Model Number: BBAL2867445272DLDA
Author: Darrieussecq, Marie
Difficile d'écrire son histoire lorsqu'on habite dans une porcherie et, qui plus est, lorsqu'on est devenue une truie. Car telle est l'extraordinaire aventure de la narratrice de cette fable terriblement sensuelle, qui se métamorphose sous les yeux stupides de son ami Honoré, prend du poids, se découvre ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554456711DLDA
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554456800DLDA
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with faces full of pride and pleasure. . more »
Model Number: BBAL2914368089DLDA
Author: Chatellier, Jean-Yves
En région parisienne, il reprend et développe avec sa femme une association d'aide aux chats sans foyer; ils sont plus de 300 ! À force de contacts avec eux, il arrive à percevoir des messages qui ouvriront la porte du coeur et des amorcions, comme le dit si justement Allain Bougrain Dubourg dans sa ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554457343DLDA
Author: Anonymous
I would ask you a favour, said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour, in November, 1918. I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554457106DLDA
Author: Austen, Jane
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554456320DLDA
Author: Adam, G. Mercer
It was a May morning in 1825 - spring-time of the year, late spring-time of the century. It had rained the night before, and a warm pallor in the eastern sky was the only indication that the sun was trying to pierce the gray dome of nearly opaque watery fog, lying low upon that part of the world now ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554456770DLDA
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
Clear the lulla! was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boys and girls of Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up and down three long coasts they went as fast as legs and sleds could carry them. One smooth path led into the meadow, and here the ...more »
