Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the High Point Farm, just outside Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody. Yet something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976. An incident, involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and never discussed within the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout the lives of the characters. As told by Judd, years later, in an attempt to make sense of his own past, the unspoken truths of that night rend the fabric of the family life with tragic consequences. In We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates masterfully weaves an unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family.

Jonathan Harker, notaire anglais, se rend en Transylvanie pour rencontrer son nouveau client, le comte Dracula, un vampire qui se nourrit du sang de ses victimes. Une adaptation du roman pour les collégiens. Avec des ressources complémentaires en ligne pour l'enseignant.

Lou Clark knows too many things . . .She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London.She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.What Lou doesn''t know is she''s about to meet someone who''s going to turn her whole life upside down.Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it''ll hurt. Lou won''t know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.

It begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end…they find nothing. It’s as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But the serenity of the summer’s day is broken by the wail of sirens.

Adapted for Pre-intermediate level readers, this title tells a story about a mysterious stranger who arrives in a small English village, wearing clothes that cover his whole body, and even his face. The stranger turns out to be a scientist, but what is he trying to hide?

Jeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now the depression and the nightmares are closing in. Only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach - a canyon in the Dolomites rich in fossil remains - he overhears by chance a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985 three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. Salinger, a New Yorker, is far from home, and these Italian mountains, where his wife was born, harbour a close-knit, tight-lipped community whose mistrust of outsiders can turn ugly. All the same, solving this mystery might be the only thing that can keep him sane.

Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts.

Anna Scott est une star du cinéma américain. Elle est riche, belle et très célèbre. William Thacker est un homme timide qui tient une petite librairie peu fréquentée à Londres. Leurs vies sont différentes à tout point de vue, mais ils sont tous deux à la recherche de quelqu'un de spécial. Notting Hill est une histoire d'amour merveilleuse - et très drôle. Version Penguin reader niveau 3 (1200 mots) accompagnée d'un cd mp3.

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

Dix personnes apparemment sans point commun se retrouvent sur l'île du Nègre, invités par un mystérieux M. Owen, malheureusement absent. Un couple de domestiques, récemment engagé, veille au confort des invités. Sur une table du salon, dix statuettes de nègres. Dans les chambres, une comptine racontant l'élimination minutieuse de dix petits nègres. Après le premier repas, une voix mystérieuse s'élève dans la maison, reprochant à chacun un ou plusieurs crimes. Un des convives s'étrangle et meurt, comme la première victime de la comptine. Une statuette disparaît. Et les morts se succèdent, suivant le texte à la lettre. La psychose monte. Le coupable se cache-t-il dans l'île, parmi les convives ?

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.

"Can I explain why I want to jump off the top a tower block?" For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple : he has, in his own words, "pissed his life away". And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all... But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea -but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few hated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?