Gerda Baardman Livres

« Je suis entré dans le jardin et j’ai fait un signe de tête à mon frère. J’ai pensé : une enfance difficile est comme un ennemi invisible. On ne sait jamais quand il se retournera contre vous. » Liz, Marty et Jules sont inséparables. Jusqu’au jour où ils perdent leurs parents dans un tragique accident de voiture dans le sud de la France. Placés dans le même pensionnat, ils deviennent vite des étrangers les uns pour les autres, s’enfermant chacun dans une forme de solitude. Jules est le plus solitaire des trois lorsqu’il rencontre Alva, qui devient sa seule amie. Son obsession. Vingt ans plus tard, Jules se réveille d’un coma de quelques jours. À la lisière de l’inconscient, il se souvient. Benedict Wells a su, sans cruauté ni sensiblerie, décrire la faiblesse humaine, l’échec ou le vieillissement. Nicolas Weill, Le Monde. Ce roman n’a qu’une ambition : raconter des destins tourmentés par le deuil et l’espérance de la communion amoureuse. Gilles Heuré, Télérama. Prix de littérature de l’Union européenne. Prix littéraire des lycéens de l’Euregio. Traduit de l’allemand par Juliette Aubert.

The narrative delves into the pivotal role of Paul in shaping Christianity, emphasizing that without him, Jesus remains a devoted Jew focused on strict observance of Judaism. A. N. Wilson explores Paul's journey through the Roman Empire, highlighting his efforts to convert others and craft influential epistles that define Christian understanding. The biography examines Paul's motivations and the complexities of his character, questioning what he would think of the religion that emerged from his teachings. This insightful exploration reveals Paul as Christianity's true architect.

Het leven van een excentrieke, neurotische postbode in een klein Amerikaans stadje.

Sam et Sadie sont amis depuis l'enfance. Ils sont souvent amoureux l'un de l'autre, mais leur relation n'a jamais dépassé le stade de l'amitié. Ils forment un partenariat créatif dans le domaine fascinant mais complexe du design de jeux vidéo, et leur succès leur apporte gloire, joie, tragédie, hypocrisie et surtout une forme d'immortalité. Sam Masur, étudiant à Harvard, croise un jour Sadie Green dans une station de métro. Après un moment d'hésitation, elle se retourne et commence un jeu qui propulse leur collaboration légendaire vers les sommets du monde du jeu vidéo. En empruntant de l'argent, ils créent leur premier succès, le jeu Ichigo, avant même d'avoir terminé leurs études. En un rien de temps, ils deviennent brillants, prospères et riches, mais cela ne les protège pas de leurs propres ambitions créatives ni des trahisons. Ce récit s'étend sur trente ans, de Cambridge dans le Massachusetts à Venice Beach en Californie, explorant la nature complexe de l'identité, des échecs, des possibilités de rédemption dans les jeux, et notre besoin fondamental d'appartenir : aimer et être aimé.

From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. -back cover

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

"1859 : Grace Marks, condamnée à perpétuité, s'étiole dans un pénitencier canadien. A l'âge de seize ans, Grace a été accusée de deux horribles meurtres. Personne n'a jamais su si elle était coupable, innocente ou folle. Lors de son procès, après avoir donné trois versions des faits, Grace s'est murée dans le silence : amnésie ou dissimulation ? Le docteur Simon Jordan veut découvrir la vérité. Gagnant sa confiance, Jordan découvre peu à peu la personnalité de Grace, qui ne semble ni démente ni criminelle. Mais pourquoi lui cache-t-elle les troublants rêves qui hantent ses nuits ? Inspiré d'un sanglant fait divers qui a bouleversé le Canada du XIXe siècle, Margaret Atwood nous offre un roman baroque où le mensonge etla vérité se jouent sans fin du lecteur."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Een ambitieuze oudere zakenman in het Amerikaanse Atlanta wordt geconfronteerd met corruptie, racisme en andere problemen die het hem niet makkelijk maken aan de top.

