Résultats pour "Novelle" dans Fiction

In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is...

“Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable character and a timeless story that The New York Times Book...

For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy—and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their...

“[Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page.”—San Francisco Chronicle As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south...

The long-awaited new novel from the award-winning author of The Parcel. An unforgettable, heartbreaking, often darkly funny story of a boy growing up in Bombay, India against the backdrop of the 1990s riots. As a city turns savage, a young boy’s mind turns against him. Anosh Irani’s new...

A young woman struggles to come to terms with the consequences of a first love that changed her forever—and led to the fracture of her family. Kari and her twin brother, Matt, are fresh out of high school when their family rents a summer cottage in the sleepy lake town of Culver Point. It...

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of...

Instant Bestseller A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space. Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but...

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never...

The feuding Brown sisters are haunted by secrets. Just before a dinner at their mother's idyllic holiday cottage, Susannah Brown disappears, in this gripping psychological thriller by a dazzling new talent. The Brown sisters: Lucy, Susannah, Tara. Each is haunted—by disgrace (Lucy), vanity...

From the acclaimed author of The Unpassing, a tender and meticulously observed novel, following three generations of women learning to navigate a near-future California. Kina lives in a hamlet sealed off from the pollutants and allergens that plague the outside world, subsisting on a regulated...

From beloved icon Kelly Bishop, the Gilmore Girls star and New York Times bestselling author, comes a spirited novel that’s Golden Girls meets Sex and the City, following four women in their seventies who become roommates in a Manhattan apartment. Roz is fine. Seventy-eight, retired, divorced...

"Alex is one of the truly great Scandinavian storytellers. He writes with compassion and curiosity about childhood, and the vulnerability of being small, in a way like no other I know. This is a novel that stays with you, you'll put it down and call your parents, or text your kids. And you'll...

Postal worker Kit Pickins never planned on taking over her eccentric aunt’s psychic business. But desperate times call for fraudulent measures. If only she can predict what will happen next… “Do you believe in psychics?” Kit Pickens, a Vermont postal clerk, has dodged this question her...

Kicked out by his family and wandering the streets, an unemployed 34-year-old shut-in thinks he’s hit rock-bottom—just as he’s hit and killed by a speeding truck! Awakening to find himself reborn as an infant in a world of swords and sorcery, but with the memories of his first life intact, Rudeus Greyrat is determined not to repeat his past mistakes. He’s going to make the most of this reincarnation as he sets off on the adventure of a second lifetime!

Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. General Simon Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining, he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations. 

Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, with the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, overlooking the luxurious French Riviera, the residents lack nothing. Yet one day Dr. Greenwood from Eden-Olympia's clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and she and her husband, Paul, are given Dr. Greenwood's house as a residence.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back REESE’S BOOK...

Experience a tumultuous century of Cuban history through this epic novel of love and loss based on the author's own remarkable family history—from the New York Times bestselling author of The German Girl. Once We Were Cuba is the story of a century of sweeping change, love and loss, and a...

Juicy, fizzy and ripe for the picking, My Darling Clementine surveys a woman who is obsessed, unraveling, and utterly convinced she’s turning into a clementine—a sticky debut that exposes the dark underbelly of romantic fantasies and asks how far is too far to go in the name of love. Inara...