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Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for Red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike. Generations of children have come to love the fantasy and the whimsy of the stories in the classic book from the author of The Railway Children.
A funny thing happened... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except... She wasn’t the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. But in the process, Lucy falls in love. With Gregory! Except... Lucy is engaged. And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar...
Adapted from a popular Canadian radio drama, this light, engaging first novel by playwright Nichol is a coming-of-age story steeped in mystery. Abandoned by the roadside at the age of three, 19-year-old Walker Devereaux sets off to find his birth parents with the aid of only two clues: a photo of his mother as a child and a cryptic letter to her from her best friend. In pursuit of his past, he leaves his adoptive family and girlfriend in Big River and moves to Toronto, where he finds work on the graveyard shift at a cab company. He falls in with his dispatcher, the attractive, wheelchair-bound Krista Papadopoulos. Together, they follow the trail of Walker's parents as it leads from Toronto's chic Forest Hill neighborhood to the shores of Lake Erie and finally to Kingston, Jamaica. Nichol weaves in the story of Bobby, an animal-torturing, Hannibal Lechter–like character who Walker must confront if he is to learn his family's dark past. In an attempt to dissuade them from probing further, Bobby sets Krista's
Quelle étrange aventure que celle de cette femme chargée de lagarde de deux enfants dans une vieille demeure anglaise... A sonarrivée au manoir de Bly, tout annonce une expérience douce etheureuse : la fa?ade lumineuse de la maison, ses fenêtres ouvertes,ses fleurs éclatantes et surtout Miles et Flora, deux élèvescharmants. Mais bient?t la jeune gouvernante découvre la terriblemenace qui pèse sur les enfants. Dès lors, elle ne conna?t plus latranquillité. Une idée la hante : les sauver. Avec ce récit, Jamessigne l'une des plus captivantes et terrifiantes histoires defant?mes. Le dossier de l'édition confronte l'?uvre à ses "adaptations à l'opéra - The Turn of the Screw, de Benjamin Britten(1954) - et au cinéma - Les Innocents, de Jack Clayton (1961), LesAutres, d'Alejandro AmenAbar (2001). Il propose également desmorceaux choisis de grands textes de la littérature fantastique etd'épouvante.
Un vieux bourgeois enferme dans sa maison une ingénue qu'ilentend épouser. Un amoureux, avec l'aide de son rusé serviteur,soustrait la jeune fille à ce mariage forcé - et l'épouse lui-même.C'est un thème de comédie d'intrigue qui ne semble guère neuf. Etpourtant, en 1775, Beaumarchais, dans Le Barbier de Séville, endonne une illustration sautillante, virevoltante, qui suit lerythme de la danse et de la musique. Et voici Figaro-ci, Figaro-là,valet qui commence une belle carrière sur la scène.
Leigh Tyler was once a kindergarten teacher with starry-eyed dreams dreams that turned into mghtmares when the biggest mistake she ever made came back to tear her world apart. Now. Leigh lives only for the hunt. Werewolves are her prey, and love is no longer an option. Leigh has been called to Wisconsin for something big. As long as it means killing fanged and furry demons, shets up for it. But the worst is yet to come, because something stronger and smarter than the average beast is on the prowl...and it's doing Leigh's work for her. Intoxicating and intriguing, Damien Fitzgerald is making Leigh question her vow never to let another man into her bed, or her heart. Every moment with him brings forth familiarwand dangerous--urges. Urges that may prove too strong to resist. Leigh's job is a dance with death, and she has nointention of letting Damien become involved and get hurt. Especially now that she knows her enemy is watching from the forest. Waiting for her first wrong step.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
O-lan is a homely servant girl in the village'sgreatest house. When she is taken as a wife byWang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toilstirelessly through four pregnancies for theirfamily's survival. Reward at first is meagre,but there is hope in their work, sustenance in the land. Until the famine comes. Forced to flee or die of starvation,the family arrives in the city, joiningthousands of peasants to beg on thestreets. It seems that all is lost, until acombination of good luck and O-lan'sto survive conspires to return them to theirhome with undreamt of wealth. But theyhave betrayed the earth that had previouslysustained them, and their money breeds onlymistrust and deception - and heartbreak for thewoman who had saved them.
“This is the shocking, profoundly moving and morally challenging story... It will haunt you, it will help to complete you… nothing short of miraculous.” -Augusten Burroughs “Just when you thought you might have read about every horror of the Holocaust, a book will come along and shine a fierce light upon yet another haunting wrong. SARAH'S KEY is such a novel. In remarkably unsparing, unsentimental prose... through a lens so personal and intimate, it will make you cry--and remember.” -Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us “Masterly and compelling, it is not something that readers will quickly forget. Highly recommended.”-Library Journal, Starred Review “A powerful novel… Tatiana de Rosnay has captured the insane world of the Holocaust and the efforts of the few good people who stood up against it in this work of fiction more effectively than has been done in many scholarly studies. It is a book that makes us sensitive to how much evil occurred and also to how much willingness to do goo
Né en 1900 à Neuilly, Jacques Prévert est à la fois, par sespoèmes et ses chansons, le poète le plus populaire et le scénaristede L'affaire est dans le sac, du Crime de monsieur Lange, de Dr?lede drame, de Quai des brumes, du jour se lève, des Visiteurs dusoir, des Enfants du paradis.
BLINDED BY LOVE... Romance seemed unlikely for Brenda Gunn, a shy and insecure health-care worker living outside Kansas City. Then she met Glen Brumbaugh, a charmer who showered her with attention and promised a fairy-tale marriage. It seemed too good to be true. SEDUCED BY LIES... Madly in love, Brenda overlooked the stunning news that Glen was a felon, fresh from a twelve-year prison stint. Even after barely surviving an inexplicable fire, and a bizarre hit-and-run accident, Brenda remained cautiously loyal to the man she mar-ried--until one dark night.
Small town Louisiana has a big problem - or rather a number of big problems. And now some of them have come knocking on Sookie's door ...Sookie is an unassuming cocktail waitress in an (outwardly) unremarkable town. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. Attractive as she is, her hidden 'talents' send men running. For some reason her mindreading skills are just a bit threatening ...Then the unreadable Bill appears on the scene. Tall, dark and handsome, Bill seems to be the man of her dreams. Except he's not technically human. Bill is a vampire and a vampire who keeps seriously bad company, some suspected - unsurprisingly - of murder. Things get a bit close to home when a co-worker is murdered and Sookie starts wondering whether she will be next ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. The text of this edition is taken,by arrangement,from the Cambridge University Press 'New Shakespeare',edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.
