Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
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Livres Fiction
"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
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![The Buddha of Suburbia](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780571333547-buddha-suburbia.jpg)
The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results.
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![Gulliver's Travels](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureG/U/9780199536849-gulliver-travels.jpg)
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
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![Northanger Abbey](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9780141439792-northanger-abbey.jpg)
Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her acquaintances: rude, boorish John Thorpe, his flirtatious sister Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of novels and intrigue, and sophisticated Eleanor and Henry Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey.
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![Small Worlds](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/M/9780241996041-small-worlds.jpg)
Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline.
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![Wait for Me](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/A/9781398513983-wait.jpg)
'Based on a true story this gorgeous sweeping romance crossing time and continents is completely captivating as Florence epitomises the enduring power of love' My Weekly‘Fascinating, compelling and a searingly romantic roller coaster ride’ Daily MirrorRupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait.
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![Ordinary Human Failings](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/R/9781529922639-ordinary-human-failings.jpg)
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder.
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![The Reappearance of Rachel Price](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008617264-reappearance-rachel-price.jpg)
Lights. Camera. Lies.
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.
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![Victory City](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureV/I/9781529920864-victory-city.jpg)
She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
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![The Girl and the Stars](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008284794-girl-stars.jpg)
On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
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![The Book That Wouldn’t Burn](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008456757-book-that-wouldn-t-burn.jpg)
The greatest story can reach the stars . . .
This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned…
Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
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![A Thousand Splendid Suns](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/9781526604750-thousand-splendid-suns.jpg)
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
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![THE NIGHTINGALE](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781509898411-nightingale.jpg)
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent.
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![The Covenant of Water](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781804710456-covenant-water.jpg)
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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![Undercover Bromance](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureU/N/9781472271655-undercover-bromance.jpg)
The first rule of book club:
You don't talk about book club.
Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he'll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.
Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville's hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors.
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![Water for Elephants](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/A/9780340962725-water-elephants.jpg)
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
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![The Notebook](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780751540475-notebook.jpg)
Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film. *Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud... Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty.
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![The Waves](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781784870843-waves.jpg)
Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel.
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![Lucky Hit](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/U/9781405966245-lucky.jpg)
OAKLEYI have one goal. To be drafted into the NHL and make my father proud. I've never been interested in dating, not when all of my spare time is spent at the rink perfecting my craft.
There's no time for distractions. I can't afford them. But she came out of nowhere.
Octavia Layton, the girl with the pretty smile and the broken heart.
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![Western Lane](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/E/9781529094640-western-lane.jpg)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD 2023'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.
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![The Partner Plot](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781405956475-partner-plot.jpg)
To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she’s thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiancé six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus on her career.
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![The Daughter of Time](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781782278429-daughter-time.jpg)
Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare’s play. – a wicked uncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England?
Inspector Alan Grant is not so sure. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical mysteries.
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![Song of Silver, Flame Like Night](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/O/9780008521400-song-silver--flame-like-night.jpg)
In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past – and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic new fantasy duology inspired by Chinese mythology. Once, Lan had a different name.
Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her. She spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past.
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![Lonely For You Only](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/O/9781405966061-lonely-only.jpg)
Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn't talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett's dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn't been popular for years.
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![Once Upon a Broken Heart : 1](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/N/9781250268402-once-upon-broken-heart.jpg)
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.
Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts.
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![Frankenstein](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/R/9781435159624-frankenstein.jpg)
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect.
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![Emma](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/M/9781435171367-emma.jpg)
Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own.
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![Hate](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/A/9781464220302-hate.jpg)
"Madison Kate Danvers foi assassinada esta noite."Essas palavras mudaram minha vida e não para melhor.Elas estavam erradas, é claro.Eu não estava morta.Mas eu fui incriminada.Depois de ser acusada de uma série de transgressões – e ser usada como um exemplo pelo meu pai com interesse político – enfim fui solta em Shadow Grove com uma coisa em minha mente.Ódio.
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![Wild Love](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/I/9780349441634-wild-love.jpg)
"Elsie Silver's writing is a true revelation!" ALI HAZELWOODSmall-town, big characters, four addictive love stories . . .
meet the single dads of Rose Hill's recreational bowling team. Perfect for fans of steamy romance, Lucy Score, and Elsie's smash hit Chestnut Springs series. ____She's been driving him wild for years .
. . the good kind of wild.
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![In Ascension](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureI/N/9781838956271-ascension.jpg)
AN INSTANT THE TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Mesmerising' Sunday Times'Magnificent' Guardian'Monumental' The TelegraphLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is [...]
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![Birnam Wood](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/I/9781783784288-birnam-wood.jpg)
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood.
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![Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/E/9780241342039-tell-long-train-been-gone.jpg)
In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking a man struggling to become himself.'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack.
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![The Right Move](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781399728560-right-move.jpg)
She’s a distraction, that’s what she is.
I’m the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago’s NBA team, and the last thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister’s best friend, to move into my apartment. She’s messy, emotional, and way too tempting.
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![Hell Bent](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/E/9781473228030-hell-bent.jpg)
Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy ??oeAlex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.
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