Livres Livres en anglais - page 46

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Picture of Dorian Gray]

Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.

Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase.
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An educational book all about England's Kings and Queens from Ladybird.  Ladybird Kings and Queens is the ideal first reference book for primary school children. It is packed with information about England's monarchs in chronological order, including King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, and Queen Victoria, all the way up to the present day. Full of fascinating facts, this handy book will help [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre MY FIRST LADYBIRD BOOK OF KINGS AND QUEENS]

WHO that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa,' has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand - in - ...
[lire la quatrième du livre Middlemarch]

Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds been black?

What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common?

Is it good to praise a child's intelligence?

Why are baseball players so superstitious?

Few things in life are more satisfying than beating a rival.
[lire la quatrième du livre Bounce]

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.
[lire la quatrième du livre Awakened]

Spot Says Goodnight is a classic Spot book by Eric Hill
This is colourful, brighter edition of the classic Spot lift-the-flap board book Spot says Goodnight, which features rescans of Eric Hill's original artwork - perfect for toddlers and children learning to read.
It's time for bed but Spot has lots of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Spot says goodnight]

There are surprises galore for Meg, Mog and Owl in these three classic Meg and Mog stories: Meg's Eggs, Meg at Sea and Mog in the Fog. As ever, Meg casts her spells with the best of intentions but always with hilarious results. Children will love exploring the colours, sounds and shapes in this bumper volume, perfect for sharing or reading alone.

Helen Nicoll worked with Jan Pienkowski [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Meg and Mog : Three Favourite Stories]

Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.
[lire la quatrième du livre Poirot's Early Cases]

In this classic Seussian tale, the good doctor primes his readers against all the little mishaps and misadventures that can befall even the best of us - from bang-ups and hang-ups to lurches and slumps - encouraging us to take life in our stride! Now in picture book format.
[lire la quatrième du livre Oh, The Places You'll Go!]

Nothing is sweeter, as everyone knows, than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes!All over the world, babies are different. Yet in some ways they are very much the same: each one has ten little fingers and ten little toes �?oe to play with, to tickle, to wave. And each child is very, very special to its parents…With Mem Fox's gently rhyming text illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, best [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes]

But where is the Easter Bunny? Do you know?
[lire la quatrième du livre SPLAT THE CAT, WHERE THE EASTER BUNNY]

Chapter 1

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy wouldhave supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, thecharacter of her father and mother; her own person and disposition,were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, withoutbeing neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, thoughhis name was Richard—and he had never been handsome.
[lire la quatrième du livre Northanger Abbey]

Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour.Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood.
[lire la quatrième du livre Shades of Grey]

This edition is part of the Penguin Classics Clothbound series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gulliver's Travels]

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.
[lire la quatrième du livre Burned]

THE EMPIRE TRILOGY: BOOK II

Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma. But when you’re surrounded by deadly rivals intent on toppling you at every turn, you need to be the best simply to survive…
[lire la quatrième du livre Servant of the Empire]

THE EMPIRE TRILOGY: BOOK III

The final play of the game. Surrounded on all sides by warring factions, assassins and spies, Mara of the Acoma must draw on her deepest resources to secure her position once and for all.
[lire la quatrième du livre Mistress of the Empire]

Book two in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn't done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.
[lire la quatrième du livre Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials]

WINNIE : [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...
[lire la quatrième du livre Happy days]

It´,s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America´,s soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Blood's A Rover will be published for the first time in Windmill paperback. The long-awaited ma
[lire la quatrième du livre Blood's Rover]

Soul Murder [Paperback] Blake, Daniel
[lire la quatrième du livre Soul Murder]

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties.
[lire la quatrième du livre To Kill a Mockingbird]

1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age – an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency.

Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Pete Bondurant – Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd – employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tablooid]

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories]

Back in print Collecting the first nine issues of the award winning and totally uncensored Liberty Meadows with an all-new cover. Also featuring cover galleries and sketch galleries of unpublished Liberty Meadows art.
[lire la quatrième du livre Liberty Meadows Volume 1: Eden]

Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.
[lire la quatrième du livre Green Eggs and Ham]

Forced to share a house with her charismatic ex-husband, her professional judgement called into question, lawyer Natasha Macauley's life seems to have gone awry. When her path crosses that of Sarah, she sees a chance to put things right.

But she doesn't know that Sarah is keeping a secret... one that will chance all of their lives.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Horse Dancer]

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .

A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
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Eric Carle's bestselling story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar has come to life with this delightful finger puppet edition.

This gorgeous new interactive format lets babies and toddlers join in the fun as the plush caterpillar finger puppet wriggles his way through the holes in each page.

They can help the caterpillar munch and crunch through the food before [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Very Hungry Caterpillar Finger Puppet Book]

Cent-cinquante ans après leur publication, les aventures d'Alice connaissent toujours le succès. Jean-Pierre Kerloc'h, connu pour ses adaptations des grands classiques pour la jeunesse, nous en propose une version pleine de légèreté et de fantaisie, mais fidèle à l'esprit du texte original.
[lire la quatrième du livre Alice au Pays des Merveilles]

The Catcher in the Rye is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Catcher in the Rye]

The third Scott Pilgrim volume!
[lire la quatrième du livre Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness]

The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizonThe Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle with natives in the Phillipines. In this biography, [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Magellan]

This new edition of a beloved American story cycle includes a rich selection of appendices on the work's literary, critical, and biographical contexts. Originally published in four installments of the ""Atlantic Monthly"" in 1896, ""The Country of the Pointed Firs"" is Sarah Orne Jewett's most popular and enduring work. It is commonly regarded as the best [...]
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"Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Blood Meridian]