When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
"I am not my own subject," Gore Vidal used to say. But now, surprisingly, he has turned his wit and elegant storytelling gifts to a candid memoir of the first forty years of his life. Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of Vidal's library in his villa on the Italian coast. As visitors come and go, his memory ranges back and forth across a rich history. Vidal's childhood was spent in Washington, D.C., in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T. P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating mother, Nina. Then come schooldays at St. Albans and Exeter; the army; life as a literary wunderkind in New York, London, Rome, and Paris in the forties and fifties; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for Congress in 1960. Vidal's famous skills as a raconteur, his forthrightness, and his wicked wit are brilliantly at work in these recollections of a difficult family, talented friends, and interesting enemies. The cast includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman Capote, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul Bowles, Santayana, Anais Nin, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others. Beautifully rendered anecdotes are intermixed with meditations on writing, history, acting, and politics. Perhaps most surprising is the leitmotif of a great, lost love. "A memoir is how one remembers one's own life," Vidal says, "while an autobiography is history." Palimpsest is a true story, but also an extraordinary work of literary imagination.
nouvelles confessions de Georgia Nicolson
Georgia Nicolson a retrouvé le sourire. Plus question de rejoindre son père en Nouvelle-Zélande. Plus question de quitter ses copines, son chat Angus et surtout Robbie, le garçon de ses rêves. La vie est à nouveau pleine de promesses... qu'elle ne tient pas : Robbie suggère à Georgia de sortir avec un autre garçon parce qu'il la trouve trop jeune pour lui ! L'humiliation est atroce. Mais Georgia est bien décidée à reconquérir l'homme de sa vie. Pour ça, elle met sur pied un plan imparable qui exige un élastique, des glaçons et une chèvre... Georgia Nicolson est de retour, avec encore plus d'humour et d'esprit, et nous livre le deuxième volume de ses confessions !
PURE BELPRÉ AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free while living in the Dominican Republic under the rule of a dictator. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. “A stirring work of art.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “A realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” —The Horn Book, Starred Review “Diary entries written by the child while in hiding will remind readers of Anne Frank’s story. . . . Readers will bite their nails as the story moves to its inexorable conclusion.” —SLJ
Nach dem Untergang von Aramanth und dem Reich des Meisters ziehen die Geschwister Kestrel und Bowman mit ihrer Familie und den übrigen Manth durch unwegsames Land. Sie sind auf der Suche nach ihrer unbekannten Heimat. Dort werden sie Schutz finden in dieser Zeit der Grausamkeit, dort wird alles gut werden – das prophezeihen die Träume von Ira Hath. Doch der Weg dorthin ist hart und voller Gefahren, zudem weiß keiner, ob sie ihr Ziel erreichen werden, bevor der letzte, alles entscheidende Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse beginnt: Das geheimnisvolle Volk der Sänger wird sich dem zerstörerischen Morah entgegenstellen – und die Geschwister haben eine wichtige Aufgabe in diesem Kampf.
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.
Roy Eberhardt vient d'arriver en Floride, et il ne s'y plaît pas. C'est tout plat et les brutes du collège y sont aussi stupides qu'ailleurs. Dana Matherson en est un bon exemple. Mais si, dans le bus de l'école, Dana n'avait pas écrasé la tête de Roy contre la vitre, celui-ci n'aurait jamais aperçu cet étrange garçon qui courait pieds nus. Il n'aurait pas pris part à cette affaire bizarre et croisé d'autres habitants inattendus de Floride, alligators, serpents à sonnettes (et à paillettes !), mignonnes petites chouettes menacées, sans oublier quelques individus plutôt exotiques ! La vie en Floride devient enfin excitante...Brillant, drôle, excentrique, le premier roman pour la jeunesse de Carl Hiaasen illustre aussi son combat pour préserver la vie sauvage et la beauté de son pays.
Hank Palace is working the case of Peter Zell, an insurance man who has comitted suicide. To his fellow police officers, it's just one more death-by- hanging in a city that sees a dozen of suicides every week. But Palace senses something wrong. There's something odd about the crime scene. Something off. Palace becomes convinced that it's murder.
È Natale. La gelida immagine che il televisore rimanda è il viso di una bambina che guarda fuori dalla finestra di una scuola di Berlino. È un ostaggio e verrà uccisa se le richieste dei terroristi che hanno occupato l'edificio non saranno accolte. In una piccola cittadina nel Suffolk, tre fratellini stanno per celebrare il Natale con la nonna paterna, ma quella scena ricorda loro un'altra immagine: quella della mamma uccisa pochi mesi prima in un attentato terroristico. Man mano che la festa si avvicina e la nostalgia per quella assenza si fa sempre più forte, riaffiora il mondo incredibilmente ricco di ricordi della nonna, nel quale essa è costretta a immergersi ancora una volta per confrontarsi con gli orrori dell’Olocausto a cui è sopravvissuta e trarne un messaggio di speranza per sé e per i propri nipotini. Attraverso la rilettura di miti e fiabe, l'autore offre un complesso mosaico nel quale gli eventi dell'oggi, dominati da una crudeltà senza senso, si riallacciano a un passato di violenza e dolore, dando vita a un'intensa metafora sulla sofferenza. Lo stile misurato ed elegante, l'alternarsi di passato e presente e l'atmosfera piena di nostalgia di un Natale trascorso senza la propria madre, generano un'opera coinvolgente di grande originalità e priva di sentimentalismi.
Yeoville, quartiere di Johannesburg, Sudafrica: una zona turbolenta dove famiglie di diverso colore cercano di stabilire nuove regole di vita dopo la fine dell'apartheid. La speranza di assistere all'inizio di una nuova era si scontra con le difficoltà economiche, i residui della mentalità razzista e il dilagare di violenze, droga, rapine. Protagoniste quattro amiche, che trovano l'energia per ribellarsi alla situazione. E con loro l'intero quartiere sembra vivere un momento di rinascita che culmina in una grande festa di strada in cui tutti collaborano a dipingere un enorme murale. Un romanzo vero, duro, traboccante di un'irresistibile energia vitale, un romanzo corale sul Sudafrica di Mandela
