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Leur vie fut brève, mais la musique qu'ils ont laissée continue à nous émouvoir et à nous inspirer. De l'assassinat de John Lennon aux addictions qui emportèrent Amy Winehouse et Jim Morrison, voici l'histoire de 12 génies de la musique, de l'ép[...]texte imprimé
Guided by the farm's oldest pig Old Major's dream of a more equal society, the animals of Manor Farm rebel against their despotic and neglectful owner,Mr Jones, and take control of the farm. Once in power, they try to establish justice and equal[...]texte imprimé
Guided by the farm's oldest pig Old Major's dream of a more equal society, the animals of Manor Farm rebel against their despotic and neglectful owner,Mr Jones, and take control of the farm. Once in power, they try to establish justice and equal[...]texte imprimé
For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to lear[...]texte imprimé
Arram Draper is on the path to becoming one of the realm's most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness--and for attracting trouble. At his sid[...]texte imprimé
Année 2041. La moitié de la Grande-Bretagne a disparu sous les flots. Le jeune Pete se trouve à bord de l'Orpheum Lass lorsque l'équipage est contraint de faire escale à Cannock. Une île pas comme les autres que de terrifiants occupants ont tran[...]texte imprimé
His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. He is Henry Faber, a coldly professional killer and Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in Britain. His task: to discover the Allies' plans for D-Day, and get them to Germany at all costs.[...]texte imprimé
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Ca[...]texte imprimé
Aladdin's son, Abu Ali, has always been destined for great things...ans so he sets off to find the encahnted Land of green Ginger. Join Abu Ali aand a host of exquisite characters, including Boomalakka Wee, a button-nosed tortoise and a talking[...]texte imprimé
Dans un futur proche, le réchauffement climatique a rendu la terre inhospitalière. Un homme rêve de préserver l’espèce. Ce faisant, il va donner naissance à son pire cauchemar…texte imprimé
Twenty years ago Bosch and his team were called to a crime scene - the murder of a woman in an alley. During a time of heavy street-fighting between the various Los Angeles gangs, what was this Danish journalist doing alone on the streets at nig[...]texte imprimé
Set during the outbreak of the Second World War, Night Over Water is a feat of storytelling from the bestselling master of the historical thriller, Ken Follett. On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain has declared war, a g[...]texte imprimé
Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause – and protect her secret – at[...]texte imprimé
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true - a shopping friend for life! But it's trickier than she thought - two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping[...]texte imprimé
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret[...]texte imprimé
The Last Vampire: For five thousand years Alisa Perne has been living among and off humans. Alisa hunts alone, thinking nobody knows her secret. But someone is stalking her. Someone wants her dead. Black Blood: An ancient evil - the first vam[...]texte imprimé
Red Dice: Alisa is on the run. The U.S. Government is pursuing her, intent on obtaining her vampire DNA. But her blood is way too deadly and dangerous to be allowed into the public domain. Phantom: Alisa has made a discovery that could bring [...]texte imprimé
Evil Thirst: Alisa has a heartbreaking dilemma. Her daughter, Kalika, has disappeared posing great danger to the human world. But can Alisa bring herself to destroy her own flesh and blood? Creatures of Forever: Someone means to destroy Alisa[...]texte imprimé
The ancient Mayans predicted the End of Days with uncanny precision. But they also provided the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull. For more than four cen[...]texte imprimé
Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, [...]texte imprimé
Nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been [...]texte imprimé
Jack Howard is about to discover a secret. Perhaps the greatest secret ever kept. What if one of the Ancient World's greatest libraries was buried in volcanic ash and then re-discovered two thousand years later? What if what was found there was[...]texte imprimé
If there's one thing I've learned from comic books, it's that everybody has a weakness--something that can totally ruin their day without fail. For the wolfman it's a silver bullet. For Superman it's Kryptonite. For me it was a letter. With one [...]texte imprimé
It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging [...]texte imprimé
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An a[...]texte imprimé
Turkey, present day. In Istanbul's harbour, on a dive for lost Crusade treasure, archaeologist Jack Howard discovers something wholly unexpected. Meanwhile, in an English cathedral library, a long-forgotten medieval map is unearthed. Together th[...]texte imprimé
‘Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?’ For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer’s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, ‘pissed his life away’. And on New Year’s Eve, he’s going to end it all … But not[...]texte imprimé
A young couple is found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation - Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and le[...]texte imprimé
In June 1941 a baffling Luftwaffe radio message mentioning a new invention with the codename Freya (the Viking goddess of love) is picked up by the decoders of Allied intelligence. Hermia Mount, a British intelligence analyst, suspects the exist[...]texte imprimé
Christopher Paolini, Auteur | 2005When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon[...]texte imprimé
