Zébulon le dragon, Perle la princesse et Tagada le Grand volent à la rescousse des malades et des blessés. Une princesse médecin ? Le roi ne l'entend pas de cette oreille, mais Perle est bien décidée à mener la vie qu'...
Castles
- Author:Donaldson, JuliaSummary:
- Author:Jackson, ShirleySummary:
Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation, which they ensure through an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic. But one day, a stranger...
- Author:DeWitt, PatrickSummary:
On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless...
- Author:Grainger, JeanSummary:
Conor O'Shea has been given the opportunity to renovate and run the magnificent but rundown Castle Dysert as a five-star resort. With his family's future now entangled in a stunningly beautiful old castle on the coast of Clare...
- Author:Goldman, WilliamSummary:
William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers. This tale of true love, high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts was unforgettably...
- Author:Caruso, MelissaSummary:
One woman will either save an entire continent or completely destroy it in a captivating epic fantasy bursting with intrigue and ambition, questioned loyalties, and broken magic.
- Author:Hahn, DeeSummary:
Spade is a grave thief. As Spade embarks on a treacherous quest to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones.
- Author:Montefiore, SantaSummary:
'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES. Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together. Margot Hart travels to...
- Author:Winthrop, ElizabethSummary:
A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy. It is a new translation that restores the eccentricities in style...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about...
- Author:Ibbotson, Eva.Summary:
While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.
- Author:Reamer, Sharon KaeSummary:
Cologne, Germany. Her bruises barely healed, Caitlin Schwarzbach needs time to settle into expatriate life with her brother Gus. Caitlin looks forward to her new job. She has new friends. She also has new enemies. And a new boyfriend....
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle-and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames-and a beautiful woman and four young girls...
- Author:Day George, JessicaSummary:
Le mercredi au château Malicieux est une journée très ordinaire, plutôt banale. Pas de nouveaux couloirs, pas d’autres tourelles, pas de changements soudains. C’est du moins l’avis de la princesse Celie, qui connaît le château mieux que...
- Author:George, Jessica DaySummary:
Le mardi au château Malicieux est la journée préférée de la princesse Celie. C’est ce jour-là que le château fait apparaître par magie une nouvelle pièce, une tourelle ou parfois même une aile entière. Personne ne sait comment le...
- Author:Smith, DodieSummary:
Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel. In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle...
- Author:SMITH, DodieSummary:
Set in 1930's Suffolk, Cassandra and her family live in a crumbling castle. They are poor and eccentric. When 2 rich young Americans enter their lives, Cassandra records the daily events and adventures that occur. Funny,...
- Author:Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared...
- Author:Citra, BeckySummary:
Will Poppy has always been fascinated with writing - he thinks there's something almost... magical about it. But when his mother dies, Will finds himself stuck living with his awful aunt, unable to write a single word (despite the fact...