Sparks fly when 23-year-old New Yorker Bellarina Levitsky lands on the South Carolinian doorstep of 89-year-old Tilly Wilson, a flawed old woman with an unwavering faith in God and a mouth rife with unsolicited advice. The only thing the unlikely pair have in common is waiting for death's door to creak open.As an adult orphan facing terminal cancer, Bella flees her home to die in peace, but her new landlady has her own ideas. After all, the old woman is an expert on everything. Jus...

The Enderly family is set on edge when a mysterious woman sweeps into Cedar Point, Minnesota, claiming to be Police Chief Brian Enderly's sister, Wren. But how is that possible? Brian's mother died in an accident the day she revealed he was going to be a big brother. That was forty years before.Life Visions, a religious sect run by the self-proclaimed messenger of God, Andrew Godley, has created a large community in the hills near the small town of Carson Springs, Wisconsi...

Summer is unaware that she and Karma, the vindictive woman she knows as her mother, do not share DNA. However, by the age of eighteen, she's had enough. After torching her old life, she reinvents herself a thousand miles away. Her new existence as the reclusive, best-selling author Ellery Gray seems idyllic-until the past resurfaces two decades later when Karma's biological teenage daughter arrives with proof of Ellery's abduction and news about her mother.As Ellery tries to reclai...

For generations, the Greer men have perfected the fine art of assholery. And Eddie Greer does not disappoint.For most children, summers in the 60s and 70s in the small town of Holland Crossing are spent splashing in lakes, playing backyard baseball, and biking with friends-but not for Eddie. The only thing he plays is defense against his father's drunken abuse. But even fleeing at the first sound of the devil's heavy footsteps, sometimes, isn't enough to keep him safe. Wea...

Mary Claire O'Brien has hidden for as long as she can remember. During the week, with her father away in the city, Mary Claire feels like every other child - but on Fridays, everything changes. On Friday mornings, she rises onto her tiptoes and wraps her nightgown tightly around her legs to silence the swooshing sound she loves. She slowly becomes invisible. Hiding is how she remains safe; it's how she protects her mother.At ten years old, Mary Claire begs God to take her father awa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In retirement, Dr. Kay Perrin turned to historical fiction to uncover and celebrate the extraordinary life of her great-aunt, Clara Schattinger (1887–1986). While her siblings followed traditional paths, Clara chose a life of bold independence—earning a degree in education and setting out on a whirlwind journey across the globe.Her travels began in Hawaii as a Guest Ambassador aboard a cruise ship, leading to unexpected promotio...

Qui n’a jamais ressenti lourdeurs, ballonnements et autres désagréments digestifs après les repas ?Et si en réalité le problème ne résidait pas dans les aliments eux-mêmes, mais dans leur combinaison ?En favorisant les bonnes associations alimentaires et en suivant quelques règles digestives simples, les problèmes de digestion ne seront plus qu’un lointain souvenir. Plaisir et vitalité sont les maîtres mots de la méthode, dans laquelle rien n’est interdit : tous les aliment...

14 aventures hilarantes d'Anatole Latuile, un héros J'aime lire !Garder vingt heures une cacahouette sur la tête, rattraper le prince Harry sur une piste de ski, pulvériser le chat de la voisine au translucidator ou traverser le mur du son avec un radiateur à roulettes... Anatole est décidément prêt à relever tous les défis !Au sommaire : Le drakkar de la mort - Badcat - Les vacances en Espagne - Opération explosion - Le numéro de magie - Halloween - La classe de neige - Miss...

Sous la direction de Aldo Gennaï, Patricia Richard-Principalli, Christine BoutevinBrigitte Louichon rejoint la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université de Montpellier et le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique Éducation & Formation (LIRDEF) en 2014. Autour d’elle se constitue progressivement un groupe de chercheur·e·s en didactique de la littérature, qui constitue désormais l’une des disciplines contributives et un axe majeur du LIRDEF, rev...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Depeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and ascended to the rare air of stadium rock. On June 18, 1988, 65,000 screaming, singing Southern Californians flocked to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl to celebrate DM’s coronation.The concert also ...

L’entreprenant Octave Mouret, tout juste arrivé à Paris pour conquérir la capitale, emménage dans ce qu’il croit être un immeuble respectable. Il ne tarde pas à découvrir les turpitudes de ses voisins, manigances auxquelles lui-même n’échappe pas – il compte bien parvenir socialement grâce à ses succès auprès des femmes. Avec cette parodie grinçante du romanesque sentimental, Zola dresse un portrait au vitriol de la bourgeoisie : la morale des convenances couvre hypocritement un monde de m...