At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.
[lire la quatrième du livre Wayfarers 4: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within]
"Hard to put down ... the pages turn quickly ... building to a climax that won't leave readers doubting whether this is a John Grisham novel." --Associated Press
In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament.
[lire la quatrième du livre Sooley]
One brutal murder.
A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself...
And an intoxicating romance.
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...
[lire la quatrième du livre Kingdom of the Wicked]
Learn all about feelings with Mr Panda in this charmingly funny board book. Lemur is happy and Swan is scared. But how is Mr Panda is feeling ? Find out and help your little bears express their emotions with this simple board book story.
Look out for more books starring Mr Panda. Over half a million copies sold to date!Please Mr PandaThank You Mr PandaI'll Wait Mr PandaGoodnight Mr PandaMr [...]
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While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne.Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Eyes of the Dragon]
*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of the HEARTSTOPPER series. *Includes exclusive Teachers mini-comic*'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind.
Beautifully paced. I loved this book.
[lire la quatrième du livre Heartstopper Volume 4]
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Institute]
*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the third volume of the bestselling HEARTSTOPPER series. *Includes exclusive Tao/Elle mini-comic!*'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind.
Beautifully paced. I loved this book.
[lire la quatrième du livre Heartstopper Volume 3]
In the small town of Castle Rock word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey only confides in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition. Every day he's losing weight - but without looking any different. Meanwhile a new couple, Deirdre and Missy, owners of a 'fine dining experience' in town, have moved in next door. Scott is not happy that their dogs keep fouling on his lawn. [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Elevation]
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.
[lire la quatrième du livre Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners]
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
The stunning, internationally bestselling sequel to Caraval. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn't yet free.
She made a desperate bargain with a [...]
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*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the second volume of the bestselling HEARTSTOPPER series. *Includes exclusive Tara/Darcy story!*'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind.
Beautifully paced. I loved this book.
[lire la quatrième du livre Heartstopper Volume 2]
John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to tell the story of an unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it and its profound and lasting effect on the people of Ford County.
Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbour and a faithful member of the Methodist Church.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Reckoning]
A brilliantly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book. Jam-packed with animals and silliness!
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog. *Over 1 million copies sold*
Oi! Where are duck-billed platypuses meant to sit?
And Kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names...
Over to you Frog!
'Laugh-aloud [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Oi Duck-Billed Platypus]
A horrifying crime.
Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.
Expect he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.
Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?
[lire la quatrième du livre The Outsider]
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES*From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope.
The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Wayfarers 3: Record of a Spaceborn Few]
*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
A bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between. 'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind.
Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry OnCharlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ...
[lire la quatrième du livre Heartstopper Volume One]
Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.
Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive note of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Pet semetary]
But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.With he, John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel &Hardy.
[lire la quatrième du livre HE]
In London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and their reawakening will have major consequences. In Africa, the colonial town of Essenwald has fallen into disarray because the timber workforce has disappeared into the Vorrh. Now a team of specialists are dispatched to find them.
[lire la quatrième du livre Erstwhile: Book Two in the Vorrh Trilogy]
'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]
***The Sunday Times bestseller***WELCOME TO CARAVAL, WHERE NOTHING IS QUITE WHAT IT SEEMS . . .
Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year week-long performance where the audience participates in the show. Caraval is Magic. Mystery.
Adventure.
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He thinks he has escaped terrestrial problems – from his father’s legacy as a brutal communist informer to his wife, Lenka, whom he loves yet no longer understands – but he is wrong. Alone above the earth, his only solace comes in the form of a (possibly hallucinatory) arachnid with a penchant for existential philosophy and Nutella.
[lire la quatrième du livre SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA]
It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget.
[lire la quatrième du livre It]
Whatever vegetable Oliver finds in the garden, he must eat. On Monday, he pulls up carrots, on Tuesday, it is spinach . . .
An excellent book for parents with slightly fussy children, which also introduces the days of the week.
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Oliver's Fruit Salad
Oliver's Milkshake
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD. WINNER OF THE 2017 PRIX JULIA-VERLANGER. 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.comThe stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Wayfarers 2: A Closed and Common Orbit]
Twelve years after his victory over House Harkonnen, Paul Atreides rules as emperor from the desert planet Arrakis - but his victory has had profound consequences. War has been brought to the entire known universe, and billions have already perished. Despite having become the most powerful emperor known to history, Paul is powerless to bring an end to the fighting.
[lire la quatrième du livre Dune T.2 Dune Messiah]
The short story OBITS won the 2016 Edgar for best short story.The No.1 bestselling author delivers an 'outstanding' (USA Today) collection of thrilling stories, introducing each one with a fascinating piece on when, where or how he came to write it.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Bazaar of Bad Dreams]
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity#SmallAngryPlanetWhen Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much.
[lire la quatrième du livre Wayfarers 1: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet]
Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person's life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis.
Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.
[lire la quatrième du livre Dune T.1]
Follow the Queen on a hilarious adventure through London, in pursuit of her fly-away hat! Winner of the Evening Standard's Oscar's First Book Prize.
With a Jon Klassen appeal, Steve Antony, a debut author-illustrator, is one to watch. A sudden gust of wind sets off a marvellous London adventure for the Queen, the Queen's men and one very special hat. So let's follow one [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Queen's Hat]
But when something like a meteorite plunges into the ocean and a tidal wave overcomes them, these three people will find themselves bound together in ways never imagined. Together with Ayodele, a visitor from beyond the stars, they must race through Lagos and against time itself in order to save the city, the world… and themselves.
‘There was no time to flee. No time to turn. [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Lagoon]
The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. Others are a journalist in Governor Reagan’s California, and genetically-modified dinery [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Cloud Atlas]
The captivating debut novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You , After You and the new bestseller Still Me . On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, 21-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiance again for a year.
[lire la quatrième du livre Sheltering Rain]
As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?
Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel – and that too is beginning to shine.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Shining]
