When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death.  Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust. As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship.    Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire. The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.

Alternate cover editions of ISBN 9780143038092 can be found here. Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Le monde est sens dessus dessous. L’effondrement des arches a bel et bien commencé. Une seule solution pour l’enrayer : trouver le responsable. Trouver l’Autre. Mais comment faire sans seulement savoir à quoi il ressemble ? Ophélie et Thorn se lancent ensemble sur la piste des échos, ces étranges phénomènes qui semblent la clef de toutes les énigmes. Ils devront explorer plus en profondeur les coulisses de Babel ainsi que leur propre mémoire. Et pendant ce temps, sur Arc-en-Terre, Dieu pourrait bien obtenir le pouvoir qu’il convoite tant. De lui ou de l’Autre, qui représente la plus grande menace ?

Entendez-vous les Chants, qui murmurent au creux de l’hiver ? Où qu’elle aille, Elvi est suivie par des chuchotements mystérieux que personne d’autre ne perçoit ; signe qu’elle manie une magie ancestrale et totalement proscrite. Un jour, elle y répond malgré elle et, sans savoir que son frère l’a suivie, elle est prise en flagrant délit. Aussitôt répudiée par son village, elle est ballotée entre sidération et l’espoir de racheter son honneur. Traquée pour ce don qu’elle rejette, dépossédée de l’avenir de fille et d’épouse qui l’attendait, Elvi est perdue. Comment naviguer dans une société hostile quand elle n’a pour elle que son obéissance et sa docilité ? Heureusement, Rohana n’a pas ses scrupules ni sa pudeur, et lorsque se présente l’opportunité de lever l’interdiction sur la magie, l’étrange mentor entraîne immédiatement Elvi dans son sillage. Un autre monde est possible et la rédemption existe. Mais l’émancipation a un prix, et Elvi va devoir le payer.

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.