In September 1977, in Northern Ireland, Bobby Sands, an IRA Militant, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally possessing firearms. He was imprisoned at The Maze detention centre, better known as Long Kesh. This is where a battle for rights and dignity starts leading him to a dramatic 66-days hunger strike.
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Livres Livres en anglais
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
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![Wuthering Heights](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/U/9780141199085-wuthering-heights.jpg)
"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
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![Collected Poems 1909-1962](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureC/O/9780571105489-collected-poems-1909-1962.jpg)
Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliot’s poetry that he wished to preserve.
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![Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Hufflepuff Edition](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/A/9781526610294-harry-potter-goblet-fire-hufflepuff-edition.jpg)
Each Hufflepuff House Edition features vibrant sprayed edges and intricate silver foiling. The Goblet of Fire blazes at the very centre of the front cover, framed by stunning iconography that draws on themes and moments from J.K. Rowling's much-loved story.
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![King Richard ll](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/I/9781108437301-king-richard.jpg)
In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number of performances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr's acclaimed [...]
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![Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/A/9781408898161-harry-potter-chamber-secrets.jpg)
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, ‘Better be HUFFLEPUFF!’
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![Henry IV (Part One)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/E/9780141396682-henry-part-one.jpg)
A history play alternating between the high drama of court life and the earthy comedy of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I is a masterful drama of a prodigal son rising to meet his destiny. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Peter Davison with an introduction by Charles Edelman.
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![Happy days](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/A/9780571244577-happy-days.jpg)
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 [...
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![Gulliver's Travels](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureG/U/9780199536849-gulliver-travels.jpg)
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
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![Small Worlds](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/M/9780241996041-small-worlds.jpg)
Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline.
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![Not in love](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9781408728901-love.jpg)
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought.
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![Delicate Condition](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/E/9781800818330-delicate-condition.jpg)
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK!
As seen in People, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Shondaland, Goodreads, and more!
…Mama's going to show you the horrors she's endured.
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family.
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![Kill For Me Kill For You](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/I/9781035408191-kill-kill.jpg)
***THE INSTANT TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** SHE WILL KILL YOUR WORST ENEMY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KILL HERS. 'Dazzling' SUNDAY TIMES Best Thriller Books of 2023 'Steve Cavanagh's twists hit you between the eyes.
You never see them coming' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'Unputdownable...one of the most ingenious thrillers I've read in a long time.
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![Wait for Me](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/A/9781398513983-wait.jpg)
'Based on a true story this gorgeous sweeping romance crossing time and continents is completely captivating as Florence epitomises the enduring power of love' My Weekly‘Fascinating, compelling and a searingly romantic roller coaster ride’ Daily MirrorRupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait.
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![Ordinary Human Failings](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/R/9781529922639-ordinary-human-failings.jpg)
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder.
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![Foul Lady Fortune](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/O/9781529380309-foul-lady-fortune.jpg)
Assassin. Immortal. Spy.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai.
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.
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![Where Sleeping Girls Lie](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/H/9781474967549-where-sleeping-girls.jpg)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. Where Sleeping Girls Lie is a haunting and compulsive new Dark Academia mystery of secrets, lies and revenge, from the award-winning, bestselling author of Ace of Spades, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Maureen Johnson.
"Dark academia fans, this novel is for you.
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![Romeo and Juliet](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/O/9780192866363-romeo-juliet.jpg)
'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of [...]
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![The Secret Hours](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781399800549-secret-hours.jpg)
But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.
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![The Reappearance of Rachel Price](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008617264-reappearance-rachel-price.jpg)
Lights. Camera. Lies.
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.
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![Victory City](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureV/I/9781529920864-victory-city.jpg)
She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
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![Runaway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/U/9781529418910-runaway.jpg)
Pi?? dekad strachu.
JEDNA MROCZNA PRAWDA.
Glasgow, 1965 rok. Jack Mackay, nieust?pliwy, uparcie d???cy do celu nastolatek, nie wyobra?a sobie ?ycia, które mia?oby by? nudne i przewidywalne. Ch?opak ma tylko jedno marzenie, a jest nim przeprowadzka do Londynu. Udaje mu si? przekona? czterech muzyków ze swojego zespo?u, by wyjechali do Wielkiej Brytanii, gdzie czeka ich kariera muzyczna.
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![Red Sister](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/E/9780008152321-sister.jpg)
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.
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![The Girl and the Stars](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008284794-girl-stars.jpg)
On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
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![The Book That Wouldn’t Burn](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008456757-book-that-wouldn-t-burn.jpg)
The greatest story can reach the stars . . .
This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned…
Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
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![A Thousand Splendid Suns](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/9781526604750-thousand-splendid-suns.jpg)
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
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![The Covenant of Water](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781804710456-covenant-water.jpg)
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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![Undercover Bromance](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureU/N/9781472271655-undercover-bromance.jpg)
The first rule of book club:
You don't talk about book club.
Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he'll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.
Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville's hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors.
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![Water for Elephants](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/A/9780340962725-water-elephants.jpg)
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
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![The Waves](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781784870843-waves.jpg)
Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel.
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![Lucky Hit](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/U/9781405966245-lucky.jpg)
OAKLEYI have one goal. To be drafted into the NHL and make my father proud. I've never been interested in dating, not when all of my spare time is spent at the rink perfecting my craft.
There's no time for distractions. I can't afford them. But she came out of nowhere.
Octavia Layton, the girl with the pretty smile and the broken heart.
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![Western Lane](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/E/9781529094640-western-lane.jpg)
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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![Open Season](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/P/9781837931842-open-season.jpg)
The award-winning debut novel by New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, Open Season is the first in the hugely successful Joe Pickett series, now adapted into the hit Paramount TV show Joe Pickett, streaming on Paramount UK. There’s nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep.
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![The Partner Plot](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781405956475-partner-plot.jpg)
To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she’s thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiancé six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus on her career.
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![The Daughter of Time](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781782278429-daughter-time.jpg)
Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare’s play. – a wicked uncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England?
Inspector Alan Grant is not so sure. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical mysteries.
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