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When nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work.

Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them. Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet. We see a young man’s passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn’t getting him laid; a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake.

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans une petite ville des Caraïbes, un jeune télégraphiste pauvre et une ravissante écolière jurent de se marier et se promettent un amour éternel. Durant trois ans ils vivent l’un pour l’autre, mais Fermina épouse Juvenal Urbino, un brillant médecin. Alors Florentino, l’amoureux trahi, se mue en séducteur impénitent et s’efforce de se faire un nom et une fortune pour mériter celle qu’il ne cessera d’aimer, en secret, cinquante années durant.

Le suspense olfactif qui a conquis le monde entier. Et si vous pouviez revivre vos souvenirs les plus précieux à travers leurs parfums ? Cette immersion dans le passé, c’est ce que propose l’entreprise Fragrancia à une poignée d’élus grâce à la SVM, une substance psychotrope. Mais tandis que des filières illégales se multiplient, Fragrancia est contrainte de rendre son activité secrète. Officiellement, Hélias, 24 ans, est aromathérapeute. En réalité, il se forme à devenir un olfate de Fragrancia, ces savants capables de traduire un souvenir en formule chimique.

" Il y a évidemment des secrets derrière ses secrets, des moments de mystère, de tristesse et de joie dans l’ombre des silences que certains entendront. Il est possible que mes souvenirs aient leurs fantaisies, mais j’ai fait de mon mieux pour lui rendre justice, pour exprimer ce que mon père m’a raconté comme ce qu’il a tu, les gestes que je vais te transmettre et ceux qu’il n’a pas faits. " Alors que Marc s’apprête à adopter un enfant, son père meurt. Pour offrir à son fils un morceau de son histoire, il plonge dans la vie hors du commun d’Hippolyte.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is The Five Orange Pips, part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original title was The Dancing Men, when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

Fee Drummond has taken over the running of the Carnbeg Hydro Hotel following the death of her husband in a speedboat accident. But Fee is not short of enemies who would love to see her fail. Can she hold her nerve? Meanwhile, the staff of the Hydro are having their ‘Potential Superfactors’ assessed by a management guru, a distinguished concert violinist suffers stage fright on the eve of the Edinburgh Festival, and the bank drops a legal bombshell.

" Que vaut-il mieux ? Que votre enfant meure avec vous, ou qu'il reste en vie loin de vous ? ". Cristelle Ledroit met son émotion et sa voix claire au service de ce second tome bouleversant. Dans l'enfer d'Auschwitz, Ester caresse doucement les cheveux de Pippa, son bébé. C'est un miracle que sa petite fille soit blonde, car grâce à ce détail l'enfant pourra rester en vie. Bientôt, les nazis viendront prendre son bébé pour le donner à une famille allemande. Mais Ester veut croire qu'un jour, après la guerre, elle retrouvera sa Pippa.

Qui aurait pu prédire le destin d’Anne, mère au foyer passionnée de couture qui propose ses créations en ligne, le jour où une star planétaire apparaît portant une de ses combi-shorts ? Certainement pas Blanche, patronne du magazine féminin Attitude, revenue de tout et de tous, pressurisée par ses actionnaires chinois, et déterminée à dissimuler ses fêlures. Peut-être davantage Myrtille, jeune styliste bourrée de talent et convaincue que les réseaux sociaux sont le nouvel Eldorado du secteur.

En 1699, Ilaria naît dans une famille de marchands d’étoffes, à Venise. C’est une période faste pour l’art et la musique. À peine âgée de quelques semaines, sa mère place Ilaria à la Pietà. Cette institution publique a ouvert ses portes en 1345 pour offrir une chance de survie aux enfants abandonnées. On y enseigne la musique au plus haut niveau et les Vénitiens se pressent aux concerts organisés dans l’église attenante. Cachées derrière des grilles ouvragées, les jeunes interprètes jouent et chantent des pièces composées exclusivement pour elles.

Nueva Vida’s holistic retreat in Costa Rica promises to “unveil your inner-knowing and guide you toward your destiny,” but for Marlee, Juliette, Sophia, and Annie, the experience becomes far more life-changing than they ever anticipated. Maggie, a young architect from Pittsburgh who is still grieving her mother’s unexpected death, is welcomed into their group by Marlee and her friends, who each bring their own hidden pain and doubts.

England, 1685. Decades after the end of the civil war, the country is once again divided when Charles II's illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, arrives in Dorset to incite rebellion against his Catholic uncle. Armed only with pitchforks, Monmouth's army is quickly defeated by King James II's superior forces and charged with high treason. Those found guilty will be hanged, drawn and quartered. As Dorset braces for carnage, the redoubtable Lady Jayne Harrier and a small group of trusted allies contrive ways to save men from the gallows.

Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas. The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.

Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is … complicated. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw.

That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart. The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door. The night Edward learned that he was powerless to stop them. The night they never talk about. When their attacker is caught, it's finally time to tell the story of that night. Not to the world. Or to the man who did it. But to each other.

It is autumn in Castle Knoll and Annie Adams is busy settling into her new home. She doesn't find Gravesdown Hall particularly cosy, especially since she found two dead bodies there over the summer. What's more, ever since she arrived in the village, Annie has had the creeping sense she's being watched. Lonely, and desperate for some company, Annie starts talking to a stranger she meets in the grounds of the estate. The striking old woman introduces herself as Peony Lane, the fortune-teller who predicted Great Aunt Frances' murder all those years ago. And now she has a fortune to tell Annie.

In her role at the council’s Unclaimed Heirs Unit, Linda Standish investigates the lives of those who’ve died alone and tracks down any living relatives. She’s been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years. And now she’s looking forward to an early retirement. But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda must take on one last case – that of Levi Norman Jones – a Welshman who’d made his home on a remote Scottish island for the past five years.