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roman

By:
André Chedid
Type:
Book
Year:
1969
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

L'ingratitude

By:
Ying Chen
Type:
Book
Year:
1995
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Perhaps one has to come from an intensely traditional society such as the one Chinese author Ying Chen describes in her third novel, Ingratitude, in order to fully empathize with the protagonist's desire to commit suicide solely to condemn her mother to a life of suffering: "I was burning with the desire to see Mother suffer at the sight of my corpse. Suffer to the point of vomiting up her own blood.

Adult Literature - Novels

La maison de Patrice Perrier

By:
Gaston Chérau
Type:
Book
Year:
1927
Language:
French (France)
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Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Le Fiancé de Melle Saint Maur

By:
Victor Cherbuliez
Type:
Book
Year:
1930
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Maurice d'Arolles et Simone Saint-Maur ont ete fiances par leurs parents des leur enfance. Devenus adultes, leurs desirs vont-ils correspondre a ceux de leur famille ? Maurice ne veut pas s'etablir malgre les injonctions de son frere et de son epouse l'ambitieuse et belle Gabrielle. Le mariage se fera-t-il comme prevu... ?"

Adult Literature - Novels

Le comte Kostia

By:
Victor Cherbuliez
Type:
Book
Year:
1932
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

N'est-cc pas, a y bien reflechir, par quoi il est d'excellente tradition francaise Le roman n'a ete, durant six siecles, qu'un conflit de passions et de caracteres in abstracto.

Adult Literature - Novels

Défi aux trois Caps

Sur la route des clippers

By:
Sir Francis CHICHESTER
Type:
Book
Year:
1967
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Journals / Chronicles

Clochemerle

By:
Gabriel Chevallier
Type:
Book
Year:
1934
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Tout a commencé quand Barthélemy Piéchut, maire de Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais, dévoila à Ernest Tafardel, l'instituteur, son projet :« Je veux faire construire un urinoir, Tafardel. Un urinoir ! s'écria l'instituteur, tout saisi, tant la chose aussitôt lui parut d'importance. Le maire se méprit sur le sens de l'exclamation : Enfin, dit-il, une pissotière ! »

Adult Literature - Novels

Français, je vous haime

By:
Stephen Clarke
Type:
Book
Year:
2011
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Depuis qu'il vit en France, l'auteur s'efforce de comprendre les étranges rites de sont pays d'accueil...

Adult Literature - Novels

La fabrique du roi

Le pain noir

By:
Goerges-Emmanuel Clancier
Type:
Book
Year:
1957
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Après la mort de la mère, Catherine Charron reste seule pour élever ses 2 soeurs cadettes et son frère infirme. A l'âge des chansons et des jeux, elle ne connait que les devoirs et les peines d'une mère de famille et la lutte quotidienne contre la misère sans cesse menançante. L'affection émerveillée qu'elle éprouve pour la fille de ses patrons, la belle Emilienne Desjarrige, ne lui fait pas oublier la précarité de sa condition de servante, et pour assurer l'avenir des siens elle accepte de s'embaucher à la fabrique de porcelaine. Hélas, cette vie de sagesse et de labeurs accomplis sans défaillance pour vaincre la pauvreté, pour donner aux petites orphelines le goût du bonheur et surtout pour mériter la tendresse d'Aurélien, l'ami d'enfance, le compagnon généreux des jours de détresse, ne sera-t-elle pas irrémédiablement ternie par un instant d'égarement, une étreinte furtive un soir de bal? Après la mort de la mère, Catherine Charron reste seule pour élever ses 2 soeurs cadettes et son frère infirme. A l'âge des chansons et des jeux, elle ne connait que les devoirs et les peines d'une mère de famille et la lutte quotidienne contre la misère sans cesse menançante. L'affection émerveillée qu'elle éprouve pour la fille de ses patrons, la belle Emilienne Desjarrige, ne lui fait pas oublier la précarité de sa condition de servante, et pour assurer l'avenir des siens elle accepte de s'embaucher à la fabrique de porcelaine. Hélas, cette vie de sagesse et de labeurs accomplis sans défaillance pour vaincre la pauvreté, pour donner aux petites orphelines le goût du bonheur et surtout pour mériter la tendresse d'Aurélien, l'ami d'enfance, le compagnon généreux des jours de détresse, ne sera-t-elle pas irrémédiablement ternie par un instant d'égarement, une étreinte furtive un soir de bal?

