Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.

From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory—failed soldier, struggling scholar—falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives—and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend—if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.

Le Brésil est en crise. La présidence de Jair Bolsonaro a allumé de nombreux incendies. Et rien ne garantit que Lula da Silva, de retour à la tête de cet immense pays, parviendra à les éteindre. Mais qui connaît les Brésiliens, orphelins de leur roi Pelé, sait que cette immensité géographique, source d’infinis métissages, leur colle à la peau comme une seconde nature. Musique, émotions, passions, football… Réussites, richesses, inégalités sociales, opportunités… Tout, sur cette terre conquise par une poignée de colons, se joue en dehors des cadres habituels. Sa miraculeuse renaissance, synonyme de développement économique et d’aspiration géopolitique, ne sera jamais linéaire. Ce petit livre n’est pas un guide. C’est un décodeur. Un voyage des rivages d’Ipanema aux profondeurs indigènes de la forêt tropicale pour mieux connaître les passions brésiliennes. Et donc mieux les comprendre. Un grand récit suivi d’entretiens avec Isabel Lustosa (écrivaine) et Claudio Frischtak (économiste et universitaire).

Fils d'une Indienne au service d'une famille libanaise installée à Manaus, le narrateur tente de reconstituer le passé et de savoir qui est son père. Partagé entre l'admiration et le dégoût pour Yaqub et Omar, jumeaux condamnés à répéter le mythe de la haine fraternelle, lui, le bâtard, le domestique, entreprend de raconter la chute d'une famille dans un quotidien où se dissimulent la passion, la vengeance et l'inceste.

En 1938, désespéré par les compromissions de l'Église et par la lâcheté des démocraties, Georges Bernanos quitte l'Europe avec sa femme et ses six enfants pour recréer une «nouvelle France» en Amérique latine. Au Brésil, l'écrivain passe sept longues années en exil, à Rio de Janeiro, Itaipava, Juiz de Fora, Vassouras, Pirapora et Barbacena. Contrairement à Stefan Zweig, venu lui rendre visite dans sa ferme quelques jours avant son suicide, le romancier français n'a pas laissé de livre pour célébrer ce pays qu'il a tant aimé. Tourefois, au fil des pages consacrées à cette terre d'espérance et d'amitié dans Lettre aux Anglais, Les Enfants humiliés, Le Chemin de la Croix-des-Âmes, sa correspondance trop peu connue et quelques articles publiés après son retour en France, on découvre que Bernanos s'est fait du Brésil une image toute à lui, au cour des soubresauts de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Et l'on comprend que c'est un homme profondément changé qui a dit adieu au Cristo Redemptor du Corcovado, le 2 juin 1945.

O autor vira de ponta-cabeça os clichês dos romances de aventura e ação, e reflete sobre temas como nostalgia, memória e nacionalismo. No início dos anos 1980, com o Brasil rumando para a abertura política, um industrialista constrói em segredo um parque de diversões. Batizado de Tupinilândia, o parque funcionaria como uma celebração do nacionalismo e da nova democracia que se aproximava. Todavia, durante um fim de semana em que se testavam as operações do parque, um grupo de militares invade o lugar e faz funcionários e visitantes de reféns. Duas décadas depois, um arqueólogo especialista em nostalgia, e desde a infância obcecado pelo mito de Tupinilândia, recebe autorização para mapear o local, que está prestes a ser alagado pela hidrelétrica de Belo Monte. Ao chegar com sua equipe, descobre um terrível segredo, e a partir daí as duas pontas do romance se unem numa aventura literária pelo passado recente do Brasil e pela memória dos anos 1980.

« Proust. Avant, ce nom mythique était pour elle comme celui de certaines villes — Capri, Saint-Pétersbourg... — où il était entendu qu’elle ne mettrait jamais les pieds. » Clara est coiffeuse dans une petite ville de Saône-et-Loire. Son quotidien, c’est une patronne mélancolique, un copain beau comme un prince de Disney, un chat qui ne se laisse pas caresser. Le temps passe au rythme des histoires du salon et des tubes diffusés par Nostalgie, jusqu’au jour où Clara rencontre l’homme qui va changer sa vie : Marcel Proust.

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there's a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams are sold . . . Day and night, visitors both human and animal from all over the world shuffle in sleepily in their pyjamas, lining up to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor in the department store sells a special kind of dream, including nostalgic dreams about your childhood, trips you've taken, and delicious food you've eaten, as well as nightmares and more mysterious dreams. In Dallergut Dream Department Store we meet Penny an enthusiastic new-hire; Dallergut, the flamboyant owner of the department store; Agnap Coco, producer of special dreams; Vigo Myers, an employee in the mystery department as well as the cast of curious, funny and strange clientele that regularly visit the store. When one of the most coveted and expensive dreams gets stolen during Penny's first week, we follow along with her as she tries to uncover the workings of this wonderfully whimsical world. A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a best-selling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.

For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind worked. Out of sheer necessity, he developed a method called the Bullet Journal that helped him become consistently focused and effective. When he started sharing his system with friends who faced similar challenges, it went viral. Just a few years later, to his astonishment, Bullet Journaling is a global movement. The Bullet Journal Method is about much more than organizing your notes and to-do lists. It's about what Carroll calls "intentional living:" weeding out distractions and focusing your time and energy in pursuit of what's truly meaningful, in both your work and your personal life. It's about spending more time with what you care about, by working on fewer things. His new book shows you how to... • Track the past: Using nothing more than a pen and paper, create a clear and comprehensive record of your thoughts. • Order the present: Find daily calm by tackling your to-do list in a more mindful, systematic, and productive way. • Design the future: Transform your vague curiosities into meaningful goals, and then break those goals into manageable action steps that lead to big change. Carroll wrote this book for frustrated list-makers, overwhelmed multitaskers, and creatives who need some structure. Whether you've used a Bullet Journal for years or have never seen one before, The Bullet Journal Method will help you go from passenger to pilot of your own life.

Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places—the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a few. By opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king's most treasured documents. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift—so desperate that they've even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind? Of course, with that magical family involved, there's bound to be chaos—and unexpected revelations. No one will be more surprised than Charmain by what Howl and Sophie discover.