Top Ten Tuesday #53 - Les 10 sorties automnales que j'attends avec impatience

Le Top Ten Tuesday permet de lister son top 10 selon le thème littéraire défini. Initialement créé par The Brokeand the Bookish le rendez-vous a longtemps siégé en français chez Iani. Il a maintenant pris ses quartiers chez Frogzine. 

Cette semaine 

Les 10 sorties automnales que j'attends avec impatience 

Bien des livres me tentent dans cette rentrée littéraire. Beaucoup sont déjà sortis en août, mais il en reste bien assez dans les prochains mois pour remplir ce TTT. Une majorité de publications anglophones pour le coup, mais quelques francophones se cachent dans le tas, et certaines font également une sortie dans les deux langues.

*Cassidy Blake #2 Tunnel of Bones de Victoria Schwab (le 03.09 - Scholastic) : le premier tome,  qui se déroule à Edinburgh, m'avait énormément plu. Reste à voir si cette  aventure parisienne me fera autant d'effet. Fantômes et exploration de catacombes au programme.

Synopsis : Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.

She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs.

When Cass accidentally awakens a frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-growing skills as a ghosthunter -- and turn to friends both old and new to help her unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit is only growing stronger.

And if Cass fails, the force she's unleashed could haunt the city forever.

*Loki - Where Mischief Lies de Mackenzi Lee (le 03.09 Marvel Press) : Loki avant les Avengers, dans le Londres du  19è siècle, le tout conté par une autrice dont j'ai beaucoup aimé le premier roman. 

Synopsis : Before the days of going toe-to-toe with the Avengers, a younger Loki is desperate to prove himself heroic and capable, while it seems everyone around him suspects him of inevitable villainy and depravity . . . except for Amora. Asgard's resident sorceress-in-training feels like a kindred spirit-someone who values magic and knowledge, who might even see the best in him.

But when Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one of Asgard's most prized possessions, Amora is banished to Earth, where her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. Without the only person who ever looked at his magic as a gift instead of a threat, Loki slips further into anguish and the shadow of his universally adored brother, Thor.

When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of mysterious murders on Earth, Odin sends Loki to investigate. As he descends upon nineteenth-century London, Loki embarks on a journey that leads him to more than just a murder suspect, putting him on a path to discover the source of his power-and who he's meant to be.

*Winston Brothers #5.5 Beard with Me de Penny Reid (le 16.09 - autoédition) : enfin l'histoire de Scarlet/Claire et Billy, ou tout du moins le début de leur aventure. Pour le reste, il faudra attendre novembre.

Synopsis : No one is better at surviving than Scarlet St. Claire and making the best out of circumstances beyond her control is Scarlet’s specialty. In an apocalyptic situation, she’d be the last person on earth, hermitting like a pro, singing along to her CD Walkman, and dancing like no one is watching. 

Scarlet is clever, Scarlet is careful, and Scarlet is smart . . . except when it comes to Billy Winston.

No one is better at fighting than Billy Winston and raging against his circumstances—because nothing is beyond his control—is Billy’s specialty. In an apocalyptic situation, he’d be the first person on earth to lead others to safety, overcome catastrophe, or die trying. 

Billy is fearless, Billy is disciplined, and Billy is honorable . . . except when it comes to Scarlet St. Claire.

*The Book of Dust #2 The Secret Commonwealth (VF : Le livre de la poussière #2 ?) de Philip Pullman (le 03.10 - A. Knopf) : Lyra est de retour, sept ans après ses dernières aventures d'À la croisée des mondes. Je ne sais pas si je vais y survivre.

Synopsis : It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.

Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .

The second volume of Sir Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed.

Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.

Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.

*Ninth House #1 de Leigh Bardugo (08-10 - Flatiron) : petit nouveau de l'autrice de Grisha et Six of Crows, ce coup-ci en roman adulte. Je suis très intriguée par ce mélange d'occulte et de société secrète étudiante.

Synopsis : Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. 

*La Horde du contrevent #2 L'escadre frêle de Eric Henninot (16.10 - Delcourt) : suite de cette adaptation BD d'un roman que j'adore.

Synopsis : C'est au beau milieu de la steppe immense que la Horde croise la route du Physalis, vaisseau de la flotte fréole, en mission de convoyage pour les villages Abrités. Accueillie à bord par une foule en liesse, la Horde goûte enfin un peu de repos. Pourtant, malgré la fête et les honneurs, le malaise de Sov ne cesse de grandir : les Fréoles sont-ils vraiment les alliés qu'ils prétendent être, et cette rencontre est-elle vraiment le fruit du hasard ?

*Call Me By Your Name #2 Find Me d'André Aciman : non, vous ne rêvez pas, il s'agit bien d'une suite à Call Me By Your Name.

Synopsis : No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

*Keeper of the Lost Cities #8 Legacy (Gardiens des citées perdues #8 L'ombre du passé) de Shannon Messenger (05.11 - Aladdin) : une saga que je ne présente plus...

Synopsis : Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities. 

And Sophie’s not the only one with blank spots in her past, or mysteries surrounding her family. She and her friends are part of something much bigger than they imagined—and their roles have already been chosen for them.

Every clue drags them deeper into the conspiracy. Every memory forces them to question everything—especially one another. And the harder they fight, the more the lines blur between friend and enemy.

*The Bromance Book Club #1 de Lyssa Kay Adams (05.11 - Berkley) : je ne connais pas du tout cette autrice, mais je trouve le concept de ce roman (un club secret de lecture de romance pour hommes) follement entraînant.

Synopsis : The first rule of this book club:

You don't talk about book club.

Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him. 

Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.

Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.

*La Passe-miroir #4 de Chrostelle Dabos : saga que j'adore et tome que j'attends avec grande impatience.

ET VOUS, QU'EST-CE QUI VOUS FAIT ENVIE DANS LES SORTIES DE CET AUTOMNE ?