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Pulitzer Prize winner • New York Times bestseller • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This “brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened.

Édimbourg, 1874. Jack naît le jour le plus froid du monde et son cœur en reste gelé. Mi-sorcière mi-chaman, la sage-femme qui aide à l'accouchement parvient à sauver le nourrisson en remplaçant le cœur défectueux par une horloge. Cette prothèse fonctionne et Jack vivra, à condition d'éviter toute charge émotionnelle : pas de colère donc, et surtout, surtout, pas d'état amoureux.

C'est une histoire d'amour qui a commencé il y a 120 000 ans. Eugénie Toledano et son âme sœur se sont retrouvées vie après vie, mais à chaque fois les forces de l'obscurantisme les ont séparées. De nos jours, alors que le monde est plus que jamais bouleversé, Eugénie espère enfin pouvoir vivre cet amour. Pour cela, et afin d'empêcher l'humanité de sombrer dans le chaos, il lui faudra retourner dans ses vies antérieures chercher les clefs du présent.

Et si l'enfant que vous étiez rencontrait l'adulte que vous êtes devenu... " - Maintenant, assieds-toi, il faut que l'on parle, a dit l'ombre. Je me suis assis en tailleur sur le sol. - Tu as un pouvoir très rare, il faut que tu acceptes de t'en servir, même s'il te fait peur. - Pour quoi faire ? - Trouve pour ceux dont tu dérobes l'ombre cette petite lumière qui éclairera leur vie, un morceau de leur mémoire cachée, c'est tout ce que nous te demandons. - Nous ? - Nous, les ombres, souffla celle à qui je m'adressais.

Oprah's Book Club Pick. Instant New York Times Bestseller. Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. "Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving." — Vogue. "A novel of triumph." — The Washington Post. "Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly." — People.

A “wonderful novel” steeped in the folklore of the South from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Washington Post Book World). On an island off the coast of Georgia, there’s a place where superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. In Willow Springs, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great niece, Cocoa, can’t wait to get away. In New York City, Cocoa meets George. They fall in love and marry quickly. But when she finally brings him home to Willow Springs, the island’s darker forces come into play.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more. “An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history... [written in] lush, ornamental prose.”—The New Yorker. “Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us Descend will devour this lyrical and surreal saga.”—Oprah Daily. From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom. In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B.

Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.

"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold, and Fannie Flagg." —Starred Review, Shelf Awareness. It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies—James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother, and no one will tell him how she died.

"Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . Stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Immortality is just a casting call away. World Fantasy Award Finalist. Locus Award Finalist. Ignyte Award Finalist. An Amazon Best Book of 2022. One of NPR's Best Books of 2022. Vulture's #1 Fantasy Novel of 2022. Indie Next List Reading Group Book of 2023.