans la belle maison rouge trônant au bord du fleuve Saint-Laurent, ils décident d'exploiter un gîte pour touristes. Les habitants du coin accueillent avec appréhension, voire une froideur certaine, les nouveaux arrivants venus de la ville.

Je traîne ma grosse couverte jusque dans le salon et je m'écrase en bobettes sur mon vieux sofa moelleux. Je scrolle Instagram: des gens qui brunchent, des gens qui cuisinent santé, des gens qui gravissent des montagnes, des gens qui lisent, des gens qui se promènent en amoureux dans le Vieux-Port. Moi, mes cheveux gras, mon haleine de cheval et mon trait d'eye-liner d'y a deux jours, on se sent soudainement pas pire pathétiques. Camille, une grande anxieuse au cœur poqué, s'enfile les coups durs comme autant de gorgées de vin cheap.

Bâtie dans un rang peu fréquenté à Henryville, la maison de campagne de Cécile avait grand besoin de soins et d'affection pour retrouver son atmosphère accueillante et sa fière allure. Et c'est tant mieux : sa nouvelle propriétaire, énergique et enthousiaste, est ravie de se lancer dans l'aventure avec ses enfants, découvrant par la même occasion les joies et les défis de la vie champêtre. Lorsque, des années plus tard, une famille s'arrête pour admirer la maison remise à neuf, Cécile se fait un plaisir de raconter son expérience.

Award-winning author, Susan White's new book Fear of Drowning is an epic family saga set against the backdrop of two world wars, earthquakes, epidemics, prejudice, social injustice, greed and ambition. In the summer of 1917 circumstances and societal expectations put in motion a plan which causes a legacy of silence and deceit to filter down through five generations of women. One of the perpetrators of that deception, Lillianne McDonough is reaching the end of her life and feels compelled to lift the dark shadows from the past.

Instant New York Times bestseller. In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction by Karen Kingsbury. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. After all, she's still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she's determined to keep her son safe from danger. But Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of Tommy's decision.

Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A "rich, ambitious debut novel" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. An Entertainment Weekly, Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine 's Top New Book of the New Decade. Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine.

An instant New York Times bestseller. "Sexy and satisfying, Big Summer is the perfect quarantine read." —USA Today. "The beach read to end all beach reads." —Entertainment Weekly. "Big fun, and then some. It's empowering and surprising—a reminder to put down the phone and enjoy each moment for what it is." —The Washington Post. A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unputdownable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life's ups and down.

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book, You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.

In A Week at the Shore, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky explores how lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family's Rhode Island beach house. One phone call is all it takes to lure real estate photographer Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone—running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with her first love.