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We Got the Beat
Par Jenna Miller. 2024
"Charmingly wry and sharply perceptive. An ode to first love, complicated friendships, and the messy joy of rewriting your own…
story." —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaJordan Elliott is a fat, nerdy lesbian and the first junior to be named editor in chief of the school newspaper. Okay, that last part hasn’t happened yet, but it will. It’s positive thinking that has gotten Jordan this far. Ever since Mackenzie West, her friend-turned-enemy, humiliated her at the start of freshman year, Jordan has thrown herself into journalism and kept her eyes trained on the future.So it’s a total blow when Jordan discovers that she not only didn’t get the editor in chief spot, but she’s been assigned the volleyball beat instead. And who is the star and newly crowned captain of the volleyball team? Mackenzie West. But words are Jordan’s weapon, and she has some ideas about how to exact a long-awaited revenge on her nemesis. Then things get murky when forced time together has Mack and Jordan falling back into their friendship and into something more. And when Mack confesses the real reason she turned on Jordan freshman year, it has Jordan questioning everything—past, present, and future.If Jordan lets her guard down and Mack in, will she get everything she wants, or will she be humiliated all over again?Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Par Barbara Kingsolver. 2022
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA New York Times "Ten Best Books…
of 2022" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick"May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturitySet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.Mariés pour les apparences - Tome 2 (Apparences #2)
Par Dill Ferreira. 2023
Dans Mariés pour les apparences, Amanda pensait que sa vie, entremêlée à celle d'Antonio, trouvait enfin la stabilité après avoir…
dû faire face à un ex-mari jaloux et vaniteux. Ils étaient loin de se douter des tempêtes tumultueuses qui allaient persister à mettre leur amour à l'épreuve. Intrigues, trahisons et déchirements laisseront une marque indélébile sur leur relation, dépassant leur imagination la plus folle. Pourtant, au milieu du chaos, une lueur d'espoir émerge. Amanda et Antonio doivent affronter leurs démons personnels et prendre des décisions déchirantes concernant le destin de leur relation.Il genio di famiglia
Par Warren Alexander. 2019
Stancatasi di essere la matriarca della famiglia ebraica meno affermata d'America, una nonna inizia a consultare testi mistici medievali. Determinata…
a fare del suo prossimo nipote il genio che cambierà la loro sorte, non sa che le sue preoccupazioni stanno solo per iniziare. Convinta che nessuno nella sua famiglia sia abbastanza intelligente da educare un genio per conto proprio, decide che il bambino passerà di casa in casa per acquisire il loro sapere collettivo. Commedia picaresca ambientata nella Brooklyn degli anni '50, Il genio di famiglia è un'avventura divertente, piena di eventi inaspettati e personaggi radicali e stravaganti. In fin dei conti, questa storia familiare suscita una domanda: quanto può essere grande l'errore di una nonna?Dry Water: A Novel by Robert J.C. Stead (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Robert J.C. Stead. 2008
Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his…
relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of 1929. His life parallels the growth and development of Manitoba during the same period.Stead considered Dry Water, written in 1934–1935, to be his crowning achievement. He was unable to find a publisher for it during his lifetime, although an abridged edition was published by Tecumseh Press in 1983. This new edition includes the complete typescript, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes that place this novel in its proper literary and historical context.The Fate of Bonté III (Literary Translation)
Par Alain Poissant. 2015
Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term.…
A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after all, has no need to try to be a cow. Her life is that of a cow: a predetermined cycle that is easily reflected on a balance sheet. She eats. She drinks. She ruminates. She urinates. She defecates. All this has a cost. She ovulates. She bears a calf. She gives birth. She produces milk. All this brings money. [...] Tit for tat. The only thing left to do for Bonté III was to call the butcher. The Fate of Bonté III is a story of love and loneliness with colourful characters, a reflection on life and the vital need to be useful to someone or to something.Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Malcolm Lowry. 2013
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during…
his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942–1944). - This book is published in English.Éloge de la procrastination et autres facéties (Essais et fiction)
Par Robert Major. 2022
After his death, a public figure leaves behind an astonishing manuscript – an embarrassment to his godson, the executor of…
his estate. What should be done with these disconcerting essays, which touch on disparate topics, jumping from the iconoclastic to the ironic, from the moving to the provocative, from the highbrow to the eccentric, at times preposterous and ridiculous, but all fundamentally contradictory? It is a difficult question to answer, especially as none of these essays seem to match the persona he hid behind and seem to have been written against everything he stood for. Is this really a tribute to procrastination from a workaholic? Or a tribute to the tavern from someone who never frequented them? Are these truly tributes? Or are they pranks instead, farcical tricks, intended to be ironic, a full-on hoax, allowing the author to strip away all pretence in order to communicate authentically?There was only one thing left to do: publish them. Que sera sera.Waste Heritage: A Novel (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Irene Baird. 2007
