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In Iran, 1953, a driver named Behrouz discovers an abandoned baby in an alleyway. When he adopts her, naming her Aria, he has no idea how profoundly this fiery, blue-eyed orphan will shape his future. As she grows, Aria is torn between the three women fated to mother her : the wife of Behrouz, who beats her ; the wealthy widow Fereshteh, who offers her refuge but cannot offer her love ; and the impoverished Mehri, whose secrets will shatter everything Aria thought she knew about her life.
Meanwhile, the winds of change are stirring in Tehran. Rumours are spreading of a passionate religious exile in Paris called Khomeini, who seems to offer a new future for the country. In the midst of this tumult, Aria falls in love with an Armenian boy caught on the wrong side of the revolution. And before long she will be swept up in an uprising which will change the destiny of the land - and its people - for ever.

Férocement drôle, ce grand classique de la littérature jeunesse américaine est l'album idéal pour une lecture bilingue anglais/français. Paru en 1961 aux états-Unis sous la bannière du Dr Seuss et destiné aux lecteurs débutants, Go, Dog. Go! captive les enfants anglophones depuis trois générations. P. D. Eastman commence par un mot : Dog. Puis il en ajoute un autre : Big dog. Puis encore un autre : Little dog. Petit à petit, mot à mot et image par image, des chiens rouges, des chiens bleus et toutes sortes de chiens incroyables entrent en scène. Simple et récurrent, le vocabulaire s'étoffe au fil du récit. Quoi de mieux qu'une histoire rigolote pour donner aux enfants le goût de naviguer d'une langue à l'autre ?

Tout les oppose mais ils sont inséparables. Fred aime le vert, Ted aime le rouge. L'un mange des épinards, l'autre des betteraves. A chacun ses différences et ses problèmes mais ensemble, ils trouvent toujours une solution. Tout en savourant les aventures des deux chiens, l'enfant renforce ses connaissances dans le domaine des contraires. Le vocabulaire s'étoffe au fil du récit et la compréhension est facilitée par une correspondance parfaite entre le texte et les superbes illustrations de P.
D. Eastman. Quoi de mieux qu'une histoire rigolote pour donner à votre enfant le goût de naviguer d'une langue à l'autre ?

Abandonné dans une forêt en Inde, l'enfant Mowgli est recueilli par des loups. Il grandit parmi les animaux de la jungle. Mais Shere Khan, le redoutable tigre mangeur d'hommes, veille... Le plaisir de lire et d'écouter une histoire en anglais. Un personnage connu de tous les jeunes Anglo-Saxons, afin de se familiariser avec leur culture et leur langue. Un bel album illustré et tout en couleurs pour une lecture plaisir.
Un texte adapté du roman de John Rudyard Kipling, spécialement écrit à l'intention des enfants francophones. Un enregistrement qui reprend le texte, enregistré par des comédiens britanniques. Des exercices destinés à renforcer l'acquisition de la langue.

Une actrice hantée par son passé, victime d'un odieux chantage... Un jeune homme à l'avenir compromis dont le courage est mis à rude épreuve... Une sombre histoire d'empoisonnement racontée par la célèbre Miss Marple... Une femme qui cherche à sauver son mari de la prison... Ces quatre nouvelles montrent tout le talent d'Agatha Christie, reine incontestée du suspense et de l'intrigue policière, adepte du retournement de situation de dernière minute, dont les récits ont tenu en haleine des générations de lecteurs dans le monde entier !
Lectures bilingues

Des animaux de plus en plus gros se pressent dans une moufle déposée par le vent sur la neige. Un conte d'accumulation d'origine russe sur la politesse et l'honnêteté.

An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen years is dead. On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen's hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut.

It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a delegation of Russian businessmen is in town - and everyone is determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically.

But the further they dig, the more Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing. Meanwhile, a brutal and premeditated assault on a local gangster sees Rebus in the frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far?

The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. Unable to cope with his grief, Freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium.

In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees - another region that has seen too much bloodshed over the years. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Shaken, he stumbles into the woods, emerging by a tiny village. There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful local woman, also mourning a lost generation.

Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories of remembrance and loss. By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries.

By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

Jack and Meredith are non-identical twins. Their father died before they were born and now they both have to watch as their mother sinks further in to the grip of early-onset dementia.

Jack s career has crashed and burned, all that remains is a Maserati and a nervous disposition. Meredith s world is also crumbling the decomposing yogurt in her fridge a symbol of her newly-expired marriage. Her children, Jemima and Luke, offer little support, too consumed with the world of online dating and amateur taxidermy.

One day, a throwaway comment starts Jack wondering if their father really died. As they begin to untangle the revelations, the twins are forced to ponder both the past and the future: their memories of their mother, their hopes for finding their father, and the fear of what s in their bloodline.

1911. In a forgotten valley on the DevonûSomerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and pale, Leo dreams of a job on the estate's stud farm. He is breaking a colt for his father when a boy dressed in a Homburg, breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the stranger's hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Master's daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries û boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.

Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life... There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice... It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern, don't feel bad. It's pretty hard to resist

In an elegant Regency house near the Brighton seafront, three tenants have more in common than they know . . .

A shocking revelation has led Rosa to start over as a sous chef. The work is gruelling but it’s a distraction . . . until she comes up against the stroppy teenager next door who challenges her lifestyle choices. What if Rosa’s passion for food could lead her to more interesting places?

Having followed her childhood sweetheart down south, Georgie is busily carving out a new career in journalism. Throwing herself into the city’s delights is fun, but before she knows it she’s sliding headlong into all kinds of trouble . . .

Nursing a devastating loss, Charlotte just wants to keep her head down. But Margot, the glamorous older lady on the top floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the outside world, and the possibilities it still holds.

As the women find each other, hope surfaces, friendships blossom and a whole new chapter unfolds for them all.

Fan d'un guitariste de rock, Guillaume, un adolescent solitaire, traverse la Manche en clandestin, pour assister à son concert. Le musicien, qui se reproche d'avoir sacrifié son fils unique à sa carrière, veut offrir sa guitare. Roman pour une lecture bilingue alternant les chapitres en français et en anglais.

Alice et sa cousine Léa passent les vacances à Oxford où elles logent à la pension de Mrs Cusshed qui a un chat doué de la parole. Elles sont conviées à une Tea Party par W. Tibbar, un curieux homme toujours pressé, qui pose une étrange devinette à ses invités, plus excentriques les uns que les autres. Librement et brillamment inspiré de Lewis Carroll. Le premier chapitre en français, le deuxième en anglais, etc.
De sorte que, pour connaître la suite de l'histoire, il faut passer... de l'une à l'autre langue. Niveau de langue : 2 ans d'apprentissage.

Andrew Jones, citoyen américain, est arrêté en France pour conduite en état d'ivresse. Dans la boîte à gants du véhicule, la gendarmerie trouve un pistolet semi-automatique Smith & Wesson, la même arme que celle dont les balles ont tué une dizaine personnes aux états-Unis ces derniers mois. Le lieutenant David Lopez est chargé de l'enquête et les interrogatoires sont menés par un certain Sheldon Black, un profiler tout juste arrivé des états-Unis.

A 14 ans, Malo est une star de la pop. Pour passer un été comme tous les jeunes de son âge, il choisit un camp de vacances en Nouvelle-Zélande où il n'est pas connu. Il y fait la connaissance de Moea, une jeune Maori championne de surf.