Extrait : "Quand on quitte le riant village de Mayenfeld pour gravir la montagne à l'aspect imposant et sévère qui domine cette partie de la vallée, on s'engage d'abord dans un joli sentier de la plaine à travers champs et vergers.
Extrait : "Comme cela arrive souvent le samedi vers trois heures, les abords de la porte de Bercy étaient encombrés, et sur le quai en quatre files, les voitures s'entassaient à la queue leu leu : haquets chargés de fûts, tombereaux de charbon ou de matériaux, charrettes de foin ou de paille, qui tous, sous un clair et chaud soleil de juin, attendaient la visite de l'octroi, pressés d'entrer dans Paris à la veille du dimanche.
Forty-ish hipster dad Jake is happily settled down in the politically progressive, urban, and notably self-satisfied community of Greenwood, working at his not-so-interesting job, playing guitar with his band, and enjoying domestic life with his beautiful and accomplished wife Lisa, their two charming daughters, and the beloved family dog.
On a rainy night in Philadelphia's Ninth Street Market, sixteen-year-old Fiora, newly-orphaned by the 1918 influenza epidemic, is dumped at an old man's door.
In the book that spawned the beloved movie The Parent Trap, nine-year-old Lisa from Viennabold, with a head of curlsmeets Munich's buttoned-up Lottie at summer camp.
In a stunning new novel completed just before her death in 2013, award-winning author Lila Perl introduces us to Isabel Brandt, a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old New Yorker who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the distant war across the Pacificthe one her parents keep reminding her to care more about.
An affectionate and funny story set in the black quarter"e; of a Southern sugar cane plantation in the 1940s and told by a child named Eddie, who watches his mother leave his father over his preoccupation with his car, which his father ultimately burns to the ground on the advice of a voodoo woman to get his wife back.
When 700 men commanded by General Custer faced the combined forces of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn, the massacre became the stuff of legend.
When Sybella arrived at the doorstep of St Mortain half mad with grief and despair, the convent was only too happy to offer her refuge - but at a price.
