Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants.

I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen.

And I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire Life on the Refrigerator Door is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year.

Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer. Stunningly sad but ultimately upli...

Vous avez de 6 à 9 ans, vous voulez réussir dans la vie et vous savez qu'il faut pour cela apprendre les langues étrangères. Mais vous ne voulez pas trop vous fatiguer. Alors lisez cette histoire, rencontrez Jean-Charles qui a pu, le même été, apprendre le hollandais, se faire dispenser de devoirs de vacances, se couvrir de gloire et jouer un bon tour a son papa. Un livre pour les enfants qui aiment déjà lire tout seuls.

Des formes voluptueuses, un corps parfaitement proportionné, une posture sensuelle… Au premier coup d’œil, le jeune antiquaire venu de Paris pour visiter les ruines du village d’Ille est séduit par la statue découverte dans le domaine de son hôte, M. de Peyrehorade. Mais le visage de cette Vénus a quelque chose d’étrange : son incroyable beauté semble se muer tantôt en ironie, tantôt en froide cruauté – comme si l’idole de bronze était animée d’une vie propre. Gare ...

No single country has had a larger impact on the past century than America; and most experts agree that the role of English as a world language is due in part to the world's largest economy and third largest country, the United States. But the America of today is also a coutnry of contradictions. It is a country born out of peace and progress, but also out of violence and revolt. Aspects of the USA offers students of English and EFL teachers a broad introduction to the United States, includin...

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan.But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists.

Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God ...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of t...

Ella, 24 ans, est professeur de français dans un collège. Elle a quitté Dunkerque pour Paris et sa première année en tant qu'enseignante, entre élèves déboussolés et profs déprimés, s'annonce mouvementée. Heureusement, elle n'est pas toute seule. Il y a son copain Théo qui l'inscrit sur Tinder, sa copine Lou qui passe des castings pour une marque de lait concentré, son fiancé Victor, ébéniste, son amante Cléo, photographe.

Sans oublier sa soeur Julie, amoureuse du gorille d...

"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." Irvine Welsh. My dad taught us to be prepared for whatever was coming. He said we should know the facts about how long we could survive without food, water or fresh air, and to remember that we couldn't live at all without hope.

It was better, he said, to be ahead of the game. Better to be ten years too early than one minute too late. That's why he did what he did, on that morning ...

Inspired by her f...

L'irruption d'un rhinocéros en liberté dans les rues d'une petite ville commence par susciter l'amusement. Mais une épidémie de "rhinocérite", déformant peu à peu les corps et les esprits, s'abat bientôt sur les habitants. Un seul homme, Bérenger, s'efforce de résister à cette marée montante : "Je ne capitule pas !" se persuade-t-il. Avec son talent habituel, Ionesco manie l'absurde, le comique et le tragique. Il y ajoute une réflexion sur l'Histoire : créée en 1959, la pièce ...