L'abîme

In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to combat, a city springs up, seemingly overnight in the fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the necessary machinery of warfare. Labourers - mostly women - flock to this place, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. For Vi, fleeing a dying ranch; for Connie, following an unfaithful husband; for Diane, leaving behind the hot music and soldier boys to pursue something different, adult, and real; their journeys will be liberating in ways they couldn't previously imagine, and will lead each of them to Prosper Olander - disabled artist, forger, friend, lover, and the true heart and soul of the temporary city - who will change their lives in profound and unexpected ways.

Four Freedoms

L'orée des bois (Le Parlement des Fées, #1)

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ...

Engine Summer

"Projeté au milieu de l'étrange famille fondée par John Drinkwater et sa femme Violet, mystérieuse et fragile adepte du spiritisme, l'innocent Smoky Barnable y découvre l'amour et la magie secrète qui anime notre monde.À Edgewood, l'incroyable maison aux multiples visages, Smoky se retrouve pris dans la tourmente : autour de la famille Drinkwater, la dernière bataille entre le monde des légendes et celui de la réalité tangible va se dérouler.""Bientôt, les défenseurs du rêve, comme Lilas, l'enfant chérie des fées, Auberon et Sylvie, les amants prédestinés, Ariel Hawksquill, illustre praticienne des arts magiques, et tous ceux qui les entourent, devront faire face à l'assaut du progrès et de la froide modernité qui menace de balayer leurs rêves.Et, à Edgewood, à l'issue du jugement, le Parlement des Fées décidera du sort des mondes, petits et grands..."

L'art de la Mémoire (Le Parlement des Fées, #2)

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins - or does it? - when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his "time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins - or maybe it doesn't - with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.

L'abîme

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