In Paris, a physicist dies after a visit from a beautiful stranger. In the jungle of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly technology. In Vancouver, a research submarine is hired for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, Profes[...]texte imprimé
The agent Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss, Mark ... The bestseller Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and love[...]texte imprimé
One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified – and increasingly fascinated – by her absence. Was she kidnapped, black[...]texte imprimé
After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey - the man she left Scott for - and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scot[...]texte imprimé
Why a shipment of six hundred ceramic dolls sunk in the Atlantic a few miles off Rotterdam ? Childhood lurches between fears, indecisive wishes and having fun... Ignacio Padilla / Lola Beccaria / Juan Pimentel / Angel Olgoso / Javier Sagarnatexte imprimé
Join Jane Owen for a quiet night in, Isabel Wolff on a disastrous date, Jenny Colgan sunbathing with serpents, or Helen Lederer indulging in hanky-panky on a train. Wendy Holden discovers the perils of e-mail romance, Cathy Kelly tangles with th[...]texte imprimé
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas' but at night their dreams are haunted by the[...]texte imprimé
Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each oth[...]texte imprimé
Here are sixteen tales, each with a startling twist. Take, for example, the horrific tales of risk-takers such as the man who wagers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a wine connoisseur, or the traveller who throws himself overboard a cruise li[...]texte imprimé
Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. The mystery, jealousy, and love that she finds there give Charlotte Brontë’s final novel much of th[...]texte imprimé
Alice knows she should be happy. After all she has a handsome husband, a beautiful house and membership to all the most exclusive clubs in London. So what if the rumours about her husband's skirt-chasing are becoming harder to ignore? When Joe's[...]texte imprimé
The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part o[...]texte imprimé
In a pointed dramatization of the problems of working mothers, Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--the tightrope of work and home.texte imprimé
n the late 1940s in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins is parted at birth. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, the only s[...]texte imprimé
Seven adaptations of famous stories by classic American authors are featured in this reader for learners of English at the intermediate level. Adaptations and exercises gradually increase in difficulty throughout the book. The exercises inclu[...]texte imprimé
Alem is on holiday with his father for a few days in London. He has never been out of Ethiopia before and is very excited. They have a great few days togther until one morning when Alem wakes up in the bed and breakfast they are staying at to fi[...]texte imprimé
Captain Sharpe’s task is to recover from a feared guerilla leader the gold Wellington so desperately needs. The enemy he faces strikes terror into the hearts of all around –a renegade guerilla band whose leader has a particular loathing for Sha[...]texte imprimé
A silver wedding means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times. But for the Doyles - Deirdre, Desmond and their children Anna, Helen and Brendan - it will be more difficult than most. For each of them is keeping up a front;[...]texte imprimé
Lady Sandrilene fa Toren knows all about unusual magic-she herself spins and weaves it like thread. But when she witnesses a boy dancing a spell, even she is confounded. To her dismay, Sandry learns that as the mage who discovered the power of t[...]texte imprimé
The Landlady / Roald Dahl Skeleton in the cupboard / Tony Wilmot The birds poised to fly / Patricia Highsmith The tell-tale-heart / Edgar A. Poe Robot dreams / Isaac Asimov Thief (Jigsaw Reading) / Robley Wilson Désirée's baby / Kate[...]texte imprimé
Outcast Trader Daja, along with her fellow mages-in-training, journeys from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains, where drought threatens widespread famine. There, Daja creates an astonishing object: a living metal vine. A caravan of Trade[...]texte imprimé
Former "street rat" Briar leads a comfortable life at Winding Circle Temple, learning plant magic from Rosethorn. But street kids are still his friends, and when one of them gets sick, she turns to Briar for help. When her disease proves beyond [...]texte imprimé
When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves[...]texte imprimé
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will de just as eventful as the last...texte imprimé
It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to co[...]texte imprimé
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants [...]texte imprimé
With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief who has a way with plants ; Daja, an outcast gifted at metalcraft ; and Tris, whose connection with[...]texte imprimé
Earthquake damage leaves Winding Circle vulnerable to pirate attack, so everyone--including the young mages-in-training Tris, Briar, Daja, and Sandry--is working to strengthen the community's defenses. When Tris's cousin Aymery comes to visit, h[...]texte imprimé
Remember sitting on a melted Mars Bar on the way up to a hot summer wedding? The lyrics to songs by Fairground Attraction? Photocopying your face out of boredom on a holiday temp job? The friend who always took a photo of you on a bad hair day? [...]texte imprimé
Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.texte imprimé
A romantic comedy about fame, friendship and the pursuit of true lovetexte imprimé
The bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery and the case is given to Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. "Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologi[...]texte imprimé
With its fast-moving narrative and resourceful, sympathetic hero, it is a book of almost universal appeal. But his apparently artless tale also embodies a vast and complex economic doctrine which Karl Marx, amongst many others, has thought worth[...]texte imprimé
Daine and the mage Numair are faced with certain death when they are suddenly swept into the mystical realms of the gods, where Daine learns the secrets of her past. But she and Numair are both needed in the mortal world to help fight the desper[...]texte imprimé
Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. The money was good and getting better and a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, not time to stop,[...]texte imprimé
The village school is to get a new head, and the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas await her arrival with curiosity. At first sight, Kate Pascoe seems ideal. She's young, pretty and obviously loves her job. But when she introduces meditation classes[...]texte imprimé
Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published anonym[...]texte imprimé
Bridget Jones is everyone's favourite spinster. In Bridget Jones's Diary she documents her struggles through the social minefield of her 30s and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver of Mark Darcy? She is supported through the w[...]texte imprimé
Alanna of Trebond is no ordinary girl--her dream is to become a knight, so she disguises herself as a boy and begins training at the palace of King Roald. Manna quickly finds out that the road to knighthood is not an easy one, hut her skills and[...]texte imprimé
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebonj becomes a squire--to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will t[...]texte imprimé
At last, Alanna of Trebond has become the first female knight errant in Tortall. She sets out on an impossible quest to find the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem that, in the right hands, has limitless power for good. But while she searches for t[...]texte imprimé
Young Diane's knack with animals gets her a job helping the royal horse mistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. It soon becomes clear that Diane's talent,despite her struggles to hide it is downright magical. Horses and other animals not onl[...]texte imprimé
When humans start cutting down trees and digging holes in peaceful Dunlath Valley, the wolves know something is wrong. They send a messenger to the only human who will listen--Daine, a fourteen-year-old girl with the unpredictable power of wild [...]texte imprimé
Daine sails to Carthak as a part of a peace treaty delegation from Tortall. There, she is amazed by strange and wondrous sights, including rooms filled with dinosaur bones and the Emperor Mage's zoo. But she also senses a darkness beneath all th[...]texte imprimé
Ellen Gulden is a successful, young New York journalist. But when her mother, Kate, is diagnosed with cancer, she leaves her life in the city to return home and care for her. In the short time they have left, the relationship between mother and [...]texte imprimé
Set in the period immediately before the Jacobite rising in 1715, this is the story of Francis Osbaldistone, whose fortunes are threatened by the activities of his malignant cousin Rashleigh and the dangerous outlaw Rob Roy Macgregor.texte imprimé
Lewis' work on the nature of love divides love into four categories; Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three come naturally to humanity. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine, and without this supernatural love, the [...]texte imprimé
The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact and sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. Pup's older sister, Dolly, is manically obsessed with her birthmark, believin[...]texte imprimé
In bringing to life a host of unforgettable characters such as Tom Thumb, the Frog-Prince and Ashputtel, the Brothers Grimm created a feast of stories to stimulate the mind and emotions of readers of all ages. Some of the tales are sinister, som[...]texte imprimé
The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. Both moral fable and spiritual autobiography, it is the story of a little boy who lives alone on a planet not much bigger than himself, and who leaves it to travel round the u[...]texte imprimé
The new governess is in sole charge of two orphan children. Although they are both remarkably well-behaved, intelligent and affectionate, she becomes increasingly uneasy. Especially after she sees a stranger seemingly in search of something--o[...]texte imprimé
The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dang[...]texte imprimé
Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friend[...]texte imprimé
Capitale de l'art et du savoir, refuge et villégiature, lieu de mémoire et de plaisir, Paris a toujours attiré les écrivains américains. F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ernest Hemingway / Thomas Wolfe / Irwin Shaw / Anaïs Nin / Henry Miller / James T. [...]texte imprimé
Singe artiste, chèvre volante ou truie repentante, les animaux de cette histoire nous font parcourir le globe, du Pacifique au Grand Nord, en passant par l'Europe du XIVe siècle. Arthur C. Clarke / Ernest Hemingway / Jack London / H. E. Bates[...]texte imprimé
Ils avaient le polonais, le russe, le danois comme langue maternelle. ils sont indiens ou africains, et parlent plusieurs langues. Mais c'est l'anglais qu'ils ont choisi comme moyen d'expression littéraire. Joseph Conrad / Karen Blixen / Vlad[...]texte imprimé
Follow the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and the machinations of an Italian brigand. Considered by many to be the first "Gothic" novel.