Margo Roth Speigelman, le nom qui fait fantasmer Quentin depuis toujours. Alors, forcément, quand elle s'introduit dans sa chambre, un soir, pour l'entaîner dans une expédition vengeresse,...
À Rivière au Sel, en plein coeur de la forêt, on veille un mort, un homme qui s'est installé dans le village quelques années auparavant et dont on ne sait pas grand-chose.Est-il cubain?...
Readers of all ages have long turned to Rilke's Letters for inspiration, insight, and to learn what it means to be a writer in the words of one of the great poets of all time. Intimate,...
Nicknamed Chesty for his barrel chest, Lewis B. Puller is considered the greatest Marine Corps hero of all time. Hoffman, in this balanced and much-noticed biography, deftly interweaves the...
Marnie appears to be charming and efficient. A true professional. But inwardly she is unscrupulous, a rebel against society and the law. When she starts working for a small family firm, two of the...
Un groupe d'élite, formé dès l'enfance à faire face, part des confins d'une terre féroce, saignée de rafales, pour aller chercher l'origine du vent. Ils sont vingt-trois, un bloc,...
L'été 1949, un jeune homme à l'enthousiasme stendhalien, Jacques Sauvage, historien de son état, retourne dans l'Italie qu'il a brièvement traversée avec sa section de tirailleurs...
In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood...
"Je m'appelle Renée, j'ai cinquante-quatre ans et je suis la concierge du 7 rue de Grenelle, un immeuble bourgeois. Je suis veuve, petite, laide, grassouillette, j'ai des oignons...
ESPN's beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now."The Red Sox won the...
A brand-new Winnie-the-Pooh story, featuring the best-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood. Whatever we do, there's always two, there's Winnie-the-Pooh plus Me. And Pooh said,...
Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published...
Told in a brutally honest voice that at times simmers with impotent rage, Kim Hye-jin's Concerning My Daughter taps into the complexities of mother-daughter dynamics, but also the systemic...
À l'heure de la remontée brutale de toutes les formes de "nationalités", où les nouveaux États partent à la recherche de leur "sentiment national" et où les vieux États nations...
Flush with scandal, real historical figures, accurate period detail from the English Restoration, and an enduring love story, this novel tells the story of actress Nell Gwynne who became mistress...
From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's Taming the Star Runner explores loneliness and the need to belong, and the inevitability of change--universal struggles associated...
"Je me souviens qu'elle fut la première personne vivante, intacte, que j'aie vue apparaître, la première qui m'ait fait sentir à quel point ceux qui approchaient de moi, désormais,...
Confucious is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of...
"Jadis, enfant, lorsque l'Été résonne et sent et palpite de partout, mon corps en même temps que mon moi commence de s'y circonscrire et donc de le former: le "bonheur" de...
Babe Paley--known for her high-profile marriage to CBS founder William Paley -- was one of the reigning monarchs of New York's high society in the 1950s. Truman Capote was the literary genius...
An admired historian offers a unique account of the events at Salem, Massachusetts, helping readers to understand the witch hunt as it was understood by those who lived through the frenzy.