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1) The Z word
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"During a Pride celebration, Wendy notices the beginning of an infection that seems to be turning people into zombies. She and others from the local queer community must team up (despite interpersonal tension) to try and stop the outbreak, discover its source, and survive"--
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"Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, author of Sorry, Bro. Twenty-seven-year-old Nazeli "Ellie" Gregorian enjoys the prestige of her tech marketing job but hates the condescending Patagonia-clad tech bros, her micromanaging boss, and her ex-boyfriend, who she's forced to work with every day. When Ellie's lovingly overbearing parents ask her to attend PakCon--a food packaging...
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"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
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Pre-order the next instalment in the BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls!
September 1942
Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue.
But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn't looking...
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Originally published in Home Sweet Home
A heartwarming novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels that explores the meaning of home, motherhoods, and friendship . . .
This summer will be the first in three years that Samantha Stewart has spent with her parents. And she's bringing a very special gift—the baby granddaughter they've never met. Sam's work as an overseas reporter...
A heartwarming novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels that explores the meaning of home, motherhoods, and friendship . . .
This summer will be the first in three years that Samantha Stewart has spent with her parents. And she's bringing a very special gift—the baby granddaughter they've never met. Sam's work as an overseas reporter...
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"When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals f they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam's depression was Allison's flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker--or sexier--would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry...
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Prenant pour cadre l'empire colonial français et les relations entre la Métropole et sa colonie d'Indochine, la série Chinh Tri explore les destins de deux amis, Tuan et Haï, qui risquent leurs vies au nom de leur idéal de liberté.
Le second tome d'une superbe fiction basée sur une réalité historique coloniale méconnue.
Après avoir évoqué la naissance des premiers mouvements indépendantistes, les auteurs nous immergent cette fois dans...
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Une oeuvre marquée par l'humour déjanté et tendre de Boulet (Raghnarok) et les dessins acidulés de Lucie Albon. Des livres pour les parents que les enfants vont avoir envie de leur piquer !
Simon travaille dans un centre médical. Poursuivant une jeune patiente fugueuse (Séverine du Vœu de Marc) dans les sous-sols, il tombe bien malgré lui sur le génie radin de la lampe de poche, qui n'exhausse qu'un vœu. Décontenancé, il formule celui...
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"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...
10) Kitsune
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Franck est considéré comme un des plus grands architectes de son temps. Rongé par la culpabilité suite à un terrible accident sur l'un de ses chantiers, il rêve de tout plaquer.
Devant l'insistance de ses partenaires et commanditaires, il se rend tout de même au Japon pour participer à un important concours dont il se sait déjà le vainqueur programmé...
A peine a-t-il posé le pied au Pays du soleil levant que le voici pris en charge,...
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Charles est un petit garçon différent. Peut-être à cause de ses lunettes à cordon ? Ou alors parce qu'il ne met pas les animaux de la ferme à l'intérieur des barrières ?
Avec un père qui ne comprend pas et une mère apeurée, Charles grandit et devient malgré lui un adulte. Mais même ainsi, Charles est différent. Trop peut-être, puisque malgré tout l'amour qu'il a en lui, personne ne semble vouloir accepter ce curieux mutisme de l'âme....
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Fauve Polar, festival d'Angoulême 2012, prix meilleur dessin, festival Normandiebulles 2011 Prix NR - BDBoum Blois 2011
A la mort de son grand-père, Martial hérite de deux valises closes, destinées à un certain Félix Larose et une boîte remplie de lettres d'amour rédigées par un certaine Georgette Blizard résidant à Magnat l'Etrange.
Mis à la porte par sa compagne et passablement désœuvré, Martial met le cap sur ce petit village...
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"From the author of the WWII novel Those Who Are Saved ("sweeping and lyrical"-People), comes an electrifying page-turner about female rage, grief, and creativity, as a contemporary mother immerses herself in ancient Greco-Roman female mystery rites while on a summer journey with her family. Ava, an adjunct art-history professor whose research and writing have been stymied by her life as a wife and mother in LA, joins her Hollywood film producer husband...
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"At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life -- between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and...
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"Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program. But Sebastián's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship with his American girlfriend, and his father's forced resignation at the hands of Mexico's new president. As he struggles...
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Hope and fear are equally dangerous.
Victor-27, the 17-year-old inmate sentenced to execution at Predvoi Prison, has escaped. With plummeting temperatures and guards on the prowl, his only chance of survival lies within Khizmit Enclave. Determined and desperate, he navigates the unforgiving streets and the elaborate lie he's crafted to conceal his identity. He's dreamed of freedom his whole life, but Khizmit Enclave isn't the utopia he's always imagined....
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Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
Jackie's goal include perfect grades, the perfect look, getting into the perfect school. If she can achieve that, then maybe her too-busy mom and dad will take notice. When her parents...
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With lies this deep, who can be trusted to tell the truth?
The small community of Grady made national news in the aftermath of a string of missing girls, both dead and alive, being discovered in the quaint lakeside town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
As details emerge from the girl's time in captivity, more questions are raised about the involvement of several possible suspects.
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"At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability -- and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political change and the ghosts of the past"--