En cette fin d'année, Marly Green, une jeune fille de seize ans, attendait avec impatience la remise de diplôme. Une hâte qu'elle appréhendait à la fois. Bientôt elle partirait du village où elle avait passé son adolescence avec sa tante, pour revenir en ville poursuivre ses études. Un village foisonnant de vie et d'é...
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and B...
Imaginons que la paix soit un vase, lorsqu'il se casse la guerre éclate. Chaque morceau de verre de ce vase brisée représente la torture, les viols, les pillages et les massacres. Peu importe que vous soyez un enfant, une femme ou même un homme, vous ne serez pas épargné. La survie est votre unique option ou la mort...
An unlucky noblewoman precipitates a civil war and falls for a half-demonic beggar with a self-destructive healing talent. Summary: Tien Lyn was born lucky, but her luck ran out fast. Tossed on the currents of politics and magic, she lives in the accursed 'interesting times', during a civil war. Her worst enemy is a s...
Allies and friends of the Wolf People come in many races. Like the Tundra-wolf, the War-horse is big, powerful and a dedicated companion to all the free people of the Wolf Nation. Like the Tundra-wolf they are infused with the Wild Wolf Magic, although not as much as the Wolves, but enough to make them valued addition...
She rides a cranky Chinese Chang Jiang sidecar motorcycle through China, alone and illegally, breaking down on backroads in mountains and desert, and follows blue supply trucks that trundle along riverbeds when the road ends, until they turn up to a village where the road begins again. The maps are wrong, the Mandarin...
This is the story of a young English girl named Hannah, a survivor of the London Blitz, and her adventures in Middle-Earth. (prequel/companion to One Geek to Rule Them All)
This is not my book this is a book written by the late Jack London a wonderful author who wrote many stories all which have amazed me he died by committing suicide e.i. over dosing on drugs. God bless his soul rest in peace Jack London.
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000...
In 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest is a giant narwhal. The US government assembles an expedition to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist (and narrator within the story) receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition...
(Not mine.) Book 1 of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Synopsis Dr John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes' "science of deduction". The novel is split into two quite separate halves. The f...
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is...
"Memories are echoes of the past that resonate in our present; they remind us of where we come from and guide our path toward the future." Certifying who I am and the reason for my continued existence seems elusive. I had a past shrouded in mystery, a relatively content present, and an uncertain future. That was until...
On aime souvent parler de mauvais garçon riche, arrogant et prétentieux harcelant une jeune fille douce et innocente et qui par la suite, tombe amoureux d'elle , ils filent l'amour parfait entouré d'agitation, de suspens et d'action pour finir à l'autel se mettre la bague aux doigts. Cette histoire ne sera pas réellem...