Norman Whitney A dark and handsome stranger opens a shop in the quiet village of Woodend. Anna begins to wonder about the visitors who come to Dave Slatin’s shop. What do they buy and what exactly is behind the door marked Special Orders Only? At first, Anna finds Dave exciting and attractive but soon she becomes very frightened.
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley,retold by Margaret Tarner. ‘The lightning was all around me. I looked at the huge body. The silver light reached the hands, the feet and the head. For a moment everything wasquiet. Was it moving? No, yes! An arm moved and then a leg. Then I heard breathing. Yes, the man was breathing. He was alive!’
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, retold by F. H. Cornish. ‘“I don’t have a merry Christmas,” said Scrooge. “Christmas is nonsense. It’s humbug! I don’t believe in Christmas. I’m not giving money to anyone else so they can have a merry Christmas.”’ A retelling of Dickens’s famous story of the transformation of the cold- hearted miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde, retold by Stephen Colbourn Three short stories by one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime.
L´ANGE GARDIEN
Alex Leroc se déplace à Perpignan pour découvrir l’identité d’un Zorro du XXIe siècle qui, sans violence, empêche les délinquants de commettre leurs crimes.
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Alex Leroc et ses collègues journalistes s’intéressent à Pierrick Martin, un joueur de tennis très médiatique. Le magazine L’Avis veut entrer dans l’intimité de la nouvelle star. Le public est fasciné par ce champion qui accumule les succès sportifs. Alex découvre que les secrets de Pierrick Martin ne sont pas des histoires d’amour. La réalité est… Continue reading À TOUT PRIX