Pierre Menard Book order (chronological)

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection. As Meili’s body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state, she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child.

One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.

Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.

Now in its 19th year of publication, the «Formula One Yearbook» is the most complete annual dedicated to Formula One. It is viewed as “the” reference book due to the complete data given with each Grand Prix. Translated into five languages, its print run is more than 100 000 copies sold worldwide.

Correspondances littéraires sur les conséquences de la politique française d’immigration

Peony is betrothed to a man she has never met and as her sixteenth birthday approaches, she has never ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the Chen Family Villa. But Peony has dreams of her own. But when, from behind a screen, Peony catches sight of a handsome man with hair as black as a cave, she is immediately bewitched by him.

Set in the Cold War, Bond crosses two continents after he is assigned to shadow a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate with an interest in opiate deriviates.

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men.As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.

After Fangio and before Moss, Alberto Ascari was the most exciting driver of the 1950's. This well-rounded little Milanese started racing motorcycles in 1936. A collection of the best and most famous drivers of the Formula One Championship are covered in this fascinating Legend Series title on Alberto Ascari.

This book describes Juan-Manuel Fangio's youth in Buenos Aires, his first steps in motor racing in Argentina, and then his move to Europe where he scooped all Formula One honors. Like Fangio himself, this illustrated biography also delivers comprehensive results, featuring several hundred photographs and car drawings. Until last year, Juan-Manuel Fangio was the sole owner of the Formula One World Titles record, winning it a remarkable five times (a record only just now equaled by Michael Schumacher). His unique style is much admired by Schumacher himself, who admits that drivers of the past were in another world.

Who would have thought that this shy little Austrian, crumbling under financial debts, would become one of the most celebrated drivers in Formula One history. From competing in World Championships to his tragic accident at the Nurburgring, this book on Niki Lauda's Formula 1 racing career is part of the Legends series, which covers the most exciting and popular drivers in the history of the Formula One Championship.

This biography explains the racing career of four times world champion Alain Prost from childhood until retirement. It features comprehensive career statistics and several hundred photographs as well as interviews of key people related to Prost's career.

With 864 pages and over 1200 photos, many of them showing historic moments from the Fifties and Sixties, The Great Encyclopedia of Formula 1 is the most exhaustive work ever published on motor sport's elite category. It includes detailed full color paintings of every car which has regularly raced in the Championship. Team by team, decade by decade, driver by driver, a detailed account of all the events, anecdotes and legends that have made up the 51-year history of F1.