Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favour, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave, and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly ...The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves and things that really

Parce qu'il a lu trop de romans de chevalerie, don Quichotte aperdu la raison : il est persuadé que le monde est peuplé dechevaliers errants et d'enchanteurs maléfiques. Comme dans seslivres préférés, il veut rendre la justice et combattre pourl'honneur de sa dame. Accompagné de Sancho Panza, son fidèleécuyer, il part sur les routes d'Espagne. Et voici notre héros qui affronte des moulins à vent, qui prend desauberges pour des ch?teaux et des paysannes pour de bellesprincesses ! Avec son roman, Cervantès a réussi à faire d'un vieux fou àl'imagination débordante et de son valet plein de bon sens uncouple mythique ; de leurs aventures rocambolesques, il a su tirerune oeuvre d'une prodigieuse modernité, qui continue d'amuser et deravir le lecteur, quatre siècles après. Ce volume réunit les grands épisodes de Don Quichotte. Le dossierpermet d'analyser quelques-unes des représentations picturales dufantasque hidalgo et de son écuyer (Goya, Daumier, Picasso, Dalí),et propo

Plus que les autres romans de Kundera, celui-ci est un romand'amour. Tereza est jalouse. Sa jalousie, domptée le jour, seréveille la nuit, déguisée en rêves qui sont en fait des poèmes surla mort. Sur son long chemin, la jeune femme est accompagnée de sonmari, Tomas, mi-don Juan, mi-Tristan, déchiré entre son amour pourelle et ses tentations libertines insurmontables. Le destin de Sabina, une des ma?tresses de Tomas, étend le tissu duroman au monde entier. Intelligente, asentimentale, elle quitte Franz, son grand amour genevois, et court après sa liberté,d'Europe en Amérique, pour ne trouver à la fin que ?l'insoutenablelégèreté de l'être?. En effet, quelle qualité - de la gravité ou de la légèreté -correspond le mieux à la condition humaine ? Et où s'arrête lesérieux pour céder la place au frivole, et réciproquement ? Avecson art du paradoxe, Kundera pose ces questions à travers un textecomposé à partir de quelques données simples mais quis'enrichissent const

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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem--but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international sensation--and a startling, provocative debut.

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first edition (dated 1818 but probably issued in late 1817), which was published posthumously. The editor has spelled out ampersands and made super* letters lowercase. The novel, which is fully annotated, is followed by the two canceled chapters that comprise Persuasion’s original ending. "Backgrounds and Contexts" collects contemporary assessments of Jane Austen as well as materials relating to social issues of the period. Included are an excerpt from William Hayley’s 1785 "Essay on Old Maids"; Austen’s letters to Fanny Knight, which reveal her skepticism about marriage as the key to happiness; Henry Austen’s memorial tribute to his famous sister; assessments by nineteenth-century critics Julia Kavanagh and Goldwin Smith, who saw Austen as an unassuming, sheltered, "feminine," rural writer; and the perspective of Austen’s biographer Geraldine Edith Mitten. "Modern Critical Views" reflects a dramatic shift in the way tha

"An original and inspired work of fiction." ——Washington Post "A perceptive and darkly entertaining novel expansive,great-hearted,and acidly funny." ——New york times Book Revied "What Looks at first glace like a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about,well,America.It may even be,in its own modest way,a great Americal novel." ——Los Angeles Times "A masterwork of pitch and tone…Ferris brilliantly captures the fishbowl quality of contemporary office life." ——The New Yorker "Fabulous…Then We Came to the End has the gossipy warmth and seeming closeness of a conspiratorial coworker leaning over over a partition to impart the latest rumor." ——Chicago Tribune

For four years,Patrick had often wondered how it would feel if they caught him.Now th was terror-stricken.Practically naked and strapped down like an animal,he knew the next few hours would be insufferable…… Once he was a well-liked,well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm.Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm-and ran for his life.For four years,he evaded men who were rich,powerful,and would stop atnothing to find him.Then,inevitably,on the edge of the Brazilian jungle,they finally tracked him down.

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day ...Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed, and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim ...

Flush from their narrow victory over the horrific Vlagh, Longbow and his companions are drawn to a pastoral territory in south Dhrall, confident that they will thwart the next assault by theirinhuman foe. But on the border of the Wasteland,the Vlagh is breeding a monstrous new army ofvenomous bat-bugs and armored spiders. Thesegrotesque legions threaten to overwhelm theallies, who are further shocked by a prophecy delivered by the Dreamers: an invasion by anew, second army. A force of armed acoly tesapproaches to plunder this unspoiled land in aglobal holy war. Now farmers and hunters, soldiers and madnen,mortals and harge to a battle that will descide the world.

Nora should know better than to think her life can return tonormal after falling in love with a fallen angel. And Nora's lifeisn't normal - her dad was murdered, and the facts about his deathjust don't add up. Now Nora's own life is in imminent danger. Areshe and Patch strong enough for the battle ahead?

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrench

A rich, authoritative look at a material that plays anessential role in human culture Wood has been a central part of human life throughout the world forthousands of years. In an intoxicating mix of science, history, andpractical information, historian and woodworker Harvey Greenconsiders this vital material's place on the planet. What makes onewood hard and one soft? How did we find it, tame it? Where does itfit into the histories of technology, architecture, andindustrialization, of empire, exploration, and settlement? Spanningthe surprising histories of the log cabin and Windsor chair, thedeep truth about veneer, the role of wood in the AmericanRevolution, the disappearance of the rain forests, the botanybehind the baseball bat, and much more, Wood is a deep andsatisfying look at one of our most treasured resources.

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, afierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayalin the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day inthe life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu'stotalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, shebelieves, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the liningsof men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with hername and address. Anything to get out of the country. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray toher friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary, to hergrandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them, toMajor Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wetkiss on her fingers, and to Paul, her lover, her one source oftrust, despite his constant drunkenness. In her distraction, shemisses her stop to find herself on an unfamiliar street. And whatshe discovers there

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Fées, sorcières, magiciens, korrigans, ogres, génies et autrescréatures fabuleuses peuplent nos contes. D'un coup de baguette,d'un mot, ou d'un geste, ils transforment le destin du personnage.Quand ils sont bienveillants, ils lui apportent le bonheur ;maléfiques, ils l'obligent à ruser et à se surpasser pour conna?treun sort meilleur... Mais c'est toujours après les avoir croisés quele héros accède à la légende... N'hésitez pas : à votre tour,partez à leur rencontre ! Voyage au pays des contes, cetteanthologie invite le lecteur curieux à découvrir neuf textesd'horizons littéraires variés : Andersen, Grimm et Perrault yc?toient des contes breton, proven?al et oriental. L'éditionpropose de nombreux exercices pour étudier les caractéristiques dumerveilleux.

Eux, c'est une famille de Gitans installés illégalement sur unterrain vague de la banlieue parisienne - ils n'ont rien d'autreque " leur caravane et leur sang ". Elle, c'est une bibliothécairedouce et généreuse, une " gadjé ", qui a l'amour des livres. Leroman raconte leur rencontre inattendue, lorsque la jeune femmedécide d'initier les enfants du camp au plaisir de la lecture. Ledossier de l'édition offre une synthèse sur la réalité des Gitans(leur histoire et leur place dans la société). Il présente aussi ledestin littéraire de ce peuple, symbole de liberté.