Titres dans Passage à l'âge adulte

Jérôme et Alissa, cousins et adolescents, s'aiment d'un amour platonique. Ils se retrouvent régulièrement pendant leurs vacances dans une maison familiale, en Normandie. Le reste de l'année ils entretiennent leur amour par des échanges épistolaires compliqués. Jérôme et Alissa vivent un amour fait d’élan pur et de don mystique où le rêve et l’exaltation sont omniprésents. Cette relation s’épanouit dans une ferveur religieuse partagée. De fiançailles, il est question à plusieurs reprises sans jamais les concrétiser.

Planning the perfect prom is one last “to do” on ultra-organized Charlotte Wu’s high school bucket list. So far, so good, if not for a decorating accident that sends Charlotte crash-landing off a ladder, face-first into her obnoxiously ripped archnemesis J. T. Renner. Worse? When Charlotte wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar bed at thirty years old, with her bearded fiancé, Renner, by her side.

C'est quoi l'amour ? Comment on aime à 30 ans ? Est-ce qu'on a perdu toute illusion sur cette notion? Ou bien est-ce qu'elle a simplement évolué pour nous ? Ça se partage l'amour ? C'est temporaire ? C'est tout ? C'est rien ? En tout cas l'amour, quand on a 30 ans, ça se questionne. Avec l'aimable participation de : Benoît Allemane, Alfred Amourdedieu, Marie Bouvier, Françoise Cadol, Bénédicte Charton, Pascal Casanova, Elia Dabaji, Catherine Griffoni, Benjamin Jungers, Pauline de Clerck, Myriam Gilles, Stéphane Gaden, Jules Martens.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him, It Ends with Us, and It Starts with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the...

Best-selling author William Boyd—the novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” ( Chicago Tribune) and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” ( Time)—here gives us his most entertaining, sly, and compelling novel to date. The novel evokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our time as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, and man of the world—through his intimate journals. It is the “riotous and disorganized reality” of Mountstuart’s 85 years in all their extraordinary, tragic, and humorous aspects.

Brought to you by Penguin. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just...

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The passionate account of a young man's growing awareness of his own identity, of his involvement in the secret and dangerous world of petty crime, and how, influenced by a precocious schoolmate, he rebels against convention and discovers not only the great joy of independence, but his own new powers for good and evil.

L'avis des lectrices : « Une lecture qui restera une étoile dans mon coeur. » Virginie Zakarian-Clavé « Une écriture addictive qu’on a du mal à lâcher. » Laurie Heyme « La fin du livre m’a donné des frissons ! » Aurélie Sautereau « Une belle histoire de reconstruction, des...

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves, Oliver encounters the extraordinary and vibrant characters who have captured audiences' imaginations for more than 150 years.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Jusqu'à un soir de feu d'artifice où l'une d'elles se volatilise brutalement. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'en reste plus qu'une. Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun.

Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She wants to experience the world, but she belongs to her father and will belong to a husband. As Artemisia patiently goes from lesson to lesson, perfecting her craft, she also paints in private, recreating the women who inspire her, away from her father's eyes. Until a mysterious tutor enters her life.

Dunegray, commander of the undead Cursed legion, has led it in terrorizing and spilling blood throughout the kingdom of Nahmval. When Zerael, a powerful young sorcerer, lifts the curse, Dunegray and her army must learn to live among the very people they oppressed. But the Curse never forgets its servants.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the...

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but there she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica, aged five; greedy, cross-patch Gillian, who refused to be ignored; and Ruby...

Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West 20th Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him.

*A 'Most Anticipated Book of 2026' as selected by DAZED, THE NEW ARAB and LITHUB* 'Touching, infuriating and painfully true . . . [Strange Girls] demands to be read' Julia Armfield 'Captures the messy, tense and beautiful struggles where friendship meets longing . . . I envy whoever reads it...

A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of...

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes, a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham, and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward, Estella, the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor. These form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.