'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara Kingsolver
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Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.
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Wilde wrote these delightful fairy tales for his two young sons. They were all published in the collection The Happy Prince and Other Stories in 1888.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD 2023'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.
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Revolving around a small independent bookstore in contemporary Minneapolis, The Sentence follows a turbulent year in the life of a strong though vulnerable Ojibwe woman named Tookie.
After serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who ??oelearned to read with murderous attention” while in prison, naturally gravitates toward working at a bookstore.
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Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Marriage Portrait]
À medida que James Hawes avança no tempo, de César até ao Brexit, por entre conquistas, impérios e guerras, tece uma nova e profunda narrativa de Inglaterra.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Shortest History of England]
** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'Miraculous.
[lire la quatrième du livre Small Things Like These]
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM ...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern'STYLIST'So beautiful, so daring, so complete'TAYLOR JENKINS REID'A masterpiece'NIGELLA LAWSON'Luminous, masterful.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy ...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home.
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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.
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Ce nouveau titre de la collection Histoires faciles à lire en anglais rassemble des nouvelles de l’auteure britannique Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), figure de proue de la littérature moderniste du XXe siècle.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine'Favourite book [of the] year' Issa RaeThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical.
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of English.
Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively.
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The fantastic has been and is particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.
[lire la quatrième du livre Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from [...]]
Plus de 1 000 000 de mots, expressions et traductions pour avoir tout le vocabulaire actuel et courant dans les deux langues. Une très large couverture des expressions du quotidien et du vocabulaire des affaires.
Tous les niveaux de langue, de l’anglais très littéraire jusqu’à l’argot.
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Shorlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award
Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history's greatest epic
'Magnificent... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling, powerful, audacious... A searing twist on The Iliad.
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Shortlisted FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, I PAPER, SUNDAY EXPRESS, IRISH TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AMAZON, AUDIBLE, BUZZFEED, REFINERY 29, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON ...
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This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century short stories. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century short stories.
[lire la quatrième du livre Outstanding short stories readers]
Kasia Boddy's introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading.
[lire la quatrième du livre The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: [...]]
«Je n’ai pas d’illusions. Je suis de ceux dont le regard perce les apparences et va jusqu’au néant.
[lire la quatrième du livre Les Braves Gens ne Courent pas les Rues et Autres [...]]
'An emotional and compelling memoir, that left me inspired, both by her bravery in transforming her life, and by the unexpected beauty she finds along the way' Countryfile Magazine
'Fowler beautifully exposes her emotional fragility while also celebrating the unloved nature of buddleia, herons and even the water rats who take refuge among the locks.' i paper
'Fowler captures the [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Hidden Nature : Wainwright Prize 2018 Shortlisted]
Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .
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A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Portable Veblen : Shortlisted for the Baileys [...]]
Un nouveau tome pour la collection «Histoires faciles à lire. anglais» qui propose des textes courts mais complets d'auteurs connus et reconnus. Les textes, regroupés par thématique, sont proposés en version intégrale ou en une version adaptée et simplifi ée qui respecte le style et l'originalité de l'auteur. Face au texte, l'essentiel du [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre For Love and Dollars]
A stunning ??oeportrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
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Édition bilingue français-anglais.
Deux nouvelles ayant pour décor l'Inde et l'Afghanistan, où Kipling - avec l'art qui lui valut le Prix Nobel de littérature - décrit les conflits qui annoncent les fissures de l'Empire britannique.
[lire la quatrième du livre Deux Nouvelles]
[Penguin Readers Level 5]
[lire la quatrième du livre Sherlock Holmes Short Stories]
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Le Fantôme de Canterville - The Canterville Ghost : La savoureuse rencontre d'un fantôme très britannique avec une famille américaine ! / Le Millionnaire modèle - The Model Millionaire : Que l'on s'adresse à un clochard ou à un millionnaire, un bienfait n'est jamais perdu...
[lire la quatrième du livre Nouvelles]
Ce recueil de dix nouvelles anglaises et américaines d'auteurs contemporains de genres très divers - policier, humour, science fiction, etc. - a pour but d'encourager les élèves à la lecture suivie de textes intégraux en anglais, et de les mener peu à peu à l'autonomie et à la lecture pour le plaisir.
[lire la quatrième du livre 10 Short Stories Vol.1]
Le fantôme des Canterville a fort à faire pour prouver à la famille Otis qu'il peut faire peur : entre les blagues des insupportables jumeaux et les pièges que lui tend le fils aîné, il n'a guère le temps de se montrer aussi terrifiant qu'il le souhaiterait...
[lire la quatrième du livre Le fantôme des Cantervilles et autres contes]
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