65 Roman (s) Langues (s) Etrangères (s)

Le jour de la garden-party annuelle des Sheridan est enfin arrivé. Aussi excitée que nerveuse, Laura papillonne entre le fleuriste, le traiteur et les musiciens. Mais la mort bouleverse soudain toute cette belle organisation... Quatre nouvelles tour à tour comiques, touchantes, cruelles et déchirantes, mais toujours envoûtantes. (Edition Bilingue)

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome. Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers end East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his reawakened African conscience

Dans le désert glacé du Grand Nord, deux mondes s'affrontent : celui de l'Homme blanc, " le Fils du Loup ", et celui des Indiens de la neige ; combat inégal que les Indiens ont déjà perdu... Solitude, violence et poésie sont le quotidien des héros de ces nouvelles qui, parues en 1899, valurent à Jack London un succès immédiat et le surnom de " Kipling du Nord ".

Determined to reach the Dark Tower gunslinger Roland and his companions emerge from the forests in the Mid-World on a path that leads to a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers in the borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises towards the dark source of affliction. Danger is imminent - the Wolves of the Calla are gathering once again, their unspeakable depredation poised to threaten the soul of the community. Unless the farmers can enlist the help of some hard calibers... Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland and his companions venture all as they face the unknown adversary. The risks are high. The enemy is cunning. The end is in sight - but the battle rages on as the future of the Mid-World once again faces crimson chaos.

The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road in his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his finds a whole world upside down.

"Laissez-moi vous parler des riches. Ils sont différents de vous et moi. Ils possèdent et jouissent tôt dans la vie, ce qui n'est pas sans effet sur eux ; cela les rend tendres là où nous nous endurcissons, cyniques là où nous sommes, nous, confiants, d'une manière difficile à comprendre lorsqu'on n'est pas né riche". (Edition bilingue)