Fleurville Trilogy: The Holidays

Fleurville Trilogy: The Holidays
Author: Stephanie Smee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0731815793

Camille and Madeleine along with their friends Marguerite and Sophie are waiting excitedly for their cousins to arrive for the Summer holidays. The children fill their days building cabins, having picnics and games of hide and seek but things nearly go wrong when Sophie, hiding in an hollowed out tree trunk, is unable to climb out. But things really get exciting when Sophie's mother and cousin Paul unexpectedly return, it turns out they had escaped the shipwreck in which they were thought to have drowned and had made their way to a foreign land! The children are enthralled by the Crusoe-like tales of survival and adventure.

The Holidays

The Holidays
Author: Sophie comtesse de Ségur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780731814626

Camille and Madeleine, along with their friends Marguerite and Sophie, are waiting excitedly for their cousins to arrive for the Summer holidays. The children fill their days building cabins, having picnics and games of hide and seek. But things nearly go wrong when Sophie, hiding in a hollowed-out tree trunk, is unable to climb out.

The Fleurville Trilogy

The Fleurville Trilogy
Author: Sophie comtesse de Ségur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2011
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9780731815227

All three parts of the delightful Fleurville Trilogy in one book. In Sophie's Misfortunes, Sophie is a naughty little girl who delights in disobeying her mother and engaging in mischievous pranks. Why can't she be as well behaved as her cousin Paul and her two sensible friends, Camille and Madeleine? In Camille and Madeleine, Camille and Madeleine are perfect little girls, beautifully behaved and wise beyond their years living with their mother at Chateau Fleurville. Another little girl, Margeurite, and her widowed mother come to stay and Sophie, now orphaned, is 'adopted' into the family. Soon all four girls become firm friends. Through their adventures all four learn steadfast loyalty and how to take responsibility for their actions. In The Holidays, Camille, Madeleine, Marguerite and Sophie are waiting excitedly for their cousins to arrive for the summer holidays. The children fill their days building cabins, having picnics and playing games. Sophie is involved in another misadventure when she hides in a hollowed out tree trunk and cannot climb out! The highlight of the holidays is the unexpected return of Sophie's mother and cousin Paul. They had escaped the shipwreck in which they were thought to have drowned and had made their way to a foreign land. The children are enthralled by the Crusoe-like tales of survival and adventure.

Fleurville Trilogy: Sophie's Misfortunes

Fleurville Trilogy: Sophie's Misfortunes
Author: Stephanie Smee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0731815777

The first book in the delightful Fleurville Trilogy. Sophie is a naughty little girl, she delights in disobeying her mother and engaging in mischievous pranks. Why can't she be well behaved like her cousin Paul and her two delightfully sensible friends Camille and Madeleine?

Camille and Madeleine

Camille and Madeleine
Author: Sophie comtesse de Ségur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780731814619

Camille and Madeleine are perfect little girls, beautifully behaved and very wise. They live with their mother at Chateau Fleurville. When Sophie comes to stay, she tries her best to behave as well as her friends. But being a perfect little girl proves to be more difficult than she imagined...

Fleurville Trilogy: Camille and Madeline

Fleurville Trilogy: Camille and Madeline
Author: Stephanie Smee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0731815785

The second book in the delightful Fleurville Trilogy. Camille and Madeleine are perfect little girls, beautifully behaved and very wise. They live with their mother at Chateau Fleurville. When another little girl Margeurite and her widowed mother come to stay and Sophie, who is now orphaned, is "adopted" by the family, the four girls become firm friends. Margeurite and Sophie are constantly aspiring to the considerate thoughtful behavior of Camille and Madeleine but through their adventures all four learn to be responsible for their actions and steadfast loyalty. With gentle humour and engaging characters this story is a delight for girls everywhere.

The Godmother

The Godmother
Author: Hannelore Cayre
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1773054422

Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama Weed; translated from the international bestseller La Daronne, winner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction Meet Patience Portefeux, a fifty-three-year-old, underpaid Franco-Arab interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in phone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her aging mother. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in — and infiltrating — the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes The Godmother. This is not the French idyll of postcards and stock photos. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers, and politicians, The Godmother casts its sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France. With an unforgettable woman at its center, Hannelore Cayre’s bestselling novel reveals a European criminal underground that has rarely been seen.

Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey

Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey
Author: Stephanie Smee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0731815769

Cadichon is a lively and intelligent donkey who wants his readers to know that although he was naughty in his youth and was punished severely, he is now reformed. His main aim is to refute the stereotypical image of donkeys as ignorant and stubborn and reveal, through his stories, the true, gentle and wise nature of donkeys. Cadichon's antics are guaranteed to make you laugh! Cadichon can also be vengeful when overworked and underfed. His retaliations and plans for revenge will have readers shaking their heads in disapproval but ultimately, as Cadichon encounters love and acceptance through his adventures, we come to admire his bravery and loyalty.

Sophie's Misfortunes

Sophie's Misfortunes
Author: Sophie comtesse de Ségur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780731814602

Meet Sophie. Sometimes she's good, but often she's naughty, which gets her into all kinds so trouble ...

Godard On Godard

Godard On Godard
Author: Jean-luc Godard
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1986-03-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780306802591

Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.