Le Château des Rentiers
Translated title: The Rentiers' Castle
Author: Desarthe, Agnès
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 224 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782823619515
Looking up at the eighth floor of a tower block in Paris's 13th arrondissement, Agnès's thoughts take her to Boris and Tsila, her grandparents, and all those who once lived in the same building. On Rue du Château des Rentiers, these Jews from Central Europe had once invented a communal life, a phalanstery.
Time has passed, but what does it matter, since with imagination, one can be 17, 22, 53, and 90 years old all at once: past and present overlap, years telescope into one another, and the utopia experienced by Boris and Tsila becomes Agnès's own project. Growing old? Yes, but in the company of those one loves.
Such is the lesson of this novel, full of humor and riddles - what does the Garden of Eden look like? What is the exact recipe for walnut cake? What is a story told to deaf people by mute people? - which takes us on a dizzying journey through the generations
Susan: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Susan: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 7
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 0 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997888
Montreal, May 1895. With the arrival of spring, a preacher as fervent as he is suspicious settles in Saint-Henri-des-Tanneries. Through fiery sermons, he quickly stirs up devout Catholics against Freemasons, whom he blames for all the ills plaguing French-Canadian society. A series of events combine to create an explosive situation: a ghost story terrorizing the residents of Griffintown; the publication of a scandalous book by Jules-Paul Tardivel, a radical ultramontane influenced by the anti-Masonic ravings of the French fabulist Léo Taxil; and the construction of a new building by the Grand Lodge of Quebec on Dorchester Boulevard. The fervent demonstrations encouraged by the preacher spiral out of control and erupt into riots. Meanwhile, Freemasons are murdered and prostitutes are disfigured. Joseph Laflamme, George McCreary, Emma Laflamme and Mary O'Gara investigate - with the help of a ghost no one expected anymore
Adolphus: Les Enquêtes De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Adolphus: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 6
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997871
Montreal, October 1893. Joseph, Mary, Emma and McCreary visit Sohmer Park, where a traveling circus has set up its museum of curiosities. Among the exhibits is the axe used by Montrealer Adolphus Dewey to murder his wife in 1833. That same evening, a couple is found dead near the big top; clearly, the killer was inspired by the gruesome murder that occurred sixty years earlier. Now without his partner, Inspector Arcand, and despite the police making his life difficult, Joseph conducts his own investigation. This leads him to question the showmen, and he discovers a strange world, full of secrets
Joseph: Les Enquêtes De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Joseph: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 5
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997857
MONTREAL, JULY 1893. Joseph Laflamme, present near the scene of a murder, is arrested and accused of brutally murdering the victim. Despite his cries of frame-up, the circumstances are overwhelming. His only hope lies in the investigation led by Inspector Marcel Arcand. While trying to support his wife, who is struggling with profound melancholy, and despite feeling like his world is crumbling around him, Arcand faces a cruel dilemma: give in to blackmail or let Laflamme be unjustly accused
Jérémiah: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Jeremiah: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 2
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997826
Montreal, April 1865. The Civil War is drawing to a close, and members of a Confederate secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, are gathered at the St. Lawrence Hall Hotel in Montreal. Their goal: to plan the resumption of hostilities. Among them, John Wilkes Booth, the future assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, possesses a valuable object. February 1892. Black Montrealers are brutally tortured and murdered in the characteristic manner of the Ku Klux Klan. Journalist Joseph Laflamme of the newspaper Le Canadien takes on the case, accompanied by Inspector Marcel Arcand of the Montreal Police Department. They will cross paths with a legendary figure who will stop at nothing to find what Booth hid in Montreal
Benjamin: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Benjamin: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 4
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997840
Montreal, May 1893. The body of a man is discovered on the upper floor of Ramezay Castle. In the days that follow, more murders occur. Joseph Laflamme, now a journalist for La Patrie, conducts his investigation alongside Inspector Marcel Arcand and George McCreary. Gradually, it becomes clear that all the murders are linked to an ancient document which, if revealed, would transform the entire history of North America. As the body count rises, Laflamme finds himself caught in the middle of a rivalry between the American and Canadian governments, and also becomes the target of an extremely dangerous secret society
Maria: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Maria: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 3
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782924997833
Montreal, January 1836. A book rocks the city: it recounts sordid tales of fornication between the Hospitaller Sisters of the Hôtel-Dieu and the Sulpicians, evoking desecration, murder, and debauchery. High society is in an uproar, and the bishop must defend the reputation of his diocese. Montreal, September 1892. A mass grave of children is discovered on Le Royer Street. Then, the mutilated body of a banker is found in Griffintown, and two little girls bearing terrible signs of sexual abuse are pulled from the river near de la Commune Street. The three cases seem unrelated until an elderly priest gives Joseph Laflamme a copy of the 1836 book, hinting that history is repeating itself. To unravel the plot, Laflamme, Inspector Arcand and the rest of the group will have to penetrate a world of corruption with unsuspected ramifications and unearth a scandal buried for half a century
Vous serez ma reine
Translated title: You Will Be My Queen
Author: Desplat-Duc, Anne-Marie
Genre: Romance / Historical
Year: 2025 | Pages: 376 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782494473362
The only favorite of Louis XIV who almost became Queen of France.
