Category: Contemporary

Dans los angeles Barcelone de l'après-guerre civile, " ville des prodiges " marquée par los angeles défaite, l. a. vie difficile, les haines qui rôdent toujours. Par un matin brumeux de 1945, un homme emmène son petit garçon - Daniel Sempere, le narrateur - dans un lieu mystérieux du quartier gothique : le Cimetière des Livres Oubliés. L'enfant, qui rêve toujours de sa mère morte, est ainsi convié par son père, modeste boutiquier de livres d'occasion, à un étrange rituel qui se transmet de génération en génération : il doit y " adopter " un quantity parmi des centaines de milliers. Là, il rencontre le livre qui va changer le cours de sa vie, le marquer à jamais et l'entraîner dans un labyrinthe d'aventures et de secrets and techniques " enterrés dans l'âme de l. a. ville " : L'Ombre du vent. Avec ce tableau historique, roman d'apprentissage évoquant les émois de l'adolescence, récit fantastique dans l. a. natural culture du Fantôme de l'Opéra ou du Maître et Marguerite, énigme où les mystères s'emboîtent comme des poupées russes, Carlos Ruiz Zafon mêle inextricablement l. a. littérature et los angeles vie.

By Jill M Ed Norvilitis

By R. K. Narayan

By J. Daniels

From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling writer, J. Daniels, the 1st booklet within the Alabama summer season sequence.

When Mia Corelli returns to Alabama for a summer time of enjoyable along with her formative years ally, Tessa, there is just one factor holding her on aspect. One person who she’d do something to prevent.

Benjamin Kelly. World’s greatest dickhead.

Mia hates him with a fury and has no wish to ever see him back. whilst she makes a decision to begin her summer season off with a bang and eventually supply away her v-card, she unknowingly arms it over to the only man that excelled at making her lifestyles depressing, studying a invaluable lesson within the process.

Always get the identify of the fellow you’re going domestic with.

Ben can’t get the woman he spent one evening with no of his head. while she leaves him the subsequent morning, he thinks he’ll by no means see her back. till he sees her lounging through the pool together with his sister.

Mia is decided to hate Ben, although she can’t fail to remember him.

Ben is set to turn out he’s no longer a similar man he used to be.

What occurs whilst the only individual you need by no means existed turns into the only individual you can’t think being without?

**Warning: This books is suggested for readers over the age of 18 as a result of robust language and specific sexual content material.

By Kresley Cole

With if you happen to Dare, Cole introduces an exciting new romance trilogy that includes fierce Scottish brothers with harmful lives, darkish wishes, and a perilous curse.
Can he targeted revenge?
excessive within the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led via Courtland MacCarrick wages warfare for common Reynaldo Pascal. while courtroom activates the evil normal, Pascal orders him killed yet courtroom narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by means of kidnapping Pascal's beautiful Castilian fiancée.
Can she deny her passions?
girl Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor nearly up to she does Pascal. Her inexplicable appeal to the Highlander merely fuels her fury. yet not anything will cease her from returning to Pascal -- for if she does not wed him, she indicators her brother's demise warrant, in addition to her personal.
Can there be love among them?
From the instant court docket discovers that Anna's prim façade mask a fiery, courageous lass, his heart's ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his existence -- to stroll with dying or stroll alone. yet Pascal vows that he will hunt the 2, by no means preventing until eventually he is destroyed them either.

By Milan Kundera

All too frequently, this fantastic novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been learn for its political implications. Now, 1 / 4 century after The Joke used to be first released and several other years after the cave in of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it turns into more uncomplicated to place such implications into viewpoint in desire of valuing the publication (and all Kundera 's paintings) as what it really is: nice, stirring literature that sheds new mild at the everlasting subject matters of human existence.

The current version offers English-language readers an incredible extra capacity towards revaluation of The Joke. For purposes he describes in his Author's notice, Milan Kundera dedicated a lot time to making (with the help of his American publisher-editor) a very revised translation that displays his unique as heavily as any translation potentially can: displays it in its constancy not just to the phrases and syntax but additionally to the attribute dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. the result's not anything below the recovery of a classic.

By Charlotte Armstrong

E-book via Charlotte Armstrong

By Thomas Riggs

By Julie Anne Long

An enigmatic undercover agent is helping a tender woman in London locate the reality of her beginning during this poignant story of affection and possibility. unique.