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking…
work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.Le Carnaval du quotidien (Traduction littéraire)
Par Carol Shields. 2014
Le Carnaval du quotidien, version française de Dressing up for the Carnival, est le troisième et dernier recueil de nouvelles…
de Carol Shields. Les nouvelles de Shields dévoilent le côté ludique et l’imagination féconde de cette grande dame de la littérature canadienne. Une grève de météorologistes provoque une suspension totale du climat (Acclimatement). Le gouvernement instaure une taxe sur les fenêtres qui incite la population à se replier dans la noirceur en recouvrant toutes les surfaces vitreuses des demeures (Fenêtres). Stop! aborde la réclusion d’une reine qui est allergique à tout, même à la marche du temps. Reportage porte sur la découverte d’un amphithéâtre romain au Manitoba qui transforme l’économie locale. On rencontre également Titus, un berger de l’Antiquité, qui invente la rêverie dans la nouvelle intitulée Invention. D’une nouvelle à l’autre, le lecteur est invité dans l’univers de Shields où la vie est synonyme de spectacle et le quotidien n’est ni banal ni ordinaire.Le Dodécaèdre: ou Douze cadres à géométrie variable (Traduction littéraire)
Par Paul Glennon. 2005
Un jeune garçon avale les pages de cinq livres dans lesquels croit-il, se trouve le code qui pourrait permettre à…
un capitaine et à ses acolytes de retracer son père disparu. Afin de sauver sa vie, un explorateur se voit contraint de raconter à la tribu amérindienne qui le retient prisonnier les histoires qu’il connaît, qu’il crée ou qu’il combine. Une femme ravissante se plaît à réinventer sa propre histoire lors des soirées mondaines. Perdu sur les glaces à la dérive dans l’Atlantique Nord, un autre explorateur est tourment. Par les sempiternelles questions d’un enfant. Mais ce jeune garçon n’est-il pas celui qui a englouti des livres dans la bibliothèque ? Et cette femme qui joue des rôles n’est-elle pas le personnage d’un récit concocté par la machine à histoire mentionnée dans l’article d’une revue spécifique? Dans Le Dodécaèdre ou Douze cadres à géométrie variable, Paul Glennon manie douze genres littéraires (roman policier, journalisme d’enquête, récit d’aventure…), insufflant à chacun une part d’étrangeté pour créer douze univers distincts réunis dans une structure finement ciselée. Pour la version française de ce livre où chaque histoire apporte un nouvel éclairage sur celles qui l’avoisinent, douze traducteurs se sont livrés à leur tour au jeu des cadres à géométrie variable.Mrs. Gulliver: A Novel
Par Valerie Martin. 2024
From the prize-winning and beloved author Valerie Martin (Mary Reilly, Property, Italian Fever) comes a surprisingly inventive tale of female…
subversion and agency in a patriarchal world, with two brilliantly crafted protagonists to root for.It&’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance.Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological puzzle to her employer. One hot night, Ian Drohan, a handsome youth and the scion of the wealthiest family on the island, visits Lila&’s house and falls madly in love with Carità. Lila doubts his sincerity and fears for Carità &‘s future.Carità has no such fears. In fact, Carità is a reckless force of nature, determined to succeed in ways Lila hasn&’t even contemplated. Spirits of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, as well as the devilish denizens of the magical island in The Tempest, haunt this steamy tale of passionate love, found and lost, and found again.Ours: A Novel
Par Phillip B. Williams. 2024
Chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah&’s Book Club, Elle, Reader's Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions,…
Lit Hub, and more&“Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us Descend will devour this lyrical and surreal saga.&” —Oprah DailyFrom a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedomIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.It is in this miraculous place that Saint&’s grand experiment—a truly secluded community where her people may flourish—takes root. But although Saint does her best to protect the inhabitants of Ours, over time, her conjuring and memories begin to betray her, leaving the town vulnerable to intrusions by newcomers with powers of their own. As the cracks in Saint&’s creation are exposed, some begin to wonder whether the community&’s safety might be yet another form of bondage.Set over the course of four decades and steeped in a rich tradition of American literature informed by Black surrealism, mythology, and spirituality, Ours is a stunning exploration of the possibilities and limitations of love and freedom by a writer of capacious vision and talent.The Need: A Novel
Par Helen Phillips. 2019
***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION*** Named one of Time Magazine&’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of…
All Time &“An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers&” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is &“like nothing you&’ve ever read before…in a good way&” (People).When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it&’s the sleep deprivation. She&’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It&’s what mothers do, she knows. But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement. Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion. In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. &“Brilliant&” (Entertainment Weekly), &“grotesque and lovely&” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor&’s Choice), and &“wildly captivating&” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and &“showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Moonrise Over New Jessup: A Novel
