Enid Blyton
The Famous Five
A thief at Kirrin Cottage! Who can it be? The Famous Five think they know – but they need proof! Then they find an old map and an unusual hiding place…
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Burning Man
En Anglais – Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland’s most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter’s landed in the public defender’s office of a small Oregon town — and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career. His mentally retarded client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty. And Peter faces a choice — between the pursuit of headlines and the pursuit of truth, between the compulsion to save himself and the courage to save his client — in a devastating trial by fire.
Angela’s ashes, a memoir of a childhood
En Anglais – « When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. » So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy– exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling– does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies ….
Biographie des regrets éternels
Empereurs, courtisanes, assassins, portefaix, jardiniers, amoureuses ou poètes sont les héros de ces vies romancées écrites en Chine depuis les premiers siècles de notre ère.
La biographie y était un genre littéraire qui ne semble pas avoir son équivalent en Europe, à quelques exceptions près comme les Vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, les Vies imaginaires de Schwob ou les Excentriques anglais de Sitwell.
Au total, vingt-six biographies : vies exemplaires, portraits émouvants ou anecdotes célèbres qui animent pour nous l’histoire de la Chine avec la saveur poétique et le raffinement d’écriture des plus belles Fictions de Borges.
Le secret de Sarah
uand Nash Audubon, journaliste, désenchanté au Chicago Scoop, traque la belle Sarah Ivy jusque sur les rives du lac Michigan, il ne s’attend pas à la sauver du suicide. C’est le début d’un terrible engrenage de faux-fuyants et de mensonges car la femme du milliardaire véreux cache un douloureux secret. Mais Nash également. Aussi se retrouve-t-il prêt à tout accepter pour sortir la jeune femme de l’indifférence et du désespoir. C’est pourtant sans compter avec l’acharnement de Donovan Ivy, capable de tuer pour garder Sarah sous sa terrible emprise…