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No Edges: Swahili Stories
Par Fatma Shafii, Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel, Mwas Mahugu, Clara Momanyi, Fadhy Mtanga, Katama G. C. Mkangi, Lilian Mbaga, Euphrase Kezilahabi. 2023
Swahili is the future. The first collection of contemporary Swahili fiction of its kind, No Edges introduces eight East African…
writers—including Clara Momanyi (tr. Enoch Matundura), Katama G. C. Mkangi (tr. Richard Prins), and Euphrase Kezilahabi (tr. Duncan Ian Tarrant)—as they share tales of insects, mass transit, begrudging wizards, carceral spaceships en route to eternity, and more. These stories present the joy-filled chaos of life on a crowded Earth (particularly cities in Tanzania and Kenya), as well as the mysteries that extend well beyond it. Here the cacophonic bliss of rush-hour matatu rides confront visions of dancers in the swirling dust. The humiliation of public indigestion sits alongside an alternate, witchy world of sorcerers and hyenas who stink “like rotting, sun-dried fish”. Evincing the joyous rebellion of a Wanuri Kahiu film and Africanfuturist visions worthy of Nnedi Okorafor, these are writers authoring the boundless future into being.
Aquarium: How jeannette power invented aquariums to observe marine life (Moments in Science #8)
Par Darcy Pattison. 2023
In 1818, Jeannette Power, a young French woman moved to Sicily and fell in love with the Mediterranean Sea and…
the Argonauta Argo octopus, the weirdest octopus on Earth. Amazing fact: The Argonauta octopus creates a delicate shell for itself which it used to travel up and down in the water and as a safe place to raise its young. At the time, though, the only way to study a marine animal was if it was dead on land. That wasn't good enough. Jeannette wanted to study this creature alive. She had many questions: did it create its own shell, how did it reproduce, what did it eat, and did it know she was watching? She knew that careful observation was the only way to answer her questions. Follow Jeannette on her quest for answers about one of the most mysterious marine animals on Earth
Mise en forme
Par Nicol Mikella. 2023
Après une rupture, la narratrice de Mise en forme voit ses repères lui échapper. Cloîtrée dans sa nouvelle chambre blanche,…
elle s'adonne à une pratique intensive du fitness, sculptant son corps pour reprendre le contrôle de sa vie. Mais les promesses des influenceuses ne l'aident pas à se sentir mieux. L'été suivant, en vacances à New York, elle accusera le choc de deux rencontres déterminantes : celles d'un inconnu hostile et d'un livre, The Red Parts de Maggie Nelson, qui lui feront mesurer ses forces et les dangers qui la guettent, elle et toutes les filles de la rue et du web
La chance d'une vie
Par John Grisham. 2023
À dix-sept ans, Samuel Sooleymon, originaire du Soudan, se voit offrir la chance de sa vie : un voyage aux…
États-Unis pour jouer dans un tournoi de basket-ball, l'opportunité d'être repéré par des recruteurs universitaires. Pendant la compétition, Samuel reçoit d'effroyables nouvelles de son pays : sa famille est en danger. Accepté à Durham au poste de remplaçant et animé par une féroce volonté de réussir, l'adolescent n'a qu'un seul but : faire venir les siens aux États-Unis. Il s'entraîne sans relâche et surpasse bientôt tous ses coéquipiers. Alors que ces derniers accumulent les défaites et les blessures, Sooley fait enfin son entrée sur le terrain. Ainsi naît la légende. Jusqu'où pourra-t-il mener son équipe ? Le succès lui permettra-t-il de sauver sa famille ? Saisissant et bouleversant, La Chance d'une vie dévoile un autre visage de John Grisham, assurément au sommet de son art
What the neighbors saw: A novel
Par Melissa Adelman. 2023
Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC…
suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses... When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their second child, and their glamorous neighbors welcome the couple with open arms. Things are looking up, and Alexis believes she can finally leave her troubled past behind. But the neighborhood's picture-perfect image is shattered when their neighbor Teddy – a handsome, successful father of three – is found dead on the steep banks of the Potomac River. The community is shaken, and as the police struggle to identify and apprehend the killer, tension in the neighborhood mounts and long-buried secrets start to emerge. In the midst of the turmoil, Alexis takes comfort in her budding friendship with Teddy's beautiful and charismatic widow, Blair. But as the women grow closer, the neighborhood only becomes more divided. And when the unthinkable truth behind Teddy's murder is finally uncovered, both Blair and Alexis must reexamine their friendship and decide how far they are willing to go to preserve the lives they have so carefully constructed. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
