Récits initiatiques

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world.....

Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....

With all his family and friends gone, 100-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a 10-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies....

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death....

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever....

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose....

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy....

Fraîchement diplômé en Lettres, Jérôme Lupien choisit de prendre une année sabbatique avant de se lancer sur le marché du travail. Issu d’une famille aimante et à l’aise, il semble promis à un bel avenir. Mais le sort en décidera peut-être autrement. Coup sur coup, le voilà victime de deux arnaques. Elles ébranleront sa confiance en lui, en même temps que ses principes. À quoi bon la vertu dans un système qui sourit d’abord et avant tout aux escrocs ? Peut-on vraiment se payer le luxe d’être honnête ?

"Je me rendais bien compte que, cet été, quelque chose en moi ne tournait pas rond." Lauréate d’un concours de poésie, Esther Greenwood découvre New York l’été de ses dix-neuf ans. Étourdie par les cocktails, la mode, les flirts et les amitiés fugaces, elle découvre la vie mondaine. Censée s’amuser comme jamais, elle s’ennuie et se trouve progressivement assaillie par des pensées morbides. De retour chez elle, tiraillée entre ses aspirations littéraires et son avenir tout tracé de femme au foyer, elle sombre dans une brutale dépression et se fait interner.