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The interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeOther voices, other rooms
Par Truman Capote. 1994
Twelve-year-old Joel Knox goes to live with his invalid father in a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. There the sensitive boy encounters…
a perverse stepmother, a pathetic uncle, and a tomboy who becomes his fast friend. 1948Legacy of silence
Par Belva Plain. 1998
When it becomes obvious that World War II is imminent, Caroline Hartzinger and her adopted older sister, Lore, flee from…
Berlin to Geneva. Walter, who plans to wed Caroline, goes with them. Life takes a dramatic turn and Caroline and Lore escape to America alone. But their time in Switzerland provides a legacy that affects several generations. BestsellerSomething wicked this way comes
Par Ray Bradbury. 1962
Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, both thirteen, are fascinated by the carnival that comes to their small town. But after…
a series of frightening events, the boys realize there is something sinister about the show and its owner. 1962The healing of Crossroads
Par Nick O'Donohoe. 1996
Veterinarian "BJ" Vaughan is still needed in Crossroads in this sequel to Under the Healing Sign (BR 10525). Some veterinary…
students assist at the birthing of unicorns, and BJ works with a new hatching of griffins. Meanwhile, problems infiltrate Crossroads, endangering its delicate balance. For senior high and older readersAs I lay dying: the corrected text (Vintage international)
Par William Faulkner. 1990
The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, face numerous obstacles as they trek across the countryside to deliver their mother's body…
for burial in her home town. First published in 1930; this edition includes changes made by Noel Polk in 1985 based on the author's notesThree women
Par Marge Piercy. 1999
Successful attorney Suzanne Blume's contented, solitary life is disrupted when her troubled older daughter loses another job and returns home.…
Then, as Suzanne warily pursues an in-person meeting with an online friend, her political-activist mother suffers a crippling stroke and moves in. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 1999Necessary roughness
Par Marie Lee. 1996
Korean-American teenager Chan Kim and his twin sister, Young, work hard to be assimilated into their new high school after…
their father moves the family from L.A. to rural Minnesota. Chan switches from soccer to football to gain acceptance, but then tragedy strikes the family. For junior and senior high readersThe moon and the sun
Par Vonda McIntyre. 1997
At the command of King Louis XIV, a Jesuit natural philosopher captures a female sea monster, thought to hold the…
secret to immortality. The Jesuit's sister understands the creature's songs, realizes that she is a thinking, feeling being, and befriends her. Protecting the sea lady leads to confrontations with the king and even the popeLa vie comme une image: roman (Romanichels)
Par Jocelyne Saucier. 1996
Un papa fugueur dans une famille modèle. Comment s'en tirent la mère (devenue incontinente) et la fille adolescente (aux rêves…
meurtriers) après trois années d'attente et d'illusions? (cf. p. 60). Un premier roman à la fois intense et sobre, riche en non-dit, comme le signale R. Martel. L'histoire d'une absence cruellement ressentie mais occultée par le souci de n'en rien dire. [SDMLes étranges soeurs Wilcox: 1, Les vampires de Londres
Par Fabrice Colin. 2009
Londres 1888. Qui sont ces deux orphelines qui s'aventurent la nuit dans les rues mal famées ? Ignorent-elles qu'on peut…
y rencontrer Jack l'Éventreur ? Que des créatures plus terrifiantes encore, goules et vampires, s'y livrent une lutte sans merci ? Mais Amber et Luna Wilcox ne sont pas des jeunes filles comme les autres. Sous leur frêle apparence se cache un terrible secret. C'est pour cela qu'elles ont été choisies. Par qui ? Impossible d'en dire plus. Sinon que la survie de l'Empire britannique repose désormais sur les très étranges soeurs Wilcox... Et si rien n'était plus fort que les liens du sang ? -- 4e de couvLook homeward, angel: a story of the buried life
