Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l'Arche d'Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre à la Citacielle, capitale flottante du Pôle. À quelle fin a-t-elle été choisie ? Pourquoi doit-elle dissimuler sa véritable identité ? Sans le savoir, Ophélie devient le jouet d'un complot mortel. Une héroïne inoubliable, un univers riche et foisonnant, une intrigue implacable. Découvrez le premier livre d'une grande saga fantastique et le talent d'un nouvel auteur à l'imaginaire saisissant.

Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l'Arche d'Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre à la Citacielle, capitale flottante du Pôle. À quelle fin a-t-elle été choisie ? Pourquoi doit-elle dissimuler sa véritable identité ? Sans le savoir, Ophélie devient le jouet d'un complot mortel. Une héroïne inoubliable, un univers riche et foisonnant, une intrigue implacable. Découvrez le premier livre d'une grande saga fantastique et le talent d'un nouvel auteur à l'imaginaire saisissant.

Parce qu’elle a accordé trop de vœux aux humains, Alba a été bannie sur Terre par les Génies. Après une longue errance à travers les siècles, elle a enfin trouvé un refuge et une famille sur l’archipel paisible d’Hibernia. Les habitants de ce qui fut jadis l’Irlande voient désormais en elle Lady Whitmore, la Dame aux yeux sombres, gardienne de ces derniers morceaux de terre verdoyante que la mer grignote chaque jour un peu plus. Mais l’abondance qui règne sur Hibernia commence à susciter la convoitise de Cymru, l’archipel voisin, puissant et surpeuplé. Le Conseil de Cymru envoie alors chez Lady Whitmore un émissaire aussi détestable que séduisant : Lethan Alcor. Tout juste élu Conseiller, Lethan a une mission cruciale : percer le secret de la richesse d’Hibernia. Et pour y parvenir, il est prêt à user de ses stratagèmes les plus redoutables contre Alba et ses proches. La cohabitation risque d’être orageuse…

Parce qu’elle a accordé trop de vœux aux humains, Alba a été bannie sur Terre par les Génies. Après une longue errance à travers les siècles, elle a enfin trouvé un refuge et une famille sur l’archipel paisible d’Hibernia. Les habitants de ce qui fut jadis l’Irlande voient désormais en elle Lady Whitmore, la Dame aux yeux sombres, gardienne de ces derniers morceaux de terre verdoyante que la mer grignote chaque jour un peu plus. Mais l’abondance qui règne sur Hibernia commence à susciter la convoitise de Cymru, l’archipel voisin, puissant et surpeuplé. Le Conseil de Cymru envoie alors chez Lady Whitmore un émissaire aussi détestable que séduisant : Lethan Alcor. Tout juste élu Conseiller, Lethan a une mission cruciale : percer le secret de la richesse d’Hibernia. Et pour y parvenir, il est prêt à user de ses stratagèmes les plus redoutables contre Alba et ses proches. La cohabitation risque d’être orageuse…

A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone, presumed drowned. She is ten years old.In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's Flashlight chases the shockwaves of one family’s catastrophe. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, an ethnic Korean born and raised in Japan, lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to the DPRK. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her family after a reckless sexual adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.What really happened to Louisa’s father? Why did he take Louisa and her mother to Japan just before he disappeared? And how can we love, or make sense of our lives, when there’s so much we can’t see?

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction―many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual―and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action… A brilliant depiction of a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures we all feel to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city -or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…

Entre trois personnages solitaires, une femme simple d’un certain âge que le hasard, ou le destin, a conduite dans une petite maison au fond de la Normandie, une adolescente boudeuse qui s’ennuie pendant des vacances solitaires, et un jardin à l’abandon attendant les secours d’une main amie, va se créer par-delà les mots une complicité subtile et profonde. Il suffit parfois d’un rien pour que se nouent des liens qui paraissent improbables, que la nature serve de pont entre des êtres, et que leur vie acquière dans le silence des saisons un sens et une profondeur qui les marquent pour toujours.

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city -or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.