Zéro contrainte pour maigrir. surtout, ne faites pas de régime ! (Écoutez lire)
Par Jimmy Mohamed. 2023
Perdre du poids est facile. Très facile. Tout le monde peut perdre plusieurs kilos en quelques semaines, et ce quel…
que soit le régime suivi. La vraie difficulté réside dans le fait de ne pas les reprendre, et ça, soyons honnête, c'est quasi-mission impossible. Et plus la perte de poids est rapide, plus la reprise l'est aussi. Et si on changeait de paradigme en arrêtant enfin de faire des régimes ? Et si la solution venait de petits gestes du quotidien, accessibles à tous, sans contrainte, pour perdre du poids et vivre en meilleure santé ? Dans ce nouvel ouvrage, le Dr Jimmy Mohamed propose 39 astuces très simples à mettre en place, toutes validées scientifiquement, pour changer ses habitudes, trouver son équilibre et maigrir (presque) sans efforts ! Le Dr Jimmy Mohamed lit son propre texte avec toute sa force et sa détermination
The only one left: A novel
Par Riley Sager. 2023
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post , Boston Globe , USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living…
, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." — New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer— I want to tell you everything . “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought
National dish: Around the world in search of food, history, and the meaning of home
Par Anya Von Bremzen. 2023
In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six…
of the world’s most fascinating and iconic culinary cultures—France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey—brilliantly weaving cuisine, history, and politics into a work of scintillating connoisseurship and charm We all have an idea in our heads about what French food is—or Italian, or Japanese, or Mexican, or . . . But where did those ideas come from? Who decides what makes a national food canon? Recipient of three James Beard awards, Anya von Bremzen has written definitive cookbooks on Russian, Spanish, and Latin American cuisines, as well as her internationally acclaimed memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking . Now in National Dish , she sets out to investigate the truth behind the eternal cliché—“we are what we eat”—traveling to six storied food capitals, going high and low, from world-famous chefs to scholars to strangers in bars, in search of how cuisine became connected to place and identity. Paris is where the whole idea of food as national heritage was first invented, and so it is where Anya must begin. With an inquisitive eye and unmistakable wit, she ponders the codification of French food and the current tension between locavorism and globalization. From France, she’s off to Naples, to probe the myth and reality of pizza, pasta, and Italian-ness. Next up, Tokyo, where Anya and her partner Barry explore ramen, rice, and the distance between Japan’s future and its past. From there they move to Seville, to search for the community-based essence of Spain’s tapas traditions, and then Oaxaca, where debates over postcolonial cultural integration find expression in maize and mole. In Istanbul, a traditional Ottoman potluck becomes a lens on how a former multicultural empire defines its food heritage. Finally, they land back in their beloved home in Queens, for a dinner centered on Ukrainian borsch, a meal that has never felt more loaded, or more precious and poignant. A unique and magical cook’s tour of the world, National Dish brings us to a deep appreciation of how the country makes the food, and the food the country
Vaillante
Par Chris Bergeron. 2023
« Nous aurions pu vivre la première lune de miel interplanétaire. Nous aurions dû livrer à Mars son premier orgasme.…
C'était notre plan secret. Ça vous surprend ? » La commandante Andréa Chang vit toujours, mais sa copilote Maïa n'est plus. Comment expliquer au centre de contrôle l'amour entre deux astronautes, leur capacité à transformer toute épreuve en équation, toute mort en exploit? Dans un monologue intersidérale, l'astronaute tente l'expérience. L'absence de réponse du côté de Capcom ne l'inquiète pas outre-mesure : peut-être la collision a-t-elle causée une panne, peut-être le satellite est-il sorti de son alignement. Ou peut-être qu'il se passe quelque chose, là-bas, sur Terre... Quelque chose comme une révolution. Une nouvelle se déroulant dans l'univers dystopique du roman Valide, de la même autrice