Dallas, novembre 63. Le coeur du rêve américain explose. Un jeune flic arrive de Las Vegas avec 6000 dollars en liquide et un sale boulot à exécuter. Il ne sait pas qu'il va faire partie du complot visant à étouffer la vérité sur l'assassinat de Kennedy. Il s'appelle Wayne Tedrow. Cinq années dans les coulisses de la politique vont le conduire de Dallas au Vietnam, en passant par le sud des Etats-Unis. Cinq années avec J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, la Mafia et le Ku Klux Klan. Voici le second volet de la trilogie Underworld USA, commencée avec American Tabloid (Rivages/Noir nº 282). Le cauchemar américain nourri des coïncidences de l'histoire des années 60 passées au crible par Ellroy.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Ludo's mother, Sibylla, is obsessed with Kurosawa's famous film, "The Seven Samurai" and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother's shaky past.

Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. This biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). It examines his relationships with his artists.

Oskar, 9 ans, est surdoué, ultrasensible, fou d’astrophysique, fan des Beatles et collectionneur de cactées miniatures. Son père est mort dans les attentats du World Trade Center en lui laissant une clé. Persuadé qu’elle expliquera cette disparition injuste, le jeune garçon recherche la serrure qui lui correspond. Sa quête désespérée l’entraîne aux quatre coins de la ville où règne le climat délétère de l’après 11 septembre.

'This book ranks alongside PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA as one of the very few great contemporary novels about childhood' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Everything was going to be different this year' - Tess is nine years old and wants her new family to work out, even though her brother Jake is not so sure. THE WILD is a brilliant, clear-eyed evocation of the collision of families and step families, adult and childhood worlds.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered pygmy. By turns hilarious and moving, David Sedaris masterfully looks at life's absurdities as he takes us on adventures that are not to be forgotten.

Le directeur du zoo de Pondichéry avait bien prévenu son fils Pi : il ne faut jamais se rapprocher des fauves ! Mais il n'avait pas prévu que le cargo conduisant la famille et la ménagerie au Canada sombrerait, laissant Pi seul sur un canot de sauvetage. Enfin, presque seul : un tigre de Bengale est caché dans la chaloupe ! Durant 227 jours, le jeune garçon va tenter d'oublier sa faim, sa peur et les requins pour l'apprivoiser…

"Immersive, satisfying, tense---and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child "First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review On an early morning in November, a private plane bound for Geneva drops off the radar, its wreckage uncovered days later in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, begins a desperate search for answers and quickly determines that Matthew's death was no accident. She soons finds herself in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, on the run from his powerful enemies, who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. With her engagement to Grant Ellis, she is set to become one of the elite she has spent a career covering, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story: Swiss United. In doing so, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story also could be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--and save her life--if Marina chooses to publish it...

La famille Lambert est une famille comme les autres, c'est-à-dire unique. Contradictoire, en guerre perpétuelle, dévorée par sa propre histoire, par ses conflits passés et à venir, ses silences. Derrière les visages, les cerveaux abritent des choses que, désespérément, on tente de cacher : Alfred, le père, derrière un caractère de fer dissimule l'impossibilité d'exprimer ses sentiments, tout comme ses désirs les plus profonds. Enid, sa femme, derrière sa soif inextinguible de moralité, tente d'affirmer sa personnalitém - et sa libération. Gary, le banquier, le fils modèle est dévoré par la certitude paranoïaque du mensonge et de la trahison, du besoin de richesse. Chip, l'intellectuel, à la poursuite d'une gloire littéraire et de ses contradictions politiques, et Denise, en quête d'un amour véritable et de cette liberté qui la révélera à elle-même, complètent le tableau. Au travers d'une histoire aux multiples rebondissements, haletante, tout ce petit monde va s'aimer, se déchirer et tenter d'approcher de la vérité : quel visage pour l'Amérique ? Et quelle place pour les vivants en quête de bonheur, parmi les multiples névroses que ce monde s'efforce d'engendrer ?

Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens, on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since the '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins, he initiates the most extreme action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in front of the Supreme Court.

