Claude: 2393 books

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science...

Thrilling Tales of Canadian superheroes... and villains! 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes...

The coast of Normandy, France, 1894: A mysterious young woman is rescued by an anonymous man after a deadly shipwreck. Paris, a few months later: The body of a well-dressed woman in a velvet mask is found in the abattoir district of La Villette in Paris. Next to the brutally strangled corpse, the...

In In the Shadows of Paris, the fifth installment in this c'est magnifique Victor Legris series by Claude Izner, a murderer is at large in belle-epoque Paris. In the turbulent Parisian summer of 1893,Victor Legris has vowed to his fiancée to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing...

Claude Izner revient avec le premier opus d'une nouvelle série de romans à suspens dans le Paris des années folles et des boîtes de jazz. En ce printemps 1921, Paris se relève difficilement de la guerre. La vie est chère, le travail rare, se loger pose problème. Que recherche Jeremy Nelson,...

Episode 2 of my ongoing fantasy series Code of the Jungle! Follow Stripe and friends as they struggle to survive in the jungles atop the Keronbo Mountains.

Sixteen amazing stories, with only four previously published in English, by the award-winning author of The Night Orchid. A lonely astronaut shepherds a flock of artificial intelligences... A human is captured by a wish-seeking fairy... On a hostile world, a small band of scientists must...

A thorough reference to the many deities, magical beings, mythical places, and ancient customs of the Norse and Germanic regions of Europe • Explores the legends and origins of well-known gods and figures such as Odin, Thor, Krampus, and the Valkyries, as well as a broad range of magical...

In this mystery thriller sampler, eight great writers have teamed up to bring you a sizeable taste of some of their most thrilling work. From the "edgy action thriller featuring a smoking hot leather-clad female ex-assassin" in Russell Blake's JET, to the "supernatural thriller with...

Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because of the strange circumstances of the case, Rutherford knows that if he goes to the police he will almost certainly be accused of murder. But if he...

In Jean-Claude Izzo's "Mediterranean noir" mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly. This first book in the Marseilles trilogy introduces readers to Fabio Montale, a disenchanted cop who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and...

Le piège de Noirmoutier est la nouvelle édition (2019) du tome 1 de la saison 1 (Guerres sous-marines) de la saga des "batailles de l'ombre" (18 tomes chez Kobo) Plus étoffée, cette version nous conduit au coeur de l'océan, dans une longue course où les grandes puissances s'affronte...

LES FICTIONS : Prix Solaris 2017 : « Les Tisseurs » de Andréa Renaud-Simard ; « Troll de vie » de Pierre-Alexandre Bonin ; « Un pont dont vous êtes le troll » de Dave Côté ; « Petzis » de Michèle Lamontagne ; « Fragments d'enfer » de Michel Lamontagne ; « Fardeaux »,...

Décryptez Le Messager d'Athènes d'Odile Weulersse avec l’analyse du PetitLittéraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir du Messager d'Athènes, roman historique du Siècle d’or athénien ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre pour la jeunesse dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.Vous...