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Holden is a New Yorker school boy with a rebellious mind.
Stuck in a boarding school in Pennsylvania, he is expulsed due to poor work and mostly, because he doesn't care at all. He plans to come back to New York City before his parents learn about his expulsion. His trip will lead him to the darkest corners of Central Park, meeting strange people and reflecting the path his is taking.
Written like teenagers talk, Catcher in the Rye elaborates a lot of slang and funny circumstances that will ultimately force the character to think before acting.
Marie
When a very intelligent little girl finds herself with the power of moving objects, she starts to retaliate against all injustices she faced. Neglected and rejected by her parents, ill-treated at school, Matilda begans to prank everyone on her list to get her revenge. Funny, touching, moving, Matilda is a model for all children who faced harrassment at school or home. A beautiful way to express the deep desire to seek justice for our own.
Marie
How to speak for everyone ? By becoming so. For her second brilliant novel, Arundhati Roy gives a voice to many different lives and characters. An Hijra with an unconventionnal lifestyle, a former Untouchable finding his way in the most unexpected places, a revolution against the government turned into a profit … So many faces and so many truths. Rethink our world, our system, our social and societal codes of what is considered 'wrong' and what is not to find happiness.
A masterpiece.
Marie
Lyra lives in a parallel world from ours where people have a « demon », a part of their spirit in the form of an animal outside themselves. Her destiny is to travel beyond her world to find our world, meeting Will, to save the balance of the universe and all living things. Together, they will encounter many dangers, different worlds, people, speaking animals and more. Their epic adventure is a masterpiece of Philip Pullman, full of imagination and deeply addictive !
Marie
A delightful story about loneliness, hope, friendship, love and resilience. Addie and Louis have been neighbours for a long time. Elderly widows, aging alone in their memories, they rarely get out of their houses. But what was before, only a gentle wave to say hello, becomes a talkative moment of a day, slowly moving into the feeling of love.
A moving story showing that adventures are coming along all life long.
Marie
Sophie is an eight years-old little girl, very curious and adventurious. One night she couldn't sleep and she sees something she was not supposed to : a giant at her window. The BFG (Big Fat Giant for close friends) is a gentle giant who blows happy dreams into children's minds at night. The only one. Other giants, bigger and meaner, blow nightmares into children's minds. Sophie and BFG will start an unlikely friendship that will lead to the meeting of the Queen of England, and humans knowing of giants.
A wonderful piece helping nightmares to go away !
Marie
Un viejo que leía novelas de amor es una novela magnifica. La vida rústica en Amazona, al comienzo de las colonias españolas, se divide entre la civilización occidental y la vida salvaje del bosque. En este frágil equilibrio entre la naturaleza y los hombres, a un viejo le encanta leer novelas de amor los días de tranquilidad.
Fantástico !
Ce beau petit livre illustré retrace le parcours de la célèbre Aliénor d'Aquitaine en passant par les lieux stratégiques et historiques de notre patrimoine culturel. Ainsi, les paysages et les photos récentes de châteaux se mêlent à l'histoire des Plantagenêts et de la France au Moyen-Äge.
Un incontournable pour tous les fans d'histoire !
The segregation taking place in Jackson Mississippi, USA, in the 1960s is severe. A Southern state that enforced its own laws against cohabitation between black and white people. Segregation and discrimination that must not be spoken of. Yet, several black maids accept to testify of their condition to Skeeter, a young ambitious woman who wishes nothing of a conventional life.
A wonderful story.
Spy Thriller
The best American spy's code name is Pilgrim.But after publishing a book on secret services investigation methods, Pilgrim retires in Paris.But one day, a friend policeman asks him to come back on a crime scene in a mesirable hotel of New York City. The murderer erased all his tracks with the methods described in Pilgrim's book. Pilgrim has no idea that this corpse will lead to an extremely intelligent and dangerous terrorist ready to spread a deadly virus on American ground.
This first novel of Terry Hayes is a master stroke and one of the best spying novel of our time. Brilliant !
Alex
(Translated by Marie)