Adult Literature - Novels

Le café de l'Excelsior

By:
Philippe Claudel
Type:
Book
Year:
1999
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Duel sur les rails

Type:
Periodical
Year:
1 Jan 2019
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

  French monthly magazine and publisher for children. Created in parallel to J'aime Lire, but for younger readers aged 6-7 years old

Magazines - Magazines for Children

The tunnel

By:
Divers
Type:
DVD
Year:
2014
Language:
English, French (France)
Subtitles:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Set primarily in Folkestone and Calais where detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are called to investigate the death of a French politician. When a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, the pair is forced into an uneasy partnership as they seek out a politically-motivated serial killer who draws them into his own personal agenda. 

Movies - TV Series

Les compères

By:
Francis Veber
Type:
DVD
Year:
1982
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
Estimated availability:
Today

When her teenage son Tristan runs away, Christine gets in touch with two of her ex-boyfriends : François, a fragile neurotic, and Jean a hard-edged journalist. Convincing both men that they are Tristan's true father, she sends these these two incompatible characters to the South of France in search of their "son" with neither François nor Jean aware they are searchingfor the same boy.

In their second film together, Richard, Depardieu and director Veber demonstrate their impeccable comic talent to great success.

Movies - Comedy

Petit Pays

By:
Gaël Faye
Type:
Book
Year:
2016
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Le dernier coyote

By:
Michael Connelly
Type:
Book
Year:
1999
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

A two-in-one, this volume includes "The Last Coyote" in which suspended LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, and "Trunk Music" which finds Harry returning to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties.

Adult Literature - Crime Novels

Happa No Ko

Le peuple de feuilles

By:
Karin Serres
Type:
Book
Year:
2018
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

A fantastic story about friendship, a future world driven by machines, energy, green hands and leaves

Adult Literature - Novels

Un maître mystérieux

Type:
Periodical
Year:
1 Mar 2019
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

French monthly magazine and publisher for children. Created in parallel to J'aime Lire, but for younger readers aged 6-7 years old.

Magazines - Magazines for Children

Le voleur de vélo

Le club des As

Type:
Periodical
Year:
1 Mar 2019
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

  French monthly magazine and publisher for children. Created in parallel to J'aime Lire, but for younger readers aged 6-7 years old

Magazines - Magazines for Children

Tonight I'll sleep at yours

By:
Olivier Baroux
Type:
DVD
Year:
2007
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
Estimated availability:
Today

Alex and Laetitia are in love....so what's the problem?

Alexx loves Laetitia. She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex. She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher. In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for living, but...... Alex prefers her to keep her own place. His official line is that they can live together, sure, but not in the same apartment!

As Alex desperately attempts to dissuade his gorgeous girlfriend from getting too close, he cooks up a series of situations preventing Laetitia from raising the idea of co-habitation, but which of the two stubborn lovers is going to give in first?

A lighthearted examination of modern relationships, Tonight I'll sleep at yours shines a bright line on the absurdities of commitment-phobia.

Movies - Comedy

Monaco: le luxe à tout prix

Type:
Periodical
Year:
1 Feb 2019
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

This monthly periodical is exclusively written for French beginners learners. You will find articles with vocabulary about different topics such as politics, cooking, arts and culture as well as a short story and some activities about French language. A CD ROM goes with each periodical. 

Magazines - Magazines for Children

God save la France

By:
Stephen Clarke
Type:
Book
Year:
2004
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Nom : Paul West.
Age : 27 ans.
Langue française : niveau très moyen.
Fonction : jeune cadre dynamique promis à un grand avenir.
Occupation : déjouer les pièges potentiellement désastreux du quotidien français.
Hobbie : lingerie féminine.
Signe particulier : Paul West serait le fruit d'un croisement génétique entre Hugh Grant et David Beckham.
Jeune Britannique fraîchement débarqué à Paris, créateur, en Angleterre, de la fameuse enseigne Voulez-Vous Café Avec Moi, Paul a bien du mal à s'adapter au pays des suppositoires, des grèves improvisées et des déjections canines. Et il n'est pas au bout de ses surprises... (less)

Adult Literature - Novels

Le rapport de Brodeck

By:
Philippe Claudel
Type:
Book
Year:
2007
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Secret de coach

60 conseils pour un corps de rêve...sans efforts !

