Rights

An ecological, inventive and funny novel!
Raoul Schnug owns a beautiful 12-hectare plot of land, which the Oberschwihr town council wants to buy to set up a fashion mall.
Raoul cannot let this abomination take place. He decides to buy about twenty decommissioned containers from the port, and has them delivered to his land. This will be Container City: an experience of an eco-community, an "autonomous, self-managed and self-proclaimed commune".
Author: Joël Henry He lives and works at (...)

Each one of these six short stories portray a mother.
Six cruel, violent, lying, deceitful mothers.
Six stunning tales of trust’s betrayal, of manipulation, of destruction. Sometimes of pure evil.
Wicked mother. Not lovely mother. Fortunately punished, most often by where they have sinned. Author: Bernard Nuss He was a journalist and diplomat. He is the author of novels, short stories, of tales and essays in France and Germany.
Genre: Literary fiction
Number of pages: 168
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«When I was finally freed, I had the impression to come back alive again. The last session came. A technician tapped me on the shoulder. All of myself was in the box, he said, pointing the computer that contained all my physical data.»
Ah! Digital wonders, automatic comfort and regulation!
What place will you give at human freedom and identity?
Author: Georges-Olivier-Châteaureynaud
He was born in Paris in 1947. Novelist, he won the Renaudot prize for la faculté des songes in 1982 and th (...)

The explorer Sylvain Tesson shows us an unexpected terra incognita through these ecological and fictional tales irrigated by a remarkable sense of the supernatural.
Genre(s):
• Novellas • Supernatural
Keywords:
• Mysteries • Ecology • Tales and legends • Citizens of the world
Audience: suitable for all audiences; fans of tales of the supernatural
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The explorer Sylvain Tesson shows us an unexpected terra incognita through these ecological and fictional tales (...)

When two slightly crooked second-hand dealers spend the night in a retired couple’s home, their hosts steal their bodies for the night.
Genre(s): • Novella • Magical realism
Keywords: • Love • Fine arts • Popular art • Youth and aging • Switching bodies
Audience: suitable for all audiences, adolescents + adults; fans of fantasy genres
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When two slightly crooked second-hand dealers spend the night in a retired couple’s home, their hosts steal their bodies for the (...)

The first childhood love between two young boys in the countryside during the Enlightenment. One of the first preschool teachers defends them against prejudice.
Genre(s):
• Novella • Initiation story • Historical fiction (18th century)
Keywords:
• Childhood • First loves (LGBT) • School and education • The Enlightenment • Nature (moutains) • Prejudice
Audience: suitable for all audiences of all ages; fans of LGBT literature
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The first childhood love between two (...)

After a life on the move, he returns to the small city of his youth, but his mere presence makes the past rear its ugly head.
Genre(s):
• Short story • Noir fiction
Keywords:
• Social diversity and mixing • Lynching • Conversion of industrial wastelands
Audience: suitable for all audiences; fans of politically-engaged fiction such as Brown Morning or La Nuit du second tour [Second Round Election Night].
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After a life on the move, he returns to the small city (...)

Not deaf, but not able to hear either: how does a hard of hearing person go about having a normal life? This is the story of how one person was able to adapt thanks to her own tenacity and the unwavering support of her entourage.
Genre(s):
• Testimonial narratives, autobiography
Keywords:
• The hard of hearing • Physical handicaps • Society • Committment to a cause • Human dignity
Audience: suitable for all audiences; fans of testimonial narratives and life stories; handicapped individuals (...)