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The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are among the oldest known forms of literature, and are also among the most popular. "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Ridinghood"--these ageless tales seem to have been written an almost magically long time ago. Yet fairy tales are still being created to this very day. And while they are principally directed to children and have child protagonists, these modern fairy tales, like the classics, have messages to those of all ages. In The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, Alison Lurie has collected forty tales that date from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Here are trolls and princesses, magic and mayhem, morals to be told and lessons to be learned--all the elements of the classic fairy tale, in new and fantastical trappings. In Charles Dickens's "The Magic Fishbone," we find an unusually pragmatic princess who uses her one wish only after she has tried to solve her family's problems through hard work. Angela Carter's "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" is a "Beauty and the Beast" tale with a contemporary twist, in which Beauty leaves Beast to live the high life, becoming a society brat who "smiled at herself in mirrors too much." And in T.H. White's "The Troll," we find out how his father killed the troll that tried to eat him...

For years, rumours 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. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.

From the author of the #1 New York Times giant bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive our surroundings. From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.

"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a U.S. marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they are also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated" -- Front jacket flap

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

A B-list celebrity with a new baby on the way, Arthur's mother hires an enigmatic young nanny named Missy to care for her precocious and curious eight-year-old son, and together they embark on on humorous and fantastical odyssey through an unexpected world in search of art, culture, and Arthur's missing father. By the author of Behidn the Scenes at the Museum. 25,000 first printing.

The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard, ' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize our capacity to love the natural world. Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have proven adequate as defenses against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls 'the great thinning' around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early discovery of wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author's long experience in the field, The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action"-- Provided by publisher

The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel The Enchantment of Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town--Webster, Minnesota--where people are brought together by a powerful sense of place, both geographical and spiritual. Here gossip, secrets, and storytelling are as essential to the bond among its people as the borders that enclose the town. The real secret at the heart of the book is the one that lies between reality and appearances, between waking life and dreams, at the place where imagination draws on its transforming powers in the face of death.

At twenty-two, Chicagoan Nadine Kenney is thrilled to meet her future husband, Jamie, while vacationing in Florida. After a whirlwind, long-distance romance, Nadine leaves her friends, family, and city to join Jamie in suburban Massachusetts. Once married, they begin trying for a baby without knowing how hard that road will become. Nadine soon faces the little-known horrors of IVF when a procedure causes severe internal bleeding, and she wakes up from emergency surgery with a six-inch scar instead of a baby bump. In the difficult year that follows, anxiety and additional failed fertility treatments threaten her new marriage and her mental state. By some saving grace, she eventually becomes pregnant naturally, but the horrors are not over: her son is diagnosed with potentially terminal kidney complications. Ultimately, Nadine learns that in an unpredictable life, the only thing she can be sure of is the healing power of hope.

An oak tree and a crow help their neighbors embrace their differences in this beautiful, nuanced, New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel from Newbery Medalist author Katherine Applegate. Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"-people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experience as a wishtree is more important than ever. Funny, deep, warm, and nuanced, this is Katherine Applegate at her very best-writing from the heart, and from a completely unexpected point of view.

Roman et satire de l'édition. L'auteur épingle les travers de la profession au fil des aventures du héros, un jeune ambitieux qui veut se faire une place au soleil de ce qu'il croit être la grande littérature.

Paris, 1943. Rainer Wunder, 28 ans, est officier de liaison de la Wehrmacht auprès de la Luftwaffe au Sénat. Il tombe amoureux de Hannah Ollenstein, allemande, juive, communiste, qui travaille pour les Britanniques. Le narrateur n'est autre que l'auteur lui-même, âgé d'une quinzaine d'années. Il raconte également ses années de lycée, ses amitiés, ses premières amours...

Une jeune fille de 10 ans, Mona, n'a plus que cinquante-deux semaines avant de devenir aveugle. Son grand-père décide de consacrer chacune de ces semaines à lui faire voir un chef-d'oeuvre différent de l'histoire de l'art et de l'accompagner d'une pensée philosophique afin de préparer Mona à la perte de sa vue. Jaquette dépliable avec les 52 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'ouvrage reproduits.

Il y a sept ans, Graham et Quinn se sont rencontrés dans des circonstances un peu étranges et contre toute attente, alors que rien ne semblait les destiner l'un à l'autre, ils sont tombés profondément amoureux. Puis, ils se sont mariés, ont vécu heureux et voulu avoir des enfants. Les mois, les années ont passé et ils n'ont pas réussi à agrandir leur famille. Le désir de Quinn d'être mère est devenue une obsession qui mine leur couple et elle n'est plus très sûre que Graham le partage. Leur relation se dégrade et ils semblent de moins en moins se comprendre. Est-ce qu'un amour aussi intense et fusionnel peut mourir quand les épreuves se multiplient ou au contraire peut-il en sortir renforcé '

Parce que son petit Raphaël a été conçu dans des circonstances tragiques, Adèle, une jeune paysanne de 17 ans, décide de le confier à l'orphelinat des soeurs de la Charité de Nîmes, en espérant qu'il aura une vie meilleure. Mais elle se trompe, car l'enfant est adopté par des paysans qui l'exploitent comme main d'oeuvre corvéable. Son sort est lié à Vincent, un autre nourrisson abandonné. Electre 2016

Installée dans l'appartement que ses grands-parents lui ont légué à Athènes, Helena, qui a grandi en Angleterre, prend conscience que son grand-père a participé à la dictature des colonels. En fouillant les lieux, elle découvre de nombreuses oeuvres d'art qui valent une fortune. Elle enquête sur leur origine et tente de réparer les actions de son aïeul.

Compositrice de musique de film, Alex quitte Paris malgré son indéfectible amitié avec Jacques et Margot. Loin d'eux, isolée et sans voiture, elle doit maintenant s'inventer une nouvelle vie. Après avoir croisé cette dernière par hasard, Léo arpente la plage à sa recherche car il est persuadé d'avoir trouvé en elle la seule personne apte à comprendre ce qu'il a vécu.

En Bosnie, la narratrice doit assister aux obsèques de la tante Stana, ce dont elle se serait bien passé. Elle raconte ses mésaventures, du voyage à bord de la vieille voiture déglinguée de son cousin Stojan aux trombes d'eau apocalyptiques, en passant par les frasques de son oncle Loir alcoolisé à l'eau-de-vie et la convocation de toute l'assemblée au commissariat. Premier roman.