Agnès Desarthe

209 p. ; 21 cm

The Groom. Enormously wealthy, scrupulously mannered and suffocatingly confined by his title the 24 years old Adolphus Gillespie Ware, the 7th Duke of Sale -- known to friends as Gilly -- is a diffident young, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won't let him lift a finger for himself. He sometimes wishes he could be a commoner and longed for a spot of true excitement. When he learns that his marriage has already been arranged, orphaned Gilly, who is determined to wed for love only, discovers that his intended is the same woman he has secretly loved for years. The Bride. Lovely Harriet Presteigne had already been informed that she was expected to marry diffident Gilly, her old childhood friend. Unfortunately, the thought had never occurred to the groom-to-be until his uncle cum guardian told him. She accepted with reasonable good grace the necessity of carrying on the line. She liked Gilly; she simply didn't love him -- certainly not in the way he dreamed love should be. The adventures. So when Gilly's cousin found himself in quite a pickle -- a beautiful country girl claimed Gideon had proposed! -- Looking for some excitement, Gilly delightfully took it upon himself to remedy the situation with an incognito journey. But his secret foray into the countryside was fraught with danger as well as thrills, he confronts a blackmailer, he encounters a runaway school boy, a beautiful but airheaded orphan, appealing and well-spoken comic villains, and a series of alarming and even life threatening events from which he can extricate himself only with the help of his fiancée… In night Gilly brought to Harriet's home Belinda Ware, a beautiful young "foundling," asking his fiancee's help in hiding her from her "pursuers." It was as fantastic a story as Harriet had ever heard --a situation which showed the seemingly gentle Gilly in quite another light....

Littérature jeunesse: roman, affirmation de soi, amour, ferme Un fermier sans qualités. Chez les Dumordu, on est fermier de père en fils. C’est ce qu’Archibald Dumordu a déclaré à son fils Douglas, juste avant de mourir. Malheureusement, il n’a rien eu le temps de lui dire d’autre. Douglas veut bien devenir fermier, mais il ne sait pas traire les vaches, il croit que même les carottes poussent dans les arbres. Les fermiers des alentours se moquent tous de lui mais Douglas sait parler aux animaux et dans son poulailler, il y a un poulet qui s’appelle Ernest, un poulet merveilleux, qui peut transformer sa vie [4e de couverture] Un fermier sans qualités. Chez les Dumordu, on est fermier de père en fils. C'est ce qu'Archibald Dumordu a déclaré à son fils Douglas, juste avant de mourir. Malheureusement, il n'a rien eu le temps de lui dire d'autre. Douglas veut bien devenir fermier, mais il ne sait pas traire les vaches, il croit que même les carottes poussent dans les arbres. Les fermiers des alentours se moquent tous de lui mais Douglas sait parler aux animaux et dans son poulailler, il y a un poulet qui s'appelle Ernest, un poulet merveilleux, qui peut transformer sa vie.

1. 1970 Whitman Authorized TV Adventure based on the popular 70s television series. 2. The Money Explosion is a children’s tie-in novel for the Mission: Impossible television series. Those familiar with the series will be familiar with the miraculous deeds that the IMF have performed in the past. Here they are explained as such: From page 16. But often the sudden surprises that boded well for the forces of freedom and democracy were neither unexplicable nor happy strokes of luck. Often these were indications that Jim’s Impossible Missions Force had been on the job. IMF went in where the knots were too tangled for any other agency or group to untie. IMF went in unseen, without official existence, and came out without plaudits – but with the knowledge of a worthwhile job well done. The story opens in Tampa, Florida, in the Latin Quarter. Jim Phelps, in a rented car, pulls up and makes his way to a record store, and requests a tape from the store attendant. The attendant hands Phelps the recording, and Phelps takes in back to his car to listen to the tape/cartridge in private. The mission concerns the tiny Carribean island of Esperanza, which has suffered at the hands of tyrannical rulers for centuries. But their new President, Petro Martinez is a beacon of light and hope for the future. But the leader of the opposition, Diego Ochoa has a dastardly plan to upset the economy of the struggling nation. And through his manufactured economic crisis, he plans to seize power. Ochoa’s plan concern’s a young intelligence officer named Alexie Darstov, who works for an un-named military power that is in direct opposition to America (Russia). Darstov has overseen the printing of millions of counterfeit pestas (Esperanza’s currency) which he plans to flood the country – literally a ‘money explosion’. Jim’s mission, should he chose to accept it, is to stop the Ochoa – Darstov plan. To do this he needs a highly skilled team of operatives. These include Willy Armitage, Barney Collier, The Great Paris and Tracey Hale.

Simon est un cochon heureux et tranquille qui vit près d'une mare. Seulement voilà, sa mère tient absolument à ce qu'il se marie. Elle fait appelle à Bouliba la marieuse qui doit lui présenter des cochonnes.

From the acclaimed author of Five Photos of My Wife, this is a wry novel about how hard it is to do good. With her husband away on business much of the time, Sonia finds herself drawn into the darker corners of life in her apartment block.