A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police. While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again. Or so he hopes. The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.

37 km de long et pas plus de 7 km de large. C'est peu. Pourtant, la littérature et le cinéma ont rendu l'île de la Tortue mythique. On l'associe à des flibustiers intrépides, poursuivant les galions espagnols, à ces trésors mirifiques enfouis au retour de mémorables razzias La période de la flibuste verra se constituer une société européenne comprenant des Anglais, des Français et des Hollandais. Ils adopteront une organisation sociale de type républicaine les « frères de la côte », qui comportera un embryon de « sécurité sociale » pour les blessures reçues au combat. Cette société restera soudée malgré les affrontements des puissances nationales de « tutelle ». Les flibustiers furent d'abord des aventuriers français qui avaient tout au plus la qualité de corsaires. C'étaient des oiseaux de proie qui fondaient de tous les côtés… Jamais les Romains ne firent des actions aussi étonnantes. S'ils avaient eu une politique égale à leurs indomptable courage, ils auraient fondé un grand empire en Amérique. Voltaire Frantz Funck Brentano (1862-1947) diplômé de l'École des Chartes, conservateur de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, professeur au Collège de France, a été un grand spécialiste de l'Ancien Régime. Parallèlement à ses travaux d'érudition, il a mené une carrière littéraire et journalistique imposante et publié, avec talent, de nombreux ouvrages de vulgarisation historique qui ont connu le succès.

The incomparable Rabih Alameddine''s latest novel shows sly wit, poetic turns of phrase, and the slow-burning outrage at the ongoing Mediterranean refugee crisis--but I particularly love his understated handling of Mina, the novel''s transgender narrator. Her identity is not a battlefield for the culture wars, just a refreshingly unproblematic perspective from which a story unfolds.>

Recueil de treize nouvelles sur les phares des côtes nord et ouest de la France et leurs gardiens qui font référence à l'histoire : Boulogne-sur-Mer, Dieppe, Honfleur, pointe de Barfleur, Granville, Brest, Le Croisic...

Pair de France de 1845 à 1848, sénateur de Paris de 1876 à 1885, Victor Hugo prononça de nombreux discours où il se fit le chantre du progrès et de la liberté. L'auteur, sénateur du Loiret, en présente quelques-uns : un appel à une intervention française dans les années 1840 pour soutenir les Polonais, un discours sur le droit d'auteur, un autre sur l'amnistie des communards, etc. ©Electre 2018

'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

Du discours d'Oxford en 1942 au référendum de 1969, en passant par le programme du CNR et les réformes des années 1960, Charles de Gaulle n'a cessé de vouloir mettre en oeuvre une révolution sociale. L'auteur propose une analyse chronologique de ces projets et de la façon dont ils furent parfois mis à mal, laissant l'oeuvre sociale du général inachevée.

Sleepwalk’s hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he’s been living off the grid for over half his life. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and a passion for LSD microdosing, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation he’s never troubled himself to learn too much about. Out of the blue, one of Will’s many burner phones heralds a call from a twenty-year-old woman claiming to be his biological daughter. She says she’s the product of one of his long-ago sperm donations; he’s half certain she’s AI. She needs his help. She’s entrenched in a widespread and nefarious plot involving Will’s employers, and for Will to continue to have any contact with her increasingly fuzzes the line between the people he is working for and the people he’s running from. With his signature blend of haunting emotional realism and fast-paced intrigue, Dan Chaon populates his fractured America with characters who ring all too true. Sleepwalk examines where we’ve been and where we’re going and the connections that bind us, no matter how far we travel to dodge them or how cleverly we hide.