Romans
Dissatisfied with life at Microsoft, a group of programmers leave the company in search of high-tech life in their own software company. Some strong language.
High school senior Karen Ann McNeil has lapsed into a coma. While her boyfriend, Richard, and their circle of friends make their way in the world, Karen remains comatose for nearly twenty years. She wakes up to find them living in an emotional purgatory and a different world. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.
Roger Thorpe is a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the oldest employee at Staples. A frustrated novelist to boot, Roger considers himself lost, continually haunted by dreams of missed opportunities and a long ago car accident that claimed four friends. His younger, disgruntled Goth co-worker, Bethany Twain, discovers Roger's diary one day, and lays down a supreme challenge for them both - to write diary entries to each other, while neither is allowed to acknowledge the other around the store. Some strong language.
It is the near future, when honeybees have become extinct. Five people, the "Wonka children", are mysteriously stung. At the heart of the mystery is the controversial drug Solon, which allows its users to suppress anxiety by living exclusively in the present.
Liz Dunn is overweight, crabby, plain, and alone, and is almost resigned to her fate of being nobody's wife or mother. As the Hale-Bopp comet streaks across the Vancouver skies, another comet crashes into her life - a young man admitted to the local hospital with her information inscribed on his Medic Alert bracelet: 'In case of emergency, contact Liz Dunn'. This triggers a chain of events that take Liz to the other side of the world and back, endangering her life just as a real chance at happiness finally seems within reach.
A portrait of disenchantment at the end of the twentieth century. Andy, Claire, and Dag, all in their twenties, have dropped out of society and are living in Palm Springs in the Mojave Desert working at low-paying, dead-end jobs. As they trade stories and secrets, it becomes evident that they are disturbed young people searching for permanence where there is none.
Members of the Drummond family descend upon Florida to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah, but their trip is turned upside down by a series of mishaps. And Sarah, the star of the latest NASA shuttle mission, has an ex-husband and three children, some of whom are struggling with AIDS, manic-depression and violence. No one is looking forward to getting together for Sarah's pre-flight farewell banquet.
Un ange raconte la vie des habitants du quartier dont il a la responsabilité.
Comment être à la fois patron et terroriste, jeune homme et jeune fille, vivre à la fois de nos jours et au 19e siècle? Impossible... C'est pourtant le pari de David Bloom, l'enjeu de son existence: mener des vies parallèles et contradictoires.
Dans le secret de leurs pensées, les enfants lisent d'étranges présages. Si un oiseau passe dans le ciel, si une feuille morte tombe à point nommé sur leur épaule, si, en trois pas, ils atteignent le bord du trottoir, ils imaginent aussitôt leurs craintes vérifiées, leurs voeux exaucés. C'est l'histoire de Marie Romance enfermée dans la prison de ses sortilèges.
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