At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

Pour la première fois depuis trois mois, elles discernent enfin le sable que leur cachait l’eau lors de la traversée de l’Atlantique, ce fond de l’océan qu’elles ont brièvement aperçu ce matin en débarquant de La Baleine. Personne ne leur a expliqué où elles seraient logées ce soir, dans combien de temps elles seraient fiancées. On ne dit pas tout aux femmes. Paris, 1720. Marguerite Pancatelin, la Supérieure de la Salpêtrière, est mandatée pour sélectionner une centaine de femmes « volontaires » qui seront envoyées en Louisiane afin d’y épouser les colons français. Parmi elles, trois amies improbables : une orpheline de douze ans à la langue bien pendue, une jeune aristocrate désargentée et rejetée par sa famille ainsi qu’une femme condamnée pour avortement. Comme leurs compagnes à bord de La Baleine, Charlotte, Pétronille et Geneviève ignorent tout de ce qui les attend au-delà des mers. Et n’ont pas leur mot à dire sur leur avenir. Ces étrangères réunies par le destin devront braver l’adversité – maladie, guerre, patriarcat –, traverser une vie faite de chagrins d'amour, de naissances et de deuils, de cruauté et de plaisirs inattendus. Et d’une amitié forgée dans le feu. Un roman d’une profondeur et d’une émotion saisissantes, qui nous transporte au cœur d’une terre impitoyable, aux côtés d’héroïnes animées d’une extraordinaire soif d’amour et de vie.

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

Et si les animaux, lassés de se faire abandonner, bouffer, massacrer, abattre, chasser, empailler, corrider, castrer et écraser sur le bord de la route, se révoltaient ? La Révolte sans précédent, c'est le récit des actions coup de poings de LA M.E.U.T.E (le Comité d'Action Radicale pour la Libération Animale), un gang d'animaux militants mal organisés mais très motivés pour se venger des humains. De l'action, du suspens, des blagues, du collectif et de l'émotion, la recette d'une BD réussie, assurément.