Kurt Andersen's Millennium novel mirrors Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," depicting a year in the life of a New York family while offering a satirical glimpse into America's potential future, focusing on media and big business.

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or be punished. As a small spark of defiance begins to spread among communities, the landlords vow to break them; party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up. But it only strengthens the villagers' resistance. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example for the others. An exciting new release from this Chennai-based poet, writer and activist.

'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020** Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile- love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in an attempt to better understand his ancestor's devotion to the country and its people and the dramatic, often bloody, differences that echo across the years.

Hannah, Cate et Lissa sont jeunes, impétueuses, inséparables. Dans le Londres des années 1990 en pleine mutation, elles vivent ensemble et partagent leurs points de vue sur l’art, l’activisme, l’amour et leur avenir, qu’elles envisagent avec gourmandise. Le vent de rébellion qui souffle sur le monde les inspire. Leur vie est électrique et pleine de promesses, leur amitié franche et généreuse. Les années passent, et à trente-cinq ans, entre des carrières plus ou moins épanouissantes et des mariages chancelants, toutes trois sont insatisfaites et chacune convoite ce que les deux autres semblent posséder. Qu’est-il arrivé aux femmes qu’elles étaient supposées devenir ? Dans ce roman tout en nuances sur les différentes facettes de l’amitié au fil du temps, Anna Hope tisse avec élégance et délicatesse la vie de ces trois héroïnes contemporaines. Elle sonde les différentes façons de trouver son identité de femme, mais aussi de mère, de fille, d’épouse ou d’éternelle rebelle, et explore cet interstice entre les espérances et la réalité, cet espace si singulier fait de rêves, de désirs et de douleurs où se joue toute vie.

Dans ce roman captivant, Connell et Marianne, deux adolescents d'une petite ville, se croisent dans un monde où les apparences sont trompeuses. À l'école, Connell, populaire et bien intégré, feint de ne pas connaître Marianne, qui est solitaire et réservée. Leur lien étrange se forme lorsque Connell vient chercher sa mère chez Marianne, une connexion qu'ils s'efforcent de garder secrète. Un an plus tard, à l'université de Trinity, Marianne s'épanouit socialement tandis que Connell reste timide et incertain. Au fil de leurs années universitaires, ils se retrouvent inévitablement, malgré leurs autres relations. Alors que Marianne s'engage sur la voie de l'autodestruction et que Connell cherche un sens à sa vie, ils doivent faire face à la question de jusqu'où ils sont prêts à aller pour se sauver mutuellement. Rooney explore avec une acuité psychologique les thèmes de la classe sociale, du premier amour et des complexités des relations familiales et amicales.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian

Includes supplement: "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

The #1 national bestseller is now available in this movie tie-in edition just in time for the December release of Miramax Films' highly anticipated sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary," starring Rene Zellweger and Colin Firth.

When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.

Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.

Sur deux îles voisines le long des côtes du Maine, des pêcheurs de homards se livrent depuis des générations une lutte sans merci pour s'approprier les ressources de l'océan. Ruth Thomas, âgée de dix-huit ans, revient parmi les siens après des années passées en pension sur le continent, résolue à intégrer pleinement cette communauté de durs à cuire. Plus la lutte qui oppose Fort Niles à Port Courne s'envenime, plus la détermination de Ruth s'affermit : sa place est parmi ces drôles d'insulaires, la truculente Mme Pommeroy et sa ribambelle de garçons, Simon le Sénateur et son rêve de musée, Angus le teigneux, Webster et sa chasse au trésor... Mais l'intrépide Ruth succombera bien vite au charme d'Owney Wishnell, un jeune et beau pêcheur issu de du clan adverse... Ce premier roman d'Elizabeth Gilbert brosse le portrait d'une inoubliable héroïne promise à un destin hors du commun.

Roadnovel over een 18-jarige jongen die samen met een vriend en een vriendin in een auto Amerika doorkruist, op zoek naar zijn onbekende vader.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour.

