Am: 531 books

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille des Ardennes en moins d’une heure ! Depuis le débarquement de Normandie, les Alliés ne cessent de progresser, repoussant de plus en plus les Allemands. Mais en septembre 1944, Hitler entrevoit la possibilité d’une contre-offensive....

The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance,...

In the Etruscan city of Cisra, the boy Karkana sacrifices his prize possession to help a prisoner of war. But the true implications of his act won't be felt till years later.

Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one...

Abigaëlle, Philippe, Sofiane, Bastien, Léopold. Margot, Daphné, Théo, Lucas, et Romane. Le 13 novembre 2015, tous verront leur vie basculer au Bataclan. Les personnages de cette histoire sont fictifs. Imaginés, inventés. Tels peut-être qu’ils ont habité vos pensées, car ils sont...

A contest is announced! The winner gets a fairy kingdom all his (or possibly her) own.Timon hopes he'll be the lucky one, and takes his friend Hamnet along. He has to prove his claim to royal blood - through combat, through ordeals, through multiple choice tests. Is he going to make the final cut?A story with a little twist in its fairy tail.

Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boys fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them and quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. By the start of the Great War Burrage was...

Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boys fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them and quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. By the start of the Great War Burrage was...

If you took a packed lunch to work, over the course of your working life, you could save £100,000. That's a significant lump of spare change – if you put it in your pension, it adds up to something like another £5,000 a year to live on when you retire. But most of us still hand over altogether...

Luana Davies è una splendida ragazza di vent’anni, che lavora come cameriera in un locale dell’East End londinese. La sua vita scorre tranquilla e indisturbata, finché, in una serata di lavoro come tante altre, non incontra Adrian Hamilton. Lui rimane folgorato dalla bellezza prorompente di...

EXTRAIT: Dans mes recherches sur l’action réciproque du soufre et du charbon j’ai fait voir que le soufre peut former avec l’hydrogène des combinaisons qui varient beaucoup par leurs proportions et qui prennent un état déterminé par celle des deux substances qui domine. Je me propose,...

EXTRAIT: L’action du soufre sur le charbon a été spécialement examinée par M. Lampadius et par MM. Clément et Desormes ; mais l’on trouve autant d’opposition entre les conséquences qu’ils ont tirées de leurs expériences qu’entre les vues dans lesquelles ils les ont entreprises....

EXTRAIT: Institut. 24 mars 1808L’objet de ce travail est de rechercher l’oxigène que, d’après les expériences de M. Davy, l’ammoniaque doit contenir dans la proportion de 20 sur 100. Un passage de la Bibliothèque britannique (T. 36. p. 393) dont le sens est trop obscur pour...

“Se non aveva mai commesso niente di indegno, non aveva neanche commesso niente di insigne.” Il conte Neville, aristocratico belga decaduto, è costretto a vendere il suo magnifico castello nelle Ardenne. Prima di uscire di scena, per celebrare l’onore della famiglia, decide di organizzare una...