"At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet's slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for - Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other's world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb's Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it...

When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but...

An American master of the unsettling side of the American male psyche, Barry Gifford is also noted for the depth of feeling of his female characters-from Lula in Wild at Heart (immortalized in the Lynch movie by Laura Dern), to Big Betty Stalcup and Miss Cutie Early in Night People, to Mom in Wyoming (a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year), to Ava Varazo in The Sinaloa Story. Fellow novelist Jim Harrison once described Gifford as "a stylist in the...

Billy grew up in a foster home run by a Dad who treated the elderly women like he was a cruel madam of a whorehouse. He was even more abusive to Billy than the ladies. To survive, Billy strives to be an artist who creates a perfect painting of a perfect woman as if he is a crack addict without any lack of product. But he falls for Bitea; perfectly imperfect in love, in emotions, in her faith in him. She rattles his conscience about how he watches...

Une île en Méditerranée, trait d'union entre terre et ciel, lieu de l'exil et de tous les possibles. Certains natifs de génération en génération, perpétuent les traditions, les autres choisissent la liberté. Parallèlement, une autre île lointaine, parmi des milliers en jeux de miroirs éclatés, révèle la fragilité de l'existence. Vanina quelques décennies plus tt décidera de fuir l'héritage mortifère, tandis que Kimiko aujourd'hui...

The complete Sovereign Era story of Nate Charters! 162,000 words, including Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era Revised and Expanded Edition and Pilgrimage -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era.About The Books In This Omnibus CollectionBrave Men RunApril 18, 1985 – A startling revelation shocks a world already wound tight by the desperate tensions of the Cold War: super-humans exist... and they demand autonomy.Until that day, high school sophomore...

Dralen never could leave well enough alone.He knows better than to go near the canyons. That's where the Logans live, wild men of the hills said to devour lone travelers in frenzied midnight feasts.But the mysterious cloaked figure he saw down by the canyons had to be there for a reason. And he can't get his Urpa's poem out of his head: something about "They of the West" and "Treasures buried in memory's mine."Folks used to mine for topaz in the canyons,...

Oscar, après un affrontement avec la bande de Virgile, se retrouve grièvement blessé et abandonné sur les pentes du Semnoz, non loin de la Basilique de la Visitation à Annecy. Cette confrontation laisse en lui des séquelles tant physiques que psychologiques, le plongeant dans une lutte intérieure contre ses propres démons, ses incertitudes et ses peurs. Malgré ces épreuves, sa passion pour la montagne et l'escalade devient un refuge, lui...

L'auteure rend par ces récits un hommage vibrant à des femmes inspirantes à travers une approche unique et novatrice. Chacun d'entre eux est empreint de détermination et de résilience face à l'adversité, tout en rayonnant d'optimisme et d'espoir. Qu'elles soient lauréates du prix Nobel, sportives de haut niveau, entrepreneures ou artistes, ces femmes extraordinaires tracent des voies étoilées pour la jeune génération. À PROPOS L'AUTRICE "Des...

Halfdan, adolescent de treize ans, apprend d'une manière inattendue qu'il est l'héritier d'une lignée de « héros » remontant à cinq mille ans. En effet, son ancêtre, Arymir, avait naguère été choisi afin de repousser telle une Jeanne d'Arc les armées des Ténèbres des royaumes en paix. Or, pour Halfdan, rien ne se passera comme prévu, car il devra avant tout se vaincre lui-même. Avec cette fantaisie classique et émouvante, John...