It was Patrick`s idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting -- the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn`t actually told Caroline, his brash...
One of the world`s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with...
Rejetee par celui qu’elle aime passionnement, Bella ne s’en releve pas. Fascinee par un vampire, comment pourra-t-elle retrouver gout a la pale existence humaine ? Bella n’a de gout pour rien, sinon le danger : alors,...
Written in 1944 but first published in 1985, The Tenth Man is set in a prison in occupied France during World War II and concerns Lewis Chavel, a captured rich lawyer who is probably going to be shot in a German act...
Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling...
Istres-Marseille. Pour Jeanne, la vie est ponctuée par cet aller-retour ferroviaire quotidien entre son travail de gratte-papier au commissariat et la maison de sa mère. Elle attend néanmoins qu`un...
For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own...
Terre des Hommes (на французском.языке)
Писательский труд был не единственным в жизни Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери. С призыва в армию и определения в авиационный полк в 1921 году он стал летчиком - и оставался им до конца жизни. Профессия пилота в то время была...
Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (Exp.)
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody...
Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He`s not even sure whether he`s got...
`But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...` By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century`s greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
Qui remplacera Pierre le Grand? A la mort du Tsar en 1725, toute la Russie s`interroge. Trois impératrices et une régente se succéderont et tiendront l`empire pendant trente-sept ans. Catherine Ire,...
Terror by Night (Classic Ghost & Terror Stories)
`Nothing is so improbable as what is true` Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and...
From the publishers of CHILD 44 comes the debut literary thriller of the Hunt, an ex-convict, has spent the past twenty years on a small ranch, supplementing his income with the odd drug smuggling job. Drake, a deputy...
John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the...
Hogswatchnight is fast approaching, and the Hogfather (that jolly fat man who delivers presents to the kiddies) is missing. But it`s vital that all the presents are delivered, otherwise the sun won`t rise tomorrow....
