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The bride is marrying the love of her life, but is he really the person she thinks he is? The chief bridesmaid is keeping a secret that could destroy her best friend. The mother of the bride is surprised by the appearance of her first love… When a family gather together for a wedding on the Amalfi coast, it sets the scene for scandal, secrets and sizzle under an Italian sun.

Ce roman raconte l’histoire d’un couple au moment de son éclatement. Journaliste ambitieuse, prête à tout, mais étouffée par les carcans qu’on lui impose et qu’elle s’impose à elle-même, Catherine se donne le droit de vivre l’infidélité, l’ouverture du couple et un amour maternel pas si inconditionnel. Elle traverse sa séparation d’avec le père de ses enfants en méditant sur la liberté qu’on choisit de s’accorder, ou non.

Maybe my main character will slowly lose their mind too. Novels usually need an abandoned woman going crazy in them. It's gonna be, like, a sad girl novel. An Australian expat in Berlin, Kim is jobless, rootless, and - as she's slowly discovering - somewhat useless. That is until a chance encounter with Matthew, a hotshot New York literary agent, gives Kim the direction she's been craving.

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? The air was electric between us, the way we transmitted...

Episode 1 – New Tomorrow is the first of a 12-volume comic book collection by KYB. The story centers around four alien musicians from Planet Xenon who end up on Earth as babies when their planet is destroyed by the Evil Dr. Eval Petrovskin.

"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897. - The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars. - The story was written the same year in which Wells was serializing "The War of the Worlds" in Pearson's Magazine, a year before it was published as a novel.

L'effrayant récit de la nuit passée par une jeune femme dans les rues du Mont Saint-Michel, rendu au silence des moines et aux fantômes du passé.

Pèlerine multirécidiviste, peu douée pour la marche et accrochée à ses cigarettes, Alix de Saint-André a pris trois fois la route de Compostelle. D'abord, depuis Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, sur le ""chemin français"", où s'envolèrent ses idées de méditation solitaire dans des refuges surpeuplés ; puis, de La Corogne jusqu'à Finisterre, sur le ""chemin anglais"" ; et enfin depuis les bords de Loire, pour accomplir ce que les Espagnols appellent ""le vrai chemin"", celui qu'on doit faire en partant de chez soi.

Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the cat', known as Agent Victoire. She is a charismatic spy; her story is one of resistance and survival. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half run by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain - isolated and under threat of invasion.

Jenna is a wife, a mother, a doctor. She’s also the victim of a stalker. Every time she leaves her house, she sees him. Disturbing gifts are left at her door. Cruel emails are sent to her colleagues. She has no idea who this man is, but she feels powerless against him. Until the day he is brought into her hospital after a serious accident, and Jenna is given the chance to find out once and for all why this man is tormenting her. Now, the power is all hers.

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories gets beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate...

Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack while out running. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsive in a coma. He dies a few hours later. Into a Star follows Puk and her young family in the first year after this tragedy, which has shattered the ordinary life she imagined for them. As the days turn to weeks and months, Puk's second son is born, her sister moves in, her relationship with her in-laws fractures and evolves.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Butterfly on the Storm by Walter Lucius, read by Alix Dunmore. ** The first instalment in the best-selling original Dutch thriller** Haunted by a past you can never escape . . . A young boy is found in woods outside Amsterdam...

Lisa décide de partir faire ses études en criminologie à Montréal. À contre-cœur, elle s'installe chez son père biologique pour apprendre à mieux le connaître. Seul hic ? Il héberge Chris, le fils de son ex-femme, le capitaine de l'équipe de hockey de l'université. Rapidement, un jeu dangereux s'installe entre les deux.

From the acclaimed author of In Defence of Witches, a powerful exploration of self-blame, why women are prone to it, and what we can do about it. Many of us battle a relentless inner critic that whispers to us we are unworthy or inadequate. In How to Resist Guilt, a powerful manifesto about...

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the muses that have shaped her life, to the streets of Paris. In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites us into the interiors of her world...

When Hanna moves to Spain for an internship at the prestigious Prado gallery, she finds herself spending her days buried in the museum's stifling archives, and her nights alone in a tiny rented flat. Then one day she sees them; Tom, Samuel, and Leah. Glamorous and elegant, they are also foreigners in the city. But unlike her they are fabulously wealthy, their lives an endless whirl of creativity and hedonism. And when Hanna discovers an uncatalogued etching by Goya in the archive, she makes a decision which changes everything...

Dans la bande turbulente de moineaux toujours prêts à faire des bêtises, Pierrot est le plus effronté, le plus farceur aussi. Pour amuser ses copains, il enfile un petit manteau vert et un bonnet rouge qui pendent sur un fil, près de la maison de Benjamin. Pour réussir à voler du grain au poulailler, Pierrot arrache au coq sa plus belle plume et s'envole. Mais les poussins ont cru voir le lutin... Pierrot, pris de remords, vole au secours de Benjamin.

Mireille a décidé d’arrêter de travailler et elle s’obstine à tricoter. Ravie de sa nouvelle occupation, l’abeille offre châles, cache-nez, bonnets et gilets à tous ses amis. Ces derniers, polis, n’osent pas lui avouer se sentir tout serrés et ridicules ! Comment convaincre Mireille de retourner butiner comme avant ?

Au milieu du potager vit une insatiable gourmande : Grace a une passion dévorante pour les choux. Un jour, un chou qui présente un embonpoint peu ordinaire se met à trembler et à crier. Alertée par cet inquiétant remue-ménage, la limace trouve, plantées au milieu du chou, deux petites jambes potelées.