"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity--French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours...

Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The Hunter's Cafe, to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic You Never Die, and the sardonic tales of Frederic Fajardie and Sylvie Massicotte, these stories make excellent reading in any language. Complete with...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

A graphic novel of Alexandre Dumas' tale of D'Artagnan in his first adventure with the king's musketeers. Includes information about the author and the historical setting of the book.

The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Lui un peu voyou, elle un peu bêcheuse, ces deux bambins qui totalisent moins de vingt-trois printemps vont se rencontrer, se flairer, se reconnaître et vivre dans l'incompréhension générale ce qu'il est légitime d'appeler un grand amour. J'aime dans le roman de Patrick Cauvin - outre toutes les qualités de fraîcheur, de légèreté, d'invention qu'il faut pour faire l'enfant sans faire la bête - j'aime ce qu'il dit sans avoir l'air d'y toucher...