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June 2020Die Gärten von Paris
by Murielle Rousseau, Marie Preaud
Was wäre Paris ohne seine Gärten und Parks? Die »grüne Hauptstadt« wird die Metropole auch genannt, denn fast fünfhundert Grünanlagen gibt es hier. Viele sind längst selbst zu Sehenswürdigkeiten geworden, wie der Jardin du Luxembourg oder der Jardin des Tuileries. Andere liegen versteckt hinter hohen Mauern oder verrammelten Toren, wie der Garten des Palais Royal oder der Clos de Blancs Manteaux, und warten darauf, entdeckt zu werden.In Die Gärten von Paris nimmt die Pariserin Murielle Rousseau die Leserinnen und Leser mit in die schönsten Gärten der Stadt. Dabei nähert sich die Autorin den Gärten als Flaneurin und porträtiert sie auf ihre ganz persönliche, charmante und sehr französische Art. So entsteht Garten für Garten ein ganz besonderes Bild von Paris: das Porträt einer Stadt, gezeichnet auf einer Parkbank, mit Vogelgezwitscher im Ohr.
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April 2020Die Gärten von Paris
by Murielle Rousseau
Was wäre Paris ohne seine Gärten und Parks? Die »grüne Hauptstadt« wird die Metropole auch genannt, denn fast fünfhundert Grünanlagen gibt es hier. Viele sind längst selbst zu Sehenswürdigkeiten geworden, wie der Jardin du Luxembourg oder der Jardin des Tuileries. Andere liegen versteckt hinter hohen Mauern oder verrammelten Toren, wie der Garten des Palais Royal oder der Clos de Blancs Manteaux, und warten darauf, entdeckt zu werden.In Die Gärten von Paris nimmt die Pariserin Murielle Rousseau die Leserinnen und Leser mit in die schönsten Gärten der Stadt. Dabei nähert sich die Autorin den Gärten als Flaneurin und porträtiert sie auf ihre ganz persönliche, charmante und sehr französische Art. So entsteht Garten für Garten ein ganz besonderes Bild von Paris: das Porträt einer Stadt, gezeichnet auf einer Parkbank, mit Vogelgezwitscher im Ohr.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2003Claude Simon
Adventures in Words
by Alastair B. Duncan
Introducing novels by the Nobel Prize for Literature author, Claude Simon, this text gives emphasis to peaks in his literary achievement: "The Flanders Road" (1960), "The Georgics" (1981) and "The Acacia" (1989). Alastair Duncan traces the development and recurrence of major themes, such as war, time and memory, and the constantly renewed inventiveness of Simon's manner. Duncan illustrates and comments on the various critical approaches which have been made to the novels over the years, from phenomenological interpretations, through structuralism to the autobiographical and psychobiographical approaches of the 1980s and 1990s. The text includes a chapter on Simon's most recent works ("Le Jardin des Plantes" 1997 and "Le Tramway" 2001).
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January 2018Joomla! 3
Professionelle Webentwicklung. Aktuell zu Version 3.7
by Jardin, David; Foltyn, Elisa
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Le mystérieux tunnel de la rue Basel
by Pnina Ophir
Le mystérieux tunnel de la rue Basel, par Pnina Ophir Cette fascinante histoire se déroule dans un vieux quartier typique du centre de Tel-Aviv. Il y avait depuis bien longtemps une station de pompiers, des ambulances de la croix rouge, ainsi qu’un marché coloré. Un jour, la nature de la rue changea complètement. Des bulldozers commencèrent à détruire les immeubles du quartier, pour les remplacer par deux tours modernes d’habitation et un jardin public. Des enfants de 6ème habitant le quartier découvrent alors, qu’un plus des excavations de la société de construction, d’autres excavations privées se préparent. Deux criminels décidèrent de profiter du bruit et du tumulte dans le quartier pour chercher le mystérieux trésor qui avait été enterré il y a bien longtemps sous la station de pompiers. La curiosité et le courage des enfants permirent finalement de prendre les criminels sur le fait, et d’éclaircir ainsi tout le mystère.
