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the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother’s year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness—and help that arrives from unexpected sources.

Late-night radio show psychologist Rain Sommers is used to the crazies calling in to rage from the shadows, but one caller’s chilling obsession with her and her long-ago murdered mother - an iconic singer beloved by the Goth community - has even Rain running scared as a serial killer known as the Vampire prowls New Orleans. FBI agent Trevor Rivette is convinced the caller and the killer are one and the same.

Lorsque le père de sa fille la quitte après vingt-cinq ans de vie commune, Laurence décide de tourner le dos au monde et de s’installer dans un vieux chalet sur le bord de la rivière des Mille-Îles. Un projet unanimement décrié par ses proches, mais Laurence n’a que faire de leurs commentaires : à 48 ans, elle considère qu’elle est libre de commettre ses propres erreurs et ­d’embrasser une saine solitude.

Dark-hearted Sheikh Prince Jamil al-Nazarri commands his kingdom effortlessly…less so his difficult little daughter! Exasperated, he hires an English governess, hoping she’ll instil some much-needed discipline.... Lady Cassandra Armstrong is the most unconventional governess Jamil has ever seen! With her siren’s body and impulsive passion, Cassie is as innocently alluring as she is forbidden.

Arabia 1818. Lady Celia Cleveden considers herself practical, resourceful and independent; the perfect wife for a junior diplomat. But George, her husband, seems more interested in her playing the nurse than a wife, and Celia is beginning to wonder if the match has been a huge mistake. En route to the exotic kingdom of Q'adiz, they are set upon by bandits and George is killed, leaving Celia at the mercy of the kingdom’s fiercely attractive prince, Sheikh Ramiz al-Muhanna.

Lady Deborah, the dowager countess of Kinsail, has enough secrets to scandalise you for life! But no one has yet guessed that the famously icy-hearted widow is also the author of the shamelessly voluptuous romances currently shocking the ton! Only now she has another secret identity, one that she will risk her life to keep - accomplice to Elliot Marchmont, gentleman, ex-soldier and notorious London thief.

À partir de ses échanges avec Benoît Jacquot en 1993, Marguerite Duras a écrit deux textes, "Écrire" et "La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais", auxquels s'ajoute ici la nouvelle "Roma". Fanny Ardant leur redonne corps et voix. De la voix de l'autrice à la voix du texte. "Il faut toujours une séparation d'avec les autres gens autour de la personne qui écrit des livres. C’est une solitude. C'est la solitude de l’auteur, celle de l'écrit. Pour débuter la chose, on se demande ce que c’était ce silence autour de soi."

Un enfant forcé d’apprendre le piano n'arrive pas à retenir le sens de "moderato cantabile" dans la sonatine de Diabelli. Venu du rez-de-chaussée, un cri déchire la leçon. Un homme a assassiné une femme d'une balle en plein cœur. Anne Desbaresdes, la mère de l'enfant, revient obsessionnellement au café où le crime a eu lieu pour s'enivrer et interroger un homme. Elle cherche à comprendre, ou à se perdre.

Pendant l'été 1980, Marguerite Duras écrit des chroniques hebdomadaires sur "l’actualité parallèle" pour le journal Libération. Elle décide de les publier en livre. Depuis son appartement des Roches Noires, au-dessus de la plage de Trouville, elle décrit des anecdotes choisies, typiques de la vie balnéaire. Un jour, elle voit au loin un enfant marchant aux côtés d'une monitrice de colonie de vacances.

When Marley McKinney's aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees to help run his pancake house while he recovers. With its rustic interior and syrupy scent, the Flip Side Pancake House is just as she pictured it - and the surly chef is a wizard with crêpes. Marley expects to spend a leisurely week or two in Wildwood Cove, the quaint, coastal community where she used to spend her summers, but then Cousin Jimmy is found murdered, sprawled on the rocks beneath a nearby cliff.

The year is 1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener to tend the sandy patch out back. Even among the veiled women and strict laws, Gin's life has become the stuff of fairy tales. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, Gin's world closes in around her.

When PI Lena Jones’ partner, Pima Indian Jimmy Sisiwan, is arrested in the remote town of Walapai Flats in northern Arizona, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid. What she finds is a town up in arms over a new uranium mine located only ten miles from the magnificent Grand Canyon.

The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, his wife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings US senatorial candidate Juliana Thorsson to private investigator Lena Jones. The slain family's 14-year-old, Alison, and her boyfriend, Kyle, have confessed to the murders. Thorsson wants to hire Lena to discover if Alison is telling the truth, but before accepting the job, Lena demands to know why a rising political star wants to involve herself with the fate of a girl she's never met.

While scouting locations for a film documentary on Arizona's Apache wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood.

While running surveillance in an industrial section of Scottsdale, P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to Second Zion, an infamous polygamy cult based in northern Arizona. Lena joins forces with Rosella, a former polygamist "sister wife," to find the victim's killer and soon discovers a shocking secret: in a society where one man can have ten wives, nine men will have none. Second Zion makes certain these possible rivals don't stick around.

The 15 stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas. Her stories often feature young women in the process of maturity, confronting for the first time some of the realities of life.

Shunned from the Amish life she once knew, Katherine Mayfield finds solace in her volunteer work and the delights of the modern world. Unknown to Katherine, her long-lost love, Daniel Fisher, is desperate to locate his "sweetheart girl", only to be frustrated at nearly every turn. Once again, Katherine is compelled to face the heritage of her past and recognize God's love in unexpected places.