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Book List 09 Adultes.Indd NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES Book list for adults recommended by The French American Center The French American center The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The Spellman Files 4, rue Saint Louis, 34000 Montpellier - tél : 04 67 92 30 66 Alexander McCall Smith Lisa Lutz www.frenchamericancenter.com Ed. Pocket Books, 9.80 € Ed. Abacus, 10.80 € Isabel Spellman has her share of problems, and those pro- Precious Ramotswe is Botswana’s only - and fi nest - female blems all happen to be named Spellman. Her parents, Albert private detective. 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Profi le Books, 8.85 € The curious incident of the dog plete tool of consultation for the current practice of contem- The Queen fi nds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton- in the night-time porary English. About 120,000 words and sentences and Burnett, near the Westminster travelling library outside Buc- Mark Haddon 150,000 translations, over 1,000 acronyms and abbreviations kingham. Her Majesty developes a passion for reading so Ed. Vintage, 9.80 € and 250 cultural focus on the use of words, conjugation ta- great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of bles and a communication guide. devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust the world and their capitals and every prime number up to to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen’s lite- 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding Le Robert & Collins poche anglais : rary odyssey to a close. of human emotions. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-français dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and wi- Le Robert / Collins, 8.50 € dely heralded novels in recent years. A valuable, complete and updated tool, to speak correct The Road and idiomatic English. A conversation guide and a list of 200 Cormac McCarthy grammatical traps to avoid. Tables of conjugations in French and English. 75,000 words and 100,000 translations. Also Ed. Vintage, 8.80 € contains a cultural lexical. A father and his son walk alone through burned America, The guernesey literary under a dark sky. Their destination is the coast, although and potato peel pie society they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Dictionnaire Oxford Poche pour apprendre have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the Ed. Bloomsbury, 10.15 € l’anglais. français-anglais, anglais-français lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wea- Oxford University Press, 10.20 € January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a ring, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other. stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and The only bilingual paperback dictionary specially designed Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of for Francophones who learn English. the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of 75,000 words and expressions, 90,000 translations a society as extraordinary as its name. Phonetic spelling to improve your pronunciation in English. A mercy Toni Morrison Paperback Oxford English Dictionary Ed. Vintage, 8.95 € Oxford University Press, 16.60 € In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its in- Unilingual English paperback dictionary to fi nd all the eve- fancy. 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