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Québec, 20XX. L'Amérique est en déroute, rongée par une famine qui sévit depuis dix ans. Baraque, l'errant, le bohème, tente de survivre grâce à l'écriture. Dans des cahiers, il consigne des lettres et des contes. Entassés dans une boîte, ses carnets trouvent leur chemin jusqu'à son meilleur ami, Sasha Alexander. En réponse à la détresse populaire, Sasha Alexander propose ses « couleurs » : des cachets d'amphétamines verts, jaunes, rouges, orange et bleus.

Oscillant entre la colère et la nostalgie, mêlant souvenirs et faits historiques, ce récit de Pierre Raphaël Pelletier nous replonge dans l'époque, pas si lointaine, où le centre-ville de Hull a été sauvagement démembré sous les coups, souvent complices, des promoteurs et des politiciens.

A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties, cultural ties, romance, and the fact that, as immigrants, they not only share a culture, but they also share a past of political violence. Several were at one time imprisoned in Evin, a notorious jail in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

By the latter half of the third decade of the twenty-first century AD, ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate change, humankind has begun to make meaningful progress in curtailing its greenhouse gas emissions. Will it be enough to hold global warming to the agreed limit of 2.0 degrees Celsius, and ideally the more ambitious target of 1.5 degrees?

South Africa, 1901: At the height of the Second Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise, they will be safe.Johannesburg, 2010: Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he's not turning out right, his mother and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they "make men out of boys." Guaranteed.You Will Be Safe Here is a deeply moving novel of two connected parts.

Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power-including a big force in local politics-he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a former lover.

From the acclaimed author of Brownsville and Amigoland-a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican American family in Brownsville, Texas, who reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations: on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents-and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother, Nina, lives-and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death.

The epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author, R. A. Salvatore's sweeping series, The Saga of the First King. The war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyone's stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the war's scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history. Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert, the lesser of two vicious evils.

"Carolina's writing, as always, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through tears, rage, or laughter.

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers-six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution-and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics.