Titania a lu
18 avril 2020 18:34
Tea By The Nursery Fire : A Children's Nanny at the Turn of the Century
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EXCELLENT
Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning GBP5 a year. She began as a nursery maid, progressing to under nurse and then head nanny, looking...
Editions Virago Press (2012)
Titania a lu
13 avril 2020 22:37
Une mémoire d'éléphant (Elephants Can Remember)
12
FAIBLE
Jamais une querelle, pas une seule incartade... Les Ravenscroft filaient le parfait amour. Si on ajoutait à cela une excellente réputation et une situation financière confortable, on pouvait en déduire qu'ils étaient de ceux qui meurent dans leur lit. Et non d'une balle dans la peau. Double...
Editions Le Livre de Poche (2003)
Titania a lu
30 mars 2020 17:30
Hand Made: The Modern Guide to Made-from-Scratch living
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BON
Do you wish you could slow down and create a home you and your family love and enjoy spending time in? Melissa K. Norris, author of The Made-from-Scratch Life and voice of the Pioneering Today podcast, offers down-to-earth tips and guidance to help you learn how to_ - bake old-fashioned recipes...
Editions Harvest House (2017)
Titania a lu
29 mars 2020 21:50
Shielding Lily
It’s Lily Parker’s first day at a new high school. She’s a senior finishing her last semester, and all she wants to do is graduate and get out of town. Her home life is a secret hell, and she’s trying to find a way out. But everything changes when Ren says hello and sees right through to...
Editions Autoédité (2016)
Titania a lu
28 mars 2020 13:46
Émilie / Emily, tome 3 : La Quête d’Emily (Emily of the New Moon, book 3: Emily's Quest)
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BON
Désormais presque adulte, toujours aussi indépendante et sagace, Emily Starr a fait le choix courageux, sans quitter sa chère New Moon, de poursuivre son but de devenir une autrice publiée. Si les défis d’une vie d’écriture ne sont pas toujours tendres – lettres de refus, sombres...
Editions Virago Press (2014)
Titania a lu
28 mars 2020 10:50
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
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MOYEN
In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and...
Editions Picador (2019)
Titania a abandonné
27 mars 2020 21:21
Les Ferrailleurs, tome 1 : Le château (Iremonger trilogy, book 1: Heap house)
Au milieu d’un océan de détritus composé de tous les rebuts de Londres se dresse la demeure des Ferrayor. Le Château, assemblage hétéroclite d’objets trouvés et de bouts d’immeubles prélevés à la capitale, abrite cette étrange famille depuis des générations. Selon la tradition,...
Editions Le Livre de Poche (2016)
Titania a lu
26 mars 2020 11:35
Holiday with a Twist
After a messy breakup, Leigh Holloway is ready to start her life over. Until her parents put the family home on the market and call her back for one final, memory-making Christmas. The last thing she wants to do is deprive her mom of the perfect holiday, so she'll lie her way through the visit and...
Editions HarperAudio (2016)
Titania a abandonné
24 mars 2020 13:02
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L. A.
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA. The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty,...
Roman • Histoire vraie | Historique
Editions Scribner (2019)
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22 mars 2020 15:33
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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FAIBLE
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them. I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect...
Editions Baker Publishing (2018)
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21 mars 2020 22:42
Les Enfants indociles, tome 02 : De brindilles et d'os (Wayward Children, book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones)
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MOYEN
Les jumelles Jack et Jill avaient dix-sept ans lorsqu’elles sont rentrées chez leurs parents. Puis elles ont été envoyées au foyer pour enfants indociles d’Eleanor West. Comment en sont-elles arrivées là ? Jacqueline était la fille parfaite de sa mère, polie et calme, toujours...
Nouvelle(s)/Novella(s) • Fantasy
Editions Tor Books (2017)
Titania a abandonné
21 mars 2020 17:01
All the Single Ladies
In a provocative, groundbreaking work, Rebecca Traister traces the history of unmarried and late-married women in Amerca who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation. In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies...
Roman • Sciences humaines et sociales
Editions Simon & Schuster (2016)
Titania a lu
21 mars 2020 10:50
Betsy-Tacy
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do--a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth...
Editions HarperCollins (2007)
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20 mars 2020 12:25
Nostalgie Friends (I'll be there for you)
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MOYEN
Un phénomène depuis 25 ans. Enfin une rétrospective complète et très riche qui explore toutes les facettes de cette série devenue culte, de ses origines improbables aux raisons mystérieuses pour lesquelles nous la regardons toujours. Kelsey Miller, journaliste et spécialiste de la culture...
Editions HarperCollins (2018)
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15 mars 2020 10:30
Un autre Brooklyn (Another Brooklyn)
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MOYEN
« La première fois que j’ai vu Sylvia, Angela et Gigi, ce fut au cours de cet été-là. Elles marchaient dans notre rue, en short et débardeur, bras dessus bras dessous, têtes rejetées en arrière, secouées de rire. Je les ai suivies du regard jusqu’à ce qu’elles disparaissent, me...
Editions HarperCollins (2017)
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9 mars 2020 21:05
La petite maison dans la prairie, tome 8 : Les jeunes mariés (The First Four Years)
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MOYEN
Les jeunes mariés est le dernier tome de la série la petite maison dans la prairie. Laura nous raconte ici les quatre premières années de son mariage avec Almanzo Wilder. Laura abandonne son métier d'institutrice pour se consacrer à la ferme. Bien des difficultés attendent le jeune...
Editions HarperCollins (2008)
Titania a lu
8 mars 2020 21:50
Les Pendules (The Clocks)
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BON
Miss Pebmarsh a bien failli mettre le pied dessus. Même ; elle l'aurait piétiné, ce cadavre, si Sheila n'avait crié. Que voulez-vous : Miss Pebmarsh est aveugle et elle a été bien surprise d'apprendre qu'il y avait le corps d'un inconnu derrière son canapé. Et d'abord, que fait Sheila chez...
Editions Le Livre de Poche (2007)
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8 mars 2020 15:35
Northbridge Rectory
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BON
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (who doesn't seem to mind that she is married to...
Editions Virago Press (2016)
Titania a abandonné
28 février 2020 13:08
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen...
Editions Bloomsbury (2010)
Titania a abandonné
27 février 2020 13:13
The Complete Tightwad Gazette
In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new...
Editions Villard (1999)
