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S'il existe un homme que la vendeuse et photographe amateur, Diane Petit, déteste plus que tout, c'est le grand fabricant de parfums, Sébastien Darcy, qui a non seulement volé l'entreprise du père de Diane, mais également détruit sa santé. Mais l'arrogant salaud ferait mieux de se méfier parce que Diane prépare sa vengeance. Et la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid. Mon meilleur ennemi est une comédie romantique inspirée de Orgueil et préjugés.

Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (London), and the BBC An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. "The best kind...

Uma est à l'opposé de ce que Zach, père célibataire, recherche. C'est la nounou de son fils. Vingt-trois ans et encore vierge, elle vient d'une famille hindoue aux mœurs très conservatrices. Sans oublier qu'elle est presque fiancée à son coéquipier. Zach sait tout ça. Alors pourquoi ne peut-il pas contenir son désir pour elle ? S'il y a un homme qui ne devrait pas attirer Uma, c'est le père de l'adorable petit garçon de cinq ans dont elle s'occupe. Après une séparation difficile avec la mère de son fils, Zach ne cherche pas l'amour.

A Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, half-sisters Lark and Robin form a fierce team in spite of their differences. When Lark flees to America to attend college, her sister soon joins her. But even as Lark discovers a calling working in...

The truth of it is that Daniel Boone, captured by the Shawnee, now the adopted son of a chief he respects and husband to a Shawnee wife, does not want to come back to his settler life. But when he learns the Shawnee and the English plan to attack the fort he founded, where his white wife and children remain, he escapes in order to warn them. No arms open to greet him, however: Rebecca has taken all of their children save one - Jemima - back east. The other settlers view him with suspicion, and some of them want him hanged as a traitor.

Heather and Mack McKay seem to have it all: wealth, a dream house in the suburbs, and two adorable children along with the nannies to raise them. But their marriage has lost its savor: She is a frustrated writer and he longs for a cultural trophy to hang on his belt. During a chance encounter in LA, Mack invites exiled writer Zoltan Barbu - once lionized as a political hero, now becoming a has-been - to live with him and his wife in their luxurious home. The plan should provide Heather with literary companionship, Mack with cultural cachet, and Zoltan himself with a pastoral environment in which to overcome his writer’s block and produce a masterpiece.

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.

Gwenyth Killigrew, the Witch of Kerrow, has seen the tragic fate that awaits any man she's foolish enough to fall in love with. Yet she yearns for a daughter to carry on her healer's wisdom and otherworldly gifts of Sight. When Rafe Fleming, a notorious smuggler, washes ashore near her home, she thinks she's found the man to father that child.

Bailey McMillan's life is a mess. The general public blames him for his former employer's nuclear pollution, resulting in professional disgrace. Humiliated, he takes a job as an editor at a science magazine run by his best friend, John. That part isn't so bad; Bailey is fond of John, who seems to find Bailey's abrasive nature amusing. Unfortunately, working for John also leads to writing an astrology column in exchange for getting free rein in some op-ed articles, and then being sued over one.

"Si j'ai appris une chose, c'est que l'amour est chaotique. Il ne nous est pas livré dans un joli paquet cadeau. Il ressemble plutôt au cadeau d'un enfant, tout froissé et gribouillé au crayon. Imparfait. Mais toujours un cadeau. Seulement, tous les cadeaux ne sont pas faits pour durer éternellement." Fantasque et drôle, Jubilee Jenkins souffre d'un mal extrêmement rare : elle est allergique au contact humain (pour résumer aux gens). Après un épisode qui a failli lui coûter la vie, elle décide de ne plus sortir de chez elle.

Amanda lives alone in the house where her mother, now dead of cancer, once grew up. A Facebook friend request puts her back in touch with a cousin, John. After months of seeing his life flicker across her screen, she learns he has moved to a community led by a mysterious Jason Wilson. John refers to him as "one of the greatest thinkers of our time", but his friends are worried that Wilson may in fact be a cult leader.

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series! Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once...

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

Poppy and Esme (a.k.a. the Peonies) live in the same apartment building in New York City, where they share a lively, nontraditional "friend-family" and are practically inseparable. But on the last day of fifth grade, the girls' parents drop a bomb: Esme and her family are moving to California. After the shock wears off, the tweens set out to earn enough money to purchase two very special, very expensive, matching friendship necklaces. They start a dog-walking business, Peony's Prancing Pups, and the adventure begins.

Rencontrez Imène, 12 ans, fan de son chat et flemmarde professionnelle ! Pour elle, le temps des pharaons, ça n'avait rien de fameux... mais ça, c'était avant qu'elle fasse la connaissance de Cléo, alias Cléopâtre, dernière reine d'Égypte ! Vous l'imaginez comme une pharaonne girly, fan de bains au lait d'ânesse ? Détrompez-vous ! Dès que vous connaîtrez sa vie, vous serez comme Inès : passionné·es de cette star historique, douée, stylée et super puissante !

En poussant une mystérieuse porte découverte par hasard dans le sombre manoir où elle vit recluse, January Ruddy ne s’imagine pas que la vie telle qu’elle la connaît est sur le point de basculer…

Mélissa a 12 ans et ce serait une ado assez ordinaire si elle n'était pas complètement passionnée par... Léonard de Vinci ! Elle a des posters de lui dans sa chambre, ne parle que de lui et a même monté une chaîne YouTube pour partager sa passion avec le monde !

The story of pioneer Daniel Boone’s life, told in his voice—a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic and brawling—set during the American Revolutionary War Here is Daniel Boone as you’ve never seen him: debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone’s life, from his...

“A finely atmospheric debut…Christie’s novel is a worthy tribute to the technological revolution it reimagines, as well as a haunting elegy to the culture of print…One thinks of Donna Tartt’s obsessive accounts of furniture decoration in The Goldfinch or even Philip Roth’s lovingly...

“Like a beautifully-wrapped gift box, full of unexpected pleasures. Alix Strauss proves herself to be an astute and deeply feeling observer of human nature.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Black & White A stunning, wise, and witty second novel from renowned trend journalist Alix Strauss, Based...