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"Marie Claire Seasonal Kitchen" is the ultimate recipe collection for home cooks eager to make the most of fresh produce and respond to the changing moods of the seasons. Michele Cranston takes inspiration from light and healthy spa cuisine for summer days through to heartier casseroles and soups for cooler weather in this vibrant and healthy cookbook. Looking to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Michele reinvents old and comforting favourites and creates new and exciting flavour combinations in this feast for the senses. This book is packed full of hints and tips about how to select and choose different kinds of seasonal produce and provides handy techniques to make life in the kitchen easier. "Seasonal Kitchen" caters for all food occasions and is an essential kitchen resource for aspiring cooks at any level.

50 Fabric Animals presents a cute collection of 50 animal-themed fabric projects to make for you and your home, or as the perfect gift for friends, family and children.

The book features a selection of 50 adorable baby bootee projects to knit. Soft, comfortable, fun and sophisticated, small shoes for all seasons.

Popular hobby activity for children, and for decorating the home.

No longer are the days you need to be disappointed by knitting large versions of clothes. Plus Size Knits contains 25 stylish patterns, from pullover sweaters to cozy cardigans and more, that have been specifically designed for plus sized women. Resulting in sweaters and accessories that are well- constructed, flattering, and perfect for you!

Designed for beginner sewists and those who already have the basics, this book is an essential guide to learning how to sew by hand or machine.

Supermen. Marshmallows. Infinite magnitudes. Intuitions. The art of gentleness, presence, and prayer. Our lives are marked by what appear to be significant yet disjointed stories and micro-narratives. But what if they all joined together to produce something even greater than the sum of their parts? For ALL It's Worth, Because You Matter is a compilation of thoughtful and true stories by Nathalie Marie-Claire, weaving together the people and moments that have tested and challenged her preconceptions about what matters in life and how this shaped her future life encounters. This book explores the interconnectedness of the author's experiences and challenges the reader to do the same using the lessons that arise in each chapter. It is both a story and a guide, designed to prompt introspection and impart joy. Written in a lighthearted manner, it unpacks an important journey. The intention is to help the reader identify what matters in their own lives and to find love, inner freedom, peace and harmony in the wider tapestry of their own experiences. Because You Matter.

« Ce n’est pas la poésie qui doit être libre, c’est le poète. » A legendary figure within the Surrealist movement, Robert Desnos (1900-1945) has left a unique legacy as a poet of distinction, as a ‘dormeur éveillé’ revered by his fellow Surrealists, and as a free spirit par excellence. In celebrating Desnos’s unique creative voice, this book re-evaluates his prominence within and beyond the Surrealist movement, reappraises his status as a poet, and sheds new light on his contribution to the literary and cultural life of his age. The essays in the volume reflect the ongoing vitality and relevance of Desnos’s poetry and the originality of his contribution to the various other forms of expression in which he excelled: journalism, short stories, script-writing and song-writing. Desnos’s extensive writings on art and artists, his active involvement in avant-garde film and his close associations with a number of renowned painters are also addressed. This fresh look at Desnos’s activities and contexts includes an interview with the artist Georges Malkine’s daughter, Fern Malkine-Falvey, and a study of the memoirs of Desnos’s wife, Youki. The volume closes with a rare collection of journalistic writings by Desnos which appeared in Le Soir in the late 1920s and have never appeared in print since their original publication.

Marie-Claire Dewarrat schildert den Schmerz eines Bauern, der am Tod seines Sohnes fast zerbricht. Der Roman besticht durch die exakten Beobachtungen ländlicher Lebensformen und jahreszeitlicher Landschaftsstimmungen, die gleichzeitig ein Spiegel der inneren Gemütszustände des Protagonisten sind.

C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu... ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables." À lire à loisir, en trois volumes : I, II et III. --Céline Darner