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Jack Skellington est la figure la plus importante d¹Halloweenland et depuis des années, il se réjouit d¹organiser des tours et des frayeurs macabres pour Halloween. Mais cette année, il ne se sent pas bien - il doit y avoir plus dans la vie que d¹effrayer les gens? Puis Jack tombe sur un endroit joyeux et coloré appelé Christmas Town et il sait ce qu¹il doit faire - il apportera Noe[u0308]l à Halloween !

France, 1714 : in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another

"The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. This perfectly crafted snapshot of a woman in the process of transformation is as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels, an essential read for every Deborah Levy fan"--Provided by publisher

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home ? Their mother, Agnes, is over miles away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week

"Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived."