Mateo Lemoine est un prodige du football. A dix-huit ans, il surprend son entourage et ses fans en s'inscrivant a la fac de Vernet, la petite ville ou il vit avec sa mere, pour conquérir le titre universitaire que son pere, entraîneur de talent disparu prématurément, était sur le point de remporter avant sa mort. Malgré son niveau, ou a cause de lui, Mateo peine a trouver sa place au sein de...

A day without laughter is a day wasted.' It is Christmas Day when Charlie Chaplin receives a visit from Death. The great actor is 82 years old, but not yet ready to face the final curtain. Desperate to see his teenage son grow up, the actor strikes a deal: if he manages to make Death laugh, he will win an extra year of life.

The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the...

jPod Prenez six programmateurs un tantinet autistes, dont Ethan Jarlewski. Enfermez-les dans jPod, un studio de jeux vidéo a Vancouver. Torturez-les a coups d'idées marketing absurdes, comme intégrer une tortue dans un jeu de skateboard. Ils se rebelleront, c'est sur. Et si en plus la famille un brin timbrée d'Ethan s'en mele, c'est la chance de se voir embarqué dans un rodéo...

In general, when we think about media, and especially mass media, we seldom associate them with economy. Meanwhile, the freedom of communication is closely related to the fi nancing sources. The Americans say: “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” In the modern world, it is diffi cult to establish who pays and what they actually pay with. Very few of us realize that the currency we pay...

Charlie Barnes is a father, small-business owner, con-man, and failure. At sixty-eight and on his fifth marriage, he is facing the end of his life - which is good a time as any for a reckoning. It's down to Charlie's son, Jake Barnes, to write his father's story. What have his father's desperate dreams amounted to? If Charlie's life was a series of fantasies, then how is it possible for his son...

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He...

Podczas gdy jego ojciec przebywa w podróży Oktaw, syn Arganta, zakochuje się i żeni z Hiacyntą, młodą, biedną dziewczyną nieznanego pochodzenia. Tymczasem Argant zamierza ożenić syna z córką Geronta z Tarentu. Również pod nieobecność swego ojca Leander, syn Geronta i przyjaciel Oktawa, zakochuje się w Zerbinecie, młodej Cygance. W obliczu niespodziewanego powrotu Arganta, Oktaw,...

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah’s Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the...

Günter Habicht, 63 und ehemaliger Busfahrer, wacht über die Nachbarschaft. Unsachgemäß getrennter Abfall, falsch geparkte E-Roller: Nichts entgeht seinem scharfen Auge. Günters Frau Brigitte bringt das auf die Palme. Aber Günter hilft auch, wo er kann! Mit Vorliebe im Baumarkt – dort sogar besser als jeder Mitarbeiter. Und natürlich geht er auch mit Brigitte zu IKEA. Solange dort nicht auch...

The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of...

Je me suis redressée brusquement et une goutte de sueur s'est échappée derriere mon oreille. Elle a suivi un moment la ligne de ma mâchoire, a glissé le long de mon cou pour trouver son chemin entre mes seins. Aujourd'hui encore, je la sens, cette trace premiere qui m'a marquée jusqu'au creux de mon ventre. Je regardais en silence ce garçon qui se tenait devant moi et tout ce que je sentais,...

‘The best novel I’ve encountered this year, brilliant and funny and profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating characters I’ve ever known. As far as I’m concerned, the novel is an instant classic’ Jaroslav Kalfar, author of Spaceman of Bohemia ‘This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint, insight and style’ Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves 9th...

America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their father’s body on their backs, they roam an unforgiving landscape dotted with giant buffalo bones and tiger paw prints,...

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years. She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . . Turns out her mother is a really good liar. After five years in prison, Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with the daughter who testified against her - and care for her new infant grandson. When Rose...

Vier Geschichten, die uns lehren, aus der Vergangenheit über die Zukunft zu lernen und den Blick nach vorn zu öffnen. Was wäre, wenn du in die Vergangenheit reisen könntest? "Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird" erzählt die Legende von einem bestimmten Sessel in einem bestimmten Café in Japan. Wer sich in den Sessel setzt, darf in die Vergangenheit zurück, aber nur solange, bis der Kaffee kalt wird....

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club Pick An...

The first book in the breathtaking DELIRIUM trilogy. They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie. There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would...

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to...