Extrait : "Les chemins de fer, dans un avenir aujourd'hui peu éloigné, doivent faire disparaître certaines industries, en modifier quelques autres, et surtout celles qui concernent les différents modes de transport en usage pour les environs de Paris.
Extrait : "La France, et la Bretagne particulièrement, possède encore aujourd'hui quelques villes complètement en dehors du mouvement social qui donne au dix-neuvième siècle sa physionomie.
Extrait : "Beaucoup de récits, riches de situations ou rendus dramatiques par les innombrables jets du hasard, emportent avec eux leurs propres artifices et peuvent être racontés artistement ou simplement par toutes les lèvres, sans que le sujet y perde la plus légère de ses beautés.
Extrait : "En 1800, vers la fin du mois d'octobre, un étranger, suivi d'une femme et d'une petite fille, arriva devant les Tuileries à Paris, et se tint assez longtemps auprès des décombres d'une maison récemment démolie, à l'endroit où s'élève aujourd'hui l'aile commencée qui devait unir le château de Catherine de Médicis au Louvre des Valois.
Extrait : "Dans un des plus beaux hôtels de la rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, à onze heures et demie du soir, deux femmes étaient assises devant la cheminée d'un boudoir tendu de ce velours bleu à reflets tendres et chatoyants que l'industrie française n'a su fabriquer que dans ces dernières années.
Extrait : "Un des quelques salons où se produisait l'archevêque de Besançon sous la Restauration, et celui qu'il affectionnait, était celui de madame la baronne de Watteville.
Mother doesn't always know best in this atmospheric and twisty novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic series and Landry seriesnow popular Lifetime movies.
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Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper's assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women.
From Imperial Russia to Savannah, Georgia and beyond, a circus family, a once aspiring ballerina, and a scorned lover set the stage and then draw the curtain to this saga of identity, fate, and the steps we take to find who we are in this world.
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Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Regional Fiction - SouthwestFinalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Literary FictionFinalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Fiction Cover DesignWinner, Independent Press Award 2021 Literary FictionJacobo's Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War.
In this long short story, a writer arrives at an old manor for a six-week residency, only to discover that while there, she can't seem to write a word.
A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family's past in this "e;brave and unflinching"e; novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times).
After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family propertyher inheritance.
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