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18 juin 2020 14:22
Amour et amitié (Love And Friendship)
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MOYEN
La vocation de Jane Austen fut précoce : à peine sortie de l'enfance, elle faisait les délices du cercle familial par de désopilantes parodies du roman sensationnel alors en vogue. Écrit à l'âge de quinze ans, Amour et amitié est, comme le soulignait Chesterton dans sa préface de 1922,...
Editions Barnes & Noble (2005)
Titania a abandonné
8 juin 2020 20:30
Marling Hall
This dry comedy of manners, set in a parochial England that was rapidly disappearing under the threat of Nazi Germany, was the first of Thirkell's increasingly dark novels written during World War II. But the placid surface of middle-class life in towns such as Marling Melicent--where a bohemian,...
Editions Virago Press (2016)
Titania a lu
30 mai 2020 16:58
Toutes les créatures du bon Dieu
13
MOYEN
Dans la verdoyante campagne anglaise, un vétérinaire frais émoulu de l'école apprend son métier sous l'aile d'un patron encore jeune, devenu rapidement un ami. Son métier : l'art de soigner les bêtes, mais aussi celui de conquérir les coeurs des paysans, toujours un peu méfiants à...
Editions Pan Books (2013)
Titania a abandonné
28 mai 2020 17:54
The Lark
It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures - cutting flowers from...
Editions Dean Street Press (2017)
Titania a lu
28 mai 2020 17:54
Vivants ! L'Incroyable connexion qui nous lie à l'Univers tout entier (This phenomenal life : The amazing ways we are connected with our universe)
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TRES BON
"Vivants! L'Incroyable connexion qui nous lie à l'Univers tout entier" est un album documentaire adressé aux petits comme aux grands, qui mêle science et poésie. Par des illustrations riches, ce livre nous fait prendre conscience des liens qui unissent tout être humain à l'univers...
Editions Fei (2018)
Titania a lu
28 mai 2020 17:53
Anne, tome 3 : Anne quitte son île / Anne de Redmond (Anne of the Island)
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EXCELLENT
À dix-huit ans, Anne va pouvoir réaliser son rêve : poursuivre des études universitaires. Elle quitte l'île du Prince Édouard pour l'université de Redmond, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Elle va y nouer de nouvelles amitiés, rencontrer des personnages attachants et connaître sa première tentation...
Editions Aladdin (2014)
Titania a lu
17 mai 2020 15:26
Une demoiselle comme il faut (An Unsuitable Attachment)
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BON
Barbara Pym ne s'est jamais cassé la tête pour trouver un sujet ! Tous ses romans portent sur le même thème : la vie d'une vieille fille à Londres ou en province, qui partage son existence entre les kermesses et l'église. On pourrait se lasser. On retrouve pourtant toujours avec le même...
Editions HarperCollins (1986)
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16 mai 2020 15:13
The Worst Hard Time
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TRES BON
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a...
Editions Mariner Books (2006)
Titania a lu
10 mai 2020 10:28
The Triumph of Seeds
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FAIBLE
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled the...
Editions Buchet / Chastel (2017)
Titania a lu
4 mai 2020 17:33
The Blythes are quoted
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MOYEN
The Blythes Are Quoted is a book completed by L.M. Montgomery near the end of her life but not published in its entirety until 2009. It is her eleventh book to feature Anne Shirley Blythe. It consists of an experimental blend of fifteen short stories, forty-one poems, and numerous vignettes...
Editions Penguin books (2018)
Titania a abandonné
4 mai 2020 10:31
Pélerinage à Tinker Creek (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
" La nature est toujours mythique et mystique ; elle consacre tout son génie à la moindre de ses oeuvres." C'est sous le haut patronage de Henry David Thoreau que s'inscrit Annie Dillard, se livrant à une exploration quotidienne de son environnement. Dans ce "journal...
Editions HarperCollins (2013)
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4 mai 2020 10:27
Molly Brown, book 1: Molly Brown's Freshman Days
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MOYEN
Molly Brown navigates her way through her freshman year at college.
Editions Hurst (1912)
Titania a lu
25 avril 2020 22:01
The Family Garden Plan : Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food
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BON
Grow a Year's Worth of Food for Your Family Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less space than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular...
Editions Harvest House (2020)
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24 avril 2020 10:10
The Betsy-Tacy Treasury: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
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TRES BON
Maud Hart Lovelace et Lois Lenski
The first four books in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series, together in one volume, ready to delight a new generation of readers--and to bring a grownup generation of readers back to the engrossing stories of their youth. Following the childhoods of Betsy Ray and her friends in the late 1800s and early...
Editions PS Publishing (2011)
Titania a lu
23 avril 2020 14:30
Miss Crespigny
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MOYEN
"Another party?" said Mrs. Despard. "Oh yes!" said Lisbeth. "And, of course, a little music, and then a little supper, and a little dancing, and all that sort of thing." And she frowned impatiently. Mrs. Despard looked at her in some displeasure. "You are in one...
Editions Autoédité (2015)
Titania a lu
21 avril 2020 14:30
Herbal Medicine Natural Remedies
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BON
You don't have to be a doctor to make effective herbal medicine. With hundreds of different herbs and remedies out there, making herbal medicine can be overwhelming. Thankfully, Herbal Medicine Natural Remedies acts as the perfect salve, making things simple with 150 easy-to-follow recipes for...
Editions Callisto Media Inc. (2017)
Titania a abandonné
19 avril 2020 12:57
The Victorian House
The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery...
Editions HarperCollins (2004)
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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)
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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)
