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When her husband, Kristoffer, dies from a burst appendix in Iowa in 1905, middle-aged Karoline Olsen, mother of six, must make the 145-mile trip from Cedar Falls to Soldier by horse-drawn wagon to bring his body home. With the corpse on fast-melting ice, Karoline struggles to make good time across the rolling prairie during an exceptionally hot summer, recalling the story of their rocky marriage that brought them from Norway to the New World. The...
6542) Saïd Jy l'autodidacte
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La lecture permet à Saïd de voyager, de rêver à un avenir d'artiste!
Dans l'ennui tranquille de son village, sur les hauteurs d'Alger, le jeune Saïd Jy s'évade de son quotidien par une lecture effrénée, comme une revanche sur sa scolarité interrompue par la guerre.
Romans, BD et surtout romans-photos l'entrainent dans un monde d'aventures toujours plus exaltant ; lui inspirant le goût des voyages et la quête du grand amour... les livres...
6543) Les Poches de mon oncle
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Extrait : "Aimez-vous les mathématiques ?... Je parie que non ! Enfin, je puis me tromper. Ce goût utile m'est venu si tard que, jugeant de vous par moi, je me figure que vous bâillez comme je bâillais sur les éléments ennuyeux de cette science si intéressante. C'est pourquoi je n'ai jamais compris Pascal, lui qui les inventait, ces terribles mathématiques, parce qu'on ne voulait pas les lui enseigner."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN :...
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Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait a gift from her husband only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire's suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a gallery: a mysterious image of a woman's suicide. Convinced...
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La vie de Leila bascule totalement après le décès de sa sœur...
Leila Morgan est une journaliste influente et rédactrice en chef de Royal Info, un grand groupe d'information people de France. Après la mort tragique de sa sœur cadette Saphir avec qui elle était en froid depuis des années, elle se retrouve chargée d'une fille nouveau-née mourante. Pour sauver la vie de sa nièce et homonyme Leiva, Leila doit absolument trouver son père...
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A New York Times Notable Book: A novel spanning two decades in the lives of an African American family as their upstate New York steel town slowly decays. Set just outside Buffalo, New York, during the 1960s and '70s, All-Bright Court paints a portrait of the Taylor family-starting with hopeful dreams as Samuel Taylor and his wife, Mary Kate, migrate from the South looking for better opportunities and a place to raise a family, and continuing through...
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Matt Calderon is a caring husband and father of two children. His wife Maria suffers from a condition that limits her ability to perform manual work, forcing Matt to work two jobs to support his family. Despite their difficulties, the family is optimistic. But every now and then life throws a curveball. Matt's boss accused him of stealing money from him. To make matters worse, Matt is in a gas station when a robbery occurs. He is trapped inside, surrounded...
6548) A Daddy for Her Daughter
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A family to heal them… After losing his little girl five years ago, Dr. Kaleb McBride has kept himself to himself. He can't face losing anyone ever again. Then beautiful Madeleine Grimes enters his world… Maddy's priority is her young daughter. So she's just as determined to ignore her burning attraction to Kaleb! But when stolen kisses turn into something more, Maddy wonders if she and Chloe can heal Kaleb's heart-and make the perfect family!...
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Wealthy landowner Simon Clare shuns Northumbrian society. With his son gravely ill, the last thing Simon needs is an interfering woman assuming command of his household-;no matter how sensuous her figure, or how tempting her luscious lips...;.
Phoebe Benedict knows what it is to struggle and isn't frightened of the badly scarred recluse and his gruff exterior. It's the man beneath the scars that makes her heart race...;.
6550) 2207 South Green Road
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While in today's world they would just seem a bit eccentric, in 1961 suburban Cleveland, the Katofskys of 2207 South Green Road might as well be from another planet. Ten-year-old Edna hides in her bedroom closet, avoiding her disdainful father and distracted mother, stuffing herself with cookies and playing with paper dolls. She spends the rest of her time snooping on her downstairs neighbors, who just happen to be her grandparents, Becky and Morris....
