Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles
10 best books like Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles (Zep): There Will Be Wolves, The Hunting Party, The Otterbury Incident, The Ghost Drum, Foxspell, Memorias de una vaca, El polizón del "Ulises", The Red Shoe, The Wool-Pack, By the River
| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0140383719 |
Ursula is different. With her book learning and outspoken manner, she doesn't fit in, and her spirited way's get her into trouble. When a neighbor accuses her of being a witch, her only hope to save herself is to march in the holy People's Crusade to Jerusalem. Along with thousands of other pilgrims, Ursula...
| Author | Enki Bilal |
| ISBN | 1852862890 |
1983. Dans la brume glacée des forêts soviétiques, s’organise une singulière “partie de chasse”. Un jeune traducteur français y est convié par son mentor, Evguéni Golozov, interprète et homme de confiance du mystérieux Vassili Alexandrovitch Tchevtchenko. Ce stratège silencieux...
| Author | C. Day-Lewis |
| ISBN | 0435120018 |
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
| Author | Susan Price |
| ISBN | 0571153402 |
“In a place far distant from where you are now grows an oak-tree by a lake.
Round the oak’s trunk is a chain of golden links.
Tethered to the chain is a learned cat, and this most learned of all cats walks round and round the tree continually.
As it walks one way, it sings songs.
As it walks...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0689806027 |
After Tod's father abandoned the family, his mother moved them into their grandmother's crowded house. Overwhelmed at school, Tod finds himself lagging behind his classmates and becoming entangled in a destructive gang. After Tod compassionately buries a dead fox, a fox-spirit offers him the chance...
| Author | Bernardo Atxaga |
| ISBN | 8434840472 |
Dice La Vache qui Rit que en este mundo no hay cosa más tonta que una vaca tonta. Y toda la vida de Mo consiste en demostrar a su amiga que ella, desde luego, a pesar de ser vaca -y no caballo brioso-, no tiene ni un pelo de tonta. ¡Ni uno! Es una vaca notablemente Omega, y nada Alfa. Y tiene una voz interior, y...
Jujú pasa las tardes en el desván de la casa, que se ha convertido en su barco, el Ulises, la señorita Florentina (una paloma) y su fiel Contramaestre (un perrito) le acompañan en todas sus aventuras. Los días de Jujú son más bien aburridos. Le han criado tres tías solteronas, que le encontraron...
| Author | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| ISBN | 1596432659 |
Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking...
| Author | Cynthia Harnett |
| ISBN | 0140301534 |
Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.
This is historical fiction rather than history, written...
| Author | Steven Herrick |
| ISBN | 1932425721 |
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 1869435842 |
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
| Author | Malika Ferdjoukh |
| ISBN | 2211069576 |
Enid doit faire dix-sept pas de l’abribus jusqu’à l’impasse de l’Atlantique qui mène à sa maison, la Vill’Hervé. Un de moins que l’automne dernier. La preuve que ses jambes allongent, donc qu’elle a grandi. N’empêche qu’elle est toujours la plus petite des cinq sœurs Verdelaine....
| Author | Tessa Duder |
| ISBN | 0553290207 |
'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...
| Author | James Moloney |
| ISBN | 0702224995 |
When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black...
| Author | David Hill |
| ISBN | 0140370560 |
See Ya Simon is the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.
While reading See Ya Simon I fell in love with both Simon and Nathan, they are both really great guys and the best friends that could ever exist. All of the characters are that great.
This book is relatively...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
| Author | G.A. Henty |
| ISBN | 1406813168 |
Just because something was written over a century ago, that does not mean it was written well. That has been hammered home in ‘With Clive in India’.
It is one of the books freely available on ManyBooks.net, though I picked my copy up a few years ago in Poundland. Three nineteenth-century...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1606994786 |
Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 2203009489 |
Rappelez-vous, tout avait commencé par l'envol de l'oiseau préhistorique qui, revenu à la vie dans des circontances mystérieuses, s'était échappé de son oeuf fossilisé, frôlant de ses ailes ses contemporains pétrifiés du muséum d'histoire naturelle.Adèle Blanc-Sec avait été...
| Author | René Goscinny |
| ISBN | 2205040553 |
Iznogoud!
Iznochi?
Iznogoud!
"Voglio diventare califfo al posto del califfo"
leggerete spesso questa frase.
Direttamente dagli anni '60 per voi, una lezione di fumetto umoristico,
una serie di calembour e disavventure che vi accompagneranno tra risate e
sorrisi...
| Author | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| ISBN | 2731610751 |
Il est le Méta-Baron ! La simple évocation de son nom suffit à terrifier des armées entières. Depuis des générations, le Méta-Baron est le plus puissant combattant de l'univers. On a connu le dernier de cette dynastie au cours des aventures du pauvre John Difool et de ses démêlés avec l'Incal....
| Author | Paco Roca |
| ISBN | 8415163312 |
La comedia según Paco Roca. El autor de Memorias de un hombre en pijama reconoce que hasta ahora “siempre he tenido que ‘morderme’ los chistes.” Paco Roca aborda la vida cotidiana de un cuarentón que por fin ha conseguido su sueño infantil: quedarse en casa todo el día con el pijama puesto....
| Author | Marguerite Abouet |
| ISBN | 2070628035 |
Il y a autant d'embrouilles autour d'Aya que de moustiques à Abidjan. Mamadou fait le génito pour la femme du prof de biologie tandis que Félicité, soupçonnée d'être riche, est séquestrée au village par son père. De son côté, Grégoire, le gars moisi, a été recruté par l'Église réformée...
