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Marie has just graduated from high school. She leaves her hometown and takes a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. During her stay, she is hosted by a couple, her parents’ friends. He is a shadowy journalist. She is a frustrated housewife. Marie, who dreams of a future in literature, is honored to have Olivier take an interest in her. He enjoys chatting with her, he takes her seriously. Marie feels important when he invites her to his office for a private chat. But this beautiful relationship gradually goes off track. There is that one time by the library when he holds onto her a little longer than necessary. Should she have said or done something?Since then, Olivier comes to her room to talk. The first time he sits on the bed, imploring. The next time, she struggles, but it is not enough. And every other night he comes back. Marie is devastated. Had she seduced Olivier in spite of herself? So she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow. Marie is not alone. In 2009, she is experiencing what other 17-year-old women like her have experienced in another times. Claudine in 1937, Isabelle in 1973 and Amandine in 1990. Travelling through time, this striking novel gives us the same story: the tragedy and the arbitrary nature of rape that shatters destinies.
One winter evening, Oksana goes to a nightclub to celebrate her best friend Steeve’s birthday. To get away from his sister Camelia, she sits at the bar and orders a beer. Oksana eventually notices a man in the crowd who catches her eye. He fascinates her upon first glance. She herself doesn’t understand this obsession of hers, this want to know his every move throughout the evening. She only wishes to rid herself of the sadness she feels deep down.As for Max, he enjoys his evening with his friends and roommates. However, the constant gaze of this woman at the bar intrigues and disturbs him much more than he would like. He tests her reactions, sometimes by slipping away from the dance floor while she looks away, sometimes by provoking her with mindless flirting and dancing. This curiosity will finally drive him to join her at the bar. A relationship develops between them over time, creating a strong and powerful bond.Despite this, both protagonists have secrets they would rather keep to themselves. How far will they be willing to go to prevent the other from knowing?
A captivating and poetic behind-closed-doors tale, at the crossroads of a Nordic ode and a Shakespearian drama Stig goes to his first Winter Solstice, where all clans go to pay tribute to the King of the Glade. As soon as he arrives however, death comes and the threads of Fate weave a future impossible to predict. Threatened with no reason, Stig will have to discover what lays in the festivities shadows, protect those he love, and... survive. At the crossroads of an initiation tale and a behind-the-doors story, May Winter Passtells the fate of a young man with a clubfoot and a king with long antlers, both caught in the maelstrom of a dying world...
A carp tells the sad story of the lake in which it has always lived. Like hundreds of lakes around the world, this lake is drying up. The lake’s surface, volume and water level decrease drastically until it is all reduced to a muddy puddle. Many sad consequences follow from these lakes drying up. An engaged graphic novel that denounces, strikes, disturbs and that really makes you want for things to change, and now !
Violette and Arnaud, 17-year-old high school students inseparable since the 7th grade, have a relationship that is constantly intensifying. They love each other. Life is beautiful... Violette, very active on the web, runs a literary forum and a blog where she expresses her passion for writing. But, after a party in Paris organized by the members of the forum, she is not the same anymore. Arnaud, who was not present at the party, is worried and wants to understand. What happened that night? And why can't she remember it?
A major documentary about the environ-ment, brilliantly crafted by renowned creators Jacques Pasquet and Yves Dumont. With an educational but never mo- ralistic approach, Jacques Pasquet explains the ins and outs of what forms our environment. From wa- ter to air, and passing through soil, energies and climate, the author de- ciphers and analyzes with accura- cy, humor and passion the role, the threats and the stakes of everything that surrounds us. Even if the planet is threatened and in a precarious state, everything is not lost... solu- tions still exist!
This volume, central to the work by location, is also central by content. We have already discussed the gifts of an attentive mind and a harmonious body. Here you will find the means to take advantage of these tools in a concrete way, and thus progress in the workplace and economically. In the first part, we spell out the keys to making a good initial impression and making your presence prevail in a cordial and convincing way at the same time. You will also find suggestions on time management, valuable concepts on how to acquire and sustain the habit of order, how to express yourself correctly and effectively, and everything related to establishing a good work methodology. The second part talks about the intimate relationship between work and wealth, and establishes what steps are necessary for all professional or work effort to bear fruit in a comfortable present and in a planned and solid future. From all this, you will draw conclusions that will strengthen not only your wishes for success, but also your real opportunities to achieve it, from now on ...
An intense and harrowing modern tale Hugo, molested by his parents as a child, ran away with his friends in the forest to find the Nightfaced Princess who, as the legend goes, grants the wishes of wretched children, sometimes at the cost of their lives. After a whole night, Hugo came back alone and amnesic. Twenty years later, Hugo learns of his parents’ death. Once back to his land, strange events are occurring. Mysterious lights shine in the woods and the storms are whispering names in the wind. Between investigation and legends, Hugo will retrace his child steps in order to understand how his parents died, how his former friends got lost, and finally find what awaits him in the woods of the Nightfaced Princess. The Nightfaced Princess is the tale of broken childhoods, of adults that had to grow with their wounds. Because we, sometimes, finally succeed to live. And eventually, maybe, to be happy?
After a life spent answering other people's questions and curiosities, about her origins, her skin, her opinions, Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti uses writing as a tool to regain her space and expose herself, reveal herself – in her own way, in her own terms, on her own conditions. "And Then Enough is the story of how I came out of my room making real everything I found in books and over the years. A hero's call to which I responded in my own way, never forgetting my story, which began in Rwanda, and the limits found on the streets of Italy. The story of myself, which I only wanted to read, and of a summer that instead changed my life." But it is also the story of her traveling companions, of the experiences that marked her the most, of the protagonists who shared the front lines with her. An essay, a biography, a ballad, a manifesto: the story of her struggle against prejudice, and finally the search for solutions.
