Anna, a young countess, is forced to flee to England, when revolution tears Russia apart. Here she becomes a housemaid at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. When the Earl returns home from the war, Anna falls hopelessly in love. But Rupert is engaged to  Muriel - and anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks.

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Je ferai la révérence au majordome et à la gouvernante ! avait décidé Anna. Et c’est ainsi qu’Anna Grazinsky fut engagée comme femme de chambre chez le comte de Westerholme. Elle avait dix-neuf ans, elle était russe, elle était comtesse, et elle venait d’immigrer en Angleterre. On était en 1919...A l’office, on l’accueillit avec méfiance : elle avait un accent bizarre, on la trouvait maigrichonne. Et puis, a-t-on besoin de savoir jouer du piano pour être femme de chambre ? Mais très vite, tous furent conquis par sa grâce et son sourire. Le comte, lui, allait bientôt se marier et n’aurait dû penser qu’à sa belle et riche fiancée. Pourtant, il ne pouvait chasser de son esprit cette petite russe qui comme lui aimait les chevaux, les livres et la musique...

Une comtesse à l'office

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.

Reine du fleuve

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Haunting of Hiram is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.'I will buy your castle, ' declared Hiram C. Hopgood. 'But only if there are no ghosts!' Alex MacBuff can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra, and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. The castle is shipped all the way to Texas, but its ghostly inhabitants, including Krok the Viking warrior and a hell-hound called Cyril, follow their home across the Atlantic. How can Alex stop them haunting Hiram and also save the millionaire's daughter from an evil ransom plot?

The Haunting of Hiram

Madlyn et son frère Rollo passent l’été au château de Griffstone. Dès leur arrivée, c’est un désastre! Le château est humide, en triste état et surtout complètement déserté par les visiteurs. Pour sauver Griffstone, les enfants décident de frapper un grand coup. Ils vont recruter des fantômes. Mais de vrais fantômes. Avec la tête qui se détache. Des poignards plantés dans la poitrine. Et des hurlements à glacer le sang...

Bienvenue à Griffstone

Ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be quite so unusual. Her life back in England with her suffragette mother and liberated aunts certainly couldn't be called normal, but buried deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, Ellen discovers an eccentric world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experimental dancers and a tortoise on wheels. And then there is the particularly intriguing, enigmatic, and very handsome Marek, part-time gardener and fencing teacher. Ellen is instantly attracted to the mysterious gardener, but Hitler's Reich is already threatening their peaceful world, and only when she discovers Marek's true identity and his dangerous mission does Ellen realize the depth of her feelings for him - and the danger their newfound love faces in the shadow of war.

Un chant pour été

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Ogre of Oglefort is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson. When a Hag, an orphan boy called Ivo, Ulf the troll and wizard Brian Brainsweller are sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, they briefly consider running away and hiding. Can they be any match for the gruesome, terrifying, ghastly, flesh-eating Ogre of Oglefort? But not all is as it first appears - the Ogre is depressed and the princess doesn't want to be rescued. The Norns, who rule their fates, decide to take things in hand and send a gang of the vilest, most petrifying ghouls to get the job done properly .

The Ogre of Oglefort

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous adventure.

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