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2021Jardin-cendre
by Hugues Corriveau
Jardin-cendre est un recueil fort, maîtrisé, dans lequel le poète revient avec lucidité sur les deuils de son existence : ceux de l’enfance, de ses parents, de son frère, de ses amis.es, de ses espoirs et, enfin, de sa propre vie. L’écriture concise, où chaque vers semble découpé au couteau, aborde l’émotion avec délicatesse et retenue. Un livre marquant habité d’une grande profondeur de l’être. - A strong and masterful book of poems in which the poet returns with lucidity to the mourning of his existence: those of his childhood, his parents, his brother, his friends, his hopes and, finally, his own life. The concise writing, where each verse seems to be cut with a knife, approaches the emotion with delicacy and restraint. A striking book inhabited by a great depth of being. GRAND PRIX QUÉBECOR DU FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LA POÉSIE
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Fire Garden / Jardin de Fuego
by Gail Langstroth
Gail Langstroth’s debut poetry collection, firegarden / jardín-de-fuego, dives into the heart of two languages, capturing new words, new longings, and new imaginings. It experiences the flames of loss as it looks out of life’s window and marvels at its depth.
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FictionJanuary 2020Grand Cafe Martinique
by Raphaël Confiant
1702, the young Gabriel-Mathieu d'Erchigny de Clieu, from Normandy, is barely fifteen years old. Once he obtains his ship's ensign stripes, he finds himself immediately sent to Martinique. Following Christopher Columbus’s footsteps, his dream of America becomes a reality. He grows sugar cane, which quickly provides him with a nice fortune, a wife, and a prosperous plantation. In 1720, he returns to France with a new idea in mind: to grow coffee in the West Indies. This new beverage is terribly fashionable in all European courts, but the French buy it from producing countries at a very high price. However, the Jardin Royal des Plantes keeps some coffee plants under close surveillance. Luck brings Clieu into contact with the niece of Louis XV's personal doctor (Mr. de Chirac has unlimited access to the garden), and who, for her beautiful eyes, steals two precious plants! The adventure has only just begun....
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Eco-Almanach
Chaque jour un écogeste
by Laetitia CRNKOVIC
Become an eco-citizen day after day ! Learn, discover, experiment, create, become aware without feeling guilty. Take action step by step and start by what you prefer without any constraint.
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Un zoo dans mon jardin
by Written by Flavia Garcia, illustrated by Julien Chung
A Zoo in My Garden In this lovely picture book, a child looks out the window right before bedtime. He suddenly understands that a garden can take magnificent shapes and forms... it all depends on exactly how we look at it!
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FictionOctober 2019El jardin de las mujeres Verelli
by Carla Montero
THE GARDEN OF THE VERELLIS / A family of absent men and courageous women. A legacy which contains valuable lessons. An opportunity to a new start. A voyage in search of the simplest way of living. Gianna has been living with her grandmother in the back room of La Cucina dei Fiori, an Italian Deli in Barcelona. She knows nothing of her family’s past. But on the night when her grandmother dies, she finds among her things the key to a windmill situated in a small village in the north of Italy and a diary of her great grandmother, Anice, with missing pages. When her life seems to fall apart, Gianna finds in the history of her great grandmother the inspiration to start again and sets out for Italy in search of her roots. Through this journey we get to know Anice, her almost magical relation with nature, the story of her love disrupted by the outbreak of the Great War and mysterious reasons why she had to abandon everything. But at the same time, we accompany Gianna in the passage of personal rediscovery and of what really is important in life: love, friendship and a place to call home.
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September 2021THE BEAST WITHIN HER
Marie has left her native countryside, and has taken a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. Staying with her parents’ friends, the husband regularly abuses her. So, she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow...
by Camille Lysière
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.
