T'es-tu déja demandé pourquoi tu existes ? Ziggi l'a fait, alors accompagne-le dans le grand voyage de la vie, à la recherche de la réponse... Un livre de Babette Cole optimiste et généreux. 

Max s'ennuie terriblement au zoo. Ici, tout est trop petit pour lui, même les souris qu'on lui donne à chaque repas. Mais un jour, c'est une souris très particulière qui lui tombe entre les mâchoires: "si tu me laisses la vie sauve, dit-elle, je t'aiderai à t'évader de cette prison !". Le serpent est pris d'un tel fou rire qu'il en recrache sa proie. Et c'est une chance, car la petite souris a bel et bien l'intention de le ramener sur son île où il vivait livre et heureux...

Dans ce conte moderne Petit homme, veilleur de nuit, trouve en rentrant du travail une fine, fine femme endormie et la ramène chez lui. En son absence, elle dévore des festins. Bientôt Petit homme apprend qu'une ogresse sévit dans les environs. C'est bien sûr la fine fine femme, qui a grossi. Petit homme tente de la guérir de sa maladie d'ogresse.

C'était une très vieille femme, qui n'entendait et ne voyait presque plus rien. Lorsqu'un jour, la mort vint frapper à sa porte, elle la pria gentiment d'entrer. Elle était bien contente d'avoir de la visite. La mort fut si surprise… qu'elle en tomba malade !

Valentine disparue ... Qui la cherche vraiment ?
Entre satire sociale, polar contemporain et romance lesbienne, le nouveau roman de Virginie Despentes est un road-book qui promène le lecteur entre Paris et Barcelone, sur les traces de tous ceux qui ont connu Valentine, l'adolescente égarée ... Les différents personnages se croisent sans forcément se rencontrer, et finissent par composer, sur un ton tendre et puissant, le portrait d'une époque.

Le temps est loin où, chambrière à la cour, Algonde pouvait compter sur ses puissants alliés. La menace plane toujours sur son enfant, Elora, la fillette aux pouvoirs fabuleux, l'instrument de la prophétie... dont l'accomplissement semble imminent. Les Hautes Terres entrouvrent déjà leurs portes : qui de l'ignoble Marthe, de la trouble Mélusine ou de Mounia l'Égyptienne en franchira le seuil la première ? Les nuages s'amoncellent sur les amours du prince Djem, d'Enguerrand, d'Algonde elle-même. De l'issue de la lutte dépend plus que leurs vies..

De retour d’une dangereuse mission humanitaire, Ginny erre dans New York en s’interrogeant sur le sens de sa vie. Une fois encore, elle s’apprête à fêter seule Noël et ressent âprement le vide laissé par ceux qu’elle a perdus trop tôt. Elle croise alors le regard bleu perçant d’un jeune garçon. Transi de froid, affamé et manifestement sans abri, il doit avoir une douzaine d’années. Ginny lui offre un repas chaud et l’installe chez elle, le temps de lui trouver un centre d’accueil.
C’est le début d’une relation unique qui changera à jamais la jeune femme. L’adolescent, d’abord sauvage, s’ouvre peu à peu à elle jusqu’à lui révéler son plus grand traumatisme. Ginny a maintenant une raison de se battre mais aussi une raison de vivre. Et elle n’abandonnera pas avant d’avoir obtenu justice.
En abordant ici des sujets actuels et difficiles, Danielle Steel livre un roman poignant et palpitant qui la place au sommet de son art

Seven short stories of Science-Fiction

A combination of 4 stories by several authors.

A selection of 4 novels in one book.

Historical saga about the Renaissance painters.

A selection of 11 short stories.

Daniel, the main character, goes through a series of teachers for the first part of the book, who teach him a number of skills that flirt with the supernatural. Mystical is probably an appropriate word. And these teachers dispense knowledge in all sorts of pithy little lines. This book sets its own terms, existing somewhere in the lands of political fantasy--if such a geography exists. Here lives an underground and ancient, loosly-organized collaboration among those who have always lived outside the law. This loose confederation of anarchists, magicians, gamblers, alchemists--and others who live in a counter-economy//counter culture--has its own codes of honor which easily substitutes for rules.

This organization and the characters that interact with it are the protagonists of this lively tale. And the anarchic assumptions by which these folks measure their actions are a big part of the charm of this book. I was drawn in from the start and held attentive until the end. This book is fun and worth your time.

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

It is the story of a young man who decides to kill a pawnbroker in order to take her money and ends up killing her sister as well. He then suffers guilt over what he's done until he confesses to the crime and is sent to jail in Siberia.

Dramatic. Shocking. Genuine. These are the words that emphasize this review, because these are the perfect words to describe this book. It is particularly important young people read it, lest they fall into the temptation of this addiction that is always around. It is an excellent trip to a world through the eyes of a person consumed by drugs, who ends up living various amazing adventures.
It talks about many adventures and different countries and cultures, but it reminds always our culture and country, in my opinion. It is all the same with some small differences. We all do mistakes. Some of us small and the other big mistakes, but we are all the same and we usually do the same this. This story proves us that. And just think about the fact of the main character being kinda real... Interesting, isn't it?
This is a book that takes us into the abyss, driven by self-diegetic narrator. Luckily none of us know the end of that abyss, but we all know the way to get there and we get to know more or less how it is...
Read this book and make an authentic trip through the world of drugs, getting to know every alley, every corner and every feature more closely, without damaging your body and mind to become addicted to the chemicals described. Make this trip and understand every word without need rehabilitation laterI