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Heartache. Betrayal. Family.Suzanne and Paul arrive to settle a loved one's estate. The final, bittersweet step of saying goodbye.But an unpleasant surprise from an all-too-expected source awaits, leaving them both reeling.And angry.Will Suzanne take her chance to settle the score, no matter the cost to herself? An excerpt from The Last Twist in the Game:The Worst Possible Time for a Bad Surprise Suzanne nodded along with Paul, then stood and managed...
6552) While He Was Away
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One year-he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war-to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We'll talk, we'll email, we won't let anything come between us. I can be on army girlfriend for one year. But will my...
6553) Unexpected Family
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From an orphan who discovers she's not all alone in this world after all, to a young woman whose sudden compulsion reveals relatives she never dreamed she had…From a grieving father unable to let go of the memory of his son, to a woman with unreliable memories of her life…What do they all have in common? Family. Unconventional family. Unexpected family.A master of fiction that packs an emotional punch, multi-genre writer Annie Reed writes stories...
6554) Tonitruances: Roman
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Tonitruances est l'histoire d'une femme issue d'une famille empoisonnée par les non-dits et la contrariété.
Elle grandit dans un climat tendu, avec un don certain pour l'autodestruction. Toute cette fureur encaissée dans son enfance ressort avec la même véhémence une génération plus tard, comme un ouragan.
Passant de l'anorexie à la toxicomanie, tout en poursuivant une quête éperdue de sexe et de tendresse, elle découvre que ces dysfonctionnements...
6555) Which Way to Nonna's House?: Second Movement of the New York Novella Quartet of the Four Seasons
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On a visit to his beloved Nonna's apartment in the Bronx Little Italy, Giuseppe sneaks out to explore the ongoing festival and all its sights and sounds. Giuseppe's father has an important job interview during the day which shall set the course of the future for the family, who is navigating the threshold of bankruptcy. It is Giuseppe's intention to return quickly, before Nonna awakens from her nap; but the boy quickly realizes he does not know the...
6556) Best Friends
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A moving story about childhood friendships falling under the strain of adulthood quickly becomes so much more in this tale that is as absurd as it is true to life from the author of Little Big Man.
Roy Courtright and Sam Grendy have been best friends for as long as either of them care to remember. As far as they're concerned, they're brothers, but sans the mess of a sibling rivalry. That they're complete opposites has never mattered. Until now....
6557) Under Budapest
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Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian families and those whose lives they've touched. There's Agnes and Tibor, mother and son, travelling to Hungary for reasons they keep to themselves, he to recover from a disastrous love affair, she to search for a sister gone missing during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
6558) Hermanas
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Julio y Septiembre son dos hermanas adolescentes que viven en su propio mundo. Septiembre es dominante y temeraria, en ocasiones, cruel, mientras que Julio es mansa y temerosa, introvertida, ingenua y complaciente. Son uña y carne: el estrecho vínculo que las une, su devoción, las extrañas pruebas a las que se someten para demostrar su lealtad y la forma en que se completan mutuamente impiden saber dónde empieza una y termina la otra.
La fragilidad...
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Will they be able to put their past aside to find a future together? Find out in this electrifying debut by Justine Lewis for Harlequin Romance.
Can they forgive the past…
…to claim a future?
Bestselling author Lily doesn't expect to have to share her remote cabin getaway with anyone-let alone her ex-husband, billionaire Jack! She hasn't seen him since their fledgling marriage imploded a decade ago, but her response to him is as visceral as...
6560) Marriage Made in Hope
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"Sometimes I could scream with boredom."
Measured and self-effacing, Lady Sephora Connaught knows there is another, more reckless side to her. When she's rescued from the fast-flowing Thames by the wild and dangerous Francis St. Cartmail, Earl of Douglas, suddenly her confined world bursts into vibrant life.
Francis has never fit into high society's narrow world, so why does he feel so connected to-;and undeniably aroused by-;this "angel of...
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