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CricketApril 2013Bodyline Hypocrisy, The
Conversations with Harold Larwood
by Michael Arnold
This fresh analysis of the England–Australia 'Bodyline Controversy' of 1932-33 uncovers hypocrisy on both sides of the furore, drawing on exclusive interviews with English 'villain of the piece' (and Australian émigré) Harold Larwood. At the time, Australia was a young, isolated country where sport was a religion, winning essential, and the media prone to distortion. In England, the MCC was pressurised by a British government fearing trade repercussions, leaving Harold Larwood and Douglas Jardine to be hung out to dry on a clothes-line of political expediency. The Bodyline Hypocrisy analyses the influence of Australian culture on events, and on exaggerations and distortions previously accepted as fact. It reveals that the MCC granted Honorary Membership to Larwood in 1949, influenced by its Australian president. And now even Ian Chappell has stated that Jardine's leg-theory tactic was simply playing Test cricket with whatever weapons were available. Times change and the truth emerges.
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CricketJuly 2013Then Came Massacre
The Extraordinary Story of England's Maurice Tate
by Justin Parkinson
Sussex and England superstar Maurice Tate's story is one of triumph and fame, controversy and tragedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the all-rounder was the world's most popular cricketer, famed for his brilliant bowling and broad smile - unlike his infamous cricketing father, whose costly error he more than repaid. In his day, Tate's enormous feet were the subject of a music-hall song, his extra pace considered 'magical'; he's now recognised as the first proper 'seam' bowler. He took almost 2800 first-class wickets and thrilled crowds with rapid-fire sixes and centuries. But along the way he suffered a nervous breakdown at the Bodyline series, and threw beer over Douglas Jardine. After a bitter sacking by Sussex, he became a pub landlord and died in poverty. Recently voted Sussex's greatest ever player, Tate doesn't figure in any more widespread Hall of Fame. It's time to remember this forgotten great of England cricket.
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May 2021THE STRANGE POWER OF DISASTERS
A topical novel about the fertile social mutations triggered by a pandemic. How a highly lethal disease will allow a mother and a son to find their way back to each other...
by Hélène Le Bris
France, summer 2029. A strange disease with an unspeakable name, called “Plague” for convenience, is sweeping the country. Deadly and highly contagious, it strikes in successive waves, upsetting the economy and social relations and overturning democracy. It eventually withdraws to Paris, placed under lockdown.On either side of the medical barricade, a mother and her grown son witness contrasting events, she in her village, repopulated by townspeople spared from the virus, and he imprisoned in a devastated Paris. Their past opposes them, their present also keeps them apart: she struggles with paperwork in the filthy workshop next to her house, and he enjoys his job as a guide for the Louvre Museum. As the plague takes its toll, an unexpected reconciliation gradually takes place.Their relationships with their loved ones also change. A couple of overworked caregivers, a distraught garage owner, and an emotional fortune teller experience with them the shock that the plague imposes on human relationships.
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The natural world, country life & petsNatural Journey
An encounter between Arts and Science
by Josefina Hepp, Vivian Lavin, María José Arce
“Natural Journey” aims to remove the old-fashioned tension between art and science in order to approach nature’s shapes and colors with astonishment and without being distracted from the main task: to learn from it and listen to its call in the midst of the climate crisis. Botanical illustration is the art that allows us to enter the world of plants through our senses. But it is also a scientific record that provides botanists and scholars with subtle and precise representations that no technological device can reproduce. A botanist, an illustrator and a journalist are touched by the journey led by other women who inspired them with their environmental sensitivity and awareness. When reading “Natural Journey”, you will be taken into a pleasant walk through six types of plants whose names take after their identifying characteristics. “Travelers”, some inspire and others move (without legs or wings), “dangerous”, even lethal, colors and characteristics that define them, “deceitful”, traps and camouflages to get what they want, “rebels”, those who dodge the rules, undisciplined, stubborn and defiant, and “hungry” from the Plant to the Animal Kingdom, nutrient-capture strategies, “flamboyant”, as emerged from delirium. The book also contains each plant’s data sheet and mapping.