I am Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
At sixteen, I was Louis XIV's confidante, his promised bride.
'You will be my queen', he had sworn to me... before reasons of state separated us.
Exiled, forced to marry a feared prince, I was torn from him.
But the story is not over.
I will reclaim my freedom.
I will find the Sun King at the height of his reign.
I swore an oath
Le premier jour du reste de ma vie
Translated title: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 364 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782080461414
Diane has always had simple dreams. A husband, two children, a job she loves - it's more than she ever dared hope for. The day Seb leaves her, her world crumbles.
Consumed by her grief, she doesn't see the real drama unfolding elsewhere. Right next to her, in the room across from hers, her daughter's laughter is fading. Lou is sixteen, struggling with growing up, and her first heartbreak is bringing her more than just tears.
When Diane understands, she's ready to do anything to help her. Even return to a past she had fled. Together, mother and daughter walk a tightrope. Beneath their feet, the torrent of life roars, sweeping away their fragile moments
Une belle vie
Translated title: A Beautiful Life
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2023 | Pages: 381 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782080423719
Emma and Agathe Delorme are sisters. They grew up side by side, yet are very different. Agathe, the younger sister, messy and passionate, always took up all the space in the bath, in the bedroom, and in Emma's heart. After five years of unexplained silence, Emma arranges to meet Agathe at the holiday home: Mima, their beloved grandmother, is gone; the place needs to be cleared out and the memories sorted through.
The Delorme sisters have one week to say everything to each other and make up for the loss. Will they manage to mend the past? In the beauty of this summer in the Basque Country, where their childhood comes knocking at the door, the power of their story resonates. Between laughter and tears, a moving and irresistible novel
Les heures fragiles
Translated title: The Fragile Hours
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 331 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782080468888
Diane has always had simple dreams. A husband, two children, a job she loves - it's more than she ever dared hope for. The day Seb leaves her, her world crumbles.
Consumed by her grief, she doesn't see the real drama unfolding elsewhere. Right next to her, in the room across from hers, her daughter's laughter is fading. Lou is sixteen, struggling with growing up, and her first heartbreak is bringing her more than just tears.
When Diane understands, she's ready to do anything to help her. Even return to a past she had fled. Together, mother and daughter walk a tightrope. Beneath their feet, the torrent of life roars, sweeping away their fragile moments
Plus grand que le ciel
Translated title: Bigger Than the Sky
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 21 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782080450708
Elsa and Vincent meet every Wednesday in their psychiatrist's waiting room. She is raw and sharp-tongued. He is dreamy and restless. She is a funeral director. He is a novelist. She has just lost her father. He is hiding his deepest wound. She is late. He is early. Yet they have an appointment. Between bursts of laughter, Virginie Grimaldi captures these fragile moments where the imprint of memories mingles with the promise of a meeting
La vie heureuse
Translated title: The Happy Life
Author: Foenkinos, David
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782073096203
Never before has any era been so marked by the desire to change one's life. We all want, at some point in our lives, to be someone else
Les yeux de Mona
Translated title: Mona's Eyes
Author: Schlesser, Thomas
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 584 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782253907947
Fifty-two weeks: that's how much time Mona has left to discover all the beauty of the world. It's the time her grandfather, a learned, fascinating, and whimsical man, has given himself to introduce her, every Wednesday after school, to a work of art, before she loses, perhaps forever, the use of her eyes.
Together, they will explore the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Centre Pompidou. Together, they will marvel, be moved, and question, captivated by the sight of a painting or a sculpture.
Borrowing the perspectives of Botticelli, Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Claudel, Kahlo, and Basquiat, Mona discovers the power of art and learns about talent, doubt, melancholy, and rebellion - a precious treasure her grandfather wishes to instill in her foreve
Les années glorieuses. Un avenir radieux
Translated title: The Glorious Years. A Bright Future
Author: Lemaitre, Pierre
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 592 | Origin: FRA | ISBN: 9782702183625
A daring escape from Paris to Prague, from a radio studio to hostile alleyways, from a freezing cell to a billiards academy, from a convent school to the shadowy offices of the Republic.
Each of the Pelletier family, in their own time, will have to choose between self-interest and duty, and for some, between matters of the heart and reasons of state. A sometimes heart-wrenching dilemma, except for Joseph the cat, who made his choice long ago
