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Résumé : On la surnomme Méduse depuis si longtemps qu'elle en a oublié son véritable prénom. Elle marche tête baissée, le visage caché derrière ses cheveux, pour épargner aux autres la vue de ses Difformités. Elle-même n'a jamais osé se regarder dans un miroir. Placée dans ..

Résumé : "Si on avait dit à Ana un mois auparavant qu'elle vivrait bientôt dans un village indigène au milieu de la forêt, elle ne t'aurait pas cru." Or, à la mort soudaine de sa mère, elle quitte São Paulo pour suivre son père, archéologue, au milieu de l'Amazonie. D'un co..

Résumé : Will is twelve and he's just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a strange, savage girl called Lyra. Her destiny is linked to his own. and together they must find the mos..

Extrait MINAS TIRITH Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf’s cloak. He wondered if he was awake or still sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride began. The dark world was rushing by and the wind sang loudly in h..

New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien's U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-..

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Revue de presse ' The combination of cartoons with sharp wit is what makes this book so uniquely special.' (Books Quaterly (Waterstones))'... full of charm ... imaginative and bursting with inventive, off-the-wall humour, making them great stories to be read aloud.' (Waterstones Boo..

It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of cours..

Résumé : The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill a Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in..

THE DEPARTURE OF BOROMIRAragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.?I read the signs aright,..

Résumé : "Noire, lesbienne, mère, guerrière, poétesse", c'est ainsi que se présentait Audre Lorde (1934-1992), grande poétesse militante afro-américaine. Présentée ici dans une édition bilingue, cette Merveilleuse arithmétique de la distance exprime sans fard les différente..