Récits initiatiques

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line....

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city....

January Scaller finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own....

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America....

In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined....

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. S’y croisent sans se voir Roxane, Mélissa et Kevin, chacun de son côté du Bloc, chacun au départ de sa vie. À douze ans, ils composent avec le monde dans lequel ils arrivent....

Fraîchement diplômé en Lettres, Jérôme Lupien choisit de prendre une année sabbatique avant de se lancer sur le marché du travail. Issu d’une famille aimante et à l’aise, il semble promis à un bel avenir. Mais le sort en décidera peut-être autrement. Coup sur coup, le voilà victime de deux arnaques. Elles ébranleront sa confiance en lui, en même temps que ses principes. À quoi bon la vertu dans un système qui sourit d’abord et avant tout aux escrocs ? Peut-on vraiment se payer le luxe d’être honnête ?

"Je me rendais bien compte que, cet été, quelque chose en moi ne tournait pas rond." Lauréate d’un concours de poésie, Esther Greenwood découvre New York l’été de ses dix-neuf ans. Étourdie par les cocktails, la mode, les flirts et les amitiés fugaces, elle découvre la vie mondaine. Censée s’amuser comme jamais, elle s’ennuie et se trouve progressivement assaillie par des pensées morbides. De retour chez elle, tiraillée entre ses aspirations littéraires et son avenir tout tracé de femme au foyer, elle sombre dans une brutale dépression et se fait interner.