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After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she’s known and loved for years - the man she recently married - is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven’t even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail - right down to the dress she wore to their wedding - is only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucy’s mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma.

Blanche McCrary Boyd’s first novel in 20 years continues the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns. When Tomb of the Unknown Racist opens in 1999, Ellen - now sober, haunted by her activist past, her failed relationships - is taking care of her demented mother in South Carolina....

Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiff's poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her father gambles and loses everything on a bet that Dolores will be a boy. As Dolores grows older, we see this strange underworld through her eyes: Tiger Bay is a place of gaming rooms and cafes, of crumbling houses and burning secrets, and for Dolores and her sisters, their home is a dangerous place, filled equally by fear and love.

Le jeune prince Marcus est encore un enfant lorsqu'il assiste impuissant au massacre de toute sa famille. Seul rescapé de cette boucherie fomentée par Ojsternig, ennemi héréditaire de la famille de Marcus qui va s'asseoir sur le trône, Marcus ne doit son salut qu'à la jeune Héloïse, fille d'Agnès, la lavandière du village qui l'accueillera sous son toit pour l'élever comme s'il était son fils. Luca Di Fulvio retrace l'ascension paradoxale d'un petit prince, un demi-dieu qui va devoir apprendre dans la douleur comment devenir un homme.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Avant de se jalouser et s'empoisonner. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Pour le meilleur, ou pour le pire ? Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun. Un point de départ identique pour deux histoires distinctes qui peuvent se lire indépendamment l'une de l'autre.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Jusqu'à un soir de feu d'artifice où l'une d'elles se volatilise brutalement. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'en reste plus qu'une. Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun.

Newly transplanted to the big city of Chicago, she is one of the rare few to leave her small working-class town in Iowa, let alone for a prestigious university. She is not driven by academic ambition, nor is she a social butterfly. Her true gift is an ability to understand the needs of others and to reflect back the version of themselves they wish to see, rendering herself invisible. Deftly, she conceals her deeply troubled past - especially from her charismatic yuppie-in-the-making best friend and roommate.

Some families never resolve conflicts. Not so with the Sweeneys. Their sense of family, their love for one another, and their willingness to forgive have always triumphed and brought them back together. Until now. The latest crisis threatens to tear the family apart and crumble the foundation that has always proved itself rock solid. At the heart of the matter are 16-year-old Annie Bethune and her boyfriend, Cooper. At stake are their dreams for the future. As to these dreams, no one in the family holds back when asserting an opinion.

When the seafood business Lovie Sweeney established 60 years ago is destroyed by fire, she finds herself at the center of an arson investigation. What really happened that night? Is Lovie responsible for starting the fire, or is her family under attack from a sworn enemy? The loss of their family business leaves the Sweeney clan in flux.

Lulu is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with Lulu as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, SC, into a coed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring, and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great Southern writers, one of America's best-selling nonfiction authors, Nancy Friday, has in Lulu created a fascinating first work of fiction.

The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone's dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese Canadian coming of age in this shifting world.

When Eva and Adam fall into bed one Friday night, tired and happy after drinks with friends, they have their whole lives ahead of them. But their story ends in the first few minutes. That's no reason to stop listening, though, because How I Lose You is a story told backwards - and it's all the more warm, tender and moving because we know it is going to be interrupted. It's a story Eva thought she knew - but as you and she will discover, it's not just the ending of the story that she got wrong.

Set in the American Midwest and Southwest, the novel opens in 1976, when the young teenage protagonist, Erica, is in a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. In the present day, Erica, now in her 50s, takes a phone call at work telling her that her mother has died. From this point the story moves backwards in time, with each chapter shedding light - and dramatic irony - on those it follows. This mother-daughter relationship seesaws.

The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have their hair cut, fall pregnant, all while simultaneously driving each other towards moments where they - sometimes unwillingly - glimpse the meaning and shape of their lives and who they might become.

1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind. Seventeen years and two children later, Josephine gets a call from her sister to tell her that their mother is dying and wants to see her - a summons she can't refuse. 1997: Ten-year-old Clare is counting down to summer, when she is going to meet her grandparents in Ireland for the first time. She hopes this trip will be "just what the doctor ordered" and cheer her mum up.

À un an d'intervalle, Anne, Hélène et Émilie perdent leur mère, puis leur père. Entre les deux, David Bowie lui aussi disparaît. Dans l'enfance d'Hélène, la "sœur du milieu", le chanteur a eu une importance toute particulière, dont le souvenir soudain ressurgit. Alors, elle commence à raconter... Sur les thèmes inépuisables de la force et de la complexité des liens familiaux, de la place de chaque enfant dans sa fratrie, voici un roman d'une déconcertante et magnifique sincérité.

The year is 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family - Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell - they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of treason, decides to carry out the threat his wife has explicitly forbidden: to banish their youngest son, the 12-year-old Catta, to the neighboring island of Baffin for 24 hours.

To her friends, Amber leads the perfect life with her successful marriage, her powerful job in London and her immaculate style. But as more of her friends fall pregnant, and her best friend, Dylan, announces his decision to adopt a baby with his gay lover, Amber's carefully structured world begins to fall apart. Intricately crafted and sensually evocative, Something I'm Not is a sharp, contemporary novel that discusses the way the psychological scars of the past pass through the generations of a family.

Major Hugh Dégaré never thought working a desk job could be worse than combat. But shortly after starting a new position in a bureaucratic military headquarters far from the front lines, he finds himself fighting to maintain his grip on reality. Amid sleepless nights and intense memories from his combat service, he does what he's always done - takes action. Afraid of being stigmatized by his chain of command, he turns to a psychologist and an estranged friend, Daryl, now an ex-soldier. Despite his best efforts, Hugh's rage continues to grow.

Set in contemporary Louisville, Leesa Cross-Smith's mesmerizing first novel surrounding the death of a police officer is a requiem for marriage, friendship, and family, from an author Roxane Gay has called "a consummate storyteller". Evi - a classically-trained ballerina - was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah.