Bernard: 3655 books

Sexuality in ancient Egypt was open, untainted by guilt. Sex was an important part of life, from birth to death and rebirth. Singles and married couples made love. The gods themselves were earthy enough to copulate. The Egyptians even believed in sex in the afterlife. Sex was not taboo. Even the Egyptian...

Life in the Seaside resort of Walmington-on-Sea on the South Coast of England in the 1940’s during the Second World War as seen through the exploits of a band of men who got together to form the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard in response to a plea from Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden. Six new shorts stories featuring Captain Mainwaring and his platoon of men. Please enjoy.

Fin du XIXe siècle. Marie-Louise Tremblay naît et grandit à Baie-Saint- Paul dans une famille unie et aimante, portée par le rêve de devenir institutrice. Sur l’autre rive du fleuve, dans le comté de Bellechasse, Arthur Bernard, fils d’un cordonnier très pauvre, frappe à neuf ans à la...

Betty Baker is on a mission - to kill her despicable father and save her feeble-bodied brother. The kid was born deformed and he could easily die because of it. Doctors can’t fix what’s wrong with him and society can’t stand to look at him…never mind help him. To make matters worse, since...

Born in Vienna in 1864, Bernard Hollander was a London-based psychiatrist. He is best known for being one of the main proponents of phrenology. This title originally published in 1931 looks at the different regions of the brain and their various functions in relation to intelligence. From the preface:...

A fast-paced psychological mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end! Rose Madison is of sound mind, with a sharp focus and a willingness to succeed. At only twenty-three, she's already won an award for her short story, and has been hailed as the next big thing in the literary world....

In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light, veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past—and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth . . . at any cost. “There’s a thousand scavengers in these woods.” Before being promoted...

In this powerful psychological thriller, veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer reunites detective Carrie Santero with manhunter Jacob Rein—to plumb the depths of a madman’s obsession . . . “I am The Master. . . .“ Fifteen years ago, a deranged young man abducted a teenage girl...

God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work...

This volume presents between the covers of a single book the range and scope of one of the most distinguished writers in America, Bernard Malamud. A Malamud Reader contains the complete text of The Assistant, his novel of love and redemption in Brooklyn; ten stories from The Magic Barrel and...

In 1506, Andrea, a Florentine student travels in Alsace, Bruges and Paris.  He admires wonderful sites and masterpieces, becomes  fan of polyphonic music and observes the rapid development of the printing industry. In Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, he meets the initiators of a map where a new continent...

This book is concerned with both the national security concerns of Asian maritime nations and the security of the Asian maritime commons. These are defined as the Pacific and Indian Oceans and associated seas, bays, and gulfs, with their included sea lines of communication (SLOCs). The most useful geographical...

Bernard Mandeville was best known for The Fable of the Bees, in which he demolishes the supposed moral basis of society by a Hobbesian demonstration that civilization depends on vice. Today Mandeville is seen as a trenchant satirist of the manners and foibles of his age. He is also seen as a precursor...

Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Churchill and Stalin secretly agreed that Britain would infiltrate Soviet agents into occupied Western Europe. Liaison began between the NKVD and the SOE, each country's secret service. Transported in convoys across the Arctic Ocean and...