Par Jamila Minnicks. 2023
"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I&’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New…
York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil during the Civil Rights Movement. It&’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into all-Black New Jessup, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain, and fortify, the community they cherish on their &“side of the woods.&” In this place, Alice falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup&’s longstanding status quo and could lead to the young couple&’s expulsion—or worse—from the home they both hold dear. As they marry and raise children together, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheaval from inside, and outside, their side of town. Based on the history of the many Black towns and settlements established across the country, Jamila Minnicks's heartfelt and riveting debut is both a celebration of Black joy and a timely examination of the opposing viewpoints that attended desegregation in America. Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel PrizeSerpent Box: A Novel
Par Vincent Louis Carrella. 2008
In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly…
serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob—called Toad or Spud—to be a prophet, Charles, the patriarch, takes the boy down a long and arduous path as they travel the back roads of the postwar Deep South in search of God and plumb the depths of their unorthodox brand of faith. But sudden, shocking tragedy will shatter Charles's cherished dream of building a ministry and a permanent church—and set young Jacob on a dramatically different course.Batshit Seven
Par Sheung-King. 2024
From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the Hong Kong protests, as he…
struggles to make sense of modern life and the parts of himself that just won&’t gel.Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn&’t care less about his job. He&’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he&’s teaching ESL, just to placate his parents. But he shows up hungover to class, barely stays awake, and prefers to spend his time smoking up until dawn breaks. As he watches the city he loves fall—the protests, the brutal arrests—life continues around him. So he drinks more, picks more fights with his drug dealer friend, thinks loftier thoughts about the post-colonial condition and Frantz Fanon. The very little he does care about: his sister, who deals with Hong Kong&’s demise by getting engaged to a rich immigration consultant; his on-and-off-again relationship with a woman who steals things from him; and memories of someone he once met in Canada.... When the government tightens its grip, language starts to lose all meaning for Glue, and he finds himself pulled into an unsettling venture, ultimately culminating in an act of violence. Inventive and utterly irresistible, with QR codes woven throughout, Sheung-King&’s ingenious novel encapsulates the anxieties and apathies of the millennial experience. Batshit Seven is an ode to a beloved city, an indictment of the cycles of imperialism, and a reminder of the beautiful things left under the hype of commodified living.When God was a Rabbit: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE
Par Sarah Winman. 2011
The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of STILL LIFE'Thronging with incident and wonder' Guardian'Beautifully true . . . superb'…
The Times'Captivating' Observer'Beguiling . . . You can't get the voice out of your head' Daily MailThis is a book about a brother and sister.It's a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between.More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms.The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Nhb Modern Plays Ser.)
Par Andrea Levy. 2010
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for…
the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave.'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.Isaac and the Egg: the unique, funny and heartbreaking Saturday Times bestseller
Par Bobby Palmer. 2022
*THE INSTANT SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER**A PANDORA SYKES/FANE BOOK CLUB PICK**AS FEATURED ON BBC R4 OPEN BOOK*'A tender story…
of love, grief and the transformative power of friendship' GUARDIAN**Pre-order Bobby Palmer's spellbinding new novel, SMALL HOURS, now**Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about sorrow, joy, friendship and love.It is early. A young man stands on a bridge and lets out a heart-wrenching scream. From deep in the woods, something screams back.It sounds improbable. But this is how Isaac meets the egg.The two are unlikely companions. But their chance encounter will transform Isaac's life in ways he cannot yet imagine.Maybe he will finally understand why he went there that morning. Maybe he will find a way to tell the truth.Sometimes, to get out of the woods, you have to go into them.'Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read' JOANNA CANNON'Unique and tender' PANDORA SYKES'An arresting debut novel about grief, but in the most wonderfully oblique way' REVEREND RICHARD COLES'I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I'd read... a future classic' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Just magic' KATE SAWYERWHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THAT EGG BOOK:'Simply the best book I have read in years' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'Will stay with me for a long time' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'A perfect parable of hope' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'If you read only one book this year, let it be this one' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