In this series, a compilation of texts by researchers and specialists seeks to sketch an updated and detailed panorama of Brazilian cinema. In this first volume, Brazilian cinema is analyzed from the 1910s onwards, addressing silent movies, the beginning of sound film, the chanchada (musical comedies) and the independent cinema of Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s-1950s, and the educational role of cinema in Getúlio Vargas’s government. The book concludes with an essay on Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, an important Brazilian film studio of the 1950s. Ebook version brings aditional texts: “Cinema in Rio Grande do Sul (1918-1934), by Glenio Povoas, and “Massaini, producer and distributor (1935-1992): a lesser known aspect of Brazilian cinema”, by Luciano Ramos.
Summary: This is the twenty-first century. This is the era of globalization. Theworld is changing and things are buzzing. Did you say the Internet?You said virtual world? Did you say information and communicationtechnologies? So Africa! Especially not to be left out! And at therendezvous of giving and re-conceiving, when the continents, bymutual agreement laughing out the universal song, perhaps the resultwill be a better world! And what will science do? And what will lovedo?
Mauve, Tito and Diamond have been walking along the highway, under the scorching July sun, for the past three days. It was Mauve who decided everything, on a whim, when she realised that this time, her mom had really messed up. And, at fifteen, it was out of the question to be separated from her eight and two-year-old brothers to live with yet another rotten foster family. So the three siblings leave Montpellier and their chaotic life, closely tailed by the police. They leave to find Thierry and Martine, whose smiles and ratatouille chicken Mauve remembers fondly. They start walking straight ahead to Marseille and La Pointe Rouge, with the hope of a new life. Straight Ahead follows the singular path of Mauve and her two brothers, filled with life-altering adventures and realistic characters. Furthermore, in a series of flashbacks, Mauve tells us all about her mother—an eccentric woman who certainly doesn’t seem able to take care of her children, but who is full of love for them nonetheless. • The complexity of a mother-child relationship, when a mother’s love isn’t enough to make up for her shortcomings • The unique bond between siblings that will help them deal with life on the road • Interesting encounters and experiences — good and bad — that teach valuable life lessons
Written between 1387 and 1389 by Gastone of Foix, the Book of the Hunt is one of the most interesting testimonies of the cultural history of this time. The four parts of the manuscript show the naturalistic knowledge at the end of the 14thcentury, based on the direct observation of the natural world. It was used as a manual of natural history up until the 19th century. The text is complemented by 87 miniatures in large format, executed by the Master of the Bedford Hours, as well as by a great number of illuminated initial letters and floral decorations that make the pages of the manuscript one of the masterworks of French miniature. The style of the miniatures is very particular, related to those of contemporary tapestries: the horizon of the scene is kept high, thus creating an ample space for the characters; the flora is described with a singular effect of relief, obtained by juxtaposing different tonalities of colour.
It has now been 77 years since the Moebius passengers left the planet Taman and began their journey back to Earth. The survival of the human species relies on the hope that the planet, deserted 2000 years ago, will be habit-able again. Now that they have reached their goal, the survivors are feverish. The images returned by the cameras of the vessel show what looks like the hoped-for paradise, but appearances are sometimes deceptive ... Who knows what they risk by setting foot on this long-abandoned Earth?
Esta publicación reúne veintiocho columnas del investigador, académico y escritor Miguel Laborde, con ilustraciones de Alejandra Acosta, publicadas en la revista La Panera. Sus textos dan cuenta de una serie de datos geográficos e históricos que permiten asomarse a ciertos rasgos distintivos de Chile desde los cuales se construye un relato del imaginario local. La geopoética como concepto nace como una herramienta para comprender y expresar nuestra relación con el mundo y el pensar a la Tierra. Considera la cultura como el modo en el que los seres humanos se conciben a sí mismos y se organizan y orientan. “Desde el punto de vista literario, un libro como este, que corrió el riesgo de ser concebido por la vía de la protesta en un lenguaje de pura comunicación, es, por el contrario, un libro poético, de excelente prosa, de gran riqueza de imágenes y sorpresas de lógica e ilógica. Su crítica al modelo de civilización vigente es lapidaria, pero de un furor contenido”. Gastón Soublette
At a very young age, Emilie and her brother Jean-Baptiste are entrusted to their maternal grandmother and their aunt, who live in a manor house in Croisic. While their parents are in India, they go through hell at the hands of an immensely wealthy but mad grandmother and an alcoholic aunt. Emilie’s only ray of hope is the prospect of her beloved mother visiting them in the holidays. By the time her parents finally return, Emilie is twelve years old The family settles down in Paris where, beneath the surface of an apparently serene bourgeois existence, the true hell begins. The idolised mother turns out to be a manipulative and violent monster. Emilie tries to protect herself from the toxic relationship between her parents by plunging herself into her studies and by playing the piano. Very gifted, she does well in her piano competitions and a successful career beckons… until the day when her mother deliberately burns her hand on the eve of a major competition. Meanwhile her brother, who has been diagnosed with dyslexia, is struggling at school. The father for his part is entirely indifferent and ends up abandoning the family home. The violence goes on for several years, and whereas Emilie is in constant revolt, her brother Jean-Baptiste sinks into a depression that no one picks up on. The vicious circle seems to be unending until a dramatic incident occurs, whereupon Emilie leaves her mother and agrees to go to boarding school. She will not see her mother again until twenty years later in the old manor house where she has not set foot since childhood.
250 years after World War IV, only a few cities manage to remain, protecting their population thanks to the domes separating them from the rest of the world. Every year, the New Global Order determines the future of all the sixteen-year-old. And every year, some of them disappear. They are called the Forgotten.Eléa’s best-friend is one of them.