Bowling (Les ovnis)
Par Yves Beauséjour. 2023
«Elle est l'abeille qui bourdonne les promesses de jours fleuris; la vie paraît miel à ses côtés. Et pourtant, j'appréhende…
la piqûre. Rien dans mon monde ne ressemble à l'éden. Il y a toujours un serpent qui mord, avilit et détruit.» Jeune homme reclus, Tristan Beaulieu élabore le plan qui lui permettra enfin d'éliminer définitivement les démons qui le tourmentent et de se venger de ce qu'il a subi dans sa jeunesse. Alors qu'il écoule péniblement ses heures de travail au Bowling Beaubien, Tristan rencontre Sarah-Mai, une femme idéaliste et militante engagée. Envahissante, dérangeante, elle est comme une mouche de laquelle Tristan peine à se débarrasser. Qu'a-t-elle de si irrésistible, avec son babillage incessant et sa maudite Brigade verte?
Women we buried, women we burned: A memoir
Par Rachel Louise Snyder. 2023
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives.…
This is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age sixteen. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel found herself masquerading as an adult, talking her way into college, and eventually traveling the globe. Survival became her reporter's beat. In places like India, Tibet, and Niger, she interviewed those who had been through the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched a country reckon with the horrors of its own recent history. When she returned to the States with a family of her own, it was with a new perspective on old family wounds, and a chance for healing from the most unexpected place. A piercing account of Snyder's journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a memoir that embodies the transformative power of resilience
Lucky red: A novel
Par Claudia Cravens. 2023
A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship,…
romance, and her true calling along the way “Queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story.”—Sara Nović, author of True Biz The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. It’s the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned when she arrives penniless in Dodge City with only her wits to keep her alive. Thanks to the allure of her bright red hair and country-girl beauty, she’s recruited to work at the Buffalo Queen, the only brothel in town run by women. Bridget takes to brothel life, appreciating the good food, good pay, and good friendships she forms with her fellow “sporting women.” But as winter approaches, Bridget learns just how fleeting stability can be. With the arrival of out-of-towners—some ominous and downright menacing, others more alluring but potentially dangerous in their own ways, including a legendary female gunfighter who steals Bridget’s heart—tensions in Dodge City run high. When the Buffalo Queen’s peace and stability are threatened, Bridget must decide what she owes to the people she loves and what it looks like to claim her own destiny. A thoroughly modern reimagining of the Western genre, Lucky Red is a masterfully crafted, propulsive tale of adventure, loyalty, desire, and love
Zero days
Par Ruth Ware. 2023
The New York Times bestselling "new Agatha Christie" ( Air Mail ) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that…
combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband's murderer. Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer in this unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery from an author whose "propulsive prose keeps readers on the hook and refuses to let anyone off until all has been revealed" ( Shelf Awareness )
X-men mutant empire: A marvel omnibus
Par Christopher Golden. 2023
They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and…
wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more than mutants. They are the X-Men. Magneto—the X-Men's oldest, deadliest foe—has taken over a top-secret government installation that houses the Sentinels, powerful mutant-hunting robots. The X-Men must fight to keep this deadly technology out of Magneto's hands and stop him from carrying out his grand plan: establishing a global Mutant Empire. The X-Men must join forces with old enemies to stop him—but in Magneto's brave new world, who can they trust?
