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Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. A favorite destination for American vacationers who are looking for a safe and comfortable beach getaway, the Turks & Caicos Islands offer some of the most beautiful water in the...

Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through...

Poète français de grande renommée, principalement pour ses Fables . Ses Fables constituent la principale œuvre poétique de la période classique, et l’un des plus grands chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature française. Ces...

Arguably the greatest of all the English Romantic poets, John Keats left behind him an astonishingly large body of work almost as remarkable for its maturity as for its beauty. Whether in longer narrative works like ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, or in such sonnets as ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s...

A powerful collection of stories that is at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching as writers offer stories of love in its many forms set against the challenges of modern life. Over the years Reader’s Digest has published stories of couples, families, friends, and even strangers that touch...

So there I was, roysh, putting the 'in' in 'in crowd', hanging out, pick of the babes, bills from the old pair to fund the lifestyle I, like, totally deserve. But being a schools rugby legend has its downsides, roysh, like all the total knobs wanting to chill in your, like, reflected glory, and the...

So there I was, roysh, class legend, schools rugby legend, basically all-round legend, when someone decides you can't, like, sit the Leaving Cert four times. Well that put a focking spanner in the works. But joining the goys at college wasn't the mare I thought it would be, basically for, like,...

So there I was, roysh, enjoying college life, college birds and, like, a major amount of socialising. Then, roysh, the old pair decide to mess everything up for me. And we're talking totally here. Don't ask me what they were thinking. I hadn't, like, changed or treated them any differently,...

Read about how mommy's magic kisses heal all wounds and give strength, just as daddy's magic songs, read about the colorful dragons that bring hope and joy and the how the faith of a child can endure anything!

The points of view and perspectives in The Best Travel Writing 2009 are global, and the themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity, misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Reading these stories is like sitting in a cafe filled with fellow travelers...

"I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook...

Au moment où la Grande Dépression secoue le Québec, frappant autant la campagne que la ville, le malheur semble vouloir s'acharner sur Héléna et sa famille grandissante. Heureusement, l'amour naissant éclaire ce sombre tableau et agit comme un baume sur les vies du trécarré. Marianne, l'aînée,...

L'auteur prend le prétexte d'une photographie pour nous entraîner dans un récit poétique. C’est le récit d’une photographie et de l’invraisemblance qu’elle expose, le récit d’un cheminement du présent de l’image au présent du regard. Une fête d’enfants, des ballons gonflés...

C’était pourtant une jolie promenade… L’Homme a marché depuis la Côte d’Azur jusqu’à un village, là-bas, loin dans la montagne bien au-delà du Plateau de Valensole. Sans céder à la fatigue. Tendu vers son but. Oh, bien sûr, il s’est accordé des pauses, des moments de...