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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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. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer. ryday words you need with clear layout and simple defi ni- Despite his distaste for dealing in “fl esh,” he takes a small tions, increase your confi dence in English with extra help slave girl in part payment for a bad debt. This is Florens, who with spelling and punctuation. 120,000 words, phrases and can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected defi nitions. by her mother, Florens looks for love, fi rst from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who All these books are available at comes riding into their lives.
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