Le silence est à nous

Coline Pierré

Au début il y a Leo. Elle a vu l’agression au lycée mais elle est restée sans voix. Et puis, il y a la rencontre avec Maryam et la force des amitiés salvatrices, de celles qui changent la vie et donnent le courage de se faire entendre. Seulement, à quoi bon parler si personne n’écoute ? Une flamme s’allume et se propage. Et le silence devient plus bruyant que les mots.

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Les sorcières dans la littérature

Various Various

L'eût-on vue, on l'eût à peine reconnue. Tellement elle était changée. Les yeux seuls restaient, non brillants, mais armés d'une très étrange et peu rassurante lueur. Elle-même avait peur de faire peur. Elle ne les baissait pas. Elle regardait de côté ; dans l'obliquité du rayon, elle en éludait l'effet. Brunie tout à coup, on eût dit qu'elle avait passé par la flamme. Mais ceux qui observaient mieux sentaient que cette flamme plutôt était en elle, qu'elle portait un impur et brûlant foyer.Jules Michelet, La SorcièreQuatorze portraits de sorcières intrépides, fascinantes et multiples, adulées ou rejetées, par autant de plumes, classiques et contemporaines, de Michelet à Sand, de Shakespeare à Maryse Condé.

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Morgane Pendragon

Jean-Laurent Del Socorro

« LES LEGENDES SONT ECRITES A L’IMAGE DES HOMMES, AUSSI, COMMENT POURRAIS-JE EN ETRE L’HEROÏNE ? » An 601. Île de Bretagne. Depuis la mort d’Uther Pendragon, souverain du royaume de Logres, aucun n’héritier n’est monté sur le trône. Pour cela, il faudrait réussir à extraire l’épée du défunt monarque, enchâssée dans la pierre. À l’aube de ce nouveau siècle, les prophètes en sont pourtant persuadés : un nouveau roi va naître. Le puissant Merlin a la certitude qu’il s’agit de son protégé, le jeune Arthur, mais c’est Morgane, la fille cachée d’Uther, qui s’empare de l’épée. Réussira-t-elle à faire face aux guerres, aux intrigues et aux trahisons, et à s’imposer comme une souveraine légitime ? La légende morganienne ne fait que commencer.

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Les dames du lac (Avalon, #1)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Jadis on m’a donné les noms les plus divers : ceux de sœur, d’amante, de prêtresse, de mage et de reine." Morgane la Fée, prêtresse d’Avalon. Quand Viviane, prêtresse d’Avalon, arrive accompagnée du grand sage Merlin, Ygerne, femme du duc de Tintagel, ne peut contenir la joie de revoir sa sœur. Mais elle est de courte durée. La Dame du Lac lui annonce sa prochaine grossesse – fruit d’une union avec un autre homme – et le destin de l’enfant qu’elle portera : futur Haut Roi de Grande Bretagne, il unira et protégera les peuples présents sur ses terres ainsi que leurs croyances contre les assauts des envahisseurs. Consciente de ne pouvoir échapper aux forces d’un inéluctable destin, Ygerne se soumet à la volonté de la Déesse… Mais dans un monde où chacun défend son Dieu et où temps anciens et modernes s’affrontent, la paix entre tous ne pourra régner qu’au prix de nombreux sacrifices. La légende du Roi Arthur et des chevaliers de la Table ronde a rarement inspiré un roman d’une telle envergure. Pour la première fois publiée dans son intégralité, l’auteur nous offre ici une nouvelle et fascinante reconstitution de l’un des thèmes romanesques les plus impérissables de toute l’histoire de l’Occident.

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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.What are you looking for? This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences. With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.

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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.What are you looking for? This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences. With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.

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Normal People

Sally Rooney

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.

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Normal People

Sally Rooney

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.

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