The missus
Par E L James. 2023
The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mister , a passionate and thrilling love story from E…
L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies. Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes. You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has. She loves him. She knows this. She wants him. And she wants him to want her. What happens once the glass slipper fits…? Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun. But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband ― or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his newfound happiness? Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess ― or will she always be his former cleaner? From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance, and redemption
Wicked
Par Joanne Fluke. 2023
In a remote country house, a writers' group turns into a workshop for a killer, from the New York Times…
bestselling author. When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers' workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're staying in isn't ready and Eve sees the old mansion they'll be moved into, she starts having second thoughts. Not only is the mansion isolated but the deadlines are tight, the pressure intense, and the competition incredibly fierce. Her biggest rival, Angela, is writing a murder mystery based on the workshop and its participants. It's a brilliant idea. Until life begins to imitate art-and death begins to knock out the competition
A death at the party: A novel
Par Amy Stuart. 2023
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that…
goes dreadfully wrong—for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell. Nadine Walsh's summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything's going according to plan. But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this? Rewind to that morning, when Nadine is in her kitchen, making last-minute preparations before she welcomes more than a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother's birthday. But her husband is of little help to her, her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns, and her mother—only her mother knows that today isn't just a birthday party. It marks another anniversary as well. Still, Nadine will focus just on tonight. Everyone deserves a celebration after the year they've had. A chance for fun. A chance to forget. But it's hard to forget when Nadine's head is swirling with secrets, haunting memories, and concerns about what might happen when her guests unite
Tout recommencer à zéro
Par Ninon Amey. 2023
La vie d'Alicia bascule brusquement, le jour où son mari et sa fille sont victimes d'un accident de la route.À…
la suite d'une trahison qui l'a ébranlé au plus profond de son être, Jérémie s'est juré qu'il ne se laisserait plus jamais briser le cœur par qui que ce soit.Lorsque, lors d'un mariage, ces deux-là se croisent, il suffit d'un regard pour que la magie opère instantanément. Mais entre les peurs de l'un, la conscience de l'autre, et la famille qui s'en mêle... tout devient subitement plus compliqué.Pourront-ils réellement tout recommencer à zéro ?
The edge of sleep: A novel
Par Jake Emanuel. 2023
The Edge of Sleep audiobook is read by Franz Drameh, who plays Matteo Leon in the upcoming TV series of…
the same name. What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? Dave Torres, a night watchman in a placid coastal town, knows all about sleep troubles. Since childhood, he's battled terrors and nightmares. Sometimes those battles leak into his waking life, with disastrous consequences for those he loves. Now Dave lives alone and self-medicates to neutralize his dreams. It's not much of a life, he knows. The morning after Independence Day, Santa Mira, California, is so quiet Dave can hear the ocean from miles away. Traffic signals blink from red to green over empty intersections. Storefronts remain locked up tight. Every radio station whispers static. And all over town, there are bodies, lying right where their owners left them. Dead right where they slept. Dave—along with his ex-girlfriend, Katie, his best friend, Matteo, and Linda, a nurse he's just met—struggle to unravel the mystery before sleep overtakes them all. Except the answer to the mystery might lie in the one place that frightens Dave most: His twisted, unnerving dreams. Now Dave and his friends must straddle the liminal boundary between life and death as they fight to save everyone they've ever loved—and to keep their eyes open. Because if any of them falls asleep now, it will be the last thing they ever do. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
The laws of attraction (Wyoming Sunrise #2)
Par Mary Connealy. 2023
Can they risk giving in to the attraction between them while their lives are on the line? If widowed seamstress…
Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might just quit the business altogether! So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower struggling to raise three girls on his own, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls properly, and Nell finally has a chance to create beautiful outfits while also teaching the girls to sew. But Nell is much more than a seamstress, and the investigative skills and knowledge she picked up alongside her late lawman husband soon become critical when a wounded stagecoach-robbery survivor is brought to town. As danger closes in from all sides, Nell and Brand must discover who has a target trained on them before it's too late