Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

Nouvelles extraites du recueil Hommes sans femmes paru en 1927 : Cinquante mille dollars est le récit d'un combat de boxe inspiré par la lecture d'un compte-rendu, L'invincible met en scène Manuel un torero vieillissant qui veut continuer à toréer, Les tueurs un boxeur qui avait convenu de laisser gagner son adversaire et le bat par erreur...

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South Africa family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

Stuttgart, 1932. Agé de 16 ans, Hans Schwartz, fils unique d'un médecin juif, devient l'ami d'un garçon issu d'une famille protestante d'illustre ascendance. Cette amitié se termine, un an plus tard, dans l'intolérance, les troubles déclenchés par la venue d'Hitler ayant gagné la ville de Stuttgart.

A la cantine, le menu ne plaît pas à tout le monde. Chacun parle de ses goûts et l'enfant découvre avec les CP le vocabulaire anglais de la nourriture. Une histoire construite sur des dialogues simples, accompagnée d'une comptine et d'exercices, pour découvrir les premières notions de la langue. Deux QR codes permettent de télécharger la version sonore enregistrée par des anglophones. ©Electre 2024

Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. At their performing arts school, the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers' lives is even larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime. Trust Exercise is a brilliant, unforgettable novel about what we lose, gain and never get over as we're initiated into the mysteries of adulthood.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost...

Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families – American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh – enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs and the beginning of the long Cold War.

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings... until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years.

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out. She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word : Beloved.

Sherlock in Love est le nouveau tome de la collection « Histoires faciles à lire », qui suit le tome Mr. Holmes qui prend pour sujet les aventures du fameux Sherlock Holmes. Deux histoires dans lesquelles Sherlock, qui dit « ne rien comprendre aux femmes », se laisse séduire. Irene Adler : Pour Sherlock, elle est et restera LA femme. La seule. Chanteuse d’opéra, belle aventurière, libre d’attaches et avertie de l’amour, elle est aussi d’une intelligence hors norme. Elle tient en son pouvoir un roi et… Sherlock lui-même. Violet Hunter : En contrepoint, la préceptrice hardie, éduquée mais sans fortune émeut Sherlock qui lui apporte son soutien. Violet l’intrépide va-t-elle réussir avec l’aide de Sherlock, à éviter le plus cruel des crimes face à la brutalité et la perversion masculine ? En page de droite, les textes littéraires, et face au texte en page de gauche, l’essentiel du vocabulaire difficile traduit pour mieux comprendre l’histoire et faciliter la lecture. Chaque histoire est accompagnée d’un court appareil pédagogique, à utiliser en classe ou seul(e) pour vérifier sa compréhension du texte et s´entraîner à l´expression.

Dans un château de Styrie, au début du XIXe siècle, vit une jeune fille solitaire et maladive. Lorsque Carmilla apparaît, une nouvelle vie commence pour elle : un amour ineffable grandit entre les deux jeunes filles.

A Oxford, en 1583, le cadavre d'une femme est découvert, tandis que l'exécution d'un vendeur accusé de sorcellerie doit avoir lieu. Maude Mansfield et Harry Hopetoun mènent l'enquête. ©Electre 2014

Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member ofthe border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet. The men become the best of friends.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever...

The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him – one of the most celebrated lines in fiction – are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination. A bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride and her daughter; a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision; Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question. Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret in “Reader, She Married Me”, and “The Mirror” boldly imagines Jane's married life after the novel ends. A new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim and inexplicably lies to him, and a fitness instructor teaches teenage boys how to handle a pit bull terrier by telling them Jane Eyre's story. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë's game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

Eleven unmissable stories from the author of heart breaking Me Before You, including Paris for One - soon to be a major film - about Nell, deserted by her boyfriend minutes before setting off on a romantic weekend away, and a tale of the early days of two marriages, featuring Liv and Sophie from Jojo Moyes' bestselling romance The Girl You Left Behind.