By:
Valérie Orsoni
Type:
Book
Year:
2012
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Non Fiction Books - Health

Carnet de Bord d'un cosmonaute

By:
Jean Pierre Haigneré
Type:
Book
Year:
2006
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Ce carnet de voyage a été élaboré à partir du journal de bord tenu par le cosmonaute français pendant les six mois passés à bord de la station spatiale Mir en 1999. Illustré par les propres photographies de l'auteur, il décrit la vie à bord, les missions auxquelles il a participé, l'observation depuis l'espace de la Terre et des phénomènes qui menacent son équilibre naturel, etc. Sélectionné en tant que cosmonaute par le CNES en 1985, Jean-Pierre Haigneré a fait deux séjours dans l'espace en 1993 et en 1999. Il détient le record français du plus long séjour dans l'espace.

Non Fiction Books - Science / Nature

Belle & Sebastien 3

By:
Clovis Cornillac
Type:
DVD
Year:
2018
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
Estimated availability:
Today

The heart-warming story of an incredible friendship between a boy and his dog continues in this third instalment of the film series. Belle & Sebastien, Friends for Life.

Sebastien is now aged 12 and has decided C not to follow his father and Angelina to Canada choosing instead to remain in the French Alps  with César to watch over Belle who has now become mother to three beautiful pups. When a stranger arrives claiming to be Belle's rightful owner, Sebastien finds himself in a position where he must protect his best friend and her little ones.

Movies - Dramatic Comedy

14

By:
Grégoire Gilg
Type:
CD
Year:
2010
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

The talented Grégoire Gilg who came to give us two amazing singing workshops released an album in 2010. Enjoy this beautiful voice and music.

Music - New French Music Scene

Joé le cow-boy

By:
Divers
Type:
Book
Year:
1993
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Youth Literature - Books for Children

Un ours dans mon lit

By:
Mick Inkpen
Type:
Book
Year:
1987
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Youth Literature - Books for Children

Je cherche les mots avec Eddy

By:
Jacqueline Rainaud
Michel Rainaud
Type:
Book
Year:
1994
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Youth Literature - Books for Children

Pas facile d'être une souris

By:
Luis Zuazua
Type:
Book
Year:
1997
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Youth Literature - Books for Children

La maison des autres

La grande patience

By:
Bernard Clavel
Type:
Book
Year:
1962
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Les fruits de l'hiver

La grande patience

By:
Bernard Clavel
Type:
Book
Year:
1968
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Celui qui voulait voir la mer

La grande patience

By:
Bernard Clavel
Type:
Book
Year:
1963
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

La noble maison

By:
James Clavell
Type:
Book
Year:
1982
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Volume 2 of 2. The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes-fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong-the heart of Asia-rich in every trade...money, flesh, opium, power

Adult Literature - Novels

Les enfants du plastique

By:
Thomas Clément
Type:
Book
Year:
2006
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels
NO IMAGE

Passeport collectif

By:
D. E Clayton
Type:
Book
Year:
1962
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Dieu est dieu nom de Dieu!

By:
Maurice Clavel
Type:
Book
Year:
1976
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

L'Africain

By:
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Type:
Book
Year:
2004
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Le chercheur d'or

By:
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Type:
Book
Year:
1985
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France's preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister: sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary Unknown Corsair. But with his father's death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame. Years later, Alexis has become obsessed with the idea of finding the Corsair's treasure and, through it, the lost magic and opulence of his youth. He abandons job and family, setting off on a quest that will take him from remote tropical islands to the hell of World War I, and from a love affair with the elusive Ouma to a momentous confrontation with the search that has consumed his life. By turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, The Prospector is a parable of the human condition (Le Mond) by one of the most significant literary figures in Europe today

Adult Literature - Novels

Mondo et autres histoires

Texte intégral, dossier

By:
Jean-Maie Gustave Le Clézio
Type:
Book
Year:
1978
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

This is a book of dreamlike stories dealing with children who arrive from nowhere in a city and then float about ethereally possibly hoping to put down roots. LeClezio creates an unearthly and charming atmosphere

Adult Literature - Novels

Raga

Approche du continent invisible

By:
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Type:
Book
Year:
2006
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

An interesting mix of stories that form a realistic picture of the population of different islands in the Pacific Ocean.. 
when legends and myths meet history and data, all in Le clezio´s style..

