Mystère-Ville : La maison est en feu! C’est ainsi que Alcide Trémolet découvre la révolte des Boxers et réalise qu’il n’est plus le bienvenu dans la petite ville d’une province reculée de la Chine où il croyait avoir trouvé refuge. Dans sa fuite éperdue, il finit par tomber dans une crevasse et perd connaissance. Lorsqu’il se réveille, il est dans un Paris d’une autre époque, celui des descendants d’émigrés ayant fui la France à bord d’un bateau à moteur inventé par Denis ...

Sous les pavés du Paris du XIXe siècle, dans l'ombre des ruelles sombres et des salons dorés, une menace invisible tisse sa toile. Jules Lermina, sous le pseudonyme de William Cobb, nous entraîne dans une capitale où le crime porte un masque de respectabilité et où les secrets du passé ne demandent qu'à ressurgir pour dévorer le présent.Tout commence par un jugement et un drame dans les sauvages gorges d'Ollioules, bien loin des lumières de la ville. Mais c’est au cœur de Paris que...

Captain Billy’s Troopers is a frank, literary memoir about William Cobb’s life as a southern writer—his struggles with addiction and illness, his career as a teacher and novelist, and his hard‑won return to creative life.In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy’s Troopers traces Cobb’s...

Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural to the urban, and in time from the first years of th...

A lost princess. Two dragon princes fighting for her heart. A love that will either destroy their kingdom or save them all.Raised in a world where humans are oblivious to magic, I always thought I was ordinary. Until a breathtakingly handsome stranger pulled me into a world where creatures of unimaginable power reign, hidden from mortal eyes.The whispers in my mind? They weren't madness. It was the voice of my inner beast. It turns out I'm not a human at al...

2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistSEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's historyWith roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth.

When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. She's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret. In the fifth book in the series, a playful baby elephant arrives at the zoo. But how can Zoe prevent him from rushing into big trouble…

When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe and her mum, the zoo's vet, to settle them into their new home. Zoe's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret! In this second book, a tiny penguin arrives at the zoo. He's really cute, but a bit of a puzzle – he just doesn't seem to know he's a penguin!

When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. She's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret. In the seventh book in the series, Snowy the polar bear has lots of birthday party ideas and is being a bit bossy! Can Zoe help the other animals understand that he just wants to have fun?

At Zoe's Rescue Zoo only the cutest, cuddliest animals need apply!Zoe loves living at her uncle's rescue zoo because there's always something exciting going on. And Zoe also has an amazing secret... She can actually TALK to the animals!Buster the new beaver is determined to build a dam before his friend Betty arrives at the rescue zoo. But when he runs out of wood, the busy beaver creates a mess! Can Zoe find a way to help?Another fantastic title in...

This biography of a little-remembered Southern humorist "delivers on its claim that Cobb's life is emblematic of changes that registered on a larger scale" ( Journal of Southern History)."Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." ?Irvin S. CobbBorn and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century's most celebrated writers. A...

At Zoe's Rescue Zoo only the cutest, cuddliest animals need apply!Zoe loves living at her uncle's rescue zoo because there's always something exciting going on. And Zoe also has an amazing secret... She can actually TALK to the animals!There's a new arctic fox at the zoo and she loves adventure! When the animals' Christmas presents go missing, can she help Zoe solve the mystery and save the day?Another fantastic title in the perfect series for young...