French Short

For grieving Nicole Clicquot, saving the vineyards her husband left behind is her one chance to keep a roof over her head and provide a future for her little girl. She ignores the gossips who insist the fields are no place for a woman. But one day, buying fresh croissants at the boulangerie, Nicole is shocked to hear a rumour about her husband. They say he died with a terrible secret. One that brings disgrace on Nicole and turns the whole town against her.

Even if you have never spoken or written in French, no need to worry because this book was designed specifically for people like you. In fact, by purchasing this book, you will have the big advantage that only this book offers, that it is the parallel translation of the stories in English, which will definitively cancel any difficulty in understanding and memorizing the text that you might encounter by purchasing other books.

Are you sick and tired of not being able to learn French fast? Have you tried endless other ways of learning French but nothing seems to stick? Do you finally want to say goodbye to your tendency to "forget most of what you've studied" and discover something which works for you? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. This audiobook will give you the basic grammar rules, but also many fun exercises for you to practice; it will provide you with everything you need, especially if you are planning on traveling to France!

Dans la lignée du monumental "1Q84", un roman somme, ambitieux, profond. Deux tomes pour une odyssée initiatique étrange, inquiétante, envoûtante, où le maître Murakami dévoile ses obsessions les plus intimes. Quand sa femme lui a annoncé qu'elle voulait divorcer, le narrateur, un jeune peintre en panne d'inspiration, a voyagé seul à travers le Japon. Et puis, il s'est installé dans la montagne dans une maison isolée, ancienne propriété d'un artiste de génie, Tomohiko Amada. Un jour, le narrateur reçoit une proposition alléchante : faire le portrait de Wataru Menshiki, un riche homme d'affaires.

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

In this short, spellbinding book, international best-selling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world - the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, The Pillars of the Earth.

Un narrateur découvre les ruines d'un manoir abandonné, marqué par une tragédie passée. L'histoire racontée révèle qu'une femme adultère a laissé mourir son amant, emmuré vivant par son mari jaloux. Ce récit, à la fois réaliste et cruel, illustre la logique implacable des passions et du châtiment conjugal.

l fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s’évader en nature, que leur rosé ne soit pas seul à prendre le frais. Sauf que des chalets à portée de leur budget, ça n’existe tout simplement pas. Survient le miracle Madeleine : leur vieille amie est prête à leur prêter sa petite cabane au bord d’un lac–du moment qu’elle peut sortir de sa résidence sur-réglementée et être de l’aventure.

This audiobook is not a traditional language method or a grammar book; it is a collection of short pieces, different from one another in length, topic, and difficulty, which will allow you to explore the French language from a direct, practical, and fun perspective. Through this audiobook, you will able to learn new vocabulary, expressions, and constructions by reading very inspiring, original, and typically French stories!

What listeners really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

"Elle était assise dans une bergère au coin de la cheminée, et ne paraissait pas le moins du monde prendre part à ce qui se passait autour d'elle..."

A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side of France, but what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in spirit. Still, in its shadows lurks a not-so-distant darkness....

Douze histoires variées, pleines d'émotions ou d'humour, pour les plus grands (8-12 ans). Au sommaire : "Émile et le microbe", "Le bracelet d'Anna", "Mes trois araignées", "Grenouille en prison", "Amour et chewing-gum", "L'anniversaire d'Alex", "Un chat toujours à l'heure", "Le mystère de la poubelle du 16 bis", "Adriane", "Qui a effacé mes exercices d'anglais ?", "Conversation avec un escargot", "Mon 'six cents pattes' ".

Raconté par l'excellente comédienne Johanne Emond, ce deuxième volume, en livre audio, contient cinq petites histoires plus amusantes les unes que les autres.

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

1 histoire par jour pendant 1 mois : 31 histoires dans ce recueil ! "Bonne nuit", "Dormir quelle drôle d'idée", "Papa Bisous", "Mon histoire anticauchemar", "Tagada sacré chat", "Mon premier abcdaire", "Pouf le chaton bleu", "Le noël de Super Souricette", "Un match fou fou foot", "Youpi à l'école", "Quel morfal ce Gwendal !", "Papa bisous fait l'école", "Le noël de papa ours", "Sacrée colère", "Mon premier abcdaire des animaux", "Les 3 petits cochons", "Boucle d'or", "Le Chat Botté", "Le corbeau et le renard", "Le vilain petit canard" et "La petite poule rousse".

"Boule de Suif" est une nouvelle incontournable de la littérature française du XIXe siècle, écrite par Guy de Maupassant, maître du réalisme. "Le Horla" est une nouvelle fantastique emblématique de Guy de Maupassant, parue en 1887.

A profound portrait of contemporary Pakistan from the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali In seven searing, atmospheric stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the narrowest circumstances, from the fugitive intimacies of villages where nothing escapes notice to the crevices...

D'une plume alerte, Anna Gavalda croque des morceaux de vie souvent drôles, parfois grinçants ou graves. Avec son sens aigu de l'observation, elle esquisse de manière enlevée les plus petits détails, les travers les plus subtils, les plus cocasses, les plus ridicules de notre société.