Ce roman choc raconte la vie tumultueuse d’une famille nord-vietnamienne ballottée par les caprices de l’Histoire et aux prises avec sa propre folie. À travers un récit teinté d’humour, on découvre les aventures rocambolesques d’un clan...
Families
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Author:Vu, Caroline, Steenhout, IvanSummary: - Author:Phaneuf, YvanSummary:
Malgré le pourcentage élevé de couples qui se séparent et de familles qui se divisent, un couple fort au sein d’une famille unie est plus que jamais possible. Pour y arriver, toutefois, il y a des « règles » relationnelles à respecter....
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Il servizio del pranzo al ristorante di Darryl Hansen, il Café Belgie, sta diventando troppo difficile da gestire per un uomo solo e Billy Weaver è un ragazzo in cerca di un lavoro—qualsiasi lavoro—per aiutare la sua famiglia. Billy...
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Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:A year after her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Sidonie still spends sleepless nights playing cards with her cat, Bogie. During the day she lies around and reads under the nose of her nineteen-year-old sister, Roberta, who angrily...
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Author:Patterson, James, Constantini, Frank, Raymond, Emily, Sitts, BrianSummary:Anne McWilliams has lost everything, so she takes to the road to ask long-lost friends and strangers a simple question, "What's your best story?" Tyler Bron seemingly has it all, but he has no life. So he hires a struggling novelist to...
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Author:Saucier, JocelyneSummary:With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown...
- Author:Holm, Jennifer L.Summary:
Life isn't like the movies, and 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935, and jobs and money and sometimes even...
- Author:Pérez, Celia C.Summary:
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric...
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After finding disturbing journal pages that suggest her late mother didn't die in a car accident as her father had always maintained, Beth Walsh begins a search for answers.
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction. When...
- Author:Tresniowski, Alex, Fronczak, Paul JosephSummary:
Paul Fronczk, acting on long-held suspicions, took a DNA test that proved he was not the son born to his family, placing him now at the center of two half-century-old mysteries.
- Author:Hannigan, KatherineSummary:
A New York Times and Book Sense best-selling author, Katherine Hannigan has garnered The Parents' Choice Gold Award. In True (...Sort of) , Delly Pattison likes surpresents—presents that are a surprise. When the Boyd family...
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Author:Ferrante, ElenaSummary:Following her mother's mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and...
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After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just...
- Author:Suk, Sarah, Cho, JohnSummary:
Racial tensions are at their peak in Los Angeles after the beating of Rodney King and the shooting of Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner. As tensions escalate, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring...
- Author:Prineas, SarahSummary:
Trouble knows two things: they are a shapeshifter, and they are running from something--but they don't know what. So when the government--the StarLeague--shows up, Trouble figures it's time to flee. Changing from blob of goo form, to...
- Author:Smith, KirstenSummary:
Now a Netflix Original Series! The Breakfast Club meets Leah on the Offbeat in this story of female friendships that break all the rules. Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout. Tabitha has just about...
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Author:Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, DavidSummary:Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and...
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Author:Brett, BrianSummary:An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of...
- Author:Rachel CuskSummary:
In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for...
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