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Summary of Commonwealth by Ann Patchett | Includes Analysis Preview: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett is a story of two families that unfolds over the course of 50 years. At the center of the novel is a traumatic loss that profoundly affects each family member in a different way. The novel opens on a summer day in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Downey. LA cop Francis Fix" Keating and his wife, Beverly, are hosting a christening party for their infant...
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Summary of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty | Includes Analysis Preview: Truly Madly Guilty, a novel by Liane Moriarty, flashes back and forth in time between the afternoon of a traumatic barbecue and its aftermath. The story, which unfolds in Sydney, Australia, and its suburbs, describes the lives of the attendees two months after the barbecue where a little girl nearly drowned. Under a backdrop of incessant rain, over a period of months, three...
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Summary of The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | Includes Analysis Preview: The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the story of the Plumb siblings, a group of disillusioned Gen X-ers struggling to navigate their lives in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis. The novel opens with the estranged Leo Plumb, age 46, at a family wedding in summertime. Leo is avoiding his soon-to-be ex-wife, Victoria, and his family. Then Leo meets 19-year-old...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Nicholas Sparks's Two by Two by Instaread Preview: Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks is a novel about a 35-year-old husband and father, Russ Green, whose life is upended by circumstances that are alternately within and beyond his control. Over the course of just one year, he'll lose his office job, his wife, his sister, and his home, among other things. Although Russ struggles to adjust to his changed circumstances, he also...
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The culture of China is rich with marvelous folklore and legendry that has informed its tale telling from the era of oral storytelling up through the current age of the written word. “Chinese Myths and Folk Tales” draws on that magnificent repository of lore, featuring more than 200 fables and folk tales drawn from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums of traditional tales. Here are stories of ancient demons, strange...
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These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change the fate of people like Nâzboo, Khorshid, Hamid and so many others.
Originally published by Éditions Le Soupirail in 2019, this collection was the first volume of short stories by...
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The greatest truths are often revealed in fiction, as exemplified by this stunning anthology of stories that reveal the human condition in bracingly truthful ways. The eternal complexities of sibling relationships are revealed in four-time #1 bestselling author Steven Manchester's "Lost." The hope and betrayal that so often underlies love declare themselves in Marcia Gloster's "Losing Will." The reality behind a con man's illusions emerge in Craig...
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A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Brontë, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre.
The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him - one of the most celebrated lines in fiction - are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination.
A bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride...
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35 jolies histoires racontées par sept voix féminines
T'aurais pu me le dire rassemble des textes qui nous parlent du temps qui passe, d'amour et de désamour, de départs et de faux-départs, de moments ou d'événements surprenants... de la vie tout simplement! Ce recueil collectif est le fruit de la créativité de sept auteures qui se sont rencontrées en atelier d'écriture.
Ces textes singuliers et universels s'entremêlent, s'imbriquent...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Réunion.
Miniatures fait escale sur la Route des Indes, en plein océan Indien, dans les Mascareignes, dans l'ancienne Île Bourbon. Le monde entier est passé par là pendant cinq siècles. Tout comme la Guadeloupe ou la Martinique, La Réunion a été le lieu d'un vaste brassage. Témoignant de tous les trafics qui s'y sont pratiqués, sa population est issue de Madagascar (les Malgaches),...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture du Congo.
Le Congo-Kinshasa, toujours en proie à de fortes tensions, revient de loin en termes de destruction et de massacre. Comme l'écrivait Arthur Conan Doyle en 1909 : « Beaucoup d'entre nous, en Angleterre, considèrent le crime qui a été commis sur les terres congolaises par le roi Léopold de Belgique et ses partisans comme le plus grand jamais répertorié dans les annales de l'humanité....
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Malaisie.
Puissance économique d'Asie du Sud-Est, parmi les premières à se développer depuis son indépendance de l'Empire britannique en 1957 et la formation, en 1965, d'une nation telle qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui, avec la péninsule malaise d'un cté et le nord de l'île de Bornéo de l'autre, la Malaisie fait désormais entendre sa voix sur la scène internationale.
Dynamique et...
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Découvrez six récits tissés d'illusions, d'aspirations sociales, de rêves brisés et d'amertumes!
Six écrivains, six nouvelles.
La ville brille, mais blesse. Elle représente toutes les illusions, les aspirations sociales de la jeunesse, mais aussi les rêves brisés, les amertumes. Dans Les Poncires, une grand-mère rompt avec la morosité de son appartement citadin pour faire un dernier voyage: les somptueux paysages de l'île de Jeju, au...
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