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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor - engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey - hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

A Moving Love Story About A Woman Unexpectedly Forced To Choose Between The Husband She Has Long Thought Dead And The Fiancé Who Has Finally Brought Her Back To Life – From The Bestselling Author Of Daisy Jones & The Six In Her Twenties, Emma Marries Her High School Sweetheart, Jesse. They Build A Life For Themselves, Living Life To The Fullest And Seizing Every Opportunity For Adventure. On Their First Wedding Anniversary, Jesse Is On A Helicopter Over The Pacific When It Goes Missing. Just Like That, Jesse Is Gone Forever. Years Later, Now In Her Thirties, Emma Runs Into An Old Friend, Sam, And Finds Herself Falling In Love Again. When Emma And Sam Get Engaged, It Feels Like Emma’s Second Chance At Happiness. That Is, Until Jesse Is Found. He’s Alive, And All These Years He’s Been Trying To Come Home To Her. With A Husband And A Fiancé, Emma Has To Now Figure Out Who She Is And What She Wants. Who Is Her One True Love? Emma Knows She Has To Listen To Her Heart. She’s Just Not Sure What It’s Saying.

A tale of one woman's surging desires of the heart, the spirit, and the flesh...and of a man burning to possess her in vengeance and in ecstasy...

A "powerful and scary and important and true" memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her—at any cost (Sally Mann, author of Hold Still).Shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for WritingNow with a New Afterword When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this intimate investigative memoir usher in a media storm of coverage, but it also prompted the elite St. Paul's School to issue a formal apology to the author, Lacy Crawford, for its handling of her report of sexual assault by two fellow students nearly thirty years ago.In this searing book, Crawford tells the story of coming forward during the state investigation of the elite New England prep school decades after her assault, only to find for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the naïve, hardworking girl she’d been, as well as astonishing proof of an institutional silencing. The slander, innuendo, and lack of adult concern that Crawford had experienced as a student hadn't been imagined; they were the actions of a school that prized its reputation above anything, even a child.This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry deep into gender, privilege, and power, and the ways shame and guilt are used to silence victims. Insightful, arresting, and beautifully written, Notes on a Silencing wrestles with an essential question for our time: what telling of a survivor's story will finally force a remedy?“Erudite and devastating… Crawford's writing is astonishing… Notes on a Silencing is a purposefully named, brutal and brilliant retort to the asinine question of 'Why now?'… The story is crafted with the precision of a thriller, with revelations that sent me reeling…” —Jessica Knoll, New York TimesA Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, People, Real Simple, Marie Claire, The Lineup, LitHub, Library Journal, BookPage, and Shelf AwarenessA New York Times Book Review Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceOne of People Magazine’s 10 Best Books of the YearSemifinalist for a Goodreads Choice Award

Justine, vingt et un ans, aime les personnes âgées comme d'autres les contes. Hélène, presque cinq fois son âge, a toujours rêvé d'apprendre à lire. Ces deux femmes se parlent, s'écoutent, se révèlent l'une à l'autre jusqu'au jour où un mystérieux « corbeau » sème le trouble dans la maison de retraite qui abrite leurs confidences et dévoile un terrible secret. Parce qu'on ne sait jamais rien de ceux que l'on connaît.à la fois drôle et mélancolique, Les oubliés du dimanche est un roman d'amours passées, présentes, inavouées... éblouissantes.Valérie Perrin, pour Les oubliés du dimanche, est préselectionnée pour le Prix littéraire Lireélire 2016 et le Prix Poulet-Malassis 2016.

Quand l'auteure apprend, en 2021, la mort de Chahinez, brûlée vive par son mari en pleine rue près de Bordeaux, elle doit affronter le souvenir de sa propre expérience de la violence, ainsi que celui de sa cousine Emma, tuée par son mari à l'île Maurice en 2000. Elle livre ses réflexions sur le crime conjugal.

Il y a trois mois, ma mère m'a annoncé que nous déménagions en Californie, chez son nouveau mari millionnaire. Non, ce n'est pas le rêve, c'est un cauchemar ! Je dois quitter mes amis, mon copain et, par-dessus le marché, j'hérite d'un "demi-frère"... Nick a tout pour me déplaire. Surtout quand je découvre son secret, sa double vie : courses de voiture, filles, bagarres... En plus d'être un gosse de riches, Nick est dangereux. Et puis un jour je me retrouve mêlée à son univers malgré moi. Alors mes certitudes se mettent à vaciller et ma vie à basculer... [4e de couv.]

C’est l’histoire vraie d’une extraordinaire évasion. Durant l’été 1962, un groupe d’étudiants creuse un tunnel de 135 mètres de long sous le mur de Berlin. De l’autre côté, à Berlin-Est, des dizaines d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants risquent leur vie pour s’échapper.   Mais comment creuse-t-on un tunnel dans le pays le plus étroitement surveillé du monde, sans pouvoir utiliser des engins bruyants  ni acheter des outils faute d’argent ? Comment s’éclairer, comment respirer quand l’air se raréfie ou éviter de mourir noyé en heurtant une canalisation ? Et si, malgré tous ces obstacles, on réussit à atteindre le but, que faire si la police secrète attend au bout du tunnel ?   S’appuyant sur des centaines d’heures d’entretiens avec des survivants et des milliers de pages d’archives de la Stasi, la journaliste Helena Merriman retrace l’aventure de Joachim Rudolph, l’étudiant à l’origine de ce projet fou. Avec un formidable sens du récit, elle restitue l’odeur de l’argile, le poids de la terre, les bruits des passants au-dessus de sa tête, la peur constante d’être écouté par la Stasi, et l’étrange accord passé avec la télévision américaine, qui filme la tentative d’évasion au risque d’une explosion géopolitique.   Par-dessus tout,  Tunnel 29  raconte l’histoire d’une liberté volée, et du combat acharné pour la retrouver.   Traduit de l’anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Jacqueline Odi