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À trente ans, le quotidien de Joshua Campbell se résume à sa famille, son cabinet d’avocat et quelques filles de passage. Dans son besoin absolu de contrôle, Josh a juste oublié un détail : les dommages collatéraux de ses actions de sauvetage. Belle, fille de millionnaire et étudiante en fashion-design, Lila Sincler a tout pour être heureuse. Du moins, en apparence. Parce que la réalité est tout autre. Il y a ce secret qui pèse sur son cœur, mais aussi Ethan, cet ami d’enfance qu’elle n’arrive pas à séduire. Pour le rendre jaloux, Lila est prête à tout.

This National Book Critics Circle Award winner follows the real-life story of the friendship formed between a disheartened schoolteacher and a Black man falsely accused of murder in Jim Crow era Louisiana. Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson...

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate.

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities...

A coming of age story for Theloneus and an epic journey by the statuesque paternal figure, Sterling. There is no other way to categorize this experience than life. In this volume of the Relationships series, Lessons Before Dying establishes a foundation of learnings rooted in trials, discoveries and triumphs. If you enjoyed the 2016 box office smash movie Moonlight (winner of 2017 Best Picture Academy Award), this is the book for you!