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In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project...

Découvrez le roman adapté de la bande dessinée Les Enfants d’Evernight. Pour échapper à la pension, Camille fait un vœu à la veille de son treizième anniversaire, avant de s’endormir : ne plus jamais se réveiller. Lorsqu’elle rouvre les yeux, elle découvre que son souhait s’est...

The book begins with me in High School, (in Los Angeles), experiencing the added challenge of being an elected student council president; and, not letting all the political benefits affect my ego to the point where it becomes a character fault. From high school I enter the Air Force where performance,...

Rien ne va plus à Evernight : les enfants se sont enfuis de l'orphelinat et l'Autorité retient le Maître du Temps prisonnier dans son palais. Camille pensait emprunter la tour de l'horloge pour rentrer chez elle, mais North et Maximilien ont d'autres projets pour elle et, bientôt, la jeune Anglaise...

Camille a été enfermée à l’orphelinat du Cheval-Pendu depuis qu’elle a été capturée par les autorités d’Evernight, Elle est désormais au service d’autres enfants qui, contrairement à elle, sont capables de manier le Changement. Une visite de Mac Claw et de Maximilien, venus...

In the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton's mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave him, he sets out in search of his father, who is logging somewhere on the rugged West Coast. Matt boards the SS Cardena and begins an incredible voyage up...

The passing of same-sex marriage in the USA by the Supreme Court in 2015 was pivotal in bringing about awareness of diversity in the family structure. Society now faces the challenge of transitioning their perception from traditional family models to what our modern family models look like today....

On this particular sun-and-shade April morning at Fairmount Manor, Stella Ryman no more entertained the idea of becoming an amateur sleuth than she did of entering next spring’s Boston Marathon. For not only was Stella eighty-two years old, but she had lately sold her home and a lifetime of gathered...

Where witty complications and comedic chaos occurs when you find yourself stuck living with your quirky family... Deanne Harrison wants to hide from the world after shattering her fairytale romance by publicly outing her cheating fiancé in the middle of her own wedding. Then, while trying...

**The only way to learn about your enemy is to die with your enemy. ** Seven people, stolen from a Civil War, dropped into a sterile, featureless maze must learn to trust each other, fight off packs of bizarre monsters, if they're going to survive.  But when the labyrinth resets itself again...

In the sequel to Down in the Dumps, Polly finds herself touring as set and puppet designer for a small rural theatre company. When the stage manager mysteriously fails to appear for the first rehearsal, Polly has to step in and do the job. The full-time employment is welcome, but the work is hell....

Reese Lloyd has the perfect life. Or so it seems. So when his wife, Anna, distances herself, ultimately putting an ocean between them, he is confused. Lonely and restless, he takes on the renovation of an old house, not realising it has links to the past. It ushers in an old love, bringing with her...

Exploring the theme of the outsider the book concerns an unusual and imaginative girl, Caty, who escapes from her dysfunctional family and her sense of not fitting in through the murky world of addiction. The book is written in an experimental, poetic style and has a strong philosophic content. The book aims to be challenging but ultimately hopeful.