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THE EXPATRIATES de Janice Y. K. Lee adapté par Amazon

Adaptée du roman THE EXPATRIATES de Janice Y. K. Lee publié en 2016 par Viking aux États-Unis, la nouvelle minisérie Les Expatriées (Expats) sera diffusée sur la plateforme Amazon Prime Video à partir du 26 janvier 2024.

Nicole Kidman, dans le rôle principal, interprète le personnage de Margaret, une des trois femmes au cœur de l’intrigue. Elle est également productrice de la série. Elle y joue aux côtés de Sarayu Blue (I Feel Bad, Veep, The Big Bang Theory) et Ji-young Yoo (The Sky is Everywhere).

Amazon écrit : « Ayant pour toile de fond la mosaïque complexe des résidents de Hong Kong, EXPATS dépeint un groupe de femmes aux multiples facettes après qu’une rencontre ait déclenché une chaîne d’événements bouleversants qui obligent chacune à naviguer dans un équilibre complexe entre accusations et responsabilités. »

La série a été mise en scène par la cinéaste Lulu Wang (L’Adieu) comme « un long film » avec son « écosystème plastique qui repose […] sur la terrible verticalité de la ville, de ses tours luxueuses, de ses alignements de gigantesques immeubles d’habitation populaires, de ses collines abruptes, au sommet desquelles habitent les élus. » (Le Monde)

THE EXPATRIATES étudie les identités, les émotions et les relations de ces trois Américaines au caractère très différent, vivant dans la même petite communauté d’expatriés. L’histoire « explore les notions de deuil, de culpabilité, de couple, mais aussi les questions de classe sociale, de race, de privilège et d’appartenance » (The Guardian).

Les droits de langue française du roman sont toujours disponibles.

NOT ABOUT A BOY de Myah Hollis

A girl struggling with a traumatic past and a new relationship has her life turned on its head when a twin she has no memory contacts her out of the blue. For fans of Skins and Girl in Pieces.

NOT ABOUT A BOY
by Myah Hollis
HarperCollins/Clarion, July 2024
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Amélie Coeur has never known what it truly means to be happy.

She thought she’d found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy and nearly sent her over the edge. Now, at seventeen, Mel is beginning to piece her life back together. Under the supervision of Laurelle Child Services, the exclusive foster care agency that raised her, Mel is sober and living with a new family among Manhattan’s elite. It’s her last chance at adoption before she ages out of the system, and she promised, this time, she’ll try.

But a casual relationship with a boy is turning into something she never intended for it to be, causing small cracks in her carefully constructed walls. Then the sister she has no memory of contacts Mel, unearthing complicated feelings about the past and what could have been.

As the anniversary of the worst day of her life approaches, Mel must weather the rising tides of grief and depression before she loses herself, and those close to her, all over again.

« Beautiful, raw, poignant. NOT ABOUT A BOY is a searing debut full of humor, heart, and the expansive range of emotions that rage within us all. Read this book to remember why feelings come first. Myah Hollis is a breath of fresh air. » — Danielle Parker, author of You Bet Your Heart

« NOT ABOUT A BOY feels like a good cry with your best friend. Heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful, Myah Hollis’s writing is a breath of fresh air in the YA space. » — Elise Bryant, author of  Happily Ever Afters

« Myah Hollis is a superb new talent who captures Amélie’s story with honesty, wit, and heartrending prose. Not About A Boy explores overcoming our inner and outer demons with precise finesse, Hollis’s pen as sharp as an exacto knife. This book will live in your bones as an unforgettable masterclass on the teen mind, mental health, and found family. Hollis is a talent for the ages. » — Lane Clarke, author of Love Times Infinity

Myah Hollis is a Pennsylvanian writer living in Los Angeles. She specializes in “Sad Girl Lit”, mainly due to her chronic fascination with psychology. NOT ABOUT A BOY is her debut novel.

GIRLS WITH LONG SHADOWS de Tennessee Hill

There never was a gator killing around here, contrary to everlasting rumor, and there was only one real murder, but it seems each bad thing that happens is like an incantation invoking the Binderup family, its women and their dying.

GIRLS WITH LONG SHADOWS
by Tennessee Hill
Harper, TBD
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Photo by Emily Townsend

Identical triplets Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C Binderup came into the world as their mother left it, leaving them nameless and in the care of their Gram Isadora, whose maternal instincts died alongside her daughter. 19 years later, the triplets work at their Gram’s crumbling golf course, where the watchful eyes of the town observe them perched on lawnmowers, serving up glasses of lemonade to golfers and swimming in the murky waters of the river nearby, hoping to attract the kind of attention they are only beginning to understand.

Through the eyes of cautious Baby B, we watch as lustful Baby A and introverted Baby C find matches among the town boys. When even Baby B notices that the town’s golden boy seems to be intrigued by her, only her, it begins to appear that the young women’s wish to be seen as individuals has been granted – until a seemingly trivial kiss is gifted to the wrong sister. What comes next forces the sisters to confront the devastating implications of their collective anonymity. As insecurities become weapons and the tight bonds between sisters are severed, the threat of female teenage angst turns real and deadly, and the young women face a future where triplets must learn to be twins.

Tennessee Hill is a poet by trade; she was the 2022 Gregory Djanikian scholar and holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her work has been featured in POETRY, Best New Poets, Southern Humanities Review, Fugue, Arkansas International, and elsewhere. She is a South Texas native, where she still lives and teaches with her husband and their dog, Bark Ruffalo.

THE RITUAL EFFECT de Michael Norton

In the tradition of bestsellers like The Power Of Habit and Grit, a renowned Harvard social psychologist demonstrates the power of small acts—and how turning habits into rituals can add joy and meaning to life.

THE RITUAL EFFECT
From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
by Michael Norton
Scribner, April 2024
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Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to boost productivity—what we know as habits. Over time, we do these activities automatically. But when we perform these habits mindfully—when we focus on the precise way an act is performed—we create a ritual. Now, an everyday act goes from black-and-white to technicolor. And as author and Harvard professor Michael Norton explains here, it’s these rituals that make life worth living.

From fostering deeper relationships to comforting a speaker before a presentation, from savoring a meal to coping with grief, rituals produce an incredible array of psychological and emotional responses that are specific to whatever challenge we face. Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, and countless successful entrepreneurs, politicians, athletes, and artists make effective use of rituals. Now, drawing on decades of original research, author Michal Norton reveals how shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can both enhance performance and add meaning to your life.

Compelling, inspiring, and practical, THE RITUAL EFFECT takes us on a fascinating tour of the intention-filled acts that drive human behavior and shows us how to create simple rituals to imbue everyday life with a sense of purpose and joy.

Michael Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has studied human behavior as it relates to love and inequality, time and money, and happiness and grief. He is the author of THE RITUAL EFFECT and the coauthor—with Elizabeth Dunn—of HAPPY MONEY: The Science of Happier Spending. In 2012, he was selected by Wired magazine as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World.” His TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Scientific American, and has made numerous television, radio, and podcast appearances.

QUEEN OF FACES de Petra Lord

QUEEN OF FACES is the first in a YA fantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of Marie Lu and Leigh Bardugo, and the animanga Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Ghost in the Shell.

QUEEN OF FACES
by Petra Lord
TBD
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Anabelle Gage is trapped in a boy’s body, and it’s rotting from the inside out.

In the nation of Caimor, the wealthy buy and swap fabricated bodies like clothes. But Ana, a mere scullery maid, can only afford a grey, withering form for herself, and by her seventeenth birthday, it’s already falling apart. Attending Paragon Academy, Caimor’s elite magic school, is her last shot at a new body—but when Ana fails the entrance exam for the third time, she puts her illusion magic to the task of stealing one instead.

Except Ana is caught, and by no less than the Paragon headmaster. He offers her a choice: die for her crime, or become a mercenary under his command, working secretly against those who would see the nation’s magical elite toppled. Desperate, Ana accepts. No matter how dangerous or illegal the job is, if she earns enough money, she just might be able to escape her body before it kills her.

But revolt brews in Caimor’s smog-choked underworld, and at its helm is Khaoivhe, the most infamous outlaw mage in history. As Ana steals, fights, and kills for the school of her dreams, she is drawn into the dark, tangled web of Khaoivhe’s machinations…and she discovers secrets that will upend her idea of who the heroes of her story are—and that threaten to leave her world in ruins.

Petra Lord is a biracial trans author. She has a BFA in TV Writing from New York University, which she uses to recommend Netflix shows to her parents and predict the endings of Marvel movies. She’s currently based in Los Angeles, where she feeds her dual addiction to Sweetgreen and Korean barbecue and sustains herself off videos of her cat. QUEEN OF FACES is her debut novel.