Hector: 430 books

Soucouyant is the first of a series retelling Caribbean folktales updated for today's taste. In this entry, the ancient soucouyant manifests as a beautiful woman of Indian descent. She extracts her unique style of justice from a local small time thug ("bad John") whose action resulted in the suicide of a teenage girl.

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they follow rumors...

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they must stop the...

Un libro de poesía moderna con destellos de ironía y humor negro. Pedazos de Corazon es un poemario atipico, escrito de una manera diferente a la poesia tradicional, que toca temas de la realidad actual como la infidelidad, el abuso domestico, la prostitucion, y otros aspectos del ser humano dificiles de negar.

These works by H. H. Munro were originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Collection of Short Stories from the Bystander & Morning Post' is a collection of short stories, including 'A Shot in the Dark', 'The Holy War',...

UNO DEI PRIMI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI CON UNA PROTAGONISTA FEMMINILE, UN’EROINA SENZA PAURA CHE APRIRÀ LA STRADA A TUTTE LE ALTRE. «Dopo quattordici anni da Senza famiglia, Hector Malot regalò alla figlia il libro che questa aveva sempre aspettato. Il romanzo per ragazzi, anzi per ragazze,...

What artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent behavior. What can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AI's underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? It's a timely question. AI is all...

Whether we believe them or not, we find ourselves amazed by the stories of the haunted. Maybe it is because we love to get chills down our spines, maybe we somehow enjoy the fear that comes along with reading about what other people have gone through. What is it that makes ghosts attach to...

Includes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918 “Fresh and vivid memoir of an Australian horseman serving in the Palestine campaign. Includes a chapter ‘Working with Lawrence’ on the legendary T.E. Lawrence...

This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Gabriel-Ernest' is a short story about a were-wolf named Gabriel and his terrible deed. Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma in 1870. He was raised by aunts...

Le chien Capi et le singe Joli-Cœur, la brave mère Barberin et le signor Vitalis à la longue barbe blanche, Lise la petite muette, Mattia le jeune musicien, sans oublier bien sûr le courageux Remi, l’enfant trouvé… Autant de personnages si attachants qu’on ne les oublie plus quand on a...

Malot Hector – Complices : À Oissel, près de Rouen, les époux Courteheuse – mariés depuis 3 ans, ne s’aiment plus guère. Grâce à la dot de son épouse Hortense, Courteheuse a pu reprendre une étude de notaire et est devenu un notable respecté par ses concitoyens, mais méprisant envers...

C'était, en effet, une mignonne jeune fille, plutôt petite que grande, au type un peu singulier, en quelque sorte indécis, où se lisait un mélange de races, et dont le charme ne pouvait échapper même au premier coup d'oeil. Ses cheveux, que la toque laissait passer en mèches sur le front,...

Les deux plus beaux romans d'Hector MALOT...L'histoire de Remi l'enfant abandonné et vendu à des saltimbanques dans Sans Famille  a été adapté au cinéma plusieurs fois ... EN FAMILLE narre le destin d'une jeune orpheline d'une douzaine d'années : Perrine.Ces deux romans ont  beaucoup fait pleurer dans les chaumieres !