Cornette

An anthology of Amish stories of love and life...Abe Miller is a shy Amish man who is pegged to be the new minister for the church. He feels he doesn't have the verbal skills to do the job and is chosen simply because no one else would want it. He pines for a young woman in town who pays him no mind as he cannot bring himself to talk to her. But the day of reckoning finally comes and Abe is called to preach...seeing the woman of his dreams in the...

Lonely, disillusioned, antisocial, Mr. Wolf describes himself as a wolf removed from the pack. He is an unemployed, discreet, homeless man in the twenty-first century. He is driven to unexpected tribulations when he finds a job as a janitor in a small, quiet and unassuming town in France, populated by seemingly unassuming citizens. He is driven by the threat of a strange blackmailer, and gets bogged down in the quagmire of drug trafficking and tossed...

Age : 9-12 ans Niveau de lecture : CM1-6e Un soir de décembre 1781, Lulu, pianiste prodige, profite d'un voyage en Hollande pour fuir son père, musicien raté et violent. En plein hiver, le long des canaux gelés, Lulu rencontre Elsje, la sirène qui raccommode les filets des pêcheurs de Rotterdam, et Rod, le chevalier sanguinaire, de retour du Pérou. Le trio décide de rejoindre la mer. Le pianiste, la sirène et le chevalier traversent les...

A series of humorous vignettes of everyday French life…except for the fact that each short story features one or more characters that have the uncanny ability of walking through walls. Whether it's a romantic dinner, a friendly bet, or a crush on your co-worker, this special skill promises to "enliven" things quite a bit… Curse or blessing? Up to you to find out!

Doué d'un remarquable sens de l'observation, Jean-Luc Cornette confie ses textes justes et incisifs au talent de Stéphane Oiry dont le dessin et les couleurs, d'une sobriété et d'une efficacité admirables, donnent toute sa cohérence à l'univers des Passe-Murailles. Avec finesse et minutie, Jean-Luc Cornette et Stéphane Oiry content le quotidien presque banal de gens comme vous et moi, à un (gros) détail près : dans chaque histoire se glisse...

Des histoires à lire dès 7-8 ans Un ogre qui se demande pourquoi il doit être méchant, un lutin qui réalise les souhaits de deux enfants un peu trop gâtés et une famille de lapins dont le cadet voudrait savoir si ses parents l'aiment. Trois jolies histoires d'un humour tendre et mordant ! EXTRAIT L'ogre Boufpatan dit un jour : - Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais il me semble qu'on nous trouve méchants. Les ogres Boufpatou et Boufpatro lui...

One of the most feared and controversial wrestler's of all time, New Jack's career reads like a criminal rap-sheet. Revealing the man behind the monster and his hardcore legacy.

30 years after Dino Bravo's brutal murder, family and friends relive his descent from Montreal's favorite wrestling son to mob enforcer, and the deadly consequences that followed.

The cautionary tale of David Schultz, set to become a superstar until his violent run-in with 20/20 reporter John Stossel saw him exiled from the business he'd sworn to protect.

On May 23rd 1999, Owen Hart fell 80 feet to his death in a stunt that went tragically wrong. Bravely reliving his final day, his widow Martha reveals the mistakes that took his life.