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Ayoub, dont le père est décédé, doit se battre pour s'accrocher à l'école. Sa mère, non voyante, se retrouve désarmée pour l'aider dans cette épreuve laborieuse. Cette situation affecte la trajectoire scolaire d'Ayoub, car l'institution l'a jugé inapte à ses normes. Confronté à des obstacles sociaux et institutionnels, Ayoub éprouve des difficultés à persévérer dans ce milieu. Cependant, au moment o il envisage d'abandonner ses...

Ten novelettes of murder and mystery from the pulp writer and author of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Raised above his father's Toronto bookstore, Vincent Starrett grew to love books, especially mysteries like those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the course of his career, Starrett was a reporter, critic, and novelist. He also wrote mystery stories for pulp magazines, creating his fair share of unique characters, brought to life in this collection...

The house party was his idea. Falling in love was not. Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam's name was not on the guest list for the house party. There was no need to put his name on it. After all, he was already there, he had come up with the idea, and, most importantly, he was not looking for a wife. Of course, one does not have to be looking for love to find it. Mary Bennet scowls at Richard incessantly, argues with him at every turn, and would rather that...

A cat may be at the center of a break-in at the library.I'm Kat Jones and my very first client needs my help to find the person responsible for swapping an ancient book with a fake. As if that isn't baffling enough; where they found the fake is a place no one knew existed.To solve this case, I'll need to team up with Rusty. What we discover is a treasure trove of secrets that lead to the origin of the book and not who but what four-legged creature...

The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of things-on the economic edge caused by poverty and disillusion, on the dividing line between outsider and insider, and on the literal edge of the Alaskan wilderness. The stories in this collection...

On a trip to London to visit Mrs. Gardiner, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself befriending the sweet and innocent Georgiana Darcy. Despite her initial trepidation, Elizabeth and Georgiana quickly become friends and Elizabeth learns that the Georgiana has become engaged to a charming gentleman who has just arrived in town. But Mr. George Dalmore is not all that he seems, and Elizabeth suspects that the mysterious young man with a penchant for cards and...

A breathtaking journey through a far-future universe in which the adherents of technological bodily enhancements violently clash with believers in genetic manipulation, from one of the godfathers of cyberpunk In the generations since humanity first began to spread itself throughout the universe, schisms have torn the race asunder. In the future, as in the past, extreme ideological differences have set man against man, causing serious tensions and...

There never was a heroine like Jefferson Ball. And, thankfully, there may never be.She is, simply, the most powerful humanized female dog in a universe full of them. Faster, stronger, more attractive to boys. Unbeatable as a lover. Unfortunately, her brains are not up to this quality, but don't tell her that.About the only one who can is Major Hamilton Pomeranian, the diminutive ex-soldier who is Jeff's best friend and conscience. When she gets too...

But before he turned to novels, McBain wrote short crime fiction under various names, for pulp magazines including Manhunt and Argosy. Collected in this anthology are twenty-five of these early stories, organized under headings such as "Women in Jeopardy," "Private Eyes," "Loose Cannons," and "Gangs." For fans of Ed McBain, the author's introduction to this anthology will be just as exciting as the stories themselves. There and in his introductory...