Par Thomas Wolfe. 1929
In this largely autobiographical novel, Wolfe describes Eugene Gant, who longs to escape his drab existence with his alcoholic father…
and neurotic mother in a provincial North Carolina town. Finally, through his fascination with literature and ideas, Eugene escapes to the university and later to Harvard. Some strong languageRoverandom
Par J. Tolkien. 1998
A young and foolish dog is turned into a toy after biting a sorcerer. As a plaything, Roverandom is owned…
by a little boy named Two. After many adventures, Roverandom manages to be turned back into a real dog. For junior and senior high and older readersThe hollowing
Par Robert Holdstock. 1993
Strange appearances, disappearances, and reappearances occur in Ryhope Wood, and thirteen-year-old Alex becomes one of them. Five years after Alex's…
presumed burial, his father, Richard Bradley, is approached by a mysterious stranger who wants to help Richard find his son. It seems Alex has been communicating with her from within the woodThe mother-in-law diaries: a novel
Par Carol Dawson. 1999
Her son has eloped--and made her a mother-in-law! This news causes Lulu to contemplate the unfortunate relationships she had with…
the mothers of her boyfriends and her four husbands. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexYou can't get there from here
Par Earl Hamner. 1993
Sixteen-year-old Wes tells of a day spent combing New York in search of his father. As he recalls incidents of…
family life and various friends and relatives from Virginia, the juxtaposition of easy Southern country ways with the hectic pace of New York makes a droll contrastSept comme Setteur: roman d'épouvante (Gazoline)
Par Patrick Senécal. 2007
"Le soir du 24 décembre, Rom et Nat guettent le père Noël avec impatience. Le vieil homme surgit dans la…
cheminée, comme prévu. Mais il n'est plus le même... D'ailleurs, il n'est pas le seul : le lapin de Pâques et la fée des dents sont aussi devenus bien inquiétants. Que se passe-t-il donc ? Rom et Nat résoudront ce mystère en plongeant dans une aventure pleine de surprises... et de frissons". -- 4e de couvLa malédiction des Dragensblöt: 5, Ulrik et Andrew
Par Anne Robillard. 2019
Un étranger s’est introduit dans le domaine de Sortiarie et les fantômes ne savent pas quoi faire de lui. Mais…
lorsque Samuel comprend qu’il s’agit d’un détective privé chargé de le re-trouver, il demande à ses ancêtres de le protéger lui aussi de la sorcière. Lorsqu’elle apprend que Sortiarie s’est rendue chez Emily, Esther s’empresse d’aller la rassurer. Alors qu’elle enquête pour comprendre comment la sorcière est parvenue à retrouver la petite malgré son médaillon magique, elle découvre dans sa commode une très vieille illustration qui pourrait bien mettre fin à la malédiction... Mais mieux encore, elle trouve également des informations sur la société secrète des soldats-archanges, mais.Le puits des histoires perdues
Par Jasper Fforde. 2006
"Un mari qui n'a jamais existé, une multinationale à ses trousses et... un enfant à naître : même la star…
des détectives littéraires a quelquefois besoin de répit. Réfugiée à bord d'un vieil hydravion, dans un polar que jamais personne ne lira, Thursday Next a bien l'intention, cette fois, de souffler ! C'est sans compter avec sa nouvelle carrière d'agent de la Jurifiction, la police interne des livres. Dans un étrange ballet où se croisent personnages de Dickens, extraterrestres, l'empereur Jark qui règne en tyran que la galaxie, le capitaine Nemo, une tortue, un hérisson et les trois sorcières de Macbeth, Thursday se trouve mêlée malgré elle à une macabre machination ; elle n'a pas d'autre choix que de sauver sa peau... et peut-être même le Monde des Livres tout entier !" -- 4e de couvMonkey bridge
Par Lan Cao. 1997
In 1975 teenager Mai Nguyen and her mother escape from Vietnam to live in northern Virginia's Little Saigon neighborhood. Mai,…
although tortured by nightmares, adjusts to the strange culture; her mother cannot escape her past and blames bad karma. After her mother's death, Mai discovers the family history of sin, betrayal, and murder