88 LIVRE (s) ANGLAIS (s)

A l'époque de la Grande Dépression. Ayant perdu famille et foyer, Jacob Jankowski, complètement perdu, saute dans le premier train qui passe, celui du cirque Benzini. Il va découvrir ce monde de marginaux et de laissés-pour-compte, tomber amoureux d'une belle écuyère et s'occuper du dressage de Rosie, une éléphante.

Vers 1870, aux États-Unis, près de Cincinnati dans l'Ohio, le petit bourg de Bluestone Road, dresse ses fébriles demeures.
L'histoire des lieux se lie au fleuve qui marquait jadis pour les esclaves en fuite la frontière où commençait la liberté. Dans l'une des maisons, quelques phénomènes étranges bouleversent la tranquillité locale : les meubles volent et les miroirs se brisent, tandis que des biscuits secs écrasés s'alignent contre une porte, des gâteaux sortent du four avec l'empreinte inquiétante d'une petite main de bébé.
Sethe, la maîtresse de maison est une ancienne esclave. Dix-huit ans auparavant, dans un acte de violence et d'amour maternel, elle a égorgé son enfant pour lui épargner d'être asservi. Depuis, Sethe et ses autres enfants n'ont jamais cessé d'être hantés par la petite fille.
L'arrivée d'une inconnue, Beloved, va donner à cette mère hors-la-loi, rongée par le spectre d'un infanticide tragique, l'occasion d'exorciser son passé.
Inspirée par une histoire vraie, renforcée par ses résonances de tragédie grecque, cette œuvre au lyrisme flamboyant est l'histoire d'un destin personnel et d'un passé collectif.

Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a seventy-year-old biblical scholar, believes he has found the rarest of parchmentsùa letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican library in the fifteenth century, it was assumed to be lost forever.

Ned Allen is young, smart, and upwardly mobile. Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned's finally left his small-town roots behind, and is certain that the sophisticated Manhattan world he covets is his forever. His wife Lizzie is also a rising star of a prestigious PR firm. It seems that Ned's made it. forced to make some tough calls, among them a question of ethics and the small matter of whether to lie to his wife - and when the tough calls just keep getting tougher he finds himself on the brink of losing everything ...

One summer, property seeker, Serendipity Parker finds herself on the beautiful west coast of Ireland, hunting for a home for a wealthy Irish client. But when she finds the perfect house in the small town of Ballykiltara, there's a problem; nobody seems to know who owns it.

Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, but -- aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting -- decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice, where a killer is at large as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini.

He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together. Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit-and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night....

Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .

Harry Potter can't wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a Chamber of Secrets, holding unknown horrors for wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect, always in the wrong place - is Harry. But something much more terrifying has yet to be unleashed

Every Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting. Now it's made her so angry she's put the magic finger on them all. And very strange things have begun to happen . . .

A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Perfect for new readers. Discover the magic!
It's Beth's birthday, so everyone is delighted when the Land of Birthdays arrives at the top of the Faraway Tree. It's time for the most magical party they've ever had!

The tale of the giraffe, the pelican and the monkey, who set out to prove they are the best window cleaning company around.
Who needs a ladder when you've got a giraffe with an extending neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don't need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to do the washing and Billy as their manager, this business is destined for success.
Now they have their big break ù a chance to clean all 677 windows of Hampshire House, owned by the richest man in all of England!

L'histoire vrie du combat de Sonita Alizadeh.
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Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. It is written with emotion and empathy.

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