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Gabrielle Zevin
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LE livre phénomène aux États-Unis : l'un des meilleurs livres de l'année selon (entre autres) The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly et BookPage.
La vie est un grand jeu de piste...
Par un après-midi de décembre, Sam repère Sadie sur le quai du métro parmi la foule. Ils ne se sont pas parlé depuis plus de dix ans, mais jamais ils n'ont oublié leur première rencontre, à l'hôpital. Sam se remettait d'un accident, Sadie venait voir sa soeur malade, et ces deux enfants passionnés de jeux vidéo se sont mis à refaire le monde.
À présent étudiants, c'est un univers virtuel que les deux amis vont inventer et qui va les propulser au sommet : leur première création, Ichigo, est un blockbuster. Du jour au lendemain, ils deviennent des stars. Ils n'ont pas encore vingt-cinq ans et ils sont brillants, riches et célèbres. Mais le succès n'empêchera pas le piège de l'ambition et de la jalousie de se refermer sur eux... -
A.J. Fikry a l'un des plus beaux métiers du monde : il est libraire sur une petite île du Massachusetts. Mais il traverse une mauvaise passe. Il a perdu sa femme, son commerce enregistre ses pires résultats depuis sa création et il vient de se faire dérober une édition originale et précieuse. A.J. s'isole au milieu des livres jusqu'au soir où il découvre un couffin devant sa librairie. Un bébé que sa mère a abandonné là avec un mot : Je tiens à ce qu'elle grandisse entourée de livres et de gens pour lesquels la lecture compte. Réticent au premier abord face à l'ampleur de cette mission, le libraire tombe rapidement sous le charme du nourrisson et entrevoit avec lui la possibilité d'un nouveau bonheur.
Et si la vie valait bien qu'on lui accorde une seconde chance ?
Un optimisme rafraîchissant pour les amoureux des livres !
The Washington Post @ Disponible chez 12-21 L'ÉDITEUR NUMÉRIQUE -
"Delightful and absorbing." --
One of the Best Books of the Year:
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From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a YA novel of hope, love and redemption about Liz''s life after life.
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE''S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It''s quiet and peaceful. You can''t get sick, and you can''t get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning...
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place very like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backwards from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driving licence. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. She doesn''t want to get to know a grandmother she''s never met before and have to make all new friends.
How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Or is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?
"Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere is such a book" - New York Times Book Review -
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCY HALE & KUNNAL NAYAR ''Marvelously optimistic about the future of books and bookstores and the people who love both'' Washington Post A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession - a rare first edition book has been stolen. Over time, he has given up on people, and even the books in his store, instead of offering solace, are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too rapidly.
But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor, with a note attached to her asking the owner to look after her. His life - and Maya''s - is changed forever.
Gabrielle Zevin''s enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books - an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.
''Readers who delighted in Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows''s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Rachel Joyce''s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and Jessica Brockmole''s Letters from Skye will be equally captivated by this adult novel by a popular YA author about a life of books, redemption, and second chances. Funny, tender, and moving'' Library Journal, starred review ''This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love - love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory'' Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child -
Who are you at 16, if you can''t remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can''t remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother. She has friends who simply don''t seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it!
But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?
''Essentially a love story, it is also an exploration of teenage identity, handled with such a skilful blend of wit, intelligence and tenderness that readers will lose themselves in the story and find themselves in the process.'' Daily Telegraph -
''This sly, exhilarating novel takes on slut-shaming . . . and manages to be hilarious in the process'' People ''It''s brilliant and hilarious . . . It has a heart. And a spine. It''s exactly what we need more of right now.'' Chicago Tribune A smart, funny and moving novel that captures not just the mood of political life, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women.
Aviva Grossman, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss - and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the beloved congressman doesn''t take the fall. But Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line.
She sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. This time, she tries to be smarter about her life and strives to raise her daughter, Ruby, to be strong and confident. But when, at the urging of others, Aviva decides to run for public office herself, that long-ago mistake trails her via the Internet and catches up. In the digital age, the past is never, ever, truly past. And it''s only a matter of time until Ruby finds out who her mother was and is forced to reconcile that person with the one she knows.
''A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force'' Washington Times -
Je ne sais plus pourquoi je t'aime
Gabrielle Zevin
- Le Livre De Poche Jeunesse
- Ldp Jeunesse
- 7 Janvier 2015
- 9782012202238
Après une mauvaise chute dans un escalier, Naomi Porter se retrouve à l'hôpital, amnésique. Elle tombe folle amoureuse de James Larkin et nage dans un brouillard heureux. Mais cela ne peut durer. Il faut qu'elle sache qui elle était avant, et se lance dans une enquête sur elle-même.
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La mafia du chocolat
Gabrielle Zevin
- Le Livre De Poche Jeunesse
- Ldp Jeunesse
- 11 Mars 2015
- 9782012031883
En 2083, le chocolat et le café sont illégaux, le papier est difficile à trouver, l'eau est précieusement rationnée, et la ville de New York est dominée par le crime et la pauvreté. Pour Anya Balanchine, 16 ans, la fille orpheline du criminel le plus célèbre de la ville, la vie est une routine bienheureuse. Jusqu'à ce que son ex-petit ami soit accidentellement empoisonné par le chocolat de la contrebande familiale, et que la police accuse la jeune fille. Brusquement, Anya se retrouve poussée malgré elle sous le feu des projecteurs : au lycée, dans la presse et, plus grave, au sein de sa famille de hors-la-loi...
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Une vie ailleurs
Gabrielle Zevin
- Le Livre De Poche Jeunesse
- Ldp Jeunesse
- 17 Octobre 2012
- 9782013234009
Liz Hall, 15 ans, vient de mourir dans un accident de vélo. Elle se retrouve sur Ailleurs, un lieu où les défunts rajeunissent jusqu'à redevenir bébés et repartir dans le grand cycle de l'humanité. Pour Liz, qui rêvait enfin d'atteindre ses seize ans, le choc est brutal. Car elle n'a aucune envie de rajeunir. Il va pourtant lui falloir faire le deuil de son ancienne vie sur Terre avant de trouver un sens à cette nouvelle existence.
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Sixteen year-old Anya's parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself and her siblings away from that world. But her father's relatives aren't so keen to let them go.
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BECAUSE IT IS MY BLOOD - BIRTHRIGHT TRILOGY: BOOK 2
Gabrielle Zevin
- Macmillan
- 15 Août 2012
- 9780330537902
Reluctant heir of a Mafia boss. Star-crossed lover. Paparazzi darling. Hitman's target. Anya Balanchine's amazing story continues in the second part of the Birthright trilogy.