Adult Literature - Novels

Sur le bord de la rivière Piedra

Je me suis assise et j'ai pleuré

By:
Paulo Coelho
Type:
Book
Year:
1994
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Colomba

By:
Prosper Mérimée
Type:
Book
Year:
1995
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

La maison de Claudine

By:
Colette
Type:
Book
Year:
1960
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Sido

Suivi de Les vrilles de la vigne

By:
Colette
Type:
Book
Year:
1930
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Adult Literature - Novels

Journaux intimes

By:
Benjamin Constant
Type:
Book
Year:
1952
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Journaux Intimes de Benjamin Constant. Ed. intégrale des manuscrits autographes publiés pour la 1ère fois avec index et notes par A. Roulin et C. Roth. Gallimard 06/1952 n°166/3000. 576 pp. brochée 

Adult Literature - Biographies / Autobiographies

L' allée des Soupirs

By:
Raphaël Confiant
Type:
Book
Year:
1994
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

L'allee des soupirs decrit le quotidien d'un quartier populaire de Fort de France a la fin des annees 1950: Les Terres-Sainville. 

Adult Literature - Novels

La douleur

By:
Marguerite Duras
Type:
Book
Year:
1985
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation, this extraordinary diary by the author of The Lover is "a haunting portrait of a time and place" (New York Times).

Written in 1944, and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II-era France "with a rich conviction enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post Book World). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is "more than one woman's diary...[it is] a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind"

Adult Literature - Novels

Lion ardent

ou la confession de Léonard de Vinci

By:
Christian Combaz
Type:
Book
Year:
2004
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

Léonard agonise à Amboise. Il se confie à Francesco Melzi, son dernier jeune « compagnon ». Mais c?est Salay qu?il voudrait à son chevet, Salay, le traître, le fils selon son coeur qu?il préfère à tous ses disciples. Que n?a-t-il réussi à garder l?amitié de ce beau Ganymède, lui qui a conçu tant de machines volantes ! Que ne s?est-il changé en aigle comme Zeus pour l?emporter sur l?Olympe ! Léonard évoque avec nostalgie l?époque où, flanqué de cet adolescent insolent et voleur, il sillonnait l?Italie en quête de reconnaissance. Il raconte ses désillusions, son emprisonnement à la suite d?une affaire de moeurs à vingt-quatre ans, sa lutte pour conserver l?estime de son père naturel, son impuissance à se rapprocher de sa mère, cette femme simple qu?il recueillit après son veuvage. Il raconte aussi la grossièreté du duc de Milan, le dédain de Michel-Ange, le génie du jeune Raphaël qu?il admirait, et jalousait plus encore. Il raconte, enfin, comment, malgré son orgueil et sa mauvaise réputation, il résista à ses détracteurs, avant de s?en remettre à la protection de François ier, faute de ressources. Et Léonard de Vinci, qui aimait à se représenter en Lion ardent, succombe au doute autant qu?à la maladie. « La gloire qui m?était promise ne m?est point échue, tant pis », s?écrie-t-il sur son lit de mort.

Adult Literature - Biographies / Autobiographies

Le sucre

By:
Georges Conchon
Type:
Book
Year:
1977
Language:
French (France)
Estimated availability:
Today

L'inspecteur des impôts Adrien Courtois épouse sur le tard une pharmacienne, laquelle fait bientôt un assez coquet héritage. Pour gérer ce magot, et sûr de son expérience, Adrien n'hésite pas à prendre sa retraite. Huit mois après, il se retrouve ruiné. Malgré sa compétence, malgré sa méfiance professionnelle, le malheureux s'est fait piéger dans cette énorme affaire de sucre - un trou de 66 milliards - qui, en 1974-1975, agita le monde de l'argent. Dans ce roman, on retrouve la verve la plus cruelle de L'état sauvage, avec le sens du récit qui a fait le succès de L'Amour en face. Comme le héros, on ne peut se détacher de l'engrenage infernal du sucre.

Adult Literature - Novels

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