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In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than 70 nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity. They came from all over war-torn Europe to the mountains of Australia to help realise one man's dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century.

Voici le deuxième et dernier volet de l’histoire d’une famille unie, attachante, qui nous ressemble tant. C’est au tour de Raoul de suivre le chemin de son frère vers une résidence pour aînés. Comment les membres de la famille vivront-ils ces nouveaux bouleversements? Enfants, petits-enfants et autres proches sont évidemment touchés, chacun à leur façon... C’est Dominique, la filleule de Raoul, qui s’occupe de son bien-être et de toutes ses affaires car, comme cela se produit trop souvent, des personnes mal intentionnées rôdent autour du vieil oncle.

Au bout d’une vie bien remplie, Hector, Raoul et Doris Moreau, trois aînés originaires de Val-David, dans les Laurentides, doivent envisager le dernier chapitre de leur existence avec sérénité. Facile à dire! Entourés de leurs enfants, les deux frères et leur soeur seront confrontés à des choix difficiles.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK "Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the...

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Read by Fiona Button (This Is Not a Pity Memoir, Your Word Or Mine)...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability...

Meet Tony: the first Indian to set foot on American soil. Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s — for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction — there is also Tony. As...

""No series since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has quite captured both palace intrigue and the way that tribal infighting and war hurt the vulnerable the most."" —Paste Magazine
 The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a...

“Shawna Yang Ryan’s propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country, what the costs are of standing up for one’s beliefs...

A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Good Morning America’s “27 Books for June" PopSugar’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s intriguing new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to...

Thirteen years after the railway thundered into the Scottish Borders, life has changed forever. But for the children left behind by the men who built it, some legacies run deeper than iron and steam. Their bond carries them from childhood mischief in the windswept hills to the bustling cosmopolitan cities of Edinburgh, London, and Paris, where love, loss, and the pull of the past shape their paths. As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, Kitty and Marie must decide what endures when everything else changes.

The Batleys and the Caldwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful, wild Northumbrian coast. But there all similarity ended, and enmity began. For between the two families raged a violent and bitter feud. Into this stormy atmosphere came Linda Metcalfe, an agricultural student, who became involved in the tensions between the two households on her arrival. Employed by Ralph Batley, Linda soon found herself unwittingly a part of the feud, and began to feel a strange admiration for Ralph, who made it painfully clear that he didn't need her on the farm or in his life.

Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the...

Lahore, 1838. D'origine irlandaise et hindoue, Morgan Preston vit sous le joug de son père, un mercenaire aussi cruel qu'ivrogne. Sa seule échappatoire : ses deux amies. Chali est une chasseuse nomade, et Maura, une Irlandaise venue avec sa mère rejoindre son géniteur, le colonel Edward Fleming, redoutable chef de la police. Mais un jour, c'est le drame. Tentant de s'interposer face à son père ivre, celui-ci tombe du balcon et se tue. Morgan est immédiatement accusé du meurtre par Fleming.

Cornelius Scipio and Jace Kasia were passionate about their missions, but on a collision course. Unfortunately, one would have to lose for the other to accomplish his goal. As a staff officer, Tribune Cornelius Scipio had experienced more combat and defeat than men twice his age. Now, as a youth of twenty-years-old, this veteran thirsted for a command of his own.

Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dogs (horses) to the People, their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters. Now the People live in peace, but the young warriors long for war.

Damné, c'est Gondemar de Rossal, né en 1185, fils d'un petit seigneur. Damné car il naît le visage voilé et, superstition oblige, ce voile le condamne à la damnation. Maudit, il apportera le malheur à sa famille et à tout le village. Il mène ainsi une enfance triste et solitaire, mais trouvera refuge auprès du père Prelou, prêtre du village et Pernelle, sa seule amie. L'année de ses 14 ans, Gondemar fait la connaissance de Bertrand de Montbard, templier défroqué, engagé par son père comme maître d'armes afin de protéger le village de Rossal des bandits.

La première partie du roman, "La Fille de la comédienne", s'était terminée par le départ du marquis Arthur de Rudemont et de Clémence Beaujonnier, l'institutrice devenue sa maîtresse. "L'Héritage d'Arthur" commence donc au moment où le château n'est plus habité que par l'oncle et la tante d'Arthur, ainsi que des domestiques. Pour parvenir à ses fins (à savoir hériter la fortune du marquis), Clémence a commencé par faire enfermer dans un couvent, Denise, fille naturelle d'Arthur et héritière présumée.

Le corps du père Canard, un vieil ermite sans ressource, est retrouvé mort, poignardé, dans la forêt. Dans ses poches, trois cent mille francs en billets. Le célèbre Commissaire Rosic apprend la nouvelle alors qu'il dîne avec le magistrat de la Région et Jacques Vix, un ancien professeur de philosophie devenu riche à la suite d'un héritage et qui se targue, auprès du policier, de pouvoir dénouer n'importe quelle intrigue à la seule force de sa réflexion.

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity’s uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once...