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Learning French is easier than it seems. Not only will this audiobook give you the basic grammar rules, but it also contains many fun exercises for you to practice. If you’ve never studied French before, or if you’ve studied it but you need to go back to the basics to get better, this book will provide everything you need.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

Learning a new language can be both exciting and intimidating, but "The 2000 Most Common Phrases for Conversation with Example Dialogues, Mnemonics, and Funny Short Stories" can help make the experience more enjoyable. This book, designed exclusively for English speakers, is your ultimate guide to mastering ordinary conversations in your new language, flawlessly mixing the skill of learning with the delight of communicating.

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.

If you want to learn French fast and in a variety of fun ways that actually work then keep reading...Most people don't have a huge amount of extra time to spend learning a new language. Could you be one of them? You see, most people make the same mistakes when learning French and this is causing their progress to stagnate. The problem is that they are only sticking to one way of learning French. But now, you can maximize your chances of learning French in less time compared to reading boring textbooks.

"A Nightingale's Song" is a captivating novella, set in the dark depths of Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. Against the backdrop of fear and turmoil, a forbidden love story emerges, igniting a spark of hope amidst the chaos. Thomas Müller, a German doctor burdened with the ravages of war, finds solace in his work at a Parisian hospital where he crosses paths with Sophie, an attentive and caring French nurse. Risking everything and defying the boundaries imposed by their countries, Thomas and Sophie’s love blossoms, until a heavily wounded patient arrives at the hospital, a member...

The year is 1795 and Napoleon Bonaparte is a Corsican serving in the French military. His personality is fire and ice personified -- passionate, temperamental, and pragmatic to the extreme. He is engaged to Desiree Clary, or Eugenie as he affectionately nicknamed her, but the allure of Parisian women poses a temptation to seek a more strategic alliance, one that will help connect him with prominent figures that may serve his rise to power. The tables are turned on him, however, when he meets Rose de Beauharnais, a beautiful and charming widow with two children. Rose intrigues him with her ...

Douze histoires variées, pleines d'émotions ou d'humour, pour les plus grands (8-12 ans). Au sommaire : "Émile et le microbe", "Le bracelet d'Anna", "Mes trois araignées", "Grenouille en prison", "Amour et chewing-gum", "L'anniversaire d'Alex", "Un chat toujours à l'heure", "Le mystère de la poubelle du 16 bis", "Adriane", "Qui a effacé mes exercices d'anglais ?", "Conversation avec un escargot", "Mon 'six cents pattes' ".

Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign, potions and the pride of every witcher - two swords, steel and silver. But what would happen if Geralt lost his weapons?

The first in a series of anthologies devoted to the Lovecraftian gods, Ordo ab Chao follows the highly successful The Gods of HP Lovecraft (published in 2015 by JournalStone Publishing). We begin our series with the primal origins and the god Azathoth, who represents primordial chaos in the Lovecraftian Mythos.

Enjoy the short stories of three of the greatest writers of French literature, for the first time assembled together in audiobook and narrated in a lively way. Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. He produced more than 300 short stories; we selected for you nine of the most bizarre, influent, humorous or plain shocking.

Robots aux angoisses existentielles, mission polaire schizophrène, ruches humaines, plantes envoûtantes et laboratoires de viande de synthèse, plongez dans l'univers futuriste de Wild Whispers, où la Nature a décidé de reprendre le contrôle. Quand les arbres ne seront plus que des monceaux de poussière, et quand l'air aura l'odeur et le goût de la suie : qu'allons-nous devenir ? Nous n'avons pas la réponse à cette question. Peut-être simplement parce qu'elle ne peut pas venir de nous...

After crossing paths with a Viking goddess in Denmark, Samantha Moon and the gang continue their whirlwind European tour... Next stop: Paris. When the gang comes across a strange homeless girl in the soot-covered clothing standing outside the fire-ravaged Notre Dame, Sam has questions... How can they see her but others can't? Is she ghost? And should Sam and the gang really believe her story of deadly fire imps and portals to hell? Turns out, Odette Durand is the key to a lot of strange goings-on in Paris—including the devastating fire at the famous cathedral. Sam has one final question: ...

This audiobook is ideal for beginners, new learners, and anyone who wants to brush up on their French skills. Our short stories are perfect to be listened to anywhere and anytime, perfect to fit in a busy lifestyle. They can be listened to in one sitting, allowing you to focus on the story and the new vocabulary without getting discouraged. In these stories, you will meet an array of engaging characters navigating real life situations: the purchase of a new dog, a movie night, an anniversary, a birthday surprise, a holiday between friends, or simple everyday family situations.

Un secret, longtemps caché, est à l’origine du talent de deux artistes ; un flash psychique sans précédent bouleverse de manière catastrophique des dizaines d’existences, dont celle de Danny ; un veuf éploré se rend en Floride pour se reposer, mais reçoit à la place un héritage inattendu, accompagné d’importantes obligations ; un vétéran du Vietnam répond à une offre d’emploi et découvre qu’il existe, dans l’univers, des coins qu’il vaut mieux ne pas explorer.

Des nouvelles de Clarice Lispector lues par une des plus célèbres actrices brésiliennes contemporaines. Dans ces treize nouvelles, Clarice Lispector peint avec une précision remarquable des portraits de femmes toutes différentes les unes des autres. Une jeune fille passionnée de lecture décrit l’intimidation exercée par une camarade dont le père est libraire, une autre femme relate le parcours qui l’a conduite à devenir voleuse de roses, tandis qu’une mère échange des réflexions avec son fils autour du dîner.

"The Fables" of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. "The Fables" supply delights to three different ages: the child rejoices in the freshness and vividness of the story, the eager student of literature in the consummate art with which it is told, the experienced man of the world in the subtle reflections on character and life which it conveys. "The Fables" were regarded as providing an excellent education in morals for children, and the first edition was dedicated to the six-year old Dauphin, the Eldest Son of the King.

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there.

This audiobook is not a traditional language method or a grammar book; it is a collection of short pieces, different from one another in length, topic, and difficulty, which will allow you to explore the French language from a direct, practical, and fun perspective. Through this audiobook, you will able to learn new vocabulary, expressions, and constructions by reading very inspiring, original, and typically French stories!