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It is the winter of 1942, and the world is at war. A few Jewish musicians attempt to flee the Nazi death grip, each desperately trying to navigate his own path to safety. With the courageous aid and kindness of strangers, they soon find themselves in Rome, where under the highly secret help of the Vatican, they are hidden in Bellafortuna, a small village in Sicily.

Quittant son Sud natal, Léo, vingt ans, monte à Paris avec un rêve en tête : devenir styliste. Dans ses bagages, l'amour absolu de sa mère et son carnet de croquis dont il ne se sépare jamais. Repéré par un célèbre couturier, il est propulsé sur le devant de la scène. Un rêve éveillé, jusqu'au jour où il assiste à l'impensable. Léo doit alors faire face à un choix déchirant : sacrifier ses principes pour sauver la réputation de la maison de couture, ou rester fidèle à lui-même au risque de tout perdre.

A behind-the-scenes story of a high-stakes political drama that dared the country and its citizens to look into the mirror - and change. Robert Kennedy had an early mistrust of Dr. Martin Luther King and his tactics, but became one of the civil rights movement’s greatest champions.

Premier volume du diptyque L'Eau des collines, Jean de Florette est l’histoire du père de Manon, le bossu qui s’est échiné en vain à chercher l’eau dans les collines. Ce roman provençal aux dialogues savoureux est lu avec verve par Vincent Fernandel.

Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Prodigiously his first book was published at 17 and for he obtained his M.A. in English when he submitted a poetry volume as his thesis. Whilst travelling in France, in the early '20s, he met and quickly married a fellow writer and poet, Rosemary Carr. She would also collaborate with him on several works. In Paris he wrote the book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ‘John Brown's Body’, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Whether we're tumbling with Katz in a field of yellow flowers with a group of long-haired young people what seems only a moment (but is really four decades) ago or doing yoga right now, looking out a sliver of window at moving clouds, this collection evokes the exact scenes and buzz of perception that command our daily thoughts, that usher in grace and beauty, with their quietly urgent moral qualities, which, Katz suggests, can shape our days if we allow them to.

A lifelong collection of writings depicting Caribbean moods and experiences. Enjoy the Afro-Indo-European Creole vernacular that enriches the English of this unique former West Indian island.

This is about a boy who was crippled at the early age of seven and started out with a troubled life. A concerned judge had him protected by the court, then he was sent to a boarding school, and later to a distant college. He met a medical student and fell in love, but was called back to Murfreesboro by Judge Chamberlin to inherit the remarkable Vinson Plantation. He became a compassionate person who believed he was given a premonition by the Lord to prepare for a great impending battle. With the friendship of his servant Eli, they prepared the plantation for the inevitable war.

Formidable conteur, Marcel Pagnol raconte la vengeance de Manon qui découvre l’existence de la source cherchée en vain par son père, et qui était connue des autres villageois. Bergère, " belle sauvageonne ", Manon est l’héroïne flamboyante de ce roman provençal.

Léa et Gus se rencontrent à la fin d'un concert. Elle dort dans les gares et vit "au petit bonheur la chance". Il lui propose de l'héberger pour la nuit... Ensemble ils décident de prendre la route en direction de la mer et de crier leur envie de vivre. Un chemin de liberté semé de révoltes, d'amour, de franches rigolades et de musique.