Gerda Baardman Livres

At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these... Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.

Oskar, 9 ans, est surdoué, ultrasensible, fou d?astrophysique, fan des Beatles et collectionneur de cactées miniatures. Son père est mort dans les attentats du World Trade Center en lui laissant une clé. Persuadé qu?elle expliquera cette disparition injuste, le jeune garçon recherche la serrure qui lui correspond. Sa quête désespérée l?entraîne aux quatre coins de la ville où règne le climat délétère de l?après 11 septembre. Message de l'éditeur : Certaines pages de cet ouvrage sont en surimpression. Il ne s'agit pas là d'un problème d'impression mais d'un effet voulu par l'auteur.

Le directeur du zoo de Pondichéry avait bien prévenu son fils Pi : il ne faut jamais se rapprocher des fauves ! Mais il n'avait pas prévu que le cargo conduisant la famille et la ménagerie au Canada sombrerait, laissant Pi seul sur un canot de sauvetage. Enfin, presque seul : un tigre de Bengale est caché dans la chaloupe ! Durant 227 jours, le jeune garçon va tenter d'oublier sa faim, sa peur et les requins pour l'apprivoiser…

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and a race trial that leads him to the Supreme Court, this novel showcases a comic genius at the height of his craft. It challenges the core principles of the U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, father-son dynamics, and the quest for racial equality—embodied in the black Chinese restaurant. The narrator, raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles, resigns himself to a life of lower-middle-class stagnation, reflecting on the cracks in his childhood bedroom ceiling. His upbringing under a single father, a controversial sociologist, subjects him to racially charged psychological studies, leading him to believe his father's work will culminate in a memoir that could solve their financial struggles. However, after his father's death in a police shoot-out, he discovers the memoir never existed, leaving him with only a bill for a drive-thru funeral. Driven by this betrayal and the decay of his hometown, he embarks on a mission to restore Dickens, which has been erased from the map. Teaming up with the town's most famous resident, the last surviving Little Rascal, he undertakes the outrageous act of reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, ultimately landing him in the Supreme Court.

De intelligente Francis Dean woont met zijn moeder in een vervallen trailerpark in New Jersey. De hoop op een betere toekomst heeft hij opgegeven – tot hij de waarheid achter zijn verwekking ontdekt. Zijn bestaan komt blijkbaar voort uit een absurd experiment waaraan zijn moeder achttien jaar geleden deelnam. Zijn vader is geen loser die zijn gezin in de steek liet, maar een genie, cum laude afgestudeerd aan Harvard. Hem ontmoeten zou Francis’ leven kunnen veranderen. Samen met zijn beste vriend Grover, een excentrieke whizzkid, en het meisje van zijn dromen, de delicate en onvoorspelbare Anne-May, begint hij aan een tocht dwars door Amerika om zijn vader te vinden. Hij wil ontdekken wie hij werkelijk is en hij heeft niets te verliezen – denkt hij. Op het geniale af is het verhaal van een spannende ontdekkingsreis met meedogenloze wendingen en een adembenemende afrekening.

Includes supplement: "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.

Harry has always envied his younger brother George - a high-flying TV executive with two kids, a beautiful home and a covetable wife - but Harry also knows that George is a dangerous man with a murderous temper. When an adulterous kiss at Thanksgiving prompts a chain of unexpected events, George finally loses control, and the result is an act so shocking that the brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, ones in which they must both seek absolution. ~from the back cover

Sur deux îles voisines le long des côtes du Maine, des pêcheurs de homards se livrent depuis des générations une lutte sans merci pour s'approprier les ressources de l'océan. Ruth Thomas, âgée de dix-huit ans, revient parmi les siens après des années passées en pension sur le continent, résolue à intégrer pleinement cette communauté de durs à cuire. Plus la lutte qui oppose Fort Niles à Port Courne s'envenime, plus la détermination de Ruth s'affermit : sa place est parmi ces drôles d'insulaires, la truculente Mme Pommeroy et sa ribambelle de garçons, Simon le Sénateur et son rêve de musée, Angus le teigneux, Webster et sa chasse au trésor... Mais l'intrépide Ruth succombera bien vite au charme d'Owney Wishnell, un jeune et beau pêcheur issu de du clan adverse... Ce premier roman d'Elizabeth Gilbert brosse le portrait d'une inoubliable héroïne promise à un destin hors du commun.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.