David Foenkinos

"It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?"--Provided by publisher.

"Charlotte tells the story of artist Charlotte Salomon--born in pre-World War II Berlin to a Jewish family traumatized by suicide. Obsessed with art, and with living, Charlotte attended school in Germany until it was too dangerous to remain, fled to France, and was interned in a bleak work camp from which she narrowly escaped. Newly free, she spent two years in almost total solitude, creating a series of autobiographical art-images, words, even musical...

After the death of her soul mate, Nathalie loses interest in life, and finds love again in the most unexpected place.

In Crozon (Brittany), a librarian decides that he wants to hold on to all rejected manuscripts for safe-keeping. One day, while on vacation in Brittany, a young editor and her writer husband, visit the library of rejected manuscripts and find a masterpiece: The Last Hours of a Love Story, a novel written by a Henri Pick who passed away two years prior. Pick ran a pizzeria with his widow Madeleine, and according to her, he never read a single book...