Résultats pour "The Group" dans Littérature du monde

Sur un campus californien, trois jeunes adultes –; Janice, Lexie et Aaron –; intègrent un programme expérimental, destiné à ceux qui ont causé la mort sans l'avoir voulu : les accidental killers. Ava, étudiante franco-américaine en psychologie, rejoint le groupe pour écouter et observer les participants. Ils semblent porter une culpabilité que personne ne sait nommer. À mesure que les séances avancent, les silences se fissurent, et chacun affronte ce qu'il préfère taire.

Mark Twain for Dog Lovers combines one of America's most beloved authors and dogs. Twain specialist R. Kent Rasmussen traces the history of dogs in Twain's life—from the ones he knew personally, like his daughter's dog which he took in after she died, to the foreign dogs he saw on his travels...

America is cat crazy, and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his last years in Connecticut, Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats, and they stalk through many of his best-known books, including The...

'MASSIVELY ENTERTAINING' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'WARM, FUNNY, FULL OF HEART' DIANA EVANS, AUTHOR OF ORDINARY PEOPLE 'PROFOUNDLY MOVING' ANTONIA HODGSON, AUTHOR OF THE RAVEN SCHOLAR 'ABUNDANT IN LOVE, HEART AND SOUL' LISA OWENS, AUTHOR OF NOT WORKING 'HUGELY SATISFYING' BIDISHA 'A TRIUMPH' LISA...

Imagine an ancient tree by a famous shrine, so powerful that visitors come from far and wide to commune with it by moonlight ... When a run of bad luck lands Reito in prison, about to be sentenced, a distant aunt he has never met offers him a surprising way out: he must become the next keeper of...

Bloomsbury presents Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, read by Simon Vance ‘A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of...

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery. Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy...

Some stories arrive like storms. Some arrive like a single breath. In these poems and reflections, a parent remembers, wrestles, prays, and learns to live with a love that does not end. For anyone who has missed someone, feared the next phone call, or found strength in their village, these pages offer a place to exhale, to feel, and to be held by words. This is a map drawn in footprints, tear lines, and sunrise promises. A collection of hard won truths about family, loss, and the strange beauty that still shows up, even after everything. Read it when the world is loud.

Custis—a gifted, Black, ten-year-old boy orphaned and left for dead—is discovered by a young White girl. Sarah Tennison hasn’t spoken a word since her mother died. Nursed back to health and raised by Sarah’s widowed father, Custis is sheltered from community biases and anti-literacy laws. In the safety of the Tennison home, his bright mind has room to flourish and he strives to advance to his potential. Along the way, Custis' curiosity and quiet compassion help Sarah find her voice. Sarah and Custis develop an unbreakable bond, but intolerance and bigotry prohibit marriage.

They think he’s just the driver. They’re wrong. In Houston, Orlandus Shorter moved quietly through the lives of the city’s elite, its strivers, its liars, its lonely, its grieving, its beautiful, and its broken. CEOs. Athletes. Couples on the edge. Men performing power. Women carrying secrets. People who believed a closed car door made them invisible. It never did. The Silent Driver is a hybrid work of interconnected literary fiction written from the lived perspective of Orlandus Shorter, who becomes both witness and vessel for the private lives passing through the backseat of his car.

The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now...

When the stakes are at their highest, how low would you go? _____________ Shogo Hatano has beaten thousands of applicants to become one of six final candidates in the running for a graduate position at Japan's most exclusive tech company. Only one will be chosen - a decision made by the...

'The Substance meets Yellowface' PEOPLE 'A juicy, twisty take on aging, success, and race . . . sure to be one of the hottest books of spring' MARIE CLAIRE ---------------- THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET AHEAD IN THIS WORLD - YOU EITHER MAKE SOMETHING OR TAKE SOMETHING. Maggie Wang, a broke...

Poteet Victory is a rags-to-riches story of historical significance. Through his efforts on behalf of the tribes, Poteet became one of the most-honored Native Americans of the past half century. Abandoned as a child, he beat the odds to become a renowned painter, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who has sold thousands of paintings for millions of dollars.

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell. A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before… Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GOOD MORNING AMERICA · PARADE · OK! MAGAZINE · ELLE CANADA · CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR · PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “A page-turning family saga, this book will entertain readers of all generations.” —Good Morning America “Compassionate, thoughtful, and surprisingly...

Eka is only a child when she is taken from her mother and brought to the heart of the Magadh Empire. Adopted by the city's foremost courtesan, she is trained in music and dance alongside her childhood friend Ira. But fate puts Eka and Ira on the path of the vishkanya, or poison girl. Initiated...

"Debut author Garza skillfully links brilliantly crafted episodes to create an unforgettable community in Galveston, TX...Indeed, staying well-tuned to Garza’s work earns enduring rewards." — Booklist (starred review) "These rich performances, a chorus of different tones and accents, create...

**An Audiofile Earphones Award-winning production** For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. Lily is a mother and a daughter...

A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE...