Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

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In 18th century London, a vivacious young woman becomes a chambermaid for a brothel madam.

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Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to app...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-fa...

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn...

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to t...