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DL 2017*Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist* From Anthony Doerr, The Highly Acclaimed, Multiple Award-Winning Author Of Cloud Cuckoo Land, The Beautiful, Stunningly Ambitious Instant N[...]
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George Orwell, Auteur ; Robert Colls, Préfacier, etc. ; Peter Hobley Davison, Auteur du commentaire | Penguin books | Penguin books | 2021A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever p[...]
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Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavours in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defence system.[...]
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‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…’ Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together from t[...]
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Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, set[...]
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Holly Smale, Auteur | harper"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a [...]
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DL 1993Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
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Louis Sachar | DL 2015Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green L[...]
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'Some peolple are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the rambling victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are so[...]
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An instant New York Times bestseller! "Internment sets itself apart...terrifying, thrilling and urgent."--Entertainment Weekly Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin an[...]
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Charlotte Brontë, Auteur ; Charlotte Brontë, Préfacier, etc. | Penguin books | Penguin English library | 2012The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotiona[...]
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Louisa May Alcott, Auteur | Puffin BooksMost people know this book from the Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Winona Ryder. Now, introduce them to the sparkling American classic behind the movie: a charming portrait of the joys and hardships of the four sisters in Civil Wa[...]
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William Golding, Auteur ; Ian Gregor, Éditeur scientifique ; Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Éditeur scientifique | London : Faber and Faber | C 1962At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they wa[...]
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Patrick Ness | DL 2018As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their faction[...]
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"Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not[...]