Pancol, Katherine
Summary: Excellent feuilleton contemporain basé sur un mensonge accepté. Une jeune médiéviste compose un livre qui sera signé par sa soeur. S'ensuit une romanesque histoire bien tricotée. [SDM].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Le Livre de poche 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 PAN FRENCHForna, Aminatta
Summary: A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORGreengrass, Jessie
Summary: Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator; the orchard is carefully pruned; the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: "Abeo Kata, a young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFHartman, Rachel
Summary: In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARKo, Lisa
Summary: "One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017