Homme d'affaires bientôt quinquagénaire et déjà coupé du monde, Richard Novak ne sort plus guère de sa luxueuse maison qui domine Los Angeles, se consacrant au double entretien compulsif de sa fortune sur Internet et de sa forme physique. Deux incidents viennent un jour le réveiller et bouleverser son existence. Le premier prend la forme d'une intense douleur physique défiant toute tentative de diagnostic. Le second est le spectacle inquiétant offert par l'étrange dépression de terrain qui s'approfondit à quelques mètres de sa forteresse californienne... Notre homme s'aperçoit alors avec stupéfaction qu'une ex-mère au foyer déprimée et une star d'Hollywood peuvent avoir mille choses à se dire, qu'un partenariat commercial peut naître entre le financier qu'il est, un vendeur de donuts immigré et un ancien beatnik icône de la contre-culture, que les amitiés ne connaissent de frontières ni ethniques ni sociales, enfin qu'aucun père ne peut décider d'oublier son fils - et inversement. Se risquer à vivre, réapprendre le goût des autres... Et si le salut résidait dans l'aventure très concrètement humaine ?

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. `Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.

The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life[Bokinfo].

It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and Geroge Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.

Lorsque Mae Holland est embauchée par le Cercle, elle est émerveillée par ce fournisseur d'accès Internet californien qui relie mails, réseaux sociaux, achats et transactions bancaires dans un système universel prônant la transparence. En explorant les vastes open-spaces, les cafétérias en verre et les dortoirs confortables, Mae est séduite par la modernité et l'effervescence du campus. Les soirées festives, les concerts de musiciens célèbres et les nombreuses activités proposées la comblent. Travailler pour cette entreprise influente semble être un rêve, mais cette immersion totale l'éloigne de ses proches. En participant à un projet technologique audacieux du Cercle, Mae se retrouve exposée au regard du monde. Ce qui débute comme le portrait d'une femme ambitieuse et idéaliste se transforme rapidement en un récit haletant, explorant les liens complexes entre mémoire et histoire, vie privée et dépendance aux réseaux sociaux, tout en questionnant les limites de la connaissance humaine.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous--and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: -- What President Trump's staff really thinks of him -- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama -- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired -- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room -- Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing -- What the secret to communicating with Trump is -- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

Rien ne va de soi pour Sophie Applebaum, la nouvelle héroïne terriblement attendrissante de Melissa Bank. Enfant espiègle, elle s'applique à faire plaisir ; jeune diplômée fascinée par New York, elle peine à trouver un emploi ; amie fidèle, elle découvre que la loyauté n'est pas forcément la chose la mieux partagée au monde ; amoureuse impétueuse, elle rompt aussi souvent ou presque qu'elle s'éprend. D'un médecin, père de famille et divorcé ; d'un serveur, poète à ses heures et en rupture de ban ou encore d'un musicien à peine sorti de l'enfance. Sophie est ainsi : toujours, elle relève le gant. Avec d'autant plus d'ardeur que sa famille, véritable tribu où l'on rit, s'aime, se chamaille et pleure, n'est jamais loin. Drôle, émouvant, agité, Prochain arrêt, le paradis raconte avec entrain les tribulations d'une fille bien décidée à conquérir le monde ou pour le moins à y trouver sa place.

A lush, thrilling debut about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge... This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come to New York to escape the provincial, to take on her destiny. After she stumbles into a coveted job at a renowned Union Square restaurant, we spend the year with her as she learns the chaotic, punishing, privileged life of a backwaiter, on and off duty. Her appetites are awakened, for food, wine, knowledge and experience; and she's pulled into the thrall of two other servers--a handsome bartender she falls hard for, and an older woman whose connection to both young lovers is murky, sensual, and overpowering. These two will prove to be Tess's hardest lesson of all. Sweetbitter is a story about discovery, enchantment, and the power of what remains after disillusionment. *AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A USA TODAY BESTSELLER | AN INDIE BESTSELLER*

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. "Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent to them by the adult world.