Fox Searchlight vient d’acquérir les droits de SOLITARY. L’extraordinaire saga d’un homme qui après quatre décennies de réclusion pour un crime qu’il n’a jamais commis est, par son humanité, une source d’inspiration pour ses compagnons prisonniers et nous tous.
Le sujet du nouvel ouvrage de l’auteur de « La Vie Secrète des Arbres » et de « La Vie Secrète des Animaux » sera le lien secret entre homme et nature.
Harpercollins vient d’annoncer la publication d’un nouveau titre de l’auteur des « Cinq Personnes Que J’Ai Rencontré Là-Haut » dans un communiqué de presse. Avec cet ouvrage, Mitch Albom revient à la non fiction après plus de dix ans pour célébrer Chika, une jeune orpheline haïtienne qui lui a changé la vie à jamais…
Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable
CHIKA
A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
by Mitch Albom
Harper, November 2019
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to the Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince.
With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika’s arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, “No one in Haiti can help you with.”
Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that they can get the medical help needed to return her to a healthy life in Haiti. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure for an inoperable brain tumor. As Chika’s boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys a child brings to their lives, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost.
Chika is a celebration of a girl, her guardians, and the incredible bond they formed—a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.
Mitch Albom is a bestselling author, screenwriter, playwright and nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of seven #1 New York Times bestsellers. “Tuesdays with Morrie”, which spent four straight years atop the New York Times list, is now the bestselling memoir of all time. “Morrie”, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, “For One More Day” and “Have a Little Faith” have been made into award-winning television movies. Albom has founded nine charities in Detroit, including the first ever 24-hour medical clinic for homeless children in America. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly.
Après le succès international de WHAT IF? (« Et si…? », éditions Flammarion) et THINGS EXPLAINER, le créateur de XKCD revient avec un guide éminemment scientifique qui donne des conseils extravagants sur comment faire des choses simples… de manière absurde et compliquée!
Le livre sera publié simultanément le 3 septembre 2019 par Riverhead aux Etats-Unis, John Murray au Royaume Uni, Penguin Verlag en Allemagne et Spectrum aux Pays Bas.
Cliquez ici pour voir l’article publié par Entertainment Weekly
For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s the world’s least useful self-help book.
It describes how to cross a river by removing all the water, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and teaches you how to use experimental military research to ensure that your friends will never again ask you to help them move.
With text, charts, and stick-figure illustrations, How To walks you through useless but entertaining approaches to common problems, using bad advice to explore some of the stranger and more interesting science and technology underlying the world around us.
Le footballeur le plus populaire au monde (plus de 500 000 maillots ont été vendus dans les 24 heures après l’annonce de son arrivée à la Juventus !) a établi un partenariat avec Graphic India, grand producteur de bandes dessinées et et d’animations, afin de lancer des nouveaux super-héros, STRIKER FORCE 7.
Trois volumes de la BD sont programmés d’ici fin 2020 et une adaptation animée est également prévue. Ces projets seront soutenus par le joueur, fan de super-héros, via ses réseaux sociaux.